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234 MAKING THE LASALLIAN CHARISM LIVE TODAY Religious members of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. It is even a characteristic of a charism to “escape” from those who would put it within the framework of structures or an organisation… The authenticity of a charism in a person or a group can be verified by what it gives to the People of God in its growth. The Lasallian charism: a gift of the Holy Spirit. The action of the Holy Spirit does not end. His presence is permanent and His action pushes us forward into the future. His gifts become incarnate in persons, throughout the History of Salvation, from the time of Adam up to the Prophets and going through the leaders of the People such as Moses or Solomon. These same gifts can also be carried by an entire people, such as the Jewish People, when they transmit the values which constitute an essential part of our identity as Christians: fidelity, listening, monotheism, the sense of History, being open to the universal, the sense of God’s Justice which is based on love and forgiveness. This same Spirit can be heard in the New Testament. It speaks to us of liberty, vocation, new ways of opening up, discovering, arriving at God, by putting us in the schools of Jesus Christ. This action is at the service of the People of God, so as to bring about definitively the coming of the Kingdom of God which was inaugurated by the coming of the Son of God among men. Charisms - and therefore the Lasallian charism - take their place in this history. They are linked to the Body of Christ, that is to say to the People of God on their way towards their full completion in God. A charism is the choice of the Lord and not the will of the faithful. It is given by God and not “earned” by the person who receives it; it is granted for the benefit of the community, in the service of communion. It does not divide. On the contrary, it builds. 157 Being a gift of the Spirit, the charism always exceeds our expectations and our precautions. It makes us go where we did not expect to go. It makes us look in directions that we 157 Cf. Ga. 5:22-23,25.
MAKING THE LASALLIAN CHARISM LIVE TODAY 235 did not anticipate. It imposes itself by the fruits it bears. The story of Peter and the centurion Cornelius 158 is a good example to make us understand its manner of acting in our lives, in those of Lasallians, in our societies, in our Church, in our communities. The Lasallian charism only reaches its full meaning when rooted in the faith: faith in the Salvation of God, faith in the sense of History, faith in the presence of Christ, faith in his return, faith in the path traced out by the Gospel and shown by Jesus-Christ, but also faith in those with whom we are associated, faith in the young who have been confided to us, faith in the total education of the child as a path of liberation and salvation, both for them and for the societies in which we live. The charism is fruitfulness and creative strength. It causes new things to be born and to live, things sometimes surprising to our eyes or to our hearts which have got too used to things. It gives life. 159 Our personal, community, educational activity is in line with the movement of the Spirit which has animated the History of Salvation since the beginnings of the world. It is up to us, after having recognised the charism which has been given to us, to make full use of its creativity today, by a concrete commitment. We need to be at the disposal of the free and unpredictable action of the Spirit. It is the spirit of faith which will help us to find the paths of renewed fidelity, starting out from life. This action of the Spirit is not delivered at the whim of each individual, because it is verified by the “Body” of the Society, to use the wording of the early Lasallians. There is no authentic “inspiration” without commitment. Neither is there creativity without interiorization or making it part of our inner being. Interiorisation is liberation from the superfluous, the nonessential, appearances, in order to apply oneself to the essential: to make salvation come about in the children who have been confided to us. 160 158 Acts. 10 & 11: 1-17. 159 See the article by Brother Michel Famrée, in LASALLIANUM. Bulletin Semestriel d’Information. N o 6, Mai 1966: Le charisme de Fondateur, p. 5-107. 160 See Cahier Lasallien 55 (CL 55). Brother Michel Sauvage. John Baptist de La Salle and the Foundation of his Institute. “Consecrated Brothers” in the Church for the World - Out heritage, p.126- 154. Rome, 2001.
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