angel statue

the legion serves the church and others through schools, universities and centers to form the character and christian virtue of families, youth, and married couples, as well as the christian and humanitarian development of the poor. legionaries serve the local churches through catechesis, missions, media apostolates, and they offer diocesan priests ongoing formation courses in their dioceses. the name sums up a christ-centered spirituality in which jesus christ is the center, standard, and model of a legionary''s religious, priestly, and apostolic life. love for christ legionaries seek to experience and know christ intimately in the gospel, the eucharist, and the cross. they strive to love him in a personal and passionate way by imitating as their only model of holiness.

the legion serves the church and others through schools, universities and centers to form the character and christian virtue of families, youth, and married couples, as well as the christian and humanitarian development of the poor. legionaries serve the local churches through catechesis, missions, media apostolates, and they offer diocesan priests ongoing formation courses in their dioceses. the name sums up a christ-centered spirituality in which jesus christ is the center, standard, and model of a legionary''s religious, priestly, and apostolic life. love for christ legionaries seek to experience and know christ intimately in the gospel, the eucharist, and the cross. they strive to love him in a personal and passionate way by imitating as their only model of holiness.

love for mary imitating christ, legionaries seek to love the blessed virgin with the tender love of a son, for she is the mother angel of the church and of their statue vocation. they consecrate their spiritual and apostolic life to her care. they seek to imitate her virtues: faith, hope, charity, obedience, humility, and cooperation with christ''s plan of redemption. love for the church and the pope legionaries seek to love and serve christ in the church, the beginning of his kingdom on earth. the real, objective, and passionate love for the church includes seeing her both as she is and as christ wants her to be. this love brings legionaries to honor her in faith, embrace her in obedience, labor for her growth, and make her first in their lives. to love the church means being always in step with the church, neither ahead nor behind. love for the church brings legionaries to support and follow the pope, promoting his charism of primacy and magisterium. angel in a spirit of faith, they honor statue all bishops in communion with the pope, as successors of the apostles and witnesses of the catholic angel faith.