Guidelines for Council Reports
To the Arlington Regia
2 June 2009
The Arlington Regia is providing these guidelines to assist councils in presenting their quarterly report to the Regia.
They apply to all curiae and comitia directly attached to the Regia.
Key Points
1. Please present your report concisely and clearly.
2. The oral presentation should be no longer than 10 minutes.
3. The written report should be no longer than two to three pages.
4. Please bring 10 copies of your written report for the Regia officers. It is not necessary to bring copies for
the entire Regia body.
5. Please respond concisely to any follow-up questions from the Regia body.
Contents of the Report
Your report should concisely address the following items for the reporting period:
A.
Health of the Council
This part of the report should take 1-2 minutes.
 Number of directly attached senior and junior praesidia and any changes.
 Any vacancies or changes in council officer or council spiritual director positions.
 Number of officer vacancies in directly attached praesidia.
o For comitia only: report the number of attached curiae and number of vacant curia officer
positions and the number of officer vacancies in their attached praesidia.
 Average attendance percentage at your monthly council meetings.
B.
Reports Received and Type of Work
This part of the report should take 2-3 minutes.
 Number of praesidia and councils that reported.
 General description of types of works, e.g., door-to-door visitation, nursing home visitation, prison
ministry, etc.
 Do not include detailed work statistics in your report. Statistics are reported annually to the Regia in a
standard format for inclusion in the Regia’s annual report for the Bishops.
 Any notable results or concerns.
C.
Council Activities
This part of the report and should take no more than 5-7 minutes. Address activities undertaken and challenges
within your council for each of the following categories. Examples of the kinds of activities that can be reported are
attached.
 Building Legion spirit.
 Recruiting.
 Extension.
 Evangelization.
 Promoting the causes of Legion saints.
D.
Council Goals
This part of the report should take no more than 1-2 minutes. Describe the Council’s goals and progress toward
meeting them.
E.
Treasurer report
This part of the report should take no more than 1 minute.
 Starting Balance, Total Income, Total Expenditures, Ending Balance.
 Any unusual expenditures.
 The first report of the calendar year should have attached a detailed treasurers statement and should note
when the books were last audited.
Examples of Activities for Council Reports to the Arlington Regia
These examples of activities are provided to assist councils in preparing their reports to the Arlington
Regia. Councils are not expected to report on all these items, only those relevant to their activities.
Councils should also report on any other activities they have undertaken that are not listed in the
examples below.
Building Spirit Example Activities
 Promoting praetorian and adjutorian membership.
 Promoting personal spiritual reading of the Legion Handbook.
 Patricians groups.
 Holding spiritual events such as pilgrimages, retreats, days of recollection.
 Holding a Congress (every two years).
 Holding workshops.
 Promoting True Devotion to Jesus through Mary.
 Obtaining prayer support from auxiliary members.
Recruiting Example Activities
 Media marketing such as ads in diocesan newspapers, Internet, radio.
 Recruiting drives in parishes.
 Council-wide recruiting drives.
 LOM information activities such as Theology on Tap.
 Inviting non-Legionaries to spiritual events such as pilgrimages.
Extension Example Activities
 Progress of praesidia currently under extension.
 Activities of council extension chair or extension steering committees.
 Contact with parishes without the Legion.
 Prepare information packets for pastors.
 Providing Regia annual report to pastors.
 Training Legionaries to conduct extension.
 Sending extension workers.
 Support for Regia-wide extension beyond your own council
Evangelization Example Activities
 Council-sponsored activities such as Parish Evangelization Projects.
 Crowd contact at County fairs and other events.
 Participation in, or holding PPCs.
 Praesidia holding an Exploratio Dominicalis.
 Participation in Regia-wide evangelization activities.
Promoting Causes of Legion Saints Example Activities
 Holding workshops, talks and other events to promote the causes.
 Promotion of the causes at public events (e.g., county fairs).
 Masses for the causes of Frank Duff, Edel Quinn and Alfie Lambe.
 Training Legionaries to speak about the causes.
 Distribution of prayer cards and other materials.
 Promoting reading of the works of Frank Duff.
 Promoting reading about the lives of Frank Duff, Edel Quinn and Alfie Lambe.
 Participation in Regia activities or projects to promote the causes (e.g., workshops, helping
with the Legion Saints Web site).