Allocutio on Legionary service 2

Chapter 4, article 2, titled "Must be 'a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God...not conformed to this world."

The life of a legionary is that of a soldier who is ready at all time to meet the demands of his superior. This he can do well following some major christian principles.
The legionary must realize that the essence of Jesus accepting to come to our sinful world was because of the fact that he loved us so much that he chose to die on the cross like a thief for our redemption.

St. Paul teaches us in Roman 12:1-2, that we are to be a holy sacrifice and acceptable in God's sight and that we are not to be conformed to this world. It follows thus that we as legionaries must embrace these christian keynotes for it is only through it that we can raise our heads high as true soldiers in our Lady's army.
Remember that the battle we fight is against the world and its evil powers, so it is only proper that we do not behave like the world else we shall not be able to conquer the world. To behave like the world is to be a people of sin. We cannot be a people of sin and still proclaim that we are fighting the world of sin.It simply portrays pretense and lip service. It is like fighting against ourselves. No one derives pleasure in putting fire on the roof of his own house. That is what we do when we live in sin and belong to Our Lady's army.
As human beings that we are, we are bound to fall into sin but the Christians' reaction is to quickly go for confession so as to be in tune with God again.
The bible tells us in Romans 3:23 that all of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But by the blood of Christ that he shared, he has set us free so that we can easily fine tune our relationship with him when we make a sincere confession. Since Christ has done this sacrifice of his life for us ,is it not appropriate that we surrender ourselves wholly to his service? St. Teresa of Avila puts it in anther form when she says: "To receive so much and to repay so little: O! that is a martyrdom to which i succumb."
Take a look at the life that Mary lived. It was that of chastity and humility. As her soldiers, we are to imitate these virtues of hers which resembles the virtue of her son. In Jesus' infancy, it was Mary who taught him these virtues and he never for once derail from it in his adulthood. Mary is today yearning to teach us these are virtues of holiness and humility to aid us in our work of converting the world to her son.
Do not look at the race as a legionary as a difficult one, all you need do is to be focus on Jesus and imitate all his virtues particularly that of humility. This will surely prove difficult but we are to strife harder because it is our own way of saying 'thank you Jesus for dying fo my sin'.

We are to give everything to the task of converting the world. (Our time, money, talent, knowledge etcetera.)

If you play your part today by living a holy life, others will emulate you and eventually conversion in our contemporary society will record tremendous success.