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248 MAKING THE LASALLIAN CHARISM LIVE TODAY You are by your state obliged to instruct poor children. Do you love them Do you honour Jesus Christ in their persons With this in mind do you prefer them to those who have a certain amount of material wealth Do you have more concern for the former than for the latter 186 This saint is a great example of what you should do for the children God has entrusted to you. It is a queen who made her first work to do what is essential in your state. Consider this an honour for you and look upon the children God has entrusted to you as the children of God Himself. Have much more solicitude for their education and instruction than you would have for the children of a king. 187 It is significant to note that the experience of God described by the Meditations for the Time of Retreat is centred around the child 188 and not around God or the teacher. During the annual retreat, the Founder proposes that the Brothers should concentrate on the person of those who have been confided to them, towards whom their ministry is directed, since their relations with God go through their relations with these children. These are, generally, poor children, children who have strayed and whose salvation is in danger, because they cannot know God. They give way to dissipation, they mix with bad companions and “a great number of them will be abandoned”. 189 They remain children with 186 MF 133, 3, 2 (St. Margaret of Scotland). 187 MF 133, 2, 2 (St. Margaret of Scotland). 188 In the Meditations for the time of Retreat, the children are referred to 163 times: children, pupils, disciples, youth… One needs to add 57 expressions which describe the children as being “those who…”: “those who are confided to your care, those that God has confided to you, those that you have to instruct…” that is a total of 220 occurrences. It is the most frequent “character” of these Meditations. “The children, your disciples, youth, your pupils, those who are confided to you…” are present in all the Meditations and in all the points (except MTR 199.2). The Meditations where they are most present: Meditation 203 on correction (24 occurrences), Meditation 208 on the reward that a Brother should expect in heaven and Meditation 205 on giving an account to God of the work you have done with the young (21 occurrences each). 189 MTR 193. 2.2.
MAKING THE LASALLIAN CHARISM LIVE TODAY 249 their limits. Their environment could be an obstacle to their salvation. Their human and eternal salvation is in question: they have no future. John Baptist de La Salle underlines the poverty of the situation even where childhood is concerned, which arouses this particular worry on the part of God and therefore a response on the part of the persons He has called to do His work. This poverty is the normal condition of these children. It is here that God manifests his goodness by having these children enter the paths of salvation. The Lasallian school is the place where the salvation of God can reach these children, because it is put within their reach. There they acquire the wisdom of God and learn to live the things which concern their salvation. They change their behaviour, give up impurity, lies, vengeance, immodesty, lack of respect; they seek to do good actions such as loving their enemies, always telling the truth, respecting others and in the first place their parents and their companions. They become detached from riches. They learn profane subjects: reading, writing, arithmetic, which prepare them for useful employment when their parents wish it. The school keeps them away from bad companions, teaches them to occupy all their time with things useful to their salvation. There they learn habits dear to the heart of God. Finally they will be able to appear one day before God without a wrinkle, stain or blemish and thus proclaim His glory and call their teacher to it. Even more than situations met or lived, it is these children which set fire to the hearts of Lasallians, to the point of “being led to sacrifice themselves and spend their entire lives giving them a Christian education and procuring for them the life of grace in this world and eternal life in the next”. 190 190 MTR 201. 3.2.
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