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244 MAKING THE LASALLIAN CHARISM LIVE TODAY Besides, the accounts with regard to the establishments of the Brothers in Protestant areas (the Cévennes, Alès, Nîmes) after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes (1685) give useful indications about the concrete attitude of John Baptist de La Salle with regard to persons (parents, pupils) of a religion other than Catholic. 179 The story of the young Dutch Calvinist who was helped and converted by Monsieur de La Salle, 180 and that of the Chevalier d’Armestat, a German Lutheran, to whom in the end the Founder gave the habit, 181 thus revealing a very open approach to persons who were not Catholics. Here one touches upon one of the characteristics of the approach of John Baptist de La Salle, which was common to many pastors of his period; the difference between doctrinal principles, which were affirmed very vigorously, even to the point of intransigence, and practical attitudes towards persons, which always showed a behaviour thoughtful about personal development and very respectful towards the convictions of each person. Fidelity to the Founder. We are well aware that fidelity to John Baptist de La Salle cannot be literal. 182 It cannot be a question of simply transposing as they are, into our world of today, the affirmations or the choices of Monsieur de La Salle, which corresponded to his world and his period. He did not know either our secularised cultures, or the 179 Cf. Blain, op. cit., Book Three, p. 554-562 and 581-584 or CL 8 p. 49-54 and 68-69); Maillefer, CL 6, Ms. Reims p. 209-212. During a riot against the Brothers in Vans (the centre of French Calvinism, if such exists!), the latter took refuge in the oratory and prayed together. Later they told Monsieur de la Salle who replied that “he thanked God that the Brothers had recourse only to God in their difficulties, and that they had used only the arms of prayer.”: The Life of John Baptist de La Salle, by Dom Élie Maillefer, St. Mary’s College Press, Winona, MN, 1963, p. 122. 180 Cf. Maillefer. CL 6. Ms. Reims, p. 116-119: The life of St. John Baptist de La Salle, op. cit., p74-75. 181 Blain, op. cit,. Book Three, p. 667-670. (CL 8, p. 125-127). See also Bro. Yves Poutet: CL 43, p. 303 to 309. 182 Cf. THE BROTHER OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS in the WORLD TODAY (Declaration of the 39 th General Chapter 1966-1967): FIDELITY to the FOUNDER.
MAKING THE LASALLIAN CHARISM LIVE TODAY 245 multi-cultural or multi-religious contexts in which we live today. For him the only acceptable religion, for the teachers as well as for the pupils, was the Catholic religion. It is an essential fidelity that the Founder teaches us, a fidelity which transcends space and time: it is fidelity to the Spirit. It is this Spirit which has led the Institute of the Brothers, in the course of its history, to be present in regions totally unknown to Monsieur de La Salle; it is the same Spirit which has led the Institute to adapt to new social, political, religious elements… arising from the evolution of peoples and the changes of history. Fidelity to the Spirit is, in the case of John Baptist de La Salle, coupled with another fidelity: fidelity to the young people confided to us, such as they are. This implies respect for their convictions, attention to all their needs and recognition of the presence of God in them and in their destiny. Meditation 37, in particular the 3 rd point, is very revealing in regard to this attitude. 183 This is an essential element of the Lasallian vision of man and especially of children and young people, a vision outside of which it is not possible to claim to be authentically Lasallian. This fidelity to the Spirit and to the young, leads me to say that to live the Lasallian charism today it is not necessary to be a Christian or a believer or to belong to one of the religions named by Transcendence; but it is necessary to be at least convinced that one 183 Meditations for Sundays and Feasts. You should look upon the children whom you are charged to teach as poor, abandoned orphans. In fact, though the majority of them do have a father here on earth, they are still as if they had none and are abandoned to themselves for the salvation of their souls. This is the reasons God places them as if under your guardianship. He looks on them with compassion as being their protector, their support and their father and it is to you that he entrusts this care. This God of goodness places them in your hands and undertakes to give them everything you ask of Him for them: piety, self-control, reserve, purity, the avoidance of companions who could be dangerous to them. And because God knows that of yourself you have neither enough virtue nor enough ability to give all these things to the children He has entrusted to you, he wants you to ask Him for these blessings for them frequently, fervently and insistently. In this way, thanks to your care, nothing will be lacking to them that they need for their salvation. (Meditation 37. 3 rd point).
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