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Peace, Psalms 118-14-21, Acts 4:13-21, Mark 16:9-1, Pope Frances Daily Homily - Peace is Priceless, Saintt Jean Baptiste de la Salle, Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Catholic Catechism Part Two: THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH - Article 1:2:5 Sacrament of Baptism - Who Can Baptize
Good Day Bloggers! Wishing everyone a Blessed Week!
Year of Faith - October 11, 2012 - November 24, 2013
P.U.S.H. (Pray Until Serenity Happens). It has a remarkable way of producing solace, peace, patience and tranquility and of course resolution...God's always available 24/7.
The world begins and ends everyday for someone. We are all human. We all experience birth, life and death. We all have
flaws but we also all have the gift of knowledge and free will,
make the most of these gifts. Life on earth is a stepping stone to our eternal home in
Heaven. Its your choice whether to rise towards eternal light or lost to
eternal darkness. Material items, though needed for sustenance and
survival on earth are of earthly value only. The only thing that passes
from this earth to Purgatory and/or Heaven is our Soul, our Spirit...it's God's perpetual
gift to us...Embrace it, treasure it, nurture it, protect it...
"Raise not a hand to another unless it is to offer in peace and goodwill." ~ Zarya Parx 2012
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Prayers for Today: Saturday in Easter
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Papam Franciscus
(Pope Francis)
Pope Francis Homliy: Peace is Priceless
(2013-04-05 L’Osservatore Romano)
Peace cannot be bought or sold: it is a gift from God – and we must ask for it. Pope Francis reminded us of this on Thursday morning, 4 April, when he spoke of the “awe” shown by the disciples of Emmaus before the miracles of Jesus. The Holy Father commented on the Gospel passage from Luke (24:35-48) which was read at his usual morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, at which employees of the Vatican were present. This morning there were 50 supervisors and workers from Vatican Typography.
“The disciples who were witnesses of the lame man's healing and now see Jesus”, the Pope said, “are a bit out of themselves, but not because of some mental illness: outside themselves because of their awe”. But what is this awe? “It is something”, said the Holy Father, “that drives us out of ourselves, for joy: this is great, it is very great. This is not mere enthusiasm: even fans in a stadium are enthusiastic when their team wins, right? No, this is not some enthusiasm, it is something more profound: it is the wonder that comes when we find ourselves with Jesus”.
This astonishment, the Holy Father explained, is the beginning “of the habitual state of the Christian”. Certainly, he noted, we cannot live forever in wonder, but this is condition is the beginning which allows a “mark to be left on the soul and spiritual consolation”. Actually, the condition of being a Christian should be one of spiritual consolation, notwithstanding problems, pains, sickness. “The last step of consolation”, the Pontiff said, “is peace: one begins with awe, and the minor tone of this wonder, of this consolation, is peace”. The Christian, even in the most painful trials, never loses “the peace and the presence of Jesus” and with “a little courage”, we are able to say to the Lord: “Lord, give me this grace that is the sign of the encounter with you: spiritual consolation”; and, above all, he emphasized, “never lose peace”. We look to the Lord, who “suffered so upon the Cross, but he never lost peace. Peace, this peace, is not our own: it is not sold and we do not buy it”. It is a gift of God for which we must beg. Peace is like “the final step of this spiritual consolation, which begins with a joyful wonder”. Wherefore, we must not “trick ourselves with our or others' fantasies, which lead us to believe that these fantasies are reality”. In truth, it is more Christian “to believe that reality may not be so pretty”. The Pope ended by asking for the grace of spiritual consolation and of peace, which “begins with this joyful wonder in the encounter with Jesus Christ”.
The Salesians Fr Sergio Pellini, Director General of the L'Osservatore Romano and the Printing Press, and Fr Marek Kaczmarczyk, Sales Manager – among others – concelebrated with the Pontiff. Also present were Technical Director Domenico Nguyen Duc Nam, Antonio Maggiotto and Giuseppe Canesso.
