Reports America United States Philadelphia Senatus: An "E" Day had 27 legionaries and 11 parishioners making 163 contacts. A praesidium in the Prison of Scranton Curia has 10 members and 10 auxiliaries. Harrisburg Comitium had many conversions; they visit prisons and conduct information tables at Church festivals. Los Angeles Senatus The Korean Curia has seven Patrician groups with a good attendance at each. The Senatus has undertaken the distribution of the Legion Breviary to American and Canadian Councils. Boston Senatus Attendance at the Senatus meetings is very good and there are very few officership vacancies in council or praesidia. Cincinnati Senatus The Comitium had a stand at a symposium on Mary at the University of Dayton. Works include home to home and prison visitation, Holy Communion is brought to Catholics in 3 facilities. St Louis Senatus In Kansas City 9 people are under instruction. A new praesidium has been started in Denver. Works done in the council include home to home visitation, prison visits and promoting the enthronement of the Sacred Heart. San Francisco Senatus 5 directly attached praesidia reported. Their works are Pilgrim Statue visitation, hospital visitation, catechism classes, crowd contact and book barrow. An experiment of a family praesidium has 7 families, this includes 12 parents and 10 children. Extension efforts are made in Oregon. Seattle started 3 new praesidia. Idaho has 2 praesidia doing jail ministry, 27 prisoners take part in bible study. The Korean Curia had a "Night of Mary Prayer service". In Stockton, juniors had a bookstall at a Youth Day. Monthly crowd-contact in the Senatus area is a means of meeting people of many nationalities. Chicago Senatus At a Legion retreat 3 went to Confession after 10 years. A suicide was intercepted. New York Senatus 6460 homes in 30 buildings were visited and those met were invited to attend Mass. Morris County Curia has 5 book barrows. Upper Manhattan Curia has 18 parishes in their area and the Legion is in 14 of them. They visit prisons, prepare adults for Confirmation and children for Holy Communion, 442 returned to the Sacraments and 192 came into the Church. Houston Senatus Peregrinatio Pro Christo projects to Laguna Madre in Mexico and to Avondale in Los Angeles were very successful. Dallas Comitium did a Peregrinatio project to New Orleans. They gave great encouragement to the legionaries devastated by the hurricanes. In San Antonio Comitium a book barrow is operated in a shopping mall. Amarillo Curia did door to door visitation with the youth of the diocese. Arlington Regia Washington Comitium started 3 new praesidia in the last 6 months. A Peregrinatio project to West Virginia had good results. West Indies Senatus of Haiti A Mass for the Servant of God Frank Duff too place in June. One very large Comitium has been divided for easier administration. Works include home to home, hospital, orphanage and prison visitation. San Juan Senatus Puerto Rico The Spiritual Director in his Allocutio urged legionaries to take on officerships. As a result of Consecration of homes to the Sacred Heart many have returned to the practice of the faith. A single mother was prepared for the Sacraments, she and her baby were Baptised on the same occasion and she received the other Sacraments also. Regia of Santiago, Dominican Republic Praesidia reports a woman who had become a Jehovah Witness returned to the Church and eight marriages were regularised. A woman who practiced witchcraft also returned to the Church. Comitium Neustra Senora de la Altagracia Moca has 19 senior, 6 juvenile and 1 child's praesidia and 9 Curia attached. They have 1,600 active, 1,500 auxiliary members, 25 Praetorian and 5 Adjutorian members. Homes, the sick, prisons and hospitals are visited. Catechism is taught to children and adults. 10 Marriages were regularised, 508 children prepared for First Holy Communion, 523 youth were confirmed and 172 Baptisms. The Comitium of Santa Ana reported 4 adolescents prepared for Baptism and the other Sacraments. Two lapsed returned, pre-baptismal and pre-marriage courses conducted, the prisons and bereaved are visited and the Rosary is said as a means of teaching it. Trinidad Regia Works include lay ministry, baptism instruction and promoting the Sacrament of Matrimony. Canada Montreal Senatus A meeting to discuss the USA/Canadian officers Conference held last July in Dublin had active and auxiliary members present. The Spiritual Director Fr. Senez told them they should all be people of evangelisation. Mater Dei Curia invites people to the Rosary on the 13th of each month. They assist at funerals. Mater Christe Curia visits prison and do park contact. Notre Dame Curia approach people in funeral parlours. Regina Pacis Curia visits prisons. Works in the Senatus include visiting the sick, teaching Catechism to children and preparing them for the Sacraments and visiting prisons. Praesidia attached to councils range from 5 in Gaspe Curia to 14 in Quebec Comitium. Toronto Regia The Regia covers 7 Diocese and they have 169 praesidia with 1,678 members and 11,714 Auxiliaries. Hamilton Comitium does prison ministry, 49 families were prepared for Baptism and 39 families for First Holy Communion. Wellington Curia does door to door visitation and reported returns to the Sacraments. Niagara Curia visited 126 refugee families and 1 family returned to the Sacraments. Toronto Korean Comitium has 48 praesidia with 536 members. St. Johns New Brunswick Curia do door to door visitation and a couple had their child baptised. Within the Regia area the legionaries work in an army base and supply them with Miraculous Medals and Rosary beads. There are 6 Patrician groups in the Regia. Vancouver Comitium Two new praesidia were set up. Works mentioned are home to home visitation, street contact and the showing of a video every Friday. Our Lady of the Assumption Comitium Edmonton The Comitium has been visiting the attached praesidia and Calgary Curia. In this Curia 18 legionaries did contact work at the "Stampede". Ontario SenatusA praesidium of 4 members visits Ottawa detention centre. Another with 10 members and 107 auxiliary members works with drug addicts. A third praesidium does market ministry at the weekend. South America Cuba Comitium of Havana Praesidia membership is generally