St. Louis Senatus:Three Congresses were held in the Senatus area. As part of their evangelisation efforts, booths were provided at county fairs to promote the Legion. Extension workers are following up on 3 parishes where interest was expressed in the Legion. A junior praesidium distributed 500 rosary beads to schoolchildren. They also are engaged in home visitation with the Pilgrim Statue. A Peregrinatio project was organised to an Indian Reserve in North Dakota. There is an 80% Catholic population there but Mass attendance is low.

Cincinnati Senatus:Enthronement of the Sacred Heart appears in several reports. Legionaries are responsible for promoting weekly Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Three long serving praesidia had to close due to illness, however many praesidia have increased their membership. Detroit Regia sponsored an advertisement on the Servant of God Frank Duff in the "Michigan Catholic".

Boston Senatus:Works include teaching catechism as well as hospital and nursing home visitation. Three adults were prepared for First Holy Communion and devotion to the First Saturdays is encouraged.

Philadelphia Senatus: A Seminary praesidium of 18 members do good work among youth in schools. Delaware had a book barrow at a Flea Market and they are doing home to home visitation. Johnstown Comitium visit prisons and has a book barrow, an average of 18 attends their Patricians meeting. Pittsburgh Comitium has 15 praesidia attached. Their works include home to home visitation and book barrow. Camden Comitium, New Jersey has 65 senior praesidia and 6 junior praesidia in 4 Curiae. Members visit 9 prisons and use 9 book barrows. Four people were converted and 14 returned to the Sacraments. 8000 attended a Rosary Rally organised by the Camden Comitium. In Allentown Curia 25 families were brought back to the Sacraments.

New York Senatus:Two Comitia, three Curiae and six praesidia are covered in this report. Rochester Comitium has 112 active members and 2,390 auxiliaries. One lady returned to Confession with her 2 children. A man in hospital received Confession and Holy Communion before he died. Chelsea Curia did an Exploratio Dominicalis project. Ninety parishioners attended a Lenten Day of Recollection. Staten Island Curia set up four new praesidia. Paterson Curia has over 600 auxiliary members. A Jewish husband and non-Catholic wife came into the Church. The praesidia reporting are engaged in book barrow work and encourage patients in hospital to return to the Sacraments.

Miami Regia:Reports show many Adjutorian members attached to praesidia. Few reports have been received from Jamaica since the death of the President R.I.P. There is also a lack of information from Alabama and Mississippi. These Councils need attention. A young man was given money by a legionary who then asked him what his real need were. He was dying from Aids. As a result of follow up he was instructed and baptised a Catholic before he died.

Houston Regia:A Mass for Venerable Edel Quinn was held before the Regia meeting. San Antonio Comitium has a booth at the Airport and distribute sacramentals to staff and passengers. In Houston a drop-in centre for homeless is organised each Sunday morning. Prayers and a bible service are conducted and practical needs are attended to. Dallas Comitium reports good work done by its ethnic Curiae. La Fayette Comitium had 100 at a Congress. In Bay Area Curia contacts were made at a Strawberry Festival and many sacramentals were distributed.

Arlington Regia:As a result of efforts by the Shenandoah Curia a new Curia has been set up complete with 4 Officers and a Spiritual Director. Tidewater Curia has established 2 new praesidia and another two are in the process of starting. Members attached to the Richmond Curia do crowd contact outside the Car Tax Offices and are well received.

Los Angeles Senatus:A new Korean Curia has been set up. The president and 4 Officers attended the inaugural meeting of the San Francisco Senatus. He was thanked for his leadership and he congratulated the new Officers and wished them well in their new responsibilities.

Bahamas Curia:Recruiting efforts have brought in new members. A letter of congratulations has been sent to the new Archbishop of Bahamas.

Montreal Senatus:(French) Some of the works in the Senatus are: visitation of prisons where the visits are appreciated, visiting the sick and bringing Holy Communion to them, teaching Catechism and Pilgrim Virgin visitation. In a Senior Citizens Home the residents are encouraged to go to Confession.

Toronto Regia:Praesidia are engaged in "Rosary in the School" programme. Columban Drives have been held, 3 new members were recruited and Parish Priests have been visited to interest them in the Legion. Seven Patricians groups have an average attendance of 20. Four new praesidia were set up at Peterboro, Hamilton and Niagara.