Peace cannot be bought or sold: it is a gift from God – and we must ask for it. Pope Francis reminded us of this on Thursday morning, 4 April, when he spoke of the “awe” shown by the disciples of Emmaus before the miracles of Jesus. The Holy Father commented on the Gospel passage from Luke (24:35-48) which was read at his usual morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, at which employees of the Vatican were present. This morning there were 50 supervisors and workers from Vatican Typography.
“The disciples who were witnesses of the lame man's healing and now see Jesus”, the Pope said, “are a bit out of themselves, but not because of some mental illness: outside themselves because of their awe”. But what is this awe? “It is something”, said the Holy Father, “that drives us out of ourselves, for joy: this is great, it is very great. This is not mere enthusiasm: even fans in a stadium are enthusiastic when their team wins, right? No, this is not some enthusiasm, it is something more profound: it is the wonder that comes when we find ourselves with Jesus”.
This astonishment, the Holy Father explained, is the beginning “of the habitual state of the Christian”. Certainly, he noted, we cannot live forever in wonder, but this is condition is the beginning which allows a “mark to be left on the soul and spiritual consolation”. Actually, the condition of being a Christian should be one of spiritual consolation, notwithstanding problems, pains, sickness. “The last step of consolation”, the Pontiff said, “is peace: one begins with awe, and the minor tone of this wonder, of this consolation, is peace”. The Christian, even in the most painful trials, never loses “the peace and the presence of Jesus” and with “a little courage”, we are able to say to the Lord: “Lord, give me this grace that is the sign of the encounter with you: spiritual consolation”; and, above all, he emphasized, “never lose peace”. We look to the Lord, who “suffered so upon the Cross, but he never lost peace. Peace, this peace, is not our own: it is not sold and we do not buy it”. It is a gift of God for which we must beg. Peace is like “the final step of this spiritual consolation, which begins with a joyful wonder”. Wherefore, we must not “trick ourselves with our or others' fantasies, which lead us to believe that these fantasies are reality”. In truth, it is more Christian “to believe that reality may not be so pretty”. The Pope ended by asking for the grace of spiritual consolation and of peace, which “begins with this joyful wonder in the encounter with Jesus Christ”.
The Salesians Fr Sergio Pellini, Director General of the L'Osservatore Romano and the Printing Press, and Fr Marek Kaczmarczyk, Sales Manager – among others – concelebrated with the Pontiff. Also present were Technical Director Domenico Nguyen Duc Nam, Antonio Maggiotto and Giuseppe Canesso.
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Liturgical Celebrations to be presided over by Pope: April–May
Vatican City, 3 April 2013 (VIS) – Following is the calendar of
celebrations scheduled to be presided over by the Holy Father in the
months of April and May, 2013.
APRIL
7 April, Second Sunday of Easter, or Divine Mercy Sunday: 5:30pm,Mass in the Basilica of St. John Lateran for the Bishop of Rome to take possession of the Roman cathedra.
14 April, Sunday: 5:30pm, Mass in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls
21 April, Sunday: 9:30am, Mass and priestly ordinations in St. Peter's Basilica.
28 April, Sunday: 10:00am, Mass and confirmations in St. Peter's Square.
MAY
4 May, Saturday: 6:00pm, Recitation of the Rosary in the Basilica of St. Mary Major.
5 May, Sunday: 10:00am, Mass for Confraternities in St. Peter's Square.
12 May, Sunday: 9:30am, Mass and canonizations of Blesseds Antonio Primaldo and Companions; Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya y Upegui; and Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala.
18 May, Saturday: 6:00pm, Pentecost Vigil in St. Peter's Square with the participation of ecclesial movements.
19 May, Pentecost Sunday: 10:00am, Mass in St. Peter's Square with the participation of ecclesial movements.
APRIL
7 April, Second Sunday of Easter, or Divine Mercy Sunday: 5:30pm,Mass in the Basilica of St. John Lateran for the Bishop of Rome to take possession of the Roman cathedra.
