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96 ADDITIONAL GRADES OF MEMBERSHIP CHAPTER 16
and wills. He supplies what St. Paul demands from us above all
things: prayers, supplications, and acts of thanksgiving on behalf of
all men. ‘Cease not to pray and to make supplication at all times in
the Holy Spirit.’ (Eph 6:18) And does it not seem that if you cease to
watch, to insist, to make efforts, to hold fast, everything will relax,
the world will relapse, your brethren will feel in themselves less
strength and support? Yes, surely it is so. Each one of us in a measure
bears up the world, and those who cease to work and to watch
overburden the rest.” (Gratry: Les Sources)
THE HIGHER DEGREE: THE ADJUTORIANS
This is the other wing of the praying Legion. It comprises
those who will (a) recite daily all the prayers of the Tessera
and in addition (b) agree to attend Mass and receive Holy
Communion daily, and to recite daily an Office approved by
the Church.
See the reference in praetorian membership to the special
value of an Office.
Accordingly adjutorian membership is to the ordinary
auxiliary membership what the praetorian membership is to
the ordinary active membership. The additional duties are the
same.
Failure once or twice a week to fulfil the required
conditions would not be regarded as a notable failure in the
duty of member ship.

An Office is not required from religious who are not bound
by their Rule to say one.
The effort should be made to lead on the ordinary auxiliary
to adjutorian membership, for it offers a veritable way of life.
What is said in the section on the praetorians in regard to the
uniting of the legionary to the prayer of the Church, and to
the special value of an Office, applies likewise to the
adjutorians.
Special appeal is addressed to priests and religious to
become adjutorians. The Legion earnestly desires union with
this consec ra ted class, which has been specially deputed to
lead lives of prayer and close intimacy with God, and which
forms in the Church a glorious power-station of spiritual
energy. Effectively linked up with that power-station,
legionary machinery would pulsate with an irresistible force.
Consideration will show how little this membership would
add on to their existing obligations — no more, indeed, than