The spirit of the Legion of Mary is
that of Mary herself. Especially does the Legion aspire after her
profound humility, her perfect obedience, her angelical sweetness, her
continual prayer, her universal mortification, her altogether spotless
purity, her heroic patience, her heavenly wisdom, her self-sacrificing
courageous love of God, and above all her faith, that virtue which has
in her alone been found in its utmost extent and never equalled.
Inspired by this love and faith of
Mary, her Legion essays any and
every work and "complains not of impossibility, because it conceives
that it may and can do all things.'' (
Imitation
of Christ, Book 3:5)