14 April, Sunday: 5:30pm, Mass in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls
21 April, Sunday: 9:30am, Mass and priestly ordinations in St. Peter's Basilica.
28 April, Sunday: 10:00am, Mass and confirmations in St. Peter's Square.
MAY
4 May, Saturday: 6:00pm, Recitation of the Rosary in the Basilica of St. Mary Major.
5 May, Sunday: 10:00am, Mass for Confraternities in St. Peter's Square.
12 May, Sunday: 9:30am, Mass and canonizations of Blesseds Antonio Primaldo and Companions; Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya y Upegui; and Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala.
18 May, Saturday: 6:00pm, Pentecost Vigil in St. Peter's Square with the participation of ecclesial movements.
19 May, Pentecost Sunday: 10:00am, Mass in St. Peter's Square with the participation of ecclesial movements.
Reference:
- Vatican News. From the Pope. © Copyright 2013 - Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Accessed 04/06/2013.
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Message, April 2, 2013 Our Lady of Medjugorje Message to the World:"Dear children, I am calling you to be one with my Son in spirit. I am calling you, through prayer, and the Holy Mass when my Son unites Himself with you in a special way, to try to be like Him; that, like Him, you may always be ready to carry out God's will and not seek the fulfillment of your own. Because, my children, it is according to God's will that you are and that you exist, and without God's will you are nothing. As a mother I am asking you to speak about the glory of God with your life because, in that way, you will also glorify yourself in accordance to His will. Show humility and love for your neighbour to everyone. Through such humility and love, my Son saved you and opened the way for you to the Heavenly Father. I implore you to keep opening the way to the Heavenly Father for all those who have not come to know Him and have not opened their hearts to His love. By your life, open the way to all those who still wander in search of the truth. My children, be my apostles who have not lived in vain. Do not forget that you will come before the Heavenly Father and tell Him about yourself. Be ready! Again I am warning you, pray for those whom my Son called, whose hands He blessed and whom He gave as a gift to you. Pray, pray, pray for your shepherds. Thank you."
Message, 25. March 2013 Our Lady of Medjugorje Message to the World:
“Dear children! In this time of grace I call you to take the cross of my beloved Son Jesus in your hands and to meditate on His passion and death. May your suffering be united in His suffering and love will win, because He who is love gave Himself out of love to save each of you. Pray, pray, pray until love and peace begin to reign in your hearts. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
March 18 2013 Message to the World via Annual Apparition to Mirjana:
"Dear children! I call you to, with complete trust and joy, bless the name of the Lord and, day by day, to give Him thanks from the heart for His great love. My Son, through that love which He showed by the Cross, gave you the possibility to be forgiven for everything; so that you do not have to be ashamed or to hide, and out of fear not to open the door of your heart to my Son. To the contrary, my children, reconcile with the Heavenly Father so that you may be able to come to love yourselves as my Son loves you. When you come to love yourselves, you will also love others; in them you will see my Son and recognize the greatness of His love. Live in faith! Through me, my Son is preparing you for the works which He desires to do through you – works through which He desires to be glorified. Give Him thanks. Especially thank Him for the shepherds - for your intercessors in the reconciliation with the Heavenly Father. I am thanking you, my children. Thank you."
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Today's Word: peace peace [peece]
Origin: 1125–75; Middle English pes < Old French, variant of pais < Latin pax (stem pāc- ); akin to pact
noun
1. the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
2. ( often initial capital letter ) an agreement or treaty between warring or antagonistic nations, groups, etc., to end hostilities and abstain from further fighting or antagonism: the Peace of Ryswick.
3. a state of mutual harmony between people or groups, especially in personal relations: Try to live in peace with your neighbors.
4. the normal freedom from civil commotion and violence of a community; public order and security: He was arrested for being drunk and disturbing the peace.
5. cessation of or freedom from any strife or dissension.
6. freedom of the mind from annoyance, distraction, anxiety, an obsession, etc.; tranquillity; serenity.
7. a state of tranquillity or serenity: May he rest in peace.
8. a state or condition conducive to, proceeding from, or characterized by tranquillity: the peace of a mountain resort.
9. silence; stillness: The cawing of a crow broke the afternoon's peace.
