[Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] as possible the worldwide Legion of Mary both individually and collectively earnestly seeks each year to celebrate the Asus Latin for a standing army the sediment is one of the most beautiful and profound functions of the Legion it's a certainly in which the legionaries as a body assembled to renew their faulty to marry Queen of the Legion and from her to receive strength and blessing for yet another Year's battle with the forces of evil what precisely is this purpose and meaning well first of all it presupposes an examination of our relationship to Mary and specifically a practice of true Devotion to her in the spirit of Saint Louis maridi Monfort then we seek to renew and express publicly our consecration to Mary and the condensed and beautiful family I am all yours my queen and my mother and all that I have is yours what an extraordinary depth of Doctrine and devotion are packed into so few words they express the total conviction and commitment of every true legionary it will be difficult to exaggerate the importance of the Arceus in the life of the legion our founder servant of God Frank Duff when it comes to the Arceus use perhaps the bluntest words in the whole handbook he writes the Arceus is the Great Central annual function of the Legion so it is necessary to stress the importance of attendance on the part of every member the essential ideal of the lesion upon which all else is built is that a working in Union with an independence on Mary it's Queen the Arceus is the solemn expression of that Union and dependence the renewable individual and Collective of the legionary Declaration of reality hence it is Manifest that any illusionary who cannot attend who can attend and yet failed to do so have little or none of the spirit of the Legion in them the membership of such person is not an asset to the legion he writes so the purpose of the best of this renew and deepen our consecration to Mary at least once a year that consecration is at the heart of a vocation in the legion the project of true Devotion to Mary has never done months and for all but we must keep going back to the basic principles and try to live them better throughout our lives what does it mean it means belonging totally to Mary absolutely nothing must be held back I'm all yours everything I am or possess spiritual and material past and present I will to give every moment of my life to marry why let us answer in the words of Saint Louis Mari the moon forth the essence of the true devotion consists in giving ourselves entirely to the most holy version and the quality of her slave in order to belong fully to Jesus Christ the shorthand of all the work of demon fourth and our founder is Jesus true Mary sometimes we might be tempted to think that this consecration is too demanding it may appear sometimes to be a constant struggle and sometimes we can feel exhausted with all the work that never ends but accumulates day by day but authentic love of Mary eases this problem and we remember the constant saying of Frank Duff in his many letters to legionaries we are accustomed to think and to say that whatever we give to Our Lady through the legion is infinitely outweighed by what she gives to us in return let me finally End by suggesting with the handbook that you move over the Marian synthesis found in the appendices of the handbook before the Arceus or you Ponder on the little article that Frank Duff wrote on our dead to Mary if he really knew what Mary's maternity of each one of us cost her and if he had ever even an inkling of a love for us and a share in the work of our Salvation we would probably find making a total consecration to her the most inevitable and delightful thing we could ever do it is good to remember that the life of a Founder was Earthly transformed by the repeated reading of demon forts through Devotion to Mary and the same may very well happen to us if we follow this example the Asus is held close to the feasts of the Annunciation to remind us of a yes without warning out of the blue totally unexpected Angel Gabriel stood before her and asked her if she would become the mother of the son of God fortunately she said yes be it done to me according to your word and look where God took her she is fourth in command after the father's Son and Holy Spirit and far above the rest of us but supposing she had said no not me I'm too busy or no you know let's when so do it she's better qualified than I then for the rest of her life she would have looked back on her squandered life so say yes and see where God takes you for further updates subscribe to our Channel and please click on the Bell icon thanks for watching [Music]