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IV. DISCOVERING, LIVING, SHARING THE GIFT OF GOD
[6] Fourthly, to be fully submissive to and united with the Brothers
Inspectors or to the principal teacher in the schools, as is indicated in
Chapter 11.
[7] By the Vow of Stability, one commits oneself to remain stable in
the said Society during all the time for which one has made the Vows,
and one may not during the said time, either leave or absolutely wish
to leave of one’s own accord, or wish to cause oneself to be expelled,
under any pretext whatsoever, without violating one’s vow.
[8] By the Vow of teaching children gratuitously and keeping
schools by Association, one commits oneself to taking all the care necessary
to instruct the children well and to bring them up in a Christian
manner; to use well all the time necessary for this; to neither demand
nor receive any remuneration whatsoever from the pupils or their parents,
either by means of a present or in any other way whatever; and
not to employ the parents of the pupils in any work, in the hope that
they will do it without asking for any payment.
[9] By the same Vow, the Brother commits himself to keep schools
by Association with the Brothers who have come together for this
purpose, wherever he may be sent; or to do anything else at which he
might be employed by his Superiors, as is expressed in the Formula of
Vows. 153
This wording of Articles 8 & 9 of Chapter 18 of the Rule, was kept without
any change up to 1895: in the editions of the Rule of 1768, 1787,
1809, 1821, 1835, 1852, 1886, 1889, 1895. It should be noted that even
though the Rule of 1726 contains a chapter on each of the three vows of
poverty, chastity and obedience, it says nothing positive about the vows of
stability and that of teaching gratuitously, or of their content or their spirituality.
It simply gives instructions on what these vows oblige us to do.
It is the explanation of the vow of teaching children gratuitously which
introduces, in fine, the vow of association: “By the same vow, he is committed
to keeping schools by Association with the Brothers who have
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CL 25 op.cit. p. 69.