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Today's Old Testament Reading - Psalms 118:1, 14-21
1 Alleluia! Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, for his faithful love endures for ever.
14 Yahweh is my strength and my song, he has been my Saviour.
15 Shouts of joy and salvation, in the tents of the upright, 'Yahweh's right hand is triumphant,
16 Yahweh's right hand is victorious, Yahweh's right hand is triumphant!'
17 I shall not die, I shall live to recount the great deeds of Yahweh.
18 Though Yahweh punished me sternly, he has not abandoned me to death.
19 Open for me the gates of saving justice, I shall go in and thank Yahweh.
20 This is the gate of Yahweh, where the upright go in.
21 I thank you for hearing me, and making yourself my Saviour.
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Today's Epistle - Acts 4:13-21
13 They were astonished at the
fearlessness shown by Peter and John, considering that they were
uneducated laymen; and they recognised them as associates of Jesus;
14 but when they saw the man who had been cured standing by their side, they could find no answer.
15 So they ordered them to stand outside while the Sanhedrin had a private discussion.
16 'What are we going to do with these men?' they asked. 'It is obvious to everybody in Jerusalem that a notable miracle has been worked through them, and we cannot deny it.
17 But to stop the whole thing spreading
any further among the people, let us threaten them against ever
speaking to anyone in this name again.'
18 So they called them in and gave them a warning on no account to make statements or to teach in the name of Jesus.
19 But Peter and John retorted, 'You must judge whether in God's eyes it is right to listen to you and not to God.
20 We cannot stop proclaiming what we have seen and heard.'
21 The court repeated the threats and
then released them; they could not think of any way to punish them,
since all the people were giving glory to God for what had happened.
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Today's Gospel Reading - Mark 16: 9-15
Having risen in the morning on the
first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala from whom he
had cast out seven devils. She then went to those who had been his
companions, and who were mourning and in tears, and told them. But they
did not believe her when they heard her say that he was alive and that
she had seen him. After this, he showed himself under another form to
two of them as they were on their way into the country. These went back
and told the others, who did not believe them either. Lastly, he
showed himself to the Eleven themselves while they were at table. He
reproached them for their incredulity and obstinacy, because they had
refused to believe those who had seen him after he had risen. And he
said to them, 'Go out to the whole world; proclaim the gospel to all
creation.
Reflection
• Today’s Gospel forms part of a
broader literary unit (Mk 16, 9-20) which places us before a list or
summary of diverse apparitions of Jesus: (a) Jesus appears to Mary
Magdalene, but the disciples do not accept her testimony (Mk 16, 9-11);
(b) Jesus appears to the disciples, but the others do not accept their
testimony (Mk 16, 12-13); (c) Jesus appears to the eleven, he criticizes
their lack of faith and orders them to announce the Good News to all
(Mk 16, 14-18); (d) Jesus ascends to Heaven and continues to cooperate
with the disciples (Mk 16, 19-20).
• Besides this list of apparitions in the Gospel of Mark, there are other lists of apparitions which do not always coincide among themselves. For example, the list kept by Paul in the Letter to the Corinthians is very different (1 Co 15, 3-8). This variety shows that at the beginning the Christians were not concerned to prove the Resurrection by means of the apparitions. For them faith in the Resurrection was so evident and alive that there was no need to prove it. A person who takes sun on the shore is not concerned in showing that the sun exists, because she herself, sun burnt, is the evident proof of the existence of the sun. The communities, existing in the midst of the immense Empire, were a living proof of the Resurrection. The list of the apparitions began to appear later, in the second generation in order to refute the criticism of the enemies.
• Mark 16, 9-11: Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene, but the other disciples do not believe her. Jesus first appears to Mary Magdalene. She goes to announce this to the others. To come into the world, God wanted to depend on the womb of a young girl 15 or 16 years old, called Mary of Nazareth (Lk 1, 38). To be recognized alive in our midst, he wants to depend on the announcement of a woman who had been liberated from seven devils, also called Mary, of Magdala! (This is why she was called Mary Magdalene). But the others did not believe her. Mark says that Jesus appeared first to Magdalene. In the list of apparitions, transmitted in the letter to the Corinthians (1 Co 15, 3-8), the apparitions of Jesus to the women are not mentioned. The first Christians had difficulty to believe in the testimony of women. It is a sin!
