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EDUCATION The specific mission of the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi Movement in the educational apostolate is summarized in the motto Integer homo; that is, providing its students with an integral formation. Our educational program consists of three essential elements: Teach: To teach means to provide the student with the intellectual capabilities, content, and skills needed to respond to the demands of today''s society. Educate: To educate means to train the student in the habit of intellectual rigor, structured reasoning, and in the appreciation of beauty; it means to cultivate sensitivity, memory, imagination; and finally, to develop art of communication and the ability to express oneself clearly and elegantly. Form: To form is to lead the student to become a person for others, with an upright ethical code, sensitivity toward the needs of others - especially the most disadvantaged - and an openness to human and spiritual values. In this way students are prepared not just for professional success but also for their self-realization as persons and authentic Christians in the various facets of their personal and professional lives.

The Legion serves the Church and others through schools, universities and centers to form the character and Christian virtue of families, youth, and married couples, as well as the Christian and humanitarian development of the poor. Legionaries serve the local churches through catechesis, missions, media apostolates, and they offer diocesan priests ongoing formation courses in their dioceses. The name sums up a Christ-centered spirituality in which Jesus Christ is the center, standard, and model of a Legionary''s religious, priestly, and apostolic life. LOVE FOR CHRIST Legionaries seek to experience and know Christ intimately in the Gospel, the Eucharist, and the Cross. They strive to love Him in a personal and passionate way by imitating as their only model of holiness.

LOVE FOR MARY Imitating Christ, Legionaries seek to love the Blessed Virgin with the tender love of a son, for she is the Mother of the Church and of their vocation. They consecrate their spiritual and apostolic life to her care. They seek to imitate her virtues: faith, hope, charity, obedience, humility, and cooperation with Christ''s plan of redemption. LOVE FOR THE CHURCH AND THE POPE Legionaries seek to love and serve Christ in the Church, the beginning of his Kingdom on earth. The real, objective, and passionate love for the Church includes seeing her both as she is and as Christ wants her to be. This love brings Legionaries to honor her in faith, embrace her in obedience, labor for her growth, and make her first in their lives. To love the Church means being always in step with the Church, neither ahead nor behind. Love for the Church brings Legionaries to support and follow the Pope, promoting his charism of primacy and magisterium. In a spirit of faith, they honor all bishops in communion with the Pope, as successors of the Apostles and witnesses of the Catholic faith.

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