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Full Time Catechists The Legionaries of Christ implemented a plan for forming and maintaining professional, full-time catechists in Latin America over 20 years ago. Its purpose is to check the tremendous advance of secularism, religious indifference, and the proselytism of pseudo-religious sects. The Full Time Catechist project is intended to support bishops by preparing evangelizers and placing them at the service of dioceses and parishes. These committed lay men and women, working as couples or individually, function as catechists. They always work in close cooperation with bishops and parish priests. In order to carry out their work, full-time evangelizers receive a salary that enables them to live decently while fulfilling their specific mission.

It offers a diverse range of services, such as: catechesis, home construction and remodeling, recreational and athletic activities, events for human and intellectual formation, ecological support, censuses, drives to raise food, money and medicine, and urban development. Missions of evangelization are also conducted in the most spiritually needy neighborhoods. Sacraments are administered at this time, especially baptism and the blessing of marriages. Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum Regina Apostolorum Institute of Religious Sciences With the collaboration of the Legionaries of Christ, the Holy See established this new Athenaeum for the study of Philosophy and Theology at Rome in 1993. 675 students were enrolled during the 1998-1999 academic year. In April 1999 the Congregation for Catholic Education approved the Institute for Religious Sciences under the auspices of the Athenaeum''s faculty of theology. The Institute offers a degree in Religious Sciences that can be obtained through distance learning.

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.

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