What strikes me most in the Legion of Mary, I should say is its courage. Legionaries do show courage when every week they simply offer themselves to be instruments of grace and so making it possible for our Lord to do His wonders. As Legionaries you do not just talk but you hope and have enough faith to go out and walk on the water. That is the wonder of the Legion of Mary, its spirit of faith and of courage, of apostolate and of perseverance.

      That is why I love the Legion of Mary in a special way. I love it for the courage of the legionaries, for the spirit of the legionaries, and for the faithfulness of the legionaries. Now if I see the Legion at work in the world I can say with truth that it is an instrument of grace.

      We should all go out and do everything we can to offer to any of our fellow Christians the opportunity to become legionaries. That means that we must open out to them the many possibilities that the Legion contains. An invitation to join the Legion is an invitation to put our imagination at the service of the Lord. I see in the gospel that we are obliged to love God with all our heart and all our soul and all our mind and all our strength. I like to think that we are bound to love God, too, with all our imagination. I want you to use your imagination just to think about all the possibilities of work that might be done, in a way just like that of our blessed Lady in Cana. There she first of all saw that something was missing. Then very humbly she asked her Son to work His first miracle. So we need a sort of special grace of life, the grace of the imagination to see the needs of the souls just where they are. I pray that you will have that imagination. 

…I think the Legion has done wonders of grace all over the world. An even greater apostolate is still to be done. Simply because we are Christians we are bound to be apostles. Very often we just do not know how to go about it. The wonder of the Legion of Mary is that it is a simple school, a simple method of showing simply great faith. The very fact that you are putting Christianity into practice is a very special grace each of you even if you were never to see a single exterior result of what you do. The first result of the Legion of Mary is the interior conversion of the legionaries. The Legion has a grace of conversion for every one of you, for each of your spiritual directors, even for Bishops. They are not excluded. This grace of interior conversion is one which all of us legionaries receive. We should be thankful just because the Lord wishes to use us in His own wise way. I wish to say a word of thanks to you in the name of the Lord because you have fulfilled your apostolic duty. You have accepted it.

     Yours also is a grace to live in union with our blessed Lady. From time to time in these days of stress, and rightly, that Christ is in the center of Christianity. We know that all the time. If we love our blessed Mother so specially, it is because we know she will lead us in a very special way to Christ. We must never be afraid that a sort of division could exist between the Son and the Mother.

Cardinal Suenens 

“The Legion of Mary is "truly apostolic and completely in accord with the decrees and the spirit of the Second Vatican Council."

Cardinal Krol, undersecretary of the second Vatican Council

"The Legion of Mary is a miracle of these modern times."

Cardinal Riberi

     “Frank Duff must be recognized as one of the great Catholics of the century.  His greatness can be assessed by the fact that the Legion of Mary, the lay organization which he founded, is now active in the majority of the dioceses throughout the world.  The legionaries have shown faith, courage and persistence in taking on the most demanding apostolates, sometimes even in the face of considerable hostility.  They have found inspiration in the example of their founder and have reflected this spirit of their founder in their devotion to Jesus and Mary, and in their love for the Church.” –

Archbishop Dermot Ryan

     “Through the legionaries' union with Our Lady, the Holy Spirit also leads them to a great love for the Church. This, too, is Mary's gift to her Legion. As she leads the members along the path of holiness, she helps them see that there is a close connection between holiness and the apostolate. In fact, it has been pointed out that there is nothing more fundamental in the Legion than this. True holiness of life includes having the heart of an apostle, to share with Christ His desire to draw all men and women to Himself. On the other hand, an apostolate which does not flow from holiness of life does not bear lasting fruit. Here, then, is the second area for renewal during this year - a great love for the Church showing itself in service, service of Our Lady as she mothers the Church, the Mystical Body of her Son.”

Rev. Joseph Moran, O.P.

     The Handbook of the Legion of Mary states that: "To the Priest the Legion gives respect and obedience which are owing to lawful superiors, yet more than this. Its apostolate is built upon the fact that the main channels of Grace are the Mass and the Sacramental System, of which the Priest is the essential minister. All the strivings and expedients of that apostolate must have in view this great end; the bringing of the divinely appointed nourishment to the multitude, sick and hungering. It follows that a first principle of Legionary action must be the bringing of the Priest to the People, not always in person---for that may be impossible---but everywhere in influence and in understanding."

     "This is the essential idea of the Legion apostolate. Lay it will be in bulk of membership, but working in inseparable union with its Priests, and under their captaincy, and with absolute identity of interests."

Legion Handbook

     "You know how much esteem and affection I have for you.  I say you have anticipated the Vatican Council - the future apostolate of the Church."

Bishop Fulton Sheen