Legion of Mary Blog

The Center for the Promotion of Legion Saints is the Arlington Regia’s website with informatino about Frank Duff, Edel Quinn, and Alfie Lambe.  All are encouraged to view the site, along with the Tidewater Curia websites promoting Legion of Mary Causes Frank Duff, Edel Quinn, and Alfie Lambe

At Star of the Sea Catholic Church, under the leadership of Fr. Steve, a new praesidium is forming, which is expected to be named Our Lady Queen of Peace.  The praesidium meets on Thursday evenings at 7:00pm.   For more information, check the parish bulletin or e-mail extension@legionofmarytidewater.com.

Here are some images online for the Legion of Mary:

• Vexillum Legionis
• Tessera
• Altar
• Frank Duff
• Edel Quinn
• Alfie Lambe

Sometimes, the best way to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ is to reform and change one’s own life.  This is, in many ways, the most true for people who regularily attend Mass and generally are practicing Catholics.

In such people, it is common, from time-to-time for sin to creep into their lives.  A regular examination of conscience, and regular sacramental confession are key to clearing the sin away and moving closer to God.  The change in our lives will be a witness to others, as we will be able to more clearly share the light of Christ, by our own spiritual growth.

33. From the relationship between the Eucharist and the individual sacraments, and from the eschatological significance of the sacred mysteries, the overall shape of the Christian life emerges, a life called at all times to be an act of spiritual worship, a self-offering pleasing to God. Although we are all still journeying towards the complete fulfilment of our hope, this does not mean that we cannot already gratefully acknowledge that God’s gifts to us have found their perfect fulfilment in the Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother. Mary’s Assumption body and soul into heaven is for us a sign of sure hope, for it shows us, on our pilgrimage through time, the eschatological goal of which the sacrament of the Eucharist enables us even now to have a foretaste.
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The Legion of Mary will be holding a Perigrinatio Pro Christo from April 15 - 21 in Miami, FL. 

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From Sacramentum Caritatis:

Respect for the liturgical books and the richness of signs

40. Emphasizing the importance of the ars celebrandi also leads to an appreciation of the value of the liturgical norms. (121) The ars celebrandi should foster a sense of the sacred and the use of outward signs which help to cultivate this sense, such as, for example, the harmony of the rite, the liturgical vestments, the furnishings and the sacred space. The eucharistic celebration is enhanced when priests and liturgical leaders are committed to making known the current liturgical texts and norms, making available the great riches found in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal and the Order of Readings for Mass. Perhaps we take it for granted that our ecclesial communities already know and appreciate these resources, but this is not always the case. These texts contain riches which have preserved and expressed the faith and experience of the People of God over its two-thousand-year history. Equally important for a correct ars celebrandi is an attentiveness to the various kinds of language that the liturgy employs: words and music, gestures and silence, movement, the liturgical colours of the vestments. By its very nature the liturgy operates on different levels of communication which enable it to engage the whole human person. The simplicity of its gestures and the sobriety of its orderly sequence of signs communicate and inspire more than any contrived and inappropriate additions. Attentiveness and fidelity to the specific structure of the rite express both a recognition of the nature of Eucharist as a gift and, on the part of the minister, a docile openness to receiving this ineffable gift.

From Sacramentum Caritatis:

Liturgical song

42. In the ars celebrandi, liturgical song has a pre-eminent place. (126) Saint Augustine rightly says in a famous sermon that “the new man sings a new song. Singing is an expression of joy and, if we consider the matter, an expression of love” (127). The People of God assembled for the liturgy sings the praises of God. In the course of her two-thousand-year history, the Church has created, and still creates, music and songs which represent a rich patrimony of faith and love. This heritage must not be lost. Certainly as far as the liturgy is concerned, we cannot say that one song is as good as another. Generic improvisation or the introduction of musical genres which fail to respect the meaning of the liturgy should be avoided. As an element of the liturgy, song should be well integrated into the overall celebration (128). Consequently everything – texts, music, execution – ought to correspond to the meaning of the mystery being celebrated, the structure of the rite and the liturgical seasons (129). Finally, while respecting various styles and different and highly praiseworthy traditions, I desire, in accordance with the request advanced by the Synod Fathers, that Gregorian chant be suitably esteemed and employed (130) as the chant proper to the Roman liturgy (131).