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To achieve the purposes of a school, the Brothers foster a spirit of collaboration and mutual enrichment among all members of the educational community. They help each one to fulfill their specific role; students, parents, teachers, priests, alumni and friends. RULE art.17b
The spiritual gifts which the Church has received in St. John Baptist de La Salle go far beyond the confines of the Institute which he founded. The Institute sees the existence of the various Lasallian movements as a grace from God renewing its own vitality. The Institute can associate itself with lay people who want to lead the life of perfection that the Gospel demands by living according to the spirit of the Institute and by participating in its mission. RULE art.146
John Baptist de La Salle and his first disciples were acutely aware of the social problems of their times. Struck by the educational needs of society around them, their response was to found schools. As true disciples of Jesus Christ, they made them places where the "SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANITY" could flourish. LLF pg.8
As disciples of De La Salle, we have a source of wealth that enables us at the same time to stand for and actively promote unity, peace, dialogue and hope among groups of people and individuals especially among those who are young. LLF pg.9
If one examines the 300 years of Institute history, one can see how this heritage has borne fruit; how it has benefited those outside the Brothers' communities; how has benefited from the contribution of lay people; and how it has adapted to successive periods of history and to a diversity of cultures. LLF pg.13
An important part of the Lasallian Heritage is its unceasing willingness to adapt, to become involved and to learn from one's surroundings, in order to operate schools offering a high standard of education and effective evangelization. LLF pg.14
Characteristics of Lasallian Spirituality:
A) The spirit of faith and zeal-- we live our lives as men and women guided by faith in the very context of school life, as an integral part of the educational community. We learn to see the hand of God in the events of our lives, and His call to us.
B) Faith which is based on the Gospel-- De La Salle's insistence on seeing everything in the light of the Gospel, an attitude sustained by constantly reading the Word of God, explains why daily reflection and remembering the holy presence of God were considered so important.
C) Faith and evangelization based on the community-- to be able to promote effectively both human and Gospel values, we have to be seen to practice what we preach. We must work closely together; each person must support our goals by personal commitment to their fulfillment.
D) Special concern for the poor
E) Willingness to be accessible to all -- in a world where the pursuit of wealth is becoming more frenetic it is essential for us to develop a way of thinking and acting which reflects total availability and lack of self-seeking. LLF pp.15-18
Description of a Lasallian:
1. One who is guided by faith who looks upon everything with the eyes of God; who looks upon the vocation to be a Christian as a call to personal sanctity.
2. One who works with others "together and by association." LLF pg.19
Reflect on what St. Paul says, that God has established in his Church apostles, prophets and teachers, and you will be convinced that He has established you in your ministry. MTR 9
Look upon your work as one of the most important and excellent in the Church, since it is most capable of sustaining it and giving it a solid foundation. MSF 155
How often it happens that occupations which are considered lowly produce more fruit than those which are most exalted. MSF 155
De La Salle' spiritual teaching has a profoundly unifying thrust; its effect is to raise up men who live according to the Spirit; men captivated by God and filled with zeal; poor men who base their lives on the gift of God and who in turn proclaim the saving love of God to the poor. AGP pg.219
In our afflictions, we stand in need of kind words to alleviate them, and of a heart that will sympathize with us. Collection
It is truly sacrificing one's life for God to employ it in His service, and this is what you have occasion to do in your profession and employment. MSF 70
Let it be clear then, in all your relations with students who are entrusted to you, that you look upon yourself as ministers of God, acting with love, with a sincere and true zeal, accepting with much patience the difficulties you have to suffer. MTR 9
The greater the tenderness you show for the members of Christ and His Church, the more wonderful will be the effects of grace which God will produce in them. MSF 134
Lacking economic, political and ecclesiastical help, the community found its strength in abandonment to God who was founding it, calling its members, and sending them on their mission. AGP p.162
Is your faith such as to enable you to touch the hearts of your students and to inspire them with the Christian Spirit? MSF 139.3
Jesus Christ wants you to understand that the more your work is energized by Him, the more it will produce good in your disciples. MTR 3.3
As your work is related to God and the salvation of souls, it is most important not to lose sight of God while performing it. MSF 179.3
The essential source of Lasallian spirituality is actual experience and sacred Scripture as a unity. More accurately, the source is the faith-inspiring awareness that the history of salvation is unfolding here and now: God is at work in the foundation of the Institute. AGP 18