• Mark 16, 12-13: Jesus appears to the disciples, but the others do not believe them. Without too many details, Mark refers to an apparition of Jesus to two disciples, “while they were on their way into the country”. This is perhaps a summary of the apparition of Jesus to the disciples of Emmaus, narrated by Luke (Lk 24, 13-35). Mark insists in saying that “the others did not believe them either”.
• Mark 16, 14-15: Jesus criticizes the unbelief and orders them to announce the Good News to all creatures. For this reason, Jesus appears to the Eleven and reproaches them because they had not believed the persons who had seen him resurrected. Once again, Mark refers to the resistance of the disciples in believing to believe the testimony of those who have experienced the Resurrection of Jesus. Why? Probably to teach three things. In the first place that faith in Jesus passes through the faith in the persons who give witness. In the second place, that nobody should be discouraged, when the doubt or the unbelief arises in the heart. In the third place, in order to refute the criticism of those who said that the Christian is naïve and accepts without criticism any news, because the Eleven had great difficulty to accept the truth of the Resurrection!
• Today’s Gospel ends with the sending out: “Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Gospel to all creation!” Jesus confers to them the mission to announce the Good News to all creatures.
Personal questions
• Mary Magdalene, the two disciples of
Emmaus and the eleven disciples: who had the greatest difficulty to
believe in the Resurrection? Why? With whom do I identify myself?
• Which are the signs which can convince persons of the presence of Jesus in our midst?
• Which are the signs which can convince persons of the presence of Jesus in our midst?
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Saint of the Day: Saints Jean Baptiste de la Salle
Feast Day: April 7 (Posted April 6 due to Feast of Divine Mercy Sunday)
Patron Saint: Teachers of Youth, (May 15, 1950, Pius XII), Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Lasallian educational institutions, educators, school principals, teachers
Attributes: stretched right arm with finger pointing up, instructing two children standing near him, books
Jean Baptiste de la Salle was born to a wealthy family in Rheims, France on April 30, 1651.[1] He was the eldest child of Louis de la Salle and Nicolle de Moet de Brouillet. La Salle received the tonsure at age eleven and was named canon of Rheims Cathedral when he was fifteen. He was sent to the College des Bons Enfants, where he pursued the higher studies and, on July 10, 1669, he took the degree of Master of Arts. When de la Salle had completed his classical, literary, and philosophical courses, he was sent to Paris to enter the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice on October 18, 1670. His mother died on July 19, 1671, and on April 9, 1672, his father died. This circumstance obliged him to leave Saint-Sulpice on April 19, 1672. He was now twenty-one, the head of the family, and as such had the responsibility of educating his four brothers and two sisters. He completed his theological studies and was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 26 on April 9, 1678. Two years later he received a Doctorate in Theology.[2]
De la Salle was a man of refined manners, a cultured mind, and great practical ability, in whom personal prosperity was balanced with kindness and affability.[1] In physical appearance he was of commanding presence, somewhat above the medium height. He had large, penetrating blue eyes and a broad forehead.[2]
Sisters of the Child Jesus
De La Salle became involved in education little by little, without ever consciously setting out to do so. The Sisters of the Child Jesus was a new order whose work was the care and education of poor girls. The young priest had helped them in becoming established, and then served as their chaplain and confessor. It was through his work with the sisters that in 1679, he met Adrian Nyel.[3] What began as a charitable effort to help Adrian Nyel establish a school for the poor in De La Salle's home town gradually became his life's work. With De La Salle's help, a school was soon opened. Shortly thereafter, another wealthy woman in Reims told Nyel that she also would endow a school, but only if Monsieur La Salle would help.[3]Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
Statue in Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Church, Paris
He thereby began a new religious institute, the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the De La Salle Brothers (in the U.K., Ireland, Malta, Australasia, and Asia) or, most commonly in the United States, the Christian Brothers. (They are sometimes confused with a different congregation of the same name founded by Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice in Ireland, who are known in the U.S. as the Irish Christian Brothers.)
