Legion of Mary @ Kurusady

	Highlight of Legion of Mary
	The Origin of Legion of Mary - Kurusady
	"Legion of Mary" - Administration
	Achievements of Legion of Mary, Kurusady
	Services and Special Services
	Services at St. Antony's Church Feast, Kurusady
	The Services to encourage the Legioneries
	The legioneries who have joined the Priesthood

Services and Special Services

Services

• Gathering people for catechism, teaching catechism
  
• Helping to maintain silence in the church
  
• Cleaning the church
  
• Visiting and consoling the sick at home and in the hospitals
  
• Visiting and consoling the leaprosy patients
  
• Having inter-action with people through homevisits
  
• Maintaining the members
  
• Inviting people for legion
  
• Inducing people for confession
  
• Helping others
  
• Cleaning the grave yard
  
• Praying in the houses where people died
  
• Reading and meditating the bible conducting bible class
  
• Preparing for first communion
  
• Re-counseling those who have quarrels & bitterness with one another
  
• Conducting street prayers
  
• Helping in the Holymass
  
• Conducting group prayers in the houses

Special Services

• Visiting and consoling the prisoners.
  
• Making arrangements to admit the orphans in the government orphanages and the old who are destitutes in the homes for the aged.
• Working for the reconciliation between the separated couple.
  
• One of our legionaries has made a main who did not go for past 20 years for confession, to go for confession.
  
• Cleaning the drinking water tank.
  
• Helping the bus accident victims.
  
• Helping to put out the fire during a fire accident. (24.05.1998)
  
• Conducting mini BCC and Sunday pilgrimages.
  
• Working for the welfare of the village through the parish council.
  
• One of our legionaries made arrangements to recover a lost girl from the village.
  
• To make the month of October dedicated to our lady of rosary very special, rosary is recited with the explanations for the mysteries, In front of the grotto of "Our Lady of Lourdes"
  
• Distributing catholic literature.
  
• Conducting way of the cross during sent.
  
• Giving advice to the alcoholics.
  
• Going to Rajavur to meet and talk to the mental patients there. (16/06/1996)
  
• Cleaning the graveyard and reciting the rosary and the other prayers.
  
• Reading the legion handbook thoroughly and following it. Reading about the lives of Duff, Edel & Alphi.
  
• Taking census of the families in the parish for legion work.
  
• Advising the superstitious people to act with awareness, trusting in the mighty power of prayer.
  
• Helping the poverty striken people by contacting other organisations.
  
• Helping the bed-ridden patients to receive communion.
  
• Repairing the dilapidated walls of the houses.
  

Nb. If we write all the works with dates and number of times it will be very lengthy. So we give only a brief report.