Totus Tuus: the Legion in NUS: Keep it up!!!!!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Keep it up!!!!!

I was so surprised and delighted to receive this mail today. Keep blogging guys!! And keep Sister Frances in your prayers!

Hi Brother Dominic and Sister Carina,

I happened upon your blogsite by providence and am curious as to where you are located, i.e., what country?

Its so exciting to see what you all are doing with both the Legion and Technology! My compliments.

My mom is a big Legionary here in SF, CA. She's from Ireland and knew Alphie Lamb and Frank Duff (or she met them). She's been a Legionary since the 1950s and now works here in the USA.

Please pray for us here in California! We are facing the battle of our lives in this upcoming election. Proposition 8 is a ballot measure to protect marriage as God designed it. However, the homosexual activists are very successful and have many more millions of dollars for their campaign than we do. Even Hollywood stars have given money. Please ask your Legionaries to say many prayers and masses for us who are fighting to keep marriage between one man and one woman. Our website is www.catholicsforprotectmarriage.com . I am a volunteer in this campaign and was looking up the history of Our Lady of the Rosay when I came across your blogsite.

Its funny, but, I typed in "austria, turks, eucharist, horses" and your site came up. Must be God's hand. I've been searching in vain online to find the story of a eucharistic miracle that occurred in that same time period. The Turks were on horseback and invaded Austria. They were charging up a steep hill. Atop the hill was a monastery. The frightened priest grabbed the Eucharist and held it high in front of the charging Turkish cavalry. The horses stopped dead in their tracks and would not move. The Turks had to turn around and flee. The priest and his monastery were saved miraculously. I heard this story recently on the local CAtholic radio station here: Immaculate Heart Radio 1260AM, KSFB (stands for K San Francisco Bay).

I'm glad I was staying up so late that I was guided by Our Lady of the Rosary to you site.

God bless you for your site. Please thank Eunice for her Lepanto citation. Also thank Maryana (Nana) for her wonderful Prince of Egypt video clip. It was the message Our Lady wished for me to hear: that with prayer and faith miracles really do happen. I have been so discouraged over the battle of Prop 8 that I needed to be reminded by that video's message. I can't thank you enough. All of you.

I look forward to hearing back from you soon!

In Christ and Mary's Victory,

Frances in San Francisco, California, USA

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Paul said...: yay! NUS legion going global! :); October 8, 2008 at 12:03 AM

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The Legion Promise

Most Holy Spirit, I, Desiring to be enrolled this day as a legionary of Mary, Yet knowing that of myself I cannot render worthy service, Do ask of you to come upon me and fill me with yourself, So that my poor acts may be sustained by your power, and become an instrument of your mighty purposes.

But I know that you, who has come to regenerate the world in Jesus Christ, Has not willed to do so except through Mary; That without her we cannot know or love you; That it is by her, and to whom she pleases, when she pleases, and in the quantity and manner she pleases, That all your gifts and virtues and graces are administered; And I realise that the secret of a perfect legionary service Consists in a complete union with her who is so completely united to you.

So, taking in my hand the legionary Standard which seeks to set before our eyes these things, I stand before you as her soldier and her child, And I so declare my entire dependence on her. She is the mother of my soul. Her heart and mine are one, And from that single heart she speaks again those words of old: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord"; And once again you come by her to do great things.

Let your power overshadow me, and come into my soul with fire and love, And make it one with Mary's love and Mary's will to save the world; So that I may be pure in her who was made Immaculate by you; So that Christ my Lord may likewise grow in me through you; So that I with her, his Mother, may bring him to the world and to the souls who need him; So that they and I, the battle won, may reign with her for ever in the glory of the Blessed Trinity. Confident that you will so receive me - and use me - and turn my weakness into strength this day,
I take my place in the ranks of the Legion, and I venture to promise a faithful service. I will submit fully to its discipline,
Which binds me to my comrades, And shapes us to an army,
And keeps our line as on we march with Mary, To work your will, to operate your miracles of grace, Which will renew the face of the earth, And establish your reign, Most Holy Spirit, over all.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

The Catena Legionis

Every Legionary, Active and Auxiliary, is required to recite the Catena Legionis every day. The recitation of the Catena may very well be regarded as the battle cry of the Legion of Mary in its warfare against the Evil One.(Rev. Francis Lendacky)

The Latin word "catena" means "chain" and it is this prayer (the only one every Legionary is obliged to recite daily) which binds together the Legionaries, who, though part of one army, are scattered all over the world labouring in a multitude of vineyards.

Antiphon. Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array?

My soul glorifies the Lord,*
my spirit rejoices in God, my Saviour.
He looks on his servant in her lowliness;*
henceforth all ages will call me blessed.

The Almighty works marvels for me.*
Holy his name!
His mercy is from age to age,*
on those who fear him.

He puts forth his arm in strength*
and scatters the proud-hearted.
He casts the mighty from their thrones*
and raises the lowly.

He fills the starving with good things,*
sends the rich away empty.

He protects Israel, his servant,*
remembering his mercy,
the mercy promised to our fathers,*
to Abraham and his sons for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen.

Antiphon. Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array ?

V/. O Mary, conceived without sin.
R/. Pray for us who have recourse to you.

Let us pray

O Lord Jesus Christ, our mediator with the Father, who has been pleased to appoint the most Blessed Virgin, your Mother, to be our mother also, and our mediatrix with you, mercifully grant that whoever comes to you seeking your favours may rejoice to receive all of them through her. Amen.

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