FROM THE SENATUS ARCHIVES

Allocutio by Msgr. Francis G. Wearden

Born October 4, 1928 – Died December 12, 2010

 

                 All Legionaries should know that the Legion exists in order to evangelize. Membership itself, in the Legion, begins with the Legion Promise. The Promise is addressed to the Holy Spirit. The Legion of Mary could also be called the Legion of the Holy Spirit. Our consecration to Mary is also consecration to the Holy Spirit.

 

                 PPC programs prepare us for the HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE. The PPC prayer offered for each peregrini is that the Blood, Merits, Wounds, Names, and the inflamed Hearts of the Father’s Son and His Most Holy Mother would bring about the conversion of the whole world – nothing less, my God, nothing less, because of Mary, their Mother, because of Thy Might and mercy.  The Handbook says: “When Christ said ALL, he meant ALL. Actually he had before his eyes each individual one –

‘for whom he had worn the Crown – and borne the Cross, the nails, the lance – the rabble’s ignominious

glance – unnumbered griefs, unmeasured woes—faintings and agonizing throes – and death itself on

Calvary’. Labor so great must not be thrown away”.  ALL means people everywhere, “to the least ones, to the greatest ones, to those near, to those remote, to the ordinary people, to the wickedest, to the farthest shack, to all afflicted creatures, to the diabolical types, to the loneliest lighthouse, to the leper, to the forgotten sort, to the victims of drink and vice, to the dangerous classes, to the dwellers in caves and caravans, to those on the battlefield, to those who hide, to the avoided places, to the lowest den, to the icy wastes, to the sun-baked desert, to the densest jungle, to the dismal swamp, to the uncharted island, to the undiscovered tribe, out into the absolute unknown – to find if there is someone living

there, right on to the ends of the earth where the rainbow rests!. No one must evade our search, lest the gentle Jesus frown upon us”.

We may call it “New Evangelization”, but it is “primary evangelization”. It is for those who have never heard the Saving Message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ before. It is going back to our original charism and spirit with a new and deeper fervor, a greater joy, and a new and deeper living of the spirituality of the Handbook, and above all, a renewal of True Devotion to Mary and the Holy Spirit.

In the Gospel Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.” Luke 10:18