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Legion of Mary Handbook, APPENDIX 5. APPENDIX 7. Quotation from allocutio by former Concilium Spiritual Director Father , Bede. "In four separate places the Handbook recommends that legionaries should become members of the Rosary Confraternity. In chapter 33 on the basic duties of legionaries, the Handbook puts it very succinctly: ‘Every legionary, active and auxiliary, should enroll in the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary. The benefits attaching to membership are immense.’ Of course, our Founder Frank Duff enrolled as a member and countless other legionaries have done the same down through the years. Auxiliaries already do more than is required for membership and need only send in their applications to a centre of the Rosary Confraternity and duly receive a certificate of acceptance. In practice active legionaries are in the same position for although they are obliged only to the daily recitation of the Catena they are also recommended very strongly to recite all the Legion prayers and most legionaries in fact do so. "