List of Possible Activities for Junior Legion of Mary Praesidia

This list serves as a sort of index for this site.  Just click on the highlighted words for more information on this site and other sites. (If you are wondering "What IS the Junior Legion, anyway?" or "What is the Legion of Mary?", click on the highlighted words for more information.)

Here are some ideas for your Junior Legion's assigned activities. Some can be assigned as a group, others can be assigned in pairs:

 1. Rosary making days

2. In Spring, plant a beautiful garden all around a Mary shrine at the parish or school.

3. Visit Nursing Homes and elderly shut-ins.

4.  Holy Card making days

5. Mothers Day card making days (or any other holiday)

6.  Prolife activities:  Make little christening baskets for expectant moms of the parish or give to Senior Legion praesidia to give to new moms in order to encourage baptism of their babies; you can also give these to Birthchoice for them to distribute.  The small baskets contain all religious items, such as a white rosary, a miraculous medal on a colored ribbon to be hung on the wall near the baby's crib, holy cards and a blank "baptism certificate" which the mother can fill out by hand and then hang on a wall.

7. Helping someone (usually younger sibling) learn their catechism.

 

8. Visiting someone who is interested in learning more about the Faith (usually a neighbor or non Catholic relative).

 

9. Assisting a CCD teacher on Sundays with his/her class.

 

10. Working at a "game booth" at the parish fair and giving miraculous medals and holy cards with every prize and non-prize winner!

 

11. Running book barrows at the school or parish.

 

12. Running Patrician meetings at the Catholic school. The article written by Frank Duff is highly recommended to each and every Legion of Mary member to read, Senior, Junior, Active and Auxiliary, and indeed each and every Catholic! Intermediate and College age Legionaries would do well to run these for groups of Catholic students, engaging them in lively discussions on the Faith.  Frank's article also has a very long list of suggested topics for such meetings.

 

13. Babysitting when mom Legion of Mary members have their adult Legion meetings. Or, babysitting during a parish retreat or Patricians group, so parish adults can attend.

 

14. Doing the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in Nursing Home bedrooms.

 

15. Organizing and holding a May procession and May Crowning for the school or parish every year, asking all members to bring flowers to place at Our Lady's feet, and then having a May Crowning Cake afterwards.

16. Hosting a Birthday Party for Mary's birthday, September 8, for the school and/or parish, complete with cake and songs and rosary. Here's a discussion board with some GREAT ideas for games and party activities. These could be used at a Birthday Party for Mary, a May Crowning, a Parish fair, or at any Junior Legion sponsored party. A few of the ideas include several versions of a "stomp the serpent" game, and few relay Crown races or "who's got the Crown" games, among other ideas.

 

17. Making "Mysteries of the Rosaries" booklets (to be used at Nursing Homes and given in gift baskets or as prizes for the game booth and book barrows)

 

18. Keeping a "Virtue Journal", each member striving on working on a virtue at a time, keeping notes on what the virtue is from an allocutio on the virtue, and then recording one's own attempts and practices of the virtue all month, and examples of the virtue witnessed in others.  The journals can be used once a month or so, as part of a "handbook study" discussion.

 

19. Be a hero to the Poor Souls by participating in the Purgatory Release Project, and keeping a record of prayers and sacrifices made during the year (or during Lent) and then tallying the totals for the praesidium and sending them on a form to the PRP Association. 

 

 20. Procession of children, holding a giant helium-baloon rosary, while reverently praying the rosary, and then releasing the baloon rosary some place public (for example the procession may begin at a downtown Catholic church and process to a nearby town square for release) where it can be easily seen by the maximum number of people for a Flying Helium Baloon Rosary! What a witness!

21. Participate in the Pilgrim Virgin Home Visitation Program, taking the statue in turn to each family in the school where She remains for one week, then picking her up again and taking her to the next family's home. This promotes the family rosary in each home Our Lady visits.