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VI. EIGHT TESTIMONIES FROM LASALLIANS
Brother John Johnston reminded us one time that our schools were
“Christian” before being “Lasallian”: it is truly Christ who is within
us and He who causes us to turn towards the disadvantaged, the poor,
to whom J. B. de La Salle invites us to pay more heed, “more care”
than we would pay “to the children of a King” (Med. 133, 2.2).
Now, I am somewhat distanced from the world of the young in my
retirement, but I feel that the time has come to pay more attention
to my colleagues, to walk with them in the difficulties they are now
meeting and to share with them the experience of the teacher formation
embarked upon by J. B. de La Salle, so that together, we can
continue to procure for the young “the life of grace in this world
and in the other eternal life” (Med. 201, 3).
“I thank you Lord, for You have chosen me, to serve in your Presence”
(Eucharistic prayer Nº 2)
3 rd Testimony
How do we live out and understand the Lasallian
charism.
Gery SHORT
District of San Francisco
“God who led me imperceptibly, from one decision to another, without
my knowing…”
My History
(De La Salle - Memoir of the Beginnings)
The academic year 2003-2004 marks my 25 th anniversary of working
in association with the De La Salle Christian Brothers and with
their many partners in Lasallian education. When I began teaching