November 2008 Feature Article:
Legion of Mary Apostolate

You’ll never believe how many lost pilgrims there are in St. Peter’s Square.  During my experience in the Legion of Mary apostolate, I have met them all.  Everyone seems to be searching:  “Where are the Vatican museums?”  “When does the Pope come out?”  “What is it that you Catholics believe?” 

The Legion of Mary is only one of many apostolates that we have at the North American College.  While each apostolate helps to build good pastoral skills and has an element of evangelization, the Legion of Mary is unique in its total dependence upon Divine Providence and charity.  When we enter St. Peter’s Square for an afternoon, we do not know whom the Lord will bring to us that day or why.  In the end, we do not need to know.

Providence provides.  We always seem to be talking to the right people at the right time.  Our contacts are always searching.  If it is not for directions, then for answers to questions about the Catholic Faith or thus related.  They are all pilgrims, whom the Lord has brought to Rome to meet Him, but many do not realize it.  They wander around St. Peter’s Square like lost sheep without a shepherd, and it is our job to seek them out.  Isn’t that what priests are called to do—shepherd God’s people? [continued...]