Deacon Jim Lawson
717-799-0080
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Mission Statement:
Our mission is to promote life issues and to educate and empower the parish community to actively live a Gospel of Life through both Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. 
Objectives: (Three)
(1) Spiritual: Sponsor prayer services and adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Promote prayer for the unborn and an end to abortion including spiritual adoption of the unborn.
(2) Education: Increasing awareness of Life Issues through bulletin information, pamphlets in the lobby, web page (www.omphrespectlife.org), and chastity presentation for teens and their parents. 
(3) Coordinate local activities: Organizing collections and sales to benefit vulnerable babies and children including Diaper drive for Romanian orphanages. Baby showers for local pregnancy center, Father's Day candy sale to benefit Mom's House, and bus trip sponsor for March for Life.

Laura Kauffman
717-575-8221

The Legion of Mary is a worldwide association of Catholics who, with the sanction of the Church and under the powerful leadership of Mary, the Mother of God, have formed themselves into a Legion for service to the Church.

Our Origin:

A conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was meeting in Dublin, Ireland around 1917 when a number of ladies were asked to help the St. Vincent de Paul Brothers in serving free breakfasts to poor children on Sundays. After some time, the breakfasts were discontinued but the women continued meeting regularly on Sundays until 1921.

On the evening of September 7, 1921, fifteen of the ladies met with Mr. Frank Duff and Father Tohler. Those seventeen people began to map out the Legion of Mary. They decided on weekly meetings and weekly active work. As work, they decided to undertake the systematic visitation of the Dublin Union Hospital, visiting in pairs. They decided that they would also undertake apostolic work each week, which had to be substantial. A President and a Secretary were appointed. So with the first Vespers of Our Lady’s birthday the Legion of Mary was ushered into the world. Mr. Frank Duff continued to be a guiding light for the Legion until his death in 1980.

Our Purpose:

The objective of the Legion of Mary is to; (1) make its members better Catholics and to mobilize the Catholic laity, (2) raise the spiritual level of the entire community through direct contact with and interest in every member and potential member of the Mystical Body of Christ, and (3) accomplish this through Mary, Mother of Souls and Mediatrix of All Grace.

Types of Membership

The Legion of Mary Praesidium has two types of membership, Active, and Auxiliary.

Active Members attend our meetings, perform work, and daily say several prayers (the Rosary and several others).

Auxiliary Members daily pray the same prayers as Active Members, but do not perform works and need not attend the meeting.

717-733-9641