The name "Legionaries of Christ" sums up a Christ-centered spirituality in which Jesus Christ is the center, standard, and example of a Legionary's religious, priestly, and apostolic life. 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 Him as their only model of holiness. 

Imitating Christ, Legionaries seek to love the Blessed Virgin with a son's tender love, for she is the Mother of the Church and of their vocation. They consecrate their priesthood and apostolic mission to her care. They seek to imitate her virtues: faith, hope, charity, obedience, humility, and her cooperation with Christ's plan of redemption. 

Legionaries seek to love and serve Christ in the Church, the beginning of his Kingdom on earth. This real, objective, and passionate love for the Church sees her as she is, as Christ wants her to be. This love brings Legionaries to meditate on her in faith, embrace her in obedience, labor for her growth and make her holy in their lives. Loving the Church means being in step with the Church, neither ahead nor behind. 

Love for the Church brings Legionaries to support and follow the Pope in a spirit of ardent, personal love. They study and spread his teachings, and promote his charism of primacy and magisterium.  

In a spirit of faith, they honor all bishops in communion with the Pope as successors of the Apostles and witnesses of the Catholic faith. Legionaries seek to cooperate with bishops in the realization of diocesan pastoral programs, especially education, the family, social services, and the mass media. They thus promote diocesan programs by contributing their own charism, which is a gift from God to the whole Church. 

Preaching and extending Christ's kingdom constitute the ideal which inspires, motivates, directs and shapes the apostolic goals of the Legion of Christ. To make Jesus Christ reign in the hearts of people and of societies, to transform minds and souls according to the ideal of the new man in Christ, to create the civilization of love and justice: This is the mission which gives meaning to the name "Legionaries of Christ." 

The charity preached and commanded by Christ in the Gospel is the heart of the entire spirituality of the Legionaries. Because they see Jesus Christ present in every person, they commit themselves to love and serve their brothers and sisters regardless of their language, race, sex, culture, or social condition. They work to make the gift of redemption reach each one. They strive to speak well of others and to live joyfully as a family in union and communion. As brothers, they bear one another's burdens and together they form a single body.