Marist Brothers - Irmãos Maristas

Novices on holiday – living out our Assemblyground while breaking bottles and novice Felix(wearing a hat) is offering the broken pieces toVictor (wearing a beanie) working with abuilder’s trowel. Quintas (in the blue T-shirt andperched on a ladder) is doing his bit in theconstruction too.For some time, the novices have been onholiday - not a time for doing nothing but aperiod for change of activities. Groups havebeen doing maintenance such as painting,building, welding and carpentry. Those familiarwith the formation guide will notice that at thevery end there is a topic called “practicals”meaning formation in skills needed to beeffective in personal life, community life andapostolate.In the accompanying photo you see a groupimproving the security of the property byreplacing broken glass on part of thesurrounding wall. Misheck is squatting on theThis part of the wall has been a weakness forsome time. Access to the property was easy forany scoundrels! It was a convenient shortcutfor them. Not long time ago a boy threatened agirl near outside the spot with a knife to robher of the mobile phone. She panicked andthrew the phone over the fence. The culpritsimply jumped over the fence, grabbed theinstrument and ran away with it.Little did the “building” grouprealise that they were livingout the maxim on theminiature trowel given toeach participant at theAssembly by Brother Emili Turú:The answer, Brother, is in your hands!A resposta, Irmao, esta em suas maos!Marist Youth Ministry MYMThe media – especially socialnetworking – make a huge impacton young people. Here’s a bookthat will help you form youngpeople in navigating the mediaworld through the eyes of faith.Gretchen Hailer & Rose PacatteOur Media World: Teaching KidsK-8 about Faith and Media.Pauline Books & Media. ( $8.00)9