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184 V. CHARISM IN THE RECENT INSTITUTE DOCUMENTS should be embodied, together with the local Church, in the culture, the language and the life-style, the legitimate national aspirations and the needs of Pastoral care. Such embodiment should be accomplished in keeping with the charism proper to the Institute.” (Circ. 403, p. 81 = RG art. 267, 1-2). Article 103 of the Rule underlines the function of discernment and impetus which falls to the General Chapter, to perpetuate among the Brothers, “living fidelity to the special charism to the Institute” (= RG art. 1). For this purpose it proceeds to “a periodic evaluation of the life of the Institute to provide for its continuing adaptation and renewal” (in responding to the most urgent needs of the young to be evangelized, as art. 85 makes explicit) and “to set out the main guidelines for future action”: the election of the Brother Superior and of his Council is one of its prerogatives for this. In fact, “Constituted as a community at the Centre of the Institute, the Brother Superior and his Councillors symbolize its unity and work to ensure the fidelity of the entire body of the Institute to the faith of the Church, to the directives of the Holy See and to the living charism of the Founder” (116 = almost RG art. 27.1). “In their style of government”, they “have recourse to the prophetic dynamism which is still alive in the spiritual heritage which has come down to us from the Founder… guarantors of the charism of the Founder and of the mission of the Institute, they never hesitate to bring to the attention of the Brothers those things that they think ought to be changed” (117). 3. The latest General Chapters (1976, 1986, 1993 and 2000). The Rule often uses expressions taken from recent General Chapters. It is worth while looking at the vocabulary relating to the 40 th , 41 st , 42 nd and 43 rd Chapters (Circ. 403, 422, 435 and 447). 3.1 Circular 403, dated October 1976, giving an account of the 40 th General Chapter, speaks of the Missions from now on under
V. CHARISM IN THE RECENT INSTITUTE DOCUMENTS 185 the title “The Institute in the Young Churches”. “It is no longer just a question of sending missionaries there but also of embodying there THE LASALLIAN CHARISM, with what that presupposes in confidence and fidelity” (p. 49). We have seen that Prop. 20 employs the same terms. “In the steps of the Founder”, the Circular does not speak of his “charism”, but of the “very look of the Founder”, of his “evangelic intuitions” (p. 26), of “his spiritual teaching” which was rooted in “a lived experience” (p. 27). For “community life”, reference is made to “the inspiration coming from the Gospel through the Tradition of St. John Baptist de La Salle” (p. 62). Continuous “formation” requires us “to live an exodus which joins the experience and the spiritual teaching of the Founder: he abandoned himself to the Conduct of God which led him from one commitment to another in a totally unforeseen itinerary” (p. 63-64); the renewal of formation “cannot be carried out except by a return to the demands of the inspiration of St. John Baptist de La Salle, and in a renewed response to the needs of the world where God wishes us to live” (p. 66). The text on the “government” of the Institute invites us to develop communication in “the desire to live together our common search for the spirit and the LIVING CHARISM OF ST JOHN BAPTIST DE LA SALLE” (p. 71). The Propositions voted by the Chapter also use the term CHARISM, even if it is not always in the same context. “So that the Institute may continue to better fulfil the ministry proper to it in fidelity to the DYNAMIC CHARISM OF ITS FOUNDATION, the 40 th Chapter asks the Brothers to engage in an active manner” in the perfecting of “forms of ministry in the Church” (Prop. 18, “The problem of secularism and the priesthood in the Institute”). We have seen above the embodiment “in keeping with the CHARISM PROPER TO THE INSTITUTE” (Prop. 20, Young Churches, “the local Institute”). For evaluating the Communities, “the criteria of fidelity to the
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LASALLIAN STUDIES Nº 13 The Intern
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of contents
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INTRODUCTION 5 Introduction The Int
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