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90 THE LEGIONARY PROMISE CHAPTER 15
The other two officerships should be filled by junior
members who will thereby obtain admirable training in
responsibility. They shall represent the praesidium on a junior
Curia. Juniors may not sit on a senior Curia.
“The rays of the sun are numerous, but the light is one; the
branches of a tree are many, but the trunk is one, strongly fixed on
immovable roots. ” (St. Cyprian: De Unitate Ecclesiae)

15

THE LEGIONARY PROMISE

Most Holy Spirit, I, (name of candidate),
Desiring to be enrolled this day as a legionary of Mary,
Yet knowing that of myself I cannot render worthy service,
Do ask of you to come upon me and fill me with yourself,
So that my poor acts may be sustained by your power, and
become an instrument of your mighty purposes.

But I know that you, who have come to regenerate the world
in Jesus Christ,
Have not willed to do so except through Mary;
That without her we cannot know or love you;
That it is by her, and to whom she pleases, when she pleases,
and in the quantity and manner she pleases,
That all your gifts and virtues and graces are administered;
And I realise that the secret of a perfect legionary service
Consists in a complete union with her who is so completely
united to you.

So, taking in my hand the legionary Standard which seeks to
set before our eyes these things,
I stand before you as her soldier and her child,
And I so declare my entire dependence on her.
She is the mother of my soul.
Her heart and mine are one,
And from that single heart she speaks again those words of
old: