The Seven Months Between
He came to his first Legion meeting in July 2022 — and did not come back until February 2023. Ciaran Wright tells the story of those seven months, and of what brought him through the door a second time.
Ciaran Wright is forty-one, a legionary of the Our Lady Queen of Peace Praesidium — not a priest, not a lifelong stalwart, but the man in the pew who came once, stayed away, and came back. Hosted by Richard Harrington, in the chair for the first time.
“You don’t have to join the Legion to get to heaven, but it sure does help.”
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Ciaran belongs to the praesidium behind this podcast. He speaks warmly of what Frank Duff draws from St Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion in the Handbook — “very theologically insightful and enriching” — and of what the room itself gave him: “a chance to connect and listen to other like minded Catholics who are passionate and fervent about their faith.”
For the first time, the chair changes hands. Richard Harrington — the legionary whose own story filled Episode 02 — takes the host’s seat. The man who answered the questions is now the one asking them, and he asks them as someone who walked into the Legion at almost the same moment his guest did.
Every praesidium prays, week after week, for people who have drifted from the practice of their faith or are going through a hard time. For seven months Ciaran was one of the people being prayed for, and he did not know it. This is what that looks like from the inside — told by a man who now sits on the other side of the room, praying for the next one.