Vancouver Comitium:Extension is ongoing and 3 new praesidia have been set up. A Peregrinatio project will take place to Nelson in July. Nine praesidia reported. They have a combined membership of 74 active including 9 probationers, 555 auxiliaries and 9 Adjutorians. Works include the Family Rosary Crusade, home and hospital visitation. One person in a nursing home became a Catholic. Several returns to the Sacraments were reported.

Montreal Curia:(English) A good apostolate is done by praesidia.

Guadalajara Senatus:During this period 1 Comitium, 4 Curiae and 3 praesidia reported. Legionaries lead prayers at wakes and funerals when the priest is not present. An attached Comitium closed one senior and set up three junior praesidia. The daughter of a former legionary returned to the practice of the Faith. She was very impressed with the dedication and commitment of the legionaries who brought the Eucharist to her mother every day while she was sick.

Merida Regia:Four Comitia, 3 senior and 1 junior Curia and 4 praesidia reported. An attached Comitium reported 180 children and 20 young persons Baptised, some of whom were Protestants. Another Comitium set up 2 new Curiae recently. Of over 6000 homes visited 440 were members of different sects and of 63 couples met 22 agreed to receive the Sacrament of Marriage. One Curia reported that it did not have any Praetorians or Adjutorians, presumably because daily Mass is not available.

Hermosillo Regia:Three praesidia, 4 senior and 1 junior Curiae and 1 Comitium reported. One Curia mentioned the Causes and promotion of the Miraculous Medal. The junior Curia set up a new praesidium recently; a number of the juniors are catechists. Attendance at the junior Curia meeting is very good. All reports indicate a number of people returning to the Sacraments and large numbers of Baptisms of children, young people and adults.

Monterrey Regia:Intensive home visitation is done which is resulting in new members. Promotion of the Miraculous Medal and the Causes is also mentioned by 1 Curia. A praesidium has started book barrow work. The legionaries at the book barrow were surprised at the number of people who wished to talk to them about their problems and the practice of the Faith.

Port of Spain Regia: Reporting praesidia are engaged in hospital visitation and were responsible for 24 lapsed returning to Mass. Also reported were Baptisms and Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in homes. Miraculous Medals and Rosary beads are distributed in the course of work.

Senatus of Haiti:The apostolate includes home and hospital visitation. Contact is made in the markets. Prayers are requested for this country; it is suffering from serious political problems and natural disasters. Despite this many have been prepared for all the Sacraments.

Senatus of Santo Domingo:This Council has 5 praesidia, 8 Comitia and 10 Curiae attached. They have 5,500 active, 10,000 auxiliaries and 778 praetorian members. Visits are made to hospitals, clinics and prisons. The priest was brought to 5 sick people. Catechism was taught to 19 children and 10 adults. Reports show large numbers of adults and children prepared for the Sacraments.

Regia of Santiago de los Caballeros:This Council has a total of 29,000 active members, 23,500 auxiliary members. The main work is home and hospital visitation. Catechism is taught and a priest was brought to a person before his death.

The Curia has 5 praesidia attached and meetings are held in different parishes each month. Homes, hospitals and "shut-ins" are visited. The Rosary is promoted and extension is being undertaken.

Jalapa Comitium:This Council governs 7 directly attached praesidia and 19 Curiae.

Camotan Comitium:Homes are visited and a Pilgrim Statue is circulated. Exploratio and Peregrinatio projects are carried out. The Junior Curia organised a Retreat for all its members.

The Senatus reported that one attached Curia governs 20 senior and 1 junior praesidia. The legionaries were advised to organise para liturgical services where there is no priest. In one area members arranged to get wheelchairs and water beds to help to bring the sick to Confession. Contact is made with prostitutes and drug addicts after 10.00 p.m.

Regia of Managua: Drug addicts are approached in a park and visits are made to the prison with a priest. A book barrow is operated from which missals and church literature are sold. Twenty couples were married in Church and the Sacred Heart picture was enthroned in homes. The Acies ceremony was presided over by the Cardinal. Weekend extension was done and a new praesidium was established.