very good with 16-20 members. Extension is high on the list of priorities, a number of Curiae have set up new praesidia. They visit the sick and also do works of service for the sick. During the months of May and October a public rosary is recited. Teaching Catechism to both adults and children is done by many praesidia. One praesidium showed the film "The Passion of the Christ" on a number of occasions in the parish and invited parishioners to the event. Ecuador Senatus of QuitoThree new praesidia were set up in Ambato and in the north of the country the Legion was re-started. A former legionary was ordained to the Priesthood and two others entered the seminary. Uruguay Senatus of Uruguay There are 17 Curiae attached to this council, 14 of which are in the provinces with 1,400 active and 6,300 auxiliaries. In the course of home visitation legionaries make contact with Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, Atheists and non-practicing Catholics. Many families are surprised and happy to receive a visit from active Catholics. Venezuela Senatus of Caracas Legionaries set up a 'Happy Club' for cancer patients. A new Curia has been set up in an attached Comitium. 10 praesidia including 5 juniors have been set up recently. Two vocations to the Cloister Sisters were reported. Bolivia Senatus of La Paz Excellent work is being done for shoe shine boys and taxi drivers as well as those who have stalls in the open market. The legionaries continue to do home visitation promoting an increase in prayer and participation in the Sacraments. Chile Senatus of Santiago Extension work is starting, juniors are increasing and the Senatus bulletin is being published again. Colombia Senatus of Bogota An attached Regia is making efforts to raise the spirituality of the members by encouraging Bible study, reading Church documents and attending retreats. Legionaries are preparing both children and adults for the Sacraments. Classes are set up for those who wish to learn how to read and write. Football competitions are organised among the young legionaries. 180 families attend 6 different prayer meetings which include bible study, discussion and prayer. Senatus of Medellin The Senatus recently celebrated the 85th anniversary of the foundation of the Legion of Mary with Mass and Eucharistic Adoration and the recitation of the prayer for the beatification of the Servant of God Frank Duff. They did a PPC project with 15 legionaries and with the local legionaries visited the whole area. As a result of the project, young people between the ages of 12 and 22 requested for Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion, couples had their marriages regularised and returned to the Sacramental life. Peru Senatus of Lima There are many conversions from the sects as a result of home visitation and extension work is also being done. Legionaries encouraged a local pagan festival to have spiritual songs and hymns added to their procession to give a more spiritual approach to the festival. Another Curia reported that all their praesidia did an Exploratio Dominicalis project during the year. Paraguay Senatus of Asuncion A men's praesidium of 8 active members and 35 auxiliaries are doing home to home visitation. Lapsed Catholics are invited to return to the practice of their faith. An isolated Curia with 26 praesidia, where conditions are very difficult, no electricity, no telephones, is working very well and has a junior Curia attached. Africa Rwanda Kigali Senatus In the course of visitation to homes, hospitals, prisons and orphanages many lapsed are brought back to Mass and the Sacraments. In areas which are deprived of men due to death in the war or by imprisonment, the legionaries do works of service which include tilling their small plots of land, helping the elderly people and fatherless families to provide food for themselves. Guinea Equatorial Bata Comitium The Legion in Bata is extending rapidly. There are 17 Curiae, 3 in the city and 14 in provinces, one of which was set up recently and is affiliated to the Comitium. A number of praesidia have been set up recently both in Bata and the provinces. The main works are teaching Catechism and preparing adults and children for the Sacraments. Mauritius Island Port Louis Regia This Regia has two Comitia and six Curiae affiliated. Works include the preparation of children for First Communion and of adults for Marriage, the promotion of the Rosary in the homes and in May processions, the visitation of a home run by nuns for unmarried mothers abandoned by their families. Two separate retreats were organised, for juniors and for senior legionaries. The Council has printed its own French Handbook. A handicapped member made a copy of the Vexillum and presented it to the Regia. Annual Legion Pilgrimage to Knock On Sunday 24th September 2006 over 6,000 assembled at Our Lady's shrine at Knock in Co. Mayo for the Concilium's annual pilgrimage. The Bishop of Dromore, Most Rev. John McAreavey DD. was the Chief Celebrant of the Mass and also the Homilist. It was wonderful to see so many legionaries arriving from all parts of the country for all the ceremonies, which were conducted with great devotion. A Minute a Day So others must be drawn into our plannings until those little nests of apostolic thinkers are legion in number as in name. Indeed can we induce every legionary in the world to indulge in this dreaming about souls. If each one could be induced to pray for a minute a day over a map of the world, it would afford an opening for the maternal operations of Mary. And it is part of her mother's office that she would seize on any such opportunity. Nothing is more certain than that something would happen. Dreaming with Mary is the most solid of actions for she adds in the substance. The one mistake which we can make is to dream on too low a level where Faith is thin and feeble. So we must think in terms of the apparently impossible: the conquest of the world in souls. Mary will make the dream come true. - Final Testament of the Servant of God, Frank Duff in his address to Legionaries on 25 October 1980 Favours attributed to the Intercession of The Servant of God, Frank Duff should be reported to: Legion of Mary De Montfort House, Morning Star Avenue, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7, Ireland