In his own words, one decision led to another until he found himself doing something that he had never anticipated. De La Salle wrote: "He lived in times not unlike our own, where society is characterized by great disparity between the rich and the poor. Jean Baptiste de la Salle believed that education gave hope and opportunity for people to lead better lives of dignity and freedom.[1]
At that time, most children had little hope for the future. Moved by the plight of the poor who seemed so "far from salvation" either in this world or the next, he determined to put his own talents and advanced education at the service of the children "often left to themselves and badly brought up". To be more effective, he abandoned his family home, moved in with the teachers, renounced his position as Canon and his wealth (worth approximately $500,000 today),[4] and so formed a new community of lay religious teachers. The De La Salle Brothers were the first Roman Catholic religious teaching religious institute that did not include any priests.
His enterprise met opposition from the ecclesiastical authorities who resisted the creation of a new form of religious life, a community of consecrated laymen to conduct free schools "together and by association". The educational establishment resented his innovative methods and his insistence on gratuity for all, regardless of whether they could afford to pay. Nevertheless, De La Salle and his Brothers succeeded in creating a network of quality schools throughout France that featured instruction in the vernacular, students grouped according to ability and achievement, integration of religious instruction with secular subjects, well-prepared teachers with a sense of vocation and mission, and the involvement of parents.
De La Salle was a pioneer in programs for training lay teachers. In 1685, he founded what is generally considered the first normal school — that is, a school whose purpose is to train teachers — in Rheims, France. He was a pedagogical thinker of note and is among the founders of a distinctively modern pedagogy. His educational innovations include Sunday courses for working young men, one of the first institutions in France for the care of delinquents, technical schools, and secondary schools for modern languages, arts, and sciences. Worn out by austerities and exhausting labors, he died at Saint Yon near Rouen early in 1719 on Good Friday, only three weeks before his 68th birthday.
De La Salle's work quickly spread through France and, after his death, continued to spread across the globe. He was canonized by Pope Leo XIII on May 24, 1900, and was inserted in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1904. Because of his life and inspirational writings, he was proclaimed as the Patron Saint of Teachers on May 15, 1950, by Pope Pius XII. Since 1970, his feast is celebrated in the Catholic Church calendar on April 7; however, at La Sallian institutions, and in communities that follow a pre-1970 (but post-1904) calendar, his feast is on May 15.
Currently, about 6,000 Brothers and 75,000 lay and religious colleagues worldwide serve as teachers, counselors, and guides to 900,000 students in over 1,000 educational institutions in 84 countries.
There is a street named after La Salle in Bangkok, Thailand: Soi Sukhumvit 105. It got this name due to a La Salle school on this street. In addition to the street in Thailand, there are two streets in the Philippines. One is the La Salle Avenue in Bacolod City, Philippines, where the University of St. La Salle is located. The other is La Salle Street in Mandaluyong City where there is also a La Salle school. There is also in St. Louis, Missouri, USA: De La Salle Avenue, named after the saint due to its proximity to another Christian Brothers School. There is also a street, La Salle Road, in Hong Kong named after La Salle due to the two La Salle schools on the same street.There is also a street, La Salle, Road in Towson, Maryland near Calvert Hall Also, he has schools named after him, De La Salle High School, in Concord, California and De La Salle High School, in Revesby, New South Wales, Australia. He is one of the six patrons at Good Samaritan Catholic College. There is also a school in named "St. La Salle School" in Reedley California.
References
- ^ a b c "History", University of St. La Salle
- ^ a b c Graham, Matthias. "St. John Baptist de la Salle." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 2 Feb. 2013
- ^ a b c "John Baptist de La Salle: His Life and Times", Signs of Faith, Winter 2000, De La Salle Institute
- ^ Article on John Baptist de La Salle
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Today's Snippet I: Brothers of the Christian Schools
The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (also known as the Christian Brothers, the Lasallian Brothers, the French Christian Brothers, or the De La Salle Brothers; French: Frères des écoles chrétiennes; Latin: Fratres Scholarum Christianarum) is a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation, founded in France by Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and now based in Rome. The Brothers use the post-nominal abbreviation of F.S.C.
