Frank Duff

Legion altar

Vexilla

1. God and Mary

2. Mary , Mediatrix of all graces

3. Mary Immaculate

4. Mary our Mother

5. Legionary devotion the root of the legionary apostolate

6. If Mary were but known

7. Bringing Mary to the world

1. Honouring the legion devotion to Mary

2. The imitation of Mary's humility is both the root and the instrument of legionary action

3. Real devotion to Mary obliges apostleship

4. Intensity of effort in Mary's service

5. Legionaries should undertake De Montfort's True Devotion to Mary

1. Holy Mass

2. The Liturgy of the Word

3. The Liturgy of the Eucharist in union with Mary

4. The Eucharist our treasure

1. Legionary service is based on this doctrine

2. Mary and the Mystical Body

3. Suffering in the Mystical Body

1. Its dignity

2. An apostolic laity essential

3. The legion and the lay apostolate

4. The priest and the legion

5. The legion in the parish

6. Its fruits are intense idealism and action

7. The master and apprentice system of formation

1. Personal holiness: the object and means

2. An intensely ordered system

3. Perfection of membership

4. The primary obligation

5. The weekly meeting of the praesidium

1. The actual work in hand

2. The remoter and greater aim - the leaven in the community

3. To weld all together

4. In high enterprise for God

1. The praetorians

2. Auxialiary membership

1. The setting of every meeting shall be uniform

2. Punctually at the appointed time

3. The meeting opens

4. There follow the five decades of the rosary

5. The rosary is immediately followed by Spiritual Reading

6. The minutes of the previous meeting are read

7. Stanading Instruction

8. Treasurer's Statement

9. Reports of the members are received

10. The recitation of the Catena Legionis

11. The Allocutio

12. On the completion of the Allocutio

13. Secret bag collection

13. Termination of the meeting

1. Respect for the meeting

2. The praesidium must be worthy of this respect

3. The praesidium must respect the Rules

4. The praesidium to be a model of steadiness

5. Heat and light

6. Seating accommodation

7. Praesidia must meet at suitable times

8. Duration of meeting

9. Inadequate length of meetings

10. Late arrival or early departure

11. Good order the root of discipline

12. Punctuality paramount

13. Manner of saying the prayers

14. Prayers to be one with the meeting

15. Church devotions and meeting

16. Special prayers at meeting

17. Does the report offend agains humility?

18. Harmony the expression of unity

19. Work of each one a concern of all

20. Confidentiality of paramount importance

21. Freedom of speech

22. The meeting the mainstay of membership

23. The praesidium is a 'Presence' of Mary

1. St. Joseph

2. St. John the Evangelist

3. St. Louis-Marie de Montfort

4. St. Michael Archangel

5. St. Gabriel Archangel

6. St. Raphael Archangel

7. The Heavenly Powers, Mary's legion of angels

8. St. John the Baptist

9. St. Peter

10. St. Paul

1. Of application to all governing bodies

2. The Curia and the Comitium

3. The Regia

4. The Senatus

5. The Concilium Legionis Mariae

1. The Acies

2. The Annual General Reunion

3. An outdoor function

4. The praesidium function

5. The Congress

1. 'No need for the Legion here'

2. 'Persons suitable for membership are not available'

3. 'The Legion visitation would be resented'

4. 'Young people have to work hard during the day and require their free time for rest'

5. 'The Legion is only one among many organisations with the same ideals and programme'

6. 'The Legion works are already being done by other agencies ...'

7. 'There are already too many organisations. The proper course is to revive the ....'

8. 'This is a small place. There is no more room for the Legion here'

9. 'Certain of the works of the Legion consist ihn spiritual activities which, .... belong to the priest ....'

10. 'I fear possible indiscretions on the part of members'

11. Obstacles in the way of starting, there will always be

1. Regular and punctual attendance at the weekly meetings of the praesidium

2. Performance of the weekly work obligation

3. Furnishing at the meeting a verbal report of work done

4. Inviolable confidence must be preserved

5. Every member should have a notebook

6. The daily recitation by each legionary of the Catena Legionis

7. The relations between members

8. The relation between co-visitors

9. Recruitment of new members

10. The study of the handbook

11. To be in a sense always on duty

12. The legionary must pray as well as work

13. The interior life of legionaries

14. The legionary and the christian vocation

1. The spiritual director

2. The president

3. The vice-president

4. The secretary

5. The treasurer

1. Junior praesidia

2. Seminary praesidia

1. The apostolate in the parish

2. Visitation of the homes of the people

3. Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in the homes

4. The making of the parish census

5. Visitation of hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals

6. Work for the most wretched and dejected of the population

7. Works for the young

8. The book barrow

9. Crowd contact

10. Mission to the Catholic domestic worker

11.Work for armed services personnel and people on the move

12. Dissemination of Catholic literature

Promoting the practice of daily Mass and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament

14. Recruiting and after-care of auxiliaries

15. Work for the missions

16. Promoting retreats

17. Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart

18. Each place has its own special needs

Some patrician principles

The patrician prayer

1. Souls are not approached except with Mary

2. Infinite patience and sweetness must be lavished on a priceless soul

3. Legionary courage

4. Symbolic action

5. Active work must be done

6. Control of the work by the praesidium

7. Visitation in pairs a safeguard of legionary discipline

8. The intimate nature of the legionary work must be safeguarded

9. Home to home visitation desirable

10. Material relief prohibited

11. The collecting of money

12. No politics in the legion

13. Seek out and talk to every soul

14. No one is too bad to be uplifted; no one too good

15. A vague apoltolate is of little value

16. The secret of influence is love

17. In each one worked for, the legionary sees and serves Christ

18. Through the Legionary, Mary loves and tends her Son

19. Every door opens to the humble and respectful legionary

20. Attitude in an institution

21. The legionary must not sit in judgment

22. Outlook on adverse criticism

23. There need never be discouragement

24. The mark of the Cross is a sign of hope

25. Success a joy. Failure only a postponed success

26. Attitude towards defects of praesidia and legionaries

27. No seeking of self

28. No presentations to members

29. No distinctions in the legion

30. To bridge must be the aim

31. Sooner or later the legionaries must attack the most difficult work

32. The outlook on danger

33. The legion must be in the forefront of the Church's battle

34. The legionary must propagate everything Catholic

Virgo Praedicanda: The Virgin must be brought and taught to all men, for she is their mother

1. His last testament

2. The Legion must direct itself to the individual soul

3. The special relationship with our sister churches of the orthodox tradition

4. The seeking of conversions to the church

5. The Holy Eucharist as an instrument of conversion

6. The irreligious populations

7. The Legion as the complement of the missionary

8. The Peregrinatio Pro Christo

9. Incolae Mariae

10. Exploratio Dominicalis