Senatus of San Salvador:The attached Regia of San Vicente governs 10 directly attached praesidia, 5 Comitia, 10 Curiae and a junior Curia of 8 praesidia. Many conversions and returns to the Sacraments including those of 21 youths were reported. The Regia of Santa Ana has 6 Comitia, 7 Curiae and 10 directly attached praesidia. Two new Curiae have been set up in Ahuachapan.

The Senatus reported that many marriages were regularised and many Baptisms were recorded as a result of visiting homes.

The Comitium in this country is aware of the need to do extension and is planning to draw up a plan for it.

La Paz Senatus:Visits are paid on a regular basis to its attached praesidia and Councils and the Councils correspond with it on a monthly basis. Exploratio evangelisation was carried out in Lambrate and members from La Paz have visited families in the interior with local Legion help.

Quito Senatus:Members who took part in a parish evangelisation mission invited families to participate in the meetings organised during the mission. The meetings took place over a number of weeks and ended with a Mass. A number of parishioners were encouraged to return to the practice of the Faith. The visitation of homes has led to returns to the Faith in several areas and 117 adults including 8 Mormons were baptised at Easter.

Cuenca Regia:This Council governs the Legion in the Archdiocese and 3 other Dioceses. It has 19 directly attached praesidia and 5 Curiae. Active and auxiliary membership is increasing.

The Senatus is based in the Archdiocese of Montevideo and covers 8 other Dioceses. There are 15 Curiae and 18 directly attached praesidia. Melo Curia organises adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on Fridays. Catechetics figures in reports.

The Senatus received a report from a praesidium of 10 members which organised a Novena in the home of Protestants and looked after a cancer patient up to the time of her death. A Curia reported the blessing of a marriage after 22 years, the reconciliation of 2 families and a family being rescued from the sects.

Caracas Senatus:This Council governs 1 Regia, 2 Comitia, 18 praesidia and 14 Curiae in Caracas city and 21 Councils in the interior. Many mission type projects have been carried out and new senior and junior praesidia have been set up. 75 young people attended a weekend National meeting for youth. A young Jehovah's Witness and an Evangelist were baptised and received First Holy Communion. A drug addict was rescued during a recruiting drive.

Lima Senatus:A number of Tribunes are helping out due to the shortage of priests. Male and female prisoners including sick prisoners in solitary confinement are visited. A praesidium has been set up in the jail. One Comitium has set up a Curia of 10 praesidia which has 6 junior groups. Five Intermediate groups and 2 Patricians groups are attached. After long contact a young Evangelist has joined the Legion and is now a seminarian .

Santiago Senatus:The attached Regia of La Serena has 1 praesidium in a prison and extension is being carried out in 2 areas.

Reports have been received from Bogota and Medellin Senatus.

The Senatus in this country is well organised. Works listed include visitation for Sunday Mass, for Easter duty, for Christian marriage, for the recruitment of catechumens, auxiliaries and new members. The poor are helped by doing manual work for them. Returning prisoners are welcomed and sometimes new homes are built for them by voluntary labour. Statistics for all activities are furnished.

Bangui Regia reported that the Episcopal Conference had asked in January that the Legion should have a diocesan council for the Archdiocese of Bangui. In reply it was pointed out that the original Curia which had in turn been raised to Comitium status, then to Pro-Regia and finally Regia was still the diocesan council for Bangui.

Kasai Senatus is working well and it receives reports from and visits its attached Curiae and Comitia regularly.

Bukavu Senatus:Recent minutes received after a very long period include detailed accounts of the activities of 10 Comitia, 3 Curiae and 1 attached praesidium which are all engaged in similar work geared towards helping the poor and under privileged both spiritually and temporally. The sick, aged, handicapped, bereaved, orphans, prisoners, refugees, etc. are contacted and counselled. Hundreds of families and individuals have been brought back to Mass and the Sacraments, marriages have been regularised, families have been reunited by the return of young people who had been persuaded to turn away from bad ways. Protestants and Muslims have been prepared for reception into the Church. Of 53 adults and children baptised in one area 12 died within a short time.

Butembo Senatus:Recent news gives details of the apostolic work of 12 Comitia, 4 of which were devastated by war. Among contacts made with orphans, refugees and prisoners, catechumens were recruited, alcoholics reformed, 47 animists and 8 Protestants were prepared for Baptism. Daily prayer, recitation of the Rosary, regular attendance at Sunday Mass and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament are promoted especially among youth. Current strength of Senatus is given as 44 Comitia in 4 Dioceses with 32,000 active and 7,000 auxiliary members.