Founder, his Rule and the Mission of the Institute
The Founder is St. John Baptist de La Salle, a French priest who
lived in the 17th century. He came from a wealthy family. He focused his
life on teaching poor children in parish charity schools. He was
canonized as a saint on May 15, 1900. In 1950, Pope Pius XII declared
him to be the Special Patron of All Teachers of Youth in the Catholic
Church.
He emphasized the virtue of faith for the brothers: "The spirit of
this Institute is first, a spirit of faith, which should induce those
who compose it not to look upon anything but with the eyes of faith, not
to do anything but in view of God, and to attribute all to God." (Rule
1718). He also said that “To touch the hearts of your students and to
inspire them with the Christian spirit is the greatest miracle you could
perform, and the one that God asks of you, since this is the purpose of
your work.” The Brothers Rule states that the Mission of the Institute is “to
provide a human and Christian education to the young, especially the
poor, according to the ministry entrusted to them by the church.”
Ignorantines
Ignorantines (Frères Ignorantins) is a name given to the brethren of the Christian Schools (Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes).
In addition to the three simple vows of chastity, poverty and
obedience, the brothers were required to give their services without any
remuneration and to wear a special habit of coarse black material,
consisting of a cassock, a hooded cloak with hanging sleeves and a broadbrimmed hat.
The name Ignorantine was given from a clause in the rules of the
order forbidding the admission of priests with a theological education.
Other popular names applied to the order are Frères de Saint-Yon, from the house at Rouen, which was their headquarters from 1705 until 1770, Frères a quatre bras, from their hanging sleeves, and Frères Fouetteurs, from their former use of the whip (fouet) in punishments.
The order, approved by Pope Benedict XIII in 1724, rapidly spread over France, and although dissolved by the National Assembly's decree in February 1790, was recalled by Napoleon I
in 1804 and formally recognized by the French government in 1808. Since
then its members have penetrated into nearly every country of Europe, and into America, Asia and Africa. They numbered about 14,000 members at the beginning of the 20th century and have over 2000 schools, and are the strongest Roman Catholic
male order. The De La Salle Christian Brothers are the largest Roman
Catholic lay religious order of men exclusively devoted to education.
Education
The Institute now conducts educational work in 80 different
countries, in both developed and developing nations, with more than
800,000 students enrolled in its educational works.
Other activities
From 1882 until 1989, a non-profit arm of the Brothers ran a winery in the Napa Valley at Greystone Cellars near St. Helena, California. Most famous for Christian Brothers Brandy, the operation and rights to the name were sold to Heublein, Inc. in 1989.[3]
In 1981 the Institute started Christian Brothers Investment Services, an ethical or socially responsible investment service
for Catholic organisations. The service attempts to use its
shareholdings to influence the way the companies in which it has
invested operate.[4] Lasallian schools and institutions usually incorporate the Signum Fidei as a mark of their heritage.
Lasallian saints
- Bénilde Romançon
- Jaime Hilario
- Miguel Febres Cordero
- Mutien-Marie Wiaux
References
- ^ "Home". Manhattan College.
- ^ http://www.vis.va/vissolr/index.php?lang=en "Vatican Information Service", Vatican City, 24 September 2012. Retrieved on 24 September 2012.
- ^ napanews.com
- ^ cbisonline.com
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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Catechism of the Catholic Church
Part Two: The Celebration of the Christian Mystery,
Section Two: The Seven Sacraments of the Church
Article 1:2:5 Sacrament of Baptism
SECTION TWO
THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
Article 1 THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
V. Who can Baptize?
1256
The ordinary ministers of Baptism are the bishop and priest and, in the Latin
Church, also the deacon.CIC,
can. 861 # 1; CCEO, can. 677 # 1 In case of necessity, any person, even
someone not baptized, can baptize, if he has the required intention. the
intention required is to will to do what the Church does when she baptizes, and
to apply the Trinitarian baptismal formula. the Church finds the reason for
this possibility in the universal saving will of God and the necessity of
Baptism for salvation.1 Tim 2:4
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