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CHAPTER 16 ADDITIONAL GRADES OF MEMBERSHIP 95
This service need not be offered directly on behalf of the
Legion. It will suffice to offer it in honour of Our Blessed
Lady. Therefore, it is conceivable that the Legion might
receive nothing from it, nor does the Legion desire to receive
anything which would do more good elsewhere. But as this
service is a legionary one, it is probable that it will incline the
Queen of the Legion to have regard for the needs of the
Legion.
However, it is strongly recommended that this and all other
legion ary service be offered to Our Lady as an unreserved gift
to be administered according to her intentions. This would
lift it to a higher level of generosity and thus greatly enhance
its worth. This purpose would be kept in view by saying daily
some formula of offering such as the following: “Mary
Immaculate, Mediatrix of all Graces, I place at your disposal
such portion of my prayers, works and sufferings as is
permitted to me.”
This twofold auxiliary membership is to the Legion what its
wings are to a bird. With these wings widely expanded by
possession of many auxiliaries, and beating powerfully under
the rhythmic drive of their faithful prayer, the Legion can
soar into the higher air of supernatural ideal and effort. It flies
swiftly wherever it wills, and even the mountains cannot stay
its course. But if those wings are folded, the Legion hobbles
awkwardly and slowly along the ground, brought to a stop by
the slightest obstacle.

THE PRIMARY DEGREE: THE AUXILIARIES
This degree, named the auxiliaries, is one wing of the
Legion’s praying army. Its service consists in the daily
recitation of the prayers comprised in the Tessera, namely: the
invocation and prayer of the Holy Spirit; five decades of the
rosary and the invoca tions which follow them; the Catena;
and the prayers described as “con clud ing prayers”. These may
be divided throughout the day, as convenient.
Persons who are already saying a daily rosary for any
intention whatsoever may become auxiliaries without
obligation to say an additional rosary.
“He who prays helps all the souls of men. He helps his brethren by
the saving and powerful magnetism of a soul that believes, knows,