SODALITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
PROFILES OF A REAL SODALIST

1.      She is a Catholic who is intensely bent on living the interior life deeply and vigorously.

2.      She is zealous for the salvation and sanctification of souls, working for them in every kind of apostolate and corporal works of mercy.  This characteristic can be exemplified by:

a.      Visiting the sick
b.      Visiting nursing homes and hospitals
c.      Attending wakes, especially those of Sodality members
d.      Attending the funeral of a Sodality member.

3.      She possesses a deep, sincere, and consecrated devotedness to the Blessed Virgin Mary, her Queen, Advocate, and Mother and shows it by striving:

a.     To imitate her splendid virtues
b.     To place all confidence in her
c.     To lead others to love and serve her.

4.      She sees the value, personal and apostolic, of the following rules and lets them shape her way of life and living:

a.    Current thinking within the Church
b.    Frequent and even daily Mass and Holy Communion
c.    Day of Recollection.

5.      She attends meetings when possible and volunteers to take active part in the programs of charitable and apostolic actions as listed under No. 2.

6.      She is careful of her Sodality’s good name and seeks to obtain new members for its ranks and is one, in short, who strives to live the Christian way of life as fully as she can.