Kinshasa Senatus:Four Comitia reported a total of 22 Curiae, 360 praesidia, 6,370 active members, 1,970 auxiliaries, 1,886 Praetorians, 573 Adjutorians and 601 junior members. Works reported included visitation of homes, hospitals, old peoples homes, prisons, penitentiaries, contacting families, recruiting catechumens, regularising marriages, reconciling families, ending cohabitation situations, returning street children to their families, counselling girls against abortion, trying to help hemp smokers to beat the habit, teaching catechism to adults and children and preparing people for the Sacraments.

Kigali Senatus:A new Spiritual Director, Mgr. Cyprian Dusabeyezu, has replaced Mgr. Andre Havugamina, who has been such a wonderful support to the Senatus for the past 23 years, especially during the terrible war years when so many legionaries were killed so cruelly and he himself was badly injured and barely escaped with his life. In his final Allocutio he repeated in summary all the advice he had given down the years. Works reported included contacting of Christians and non-Christians, among them many prisoners and ex-prisoners. Catechism, simple prayers and the Rosary were taught to families and individuals. Securing firewood and cultivating plots were acts of service for the needy and handicapped. Extension efforts are now concentrated on the establishment of Junior praesidia and getting more auxiliary members. Visitation of Councils and praesidia is done regularly in spite of long distances and difficult terrain.

Saint Denis Comitium:The apostolate reported by praesidia includes home, hospital and nursing home visitation, teaching catechism, attending wakes, organising public Rosaries and preparing people for Baptism. There were many returns to the Sacraments after absences of many years, some shortly before death. Two children aged 10 and 15 were prepared for First Holy Communion. Preparations are being made for a visit to Madagascar in August.

Mauritius Regia:Evangelisation mentioned in brief minutes includes teaching catechism to primary school children in preparation for First Holy Communion and Confirmation, visitation of homes and hospitals, bringing children to Mass and regularisation of marriages. A 62 year old lady was baptised and received First Holy Communion. Help was secured for a dying drug addict.

Rev. Fr. Bede McGregor, O.P., Vice Postulator of the Cause of the Servant of God, Frank Duff and Rev. Fr. E. McCarthy who is assisting with work on the Cause recently visited 5 States on the Eastern side of the U.S. in connection with the Cause. They gave numerous Talks and interviews about the Cause and they also visited the Mariological University of Dayton, Ohio, where they discussed the Servant of God's writings with Rev. Professor Johann Rotan, Marian Theologian, member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome and Vice-president of the University. A theological assessment of the writings of the Servant of God, Frank Duff is being carried out at Dayton University. Fathers McGregor and McCarthy also visited Most Rev. Dr. Paul Loverde, Bishop of Arlington and several priests and legionaries who knew the Servant of God Frank Duff. The visitors expressed their deepest thanks to everybody they met for their splendid hospitality and kindness and they also expressed their indebtedness to the Marianists priests in Dayton University for the work they are doing for the Cause.

The annual commemoration ceremony took place in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin on 13 June 2004. The Rosary and Legion prayers were led by Very Rev. Gerald Canon Healy. An impressive address was given by Very Rev. Patrick Ryan, C.S.Sp., P.P. who spent many years working in Tanzania, E. Africa. A procession to the grave took place with about 400 people attending and they sang hymns and recited 5 Decades of the Rosary during the procession.

This weekend Conference was held on 29/30 May 2004 in the Marino Institute, Dublin. About 100 young legionaries and other young people took part. During the weekend ten talks were given on various aspects of the Faith. Noel Lynch who had been a Legion Envoy in Argentina spoke about the life and work of the Servant of God of Alphonsus Lambe, who worked as a Legion Envoy in South America and died in Argentina in 1959. Six of the young legionaries present gave testimonies regarding the influence of the Legion in their lives and the Most Rev. Dr. D. Martin, Archbishop of Dublin who attended part of the Conference gave a short talk to those present and gave them his blessing.

Sile Ni Chochláin, president of the Concilium thanked those who had organised the Conference and said she was very impressed with the great interest shown by all the participants, both those attending for their first time and those who had attended in previous years.