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148 IV. DISCOVERING, LIVING, SHARING THE GIFT OF GOD and doing in the Christian Schools, through the ministry of those God has chosen to do his work: God has had the goodness to remedy so great a misfortune by the establishment of the Christian Schools, where the teaching is offered free of charge and for the glory of God. (MTR 194.1). The glory of God is linked up with gratuity, since the gift of the faith (where one teaches gratuitously) is gratuitous. The Brothers have integrated into their vision of their vocation, the terms and the spirit of the formulae of the vows: it is these words which come to their minds when they wish to express their connection with John Baptist de La Salle and set down their relationship with him. This is why there is always reference to the formulae of the vows. The glory of God leads to a concrete and practical commitment. They take as their own this profoundly Lasallian perspective: the link between the momentum towards God and coming from God, with its accomplishment in the tissue of daily life, in the history of the Christian Schools, in their community experience. The greater good of the Church and of our Society… we recognise that it is of extreme importance that you take over again the general leadership of the holy work of God which is also your work…/… Which is of such great usefulness to the Church, and it is with justice that we bear witness that you have always led it with great success and edification. The Brothers emphasised the place of their Community in the ministry of the Church: “the greater good of the Church and of our Society”. The Community of the Brothers is not isolated from the Church: it has its place in the common work of salvation. The Church is the place and the manner by which God wished to remain present to men. The Church - another essential Lasallian theme:
IV. DISCOVERING, LIVING, SHARING THE GIFT OF GOD 149 That the care of instructing youth is one of the most necessary works in the Church. (MTR 199. Title). On what must be done to make your ministry useful to the Church. (MTR 200. Title). The work, a ministry useful to the Church, the greater good, is the care of instructing youth, such as this Society, this new company has put into practice, under the leadership of John Baptist de La Salle. Because the holy work of God, beyond the leadership of the company, is to instruct youth. It should be noted that ‘take care of’, ‘have care of’, ‘have the leadership’, ‘lead’, ‘the work of God’, ‘his work’, are all characteristic expressions of Lasallian vocabulary. The great usefulness for the Church, the greater good of the Church, are described throughout Meditations 199 and 200: • To lay the foundation for the building of the Church, when you instruct children in the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity and the mysteries accomplished by Jesus Christ when he was on earth… to have been assigned by her to such a holy and exalted work, to be chosen by her to procure for children the knowledge of our religion and the Christian spirit. (MTR 199.1). • This is why Jesus Christ has sent you and why the Church, whose ministers you are, employs you (to announce the Gospel of the Kingdom of God). (MTR 199. 2). • This is also what ought to engage you to have an altogether special esteem for the Christian instruction and education of children, since it is a means of helping them become true children of God and citizens of heaven. This is the very foundation of their piety and of all the other good that takes place in the Church. (MTR 199. 3). • You should be working in your ministry for the building of the Church on the foundation which has been laid by the holy apostles by the instruction you are giving to the children whom God has entrusted to your care and who are entering into the construction of this building… You, then, who have succeeded the Apostles in their work of catechizing and instructing the poor, if you want to make your ministry as useful to
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