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160 IV. DISCOVERING, LIVING, SHARING THE GIFT OF GOD a good father owes to his children” 143 . He also had entrusted to him the remarks and observations made by the assembly on the Rules in order to edit the articles on modesty and good government. Thus the Society of the Brothers, while the Founder was still alive, seemed to have found its definitive appearance, that which the decisions of 1694 intended: a Superior freely chosen from among the members of the association, mastery of its life-style and the participation of the greatest number possible in all decisive choices. To that must be added the quality of the relationship between those in charge and the rest of the Brothers. Thus, in facing up to the departure of its Founder, it would be able to keep its identity. 8. The charism and how the Brothers understood it. Charism and association. In the formula of vows of 1694, as in those which would follow, the Brothers said: “I promise and vow to unite myself and live in society with…” The expression “vow” disappeared in 1901 and was not taken up again in the formula of 1987. But, it is one thing to say explicitly in the formula of vows: “I vow to unite myself, etc.” and quite another the understanding which the Brothers had of it. The formula of 1718 is found in the Rule in the form of a formula for renewal. In this edition of the Rule, the last one produced by John Baptist de La Salle, there is no chapter devoted to the vows made by the Brothers. There are, certainly, three chapters following that on Regularity (17, 19, 20... 18 is missing), which deal with poverty, chastity, obedience, (the latter continuing with the chapter on silence), but nothing on the vow of association nor on that of stability. Neither is there any mention of which vows the Brothers 143 Blain, op. cit., Book Three, p. 678. (CL 8, p. 132).
IV. DISCOVERING, LIVING, SHARING THE GIFT OF GOD 161 make, except in the formula of renewal. It is, it seems to me, a first indication of the place of the vows in the conscience of the first Brothers. What is first with them: the end of their Institute, which is presented at the beginning of the Rule 144 : The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is a Society in which profession is made to conduct schools gratuitously. The purpose of this Institute is to give a Christian education to children, and it is for this purpose the Brothers conduct schools… (RC 1.1& 3). The theme of “Society” is noted in the 1 st article of the Rule, and the formula of the vows sends us back to this when it envisages the means for procuring the glory of God: to unite myself and to live in Society with the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Obviously when we speak of “society”, we are in the semantic field of “association”. It is worth noting, in the formula of 1718, the importance given to obedience, which is repeated twice, to “Society”, five times, to the notion of “body of the Society”, twice; and to “associated/association”, three times. Obviously, this formula served to make effective in the Church and contemporary society and give body to what is contained in Chapter 1 of the Rule: Of the end and necessity of this Institute. It is indeed this dimension which explains the formula, and in a wider sense, lets us see the meaning which the Brothers attach to their consecration to God. Two texts make clear this understanding of the vows by the first Brothers: what is said in the Collection (of 1711) 145 , right at the beginning: “What the vows oblige us to do”; and the text written 144 The vows taken by the Brothers are also spoken about in the Daily Regulations, in regard to the prayers for dead Brothers. See Rule formula (1705 & 1718): Rule and Foundational Documents, Lasallian Publications, Christian Brothers Conference, Landover, MD., 2002, p. 13. 145 CL 2 The vows of the Brothers of the Christian Schools before the Bull of Benedict XIII. Bro. Maurice- Auguste (Alphonse Hermans FSC), p. 61-62.
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LASALLIAN STUDIES Nº 13 The Intern
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INTRODUCTION 5 Introduction The Int
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