Editing Legio Maria (section)

===Gifts of the Holy Spirit===
Essentially Legio Maria is a spirit-reliant religious movement. All the adherents respect the spirit as the guide of Legio. Even while the Simeo Ondetto and the Black Mary were still alive, it was possible for them to be in one place in Kenya while teaching and visiting other adherents through spirit delivered teachings of glossolalia and holy spirit possessing prophets to convey messages from them .<ref name=Dreaming/> It is a very serious offence to falsify the retelling of encounters with the holy ones in a glossolalia. Such actions could lead to an official rebuke from the priest, or even a beating, called a ''chwat'', from one's local community.<ref name=Dreaming/>{{rp|175}}

The spirit also provide direction for the individuals in regard to spiritual discipline practices and outward garments.  While many AICs require adherents to exclusively wear white robes when worshipping, the Legio Maria church encourages adherents to listen for messages from angels in their dreams in regard to the color of robe they should wear.  Schwartz recounts the varied meanings of these dream inspired colours:
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The spirit can lead Legios to acquire robes of yellow, a range of blues, purple, green, red, brown and other colours that are associated with various spiritual gifts and patron saints. Black is for ordained male priests (padri, pl. pate) and church mothers (madha, padri madhako, pl. mathe, pate mamon). Legio priests and church mothers wear black robes at requiem masses and at graveside services held in family compounds. At happier times, black prayer beads are worn or carried by church mothers and priests as a metonym of power and ordained status. A few non-ordained men and women said they had the black beads on their house altars because a dream had directed them to get the beads and pray with them at home. The dream-bestowed black beads were a source of quiet pride to these Legios.<ref name=Dreaming/>{{rp|170}}
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It is through the spirit that the Legio Maria adherents can also receive direction for the more mundane decisions in life.
[[File:KIT MIKAYI e.jpg|thumb|[[Kit-Mikayi]]]] [[File:KIT MIKAYI 3.jpg|thumb|Prayer chamber]]