The reading from the Legion Handbook (page 78-80) has a beautiful message: “The world belongs to him who loves it most, and who proves that love”.

The core of the Catholic Church is Love – and Love is God himself. That’s why “over the world that Legion is doing those simple acts of love of God in man, and of the men for the sake of God”. To evangelise is to love and share the love of God. It shall be done not only to our beloved brothers and sisters, but also to the strangers and the enemy forces who are against God. The Legion work turns out clearly: “convince them that the Church loves them most, and they will return to Faith in spite of everything”.

Good work does not guarantee itself to be easy, since “even the courage of the strongest heart might well fail”. Yet, the Legion is with Mother Mary – “Mary is the heart of the Legion, and that the heart is faith and love unutterable”. The Legion loves Mary, so much that “it is not to be thought that the legionary scheme was conceived in deliberate opposition to the empire of unbelief”. There’s no time for preparation or deliberation. In fact: “Things worked out more simple. A little band gathered around a statue of Our Lady and said to her: ‘Lead us’. So, hand in hand with her, they set about their simple work of service, and lo, they have grown into a Legion”. Gather before Mother Mary. Ask for her help. Pray to her. Even the toughest work shall be done.

“The Legion looks out over the world, and all at once, excited hope is born: ‘The world belongs to him who loves it most’. Then it turns to it great Queen, as it did at the beginning: ‘Lead us!'”.

(A copy of “The Official Handbook of The Legion of Mary” can be found in the following link)