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222 VI. EIGHT TESTIMONIES FROM LASALLIANS Community of St. Raymond and especially of Brother Richard, his wholehearted love of the young, his tendency to give me responsibility and to have confidence in me, slowly - but surely - developed my feeling of belonging to the Lasallian Family and forged my identity. To pick up the expression of La Salle, there was no turning back… If my “birth” in the Lasallian Family took place in my native village, one could say that I had a real baptism of fire 5,000 kilometers to the south… In fact, in 1992, I took part in a continental meeting of Young Lasallians in Mexico; where, at the time, I could speak neither English nor Spanish. Handicapped therefore by my tongue, I opened my child’s heart… and contact was immediately established with young Lasallians from everywhere, and through them the Lasallian spirit “spoke” to me. On my return we completely ‘renovated’ the stamp club in order to give it a mission in the truly Lasallian tradition of “together and by association”. Then, quite naturally, the young Lasallian of St. Raymond that I was, contributed to the birth of the Young Lasallians of French-speaking Canada, paired with the Quebec participants in Paris ‘97; and later, the young Lasallian of French-speaking Canada appealed to his brothers and sisters from all over the Institute to take a further step in association during Quebec 2002. This short history brings out several aspects of my understanding of the Lasallian charism and how I live it today. First of all, it is undeniable that the movement of Young Lasallians is for me the favoured place where I can express and live the Lasallian charism. The movement expresses itself in many ways, going from the most practical to the most general, as well as from the local to the national and even the international. Without taking up all the aspects of the movement, I would like nevertheless to lay stress on what is for me a crucial element: com-
VI. EIGHT TESTIMONIES FROM LASALLIANS 223 munion in diversity. I have had the good fortune to participate in several meetings where young people and Brothers from many nationalities and diverse horizons came together. On each occasion, I was as much touched by the richness of the multiple and diverse gifts, initiatives and responses of the Lasallians to the needs and poverties of today’s world as by the extraordinary inter-relationships which were woven, by a fraternity which you felt could be touched, by the same spirit which accorded unity, direction and communion… This spirit of communion is no stranger to the rich spirituality which has been nourishing Lasallians for more than 300 years. As for me, it is now ten years that Lasallian spirituality has been challenging and fascinating me. I regularly nourish myself from the writings of the Founder and of Lasallians of yesterday and today. The discovery and the deepening of Lasallian spirituality also arrives through exchanges and sharing in community. In this respect, my nearest community at present is composed of young people from Quebec, the Basque Country, Mexico, France and the USA. We make us of all the modern means of communication and the power of prayer and of “being-one”, to form a true community of faith, fraternity and service. These last three aspects, together with general openness, form the consistent and challenging whole for the young of today, beginning with myself. This harmonious co-existence between the spirit of faith and the spirit of zeal developed by St. John Baptist de La Salle continuously leads me to a transformation, to a complete conversion… Sensitive to the cries and murmurs of the children and the young of my world, I am spurred on by the Presence of God and confidence in His holy Providence. Nevertheless, this does not lead me along a single and solitary path, but, on the contrary, the Lasallian charism opens my eyes to the special needs of each and to the richness of all the possible talents
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LASALLIAN STUDIES Nº 13 The Intern
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