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CHAPTER 16 ADDITIONAL GRADES OF MEMBERSHIP 97
the Catena, the Legion prayer, and some invocations: a matter
of some minutes only. But through that bond with the Legion
they have it in their power to become the driving force of the
Legion.
“Give me,” said Archimedes of old, “a lever and a support
for it, and I will lift the Earth itself.” United to the Legion, the
adjutorians will find in it that essential support on which to
rest the long lever of their holy prayers, which then become
omnipotent to uplift the burdened souls of the entire world
and move away its mountainous problems.
“In the Cenacle, where by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit the
Church was definitely founded, Mary begins to exercise visibly, in the
midst of the apostles and the disciples gathered together, a role which
she will continue ever after to exercise in a more secret and intimate
manner: that of uniting hearts in prayer and of giving life to souls
through the merit of her all-powerful intercession: ‘All these were
persevering with one mind in prayer with the women and Mary the
Mother of Jesus and with his brethren’. (Acts 1:14)” (Mura: Le Corps
Mystique du Christ)
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS AFFECTING BOTH
DEGREES OF AUXILIARY MEMBERSHIP
(a) Supplementary Service. The Legion appeals to auxiliaries
of both degrees to regard the essential conditions of
membership, not as limits of service, but as a minimum
which they will chivalrously supplement by many other
prayers and acts made specially with this intention.
It is suggested to priest-adjutores that they should in all
their Masses make a special memento, and even occasionally
offer the Holy Sacrifice, for Mary’s intentions and the Legion.
Other auxiliaries might, even at the expense of some sacrifice,
find it possible to have a Mass offered occasionally for the
same intention.
However generously the auxiliary may give to the Legion,
never the less he receives one hundredfold, one thousandfold,
one millionfold in return. And how is this? It is because the
Legion teaches its auxiliaries — no less than its active
members how great is Mary, enlists them in soldierly service
for her, and makes them love her properly. All this is
something so great that words like “millionfold” do not
measure the gain. It raises the spiritual life to a higher plane,
and thereby assures a more glorious eternity.