For no matter how much faith your students may have, nor how lively it may be, if they are not practicing any good works at all, their faith will be of no use to them. MTR 8.3
You are engaged in a ministry wherein you have to touch hearts. You cannot possibly do this without the assistance of the Holy Spirit. MSF 43.3
De La Salle's language makes it clear that in his view it is impossible at any point to separate, much less oppose, commitment to God and commitment to human beings, relationship to God and exercise of ministry, attention to God alone and realistic concern for the welfare of the young. AGP p.224
Since you are ambassadors and ministers of Jesus Christ in the work you do, you must act as representing Jesus ChristHimself. MTR 3.2
You act as mediator in regard to your students, God making use of you to teach them the means of salvation. MSF 56.3
He has entrusted you especially with the care of their souls, which is what God had most at heart when He made you the guides and guardians of these young people. MTR 11.3
Be satisfied with what you can do, since God is satisfied...be convinced that with divine help you can do more than you can imagine. Collection
Rest assured you will never be able to speak to your students in such a way as to win them to God, until you have learned to speak to God about God. MSF 64.2
By your state you are ministers of God, you must co-operate with Him and enter into His designs to bring about their salvation. MSF 56.1
You are successors to the apostles in their task of catechizing and teaching the poor. MTR 8.1
That your words may produce their full effect on your students, preach by example and practice what you wish them to accept. MSF 100.2
It is of great consequence that you should teach more by example than by words. MSF 69.1
We learn to speak to God only by listening to His voice, for the art of conversing with Him can only be taught by God Himself. MSF 64.2
In all we undertake, we should begin by prayer, to ask God for the light and grace necessary to secure our success in this holy ministry for we can achieve success only insofar as He helps us, and the Holy Spirit directs us. MSF 107.1
Thank God for the grace He has given you in your work of sharing in the ministry of the apostles. Take pride in your ministry by making yourselves qualified ministers of the new Covenant. MTR 7.3
Our Lord will look upon what you do for the poor as done to Himself. MSF 150.1
Teach your disciples the knowledge of God. Make known to them the truths of the Gospel. Teach them to put these truths into practice. MSF 100.2
It is your duty to teach an awareness of social justice to your students. How will you do so? MSF 44.2
Just as He is the one who gives light to everyone coming into the world, He also gives light to the spirit of your students and leads them to love and practice the good that you teach them. MTR 3.3
You should learn to recognize Jesus beneath the rags of the poor children you have to teach. Adore Him in their person. MSF 96.3
If you are a true lover of Christ you will take every possible means to instill His love in the hearts of your students whom you train to be His disciples. MSF 102.2
The best way to prepare for the future is to live the present as authentically and fully as we can. Solidarity pg.34
No group can survive if its members do not have common goals do not know what they are, or do not work together to accomplish them. Solidarity p.10
You have been called by Jesus to accomplish His ministry to teach. MSF 99.2
Knowingly, or unknowingly, God has confided to your care these students to instruct and train them to live a good life. MSF 37.1
Prayer sustained by faith combined with work inspired by zeal, such was to be the way of fulfilling the Lasallian vocation. Pilgrim p. 187
It is God who chooses, calls and sends: mission and ministry have an eschatological goal; on the other hand, the freely given gift of God is made visible in the human person by the talents he has for successfully carrying out the mission. The eschatological goal is proclaimed and at the same time is already being attained by the effective work the minister does in and for the church. AGP p.203
Because you are called to serve in a world that prefers to be served, do not be surprised when you are not esteemed, but know that God counts on you. MSF 41 passim
Zeal is an awareness before God of responsibility for the students; it is an awareness that one can collaborate in God's work by contributing to the salvation of the students. AGP p.69
Study the life and zeal of St. John the Baptist, remembering that you are obliged, as he was, to prepare the way of the Lord in your students. MSF 162.2
It is zeal which makes your students capable of receiving a share in the grace which is in you for doing good. For your zeal draws upon you, the Spirit of God. It is this spirit who gives your students the power to practice good. MTR 2.3
When we are in a ministry we must add zeal to action, or else all we do will have but little result. MSF 114.2
You exercise an employment which requires great zeal. But this zeal would be of little use if it produced no effect. It cannot produce an effect, however, unless it be the outcome of the love of God which is in you. MSF 171.2
So you also, since you have to prepare the hearts of others for the coming of Christ, should first dispose your own for an increase of zeal, that your words may produce their proper effect upon those whom you are to instruct. MSF 2.2
If De La Salle gave himself totally and, in the event, irrevocably to this work in 1682 it was because he had reached a certainty in his mind that the enterprise was "God's work" fulfilling an ecclesial function destined to contribute to the building of God's kingdom. Pilgrim p.123
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