Our Lady of the
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Legion of Mary
oUR lADY OF
Our Lady
of Mount Carmel Presidium, Legion of Mary, weekly meeting is
held
on Saturday morning
following the eight o’clock Mass (8:30a.m.) in our Parish
Hall. Please feel free to join this newly formed
Parish apostolic organization.
The Legion of Mary members supports our
Parish by assisting Father Nagle, our
Pastor. You are invited to
attend the meeting or you may speak with or contact
Mary
Devine, 859-2265, Presidium President
Reverend
Walter M. Nagle, our Pastor is the
Spiritual
Director Our Lady of
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membership
The
object of the Legion is the glory of God through the holiness of its members
developed by
prayer and active co-operation, under ecclesiastical guidance, in
Mary's
and the Church's work of crushing the head of the serpent and advancing
the reign of
Christ. There are two
types of membership in the Legion of Mary.
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Active membership requires from
each Legionary
First,
the punctual and regular attendance at the weekly
meetings of the presidium, and the furnishing there of
an adequate and audible report on the work done;
Second,
the daily recitation of the Catena;
Third,
the performance of a substantial active legionary
work, in the spirit of faith, and in union with Mary,
in such fashion that in those worked for and in one’s
fellow-members, the Person of our Lord is once again
seen and served by Mary, his Mother;
Fourth,
absolute respect for the confidential nature of
many matters discussed at the meeting or learned in
connection with the legionary work.
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Auxiliary membership is subdivided
into two degrees
The (a)
primary, whose members shall be simply styled Auxiliaries;
and
the (b)
higher, whose members shall be more
particularily
designated Adjutores Legionis or Adjutorians.
There are no age limits in the case of
Auxiliary membership. The degree,
named the
Auxiliaries, is the left 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 invocations which follow them; the
Catena; and the
prayers described as “concluding prayers”. These may
be divided throughout
the day, as convenient. The Adjutores Legionis
or Adjutorians is the
right wing of the praying Legion. Adjutorian
membership
comprises of 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.
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