To give a human and Christian education

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The Worldwide Lasallian Mission Today
To give a human and Christian education
especially in schools, with the
service of the poor as a priority in order to
evangelize and catechize, to
promote peace and justice, accomplished together
as a shared mission.
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From their beginnings, the Brothers of the
Christian Schools have regarded their work as a
collaborative ministry. Their vow of association
binds them to God and to one another for the
educational service of youth and the poor. In
the Lasallian experience, mission generates bonds
of mutuality and interdependence. Mission leads
to communion and communion is for mission.
association the process of uniting for a common
mission.
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What has changed is the ever-increasing role
played by lay partners in the mission of the
Institute.
In the face of the many challenges in todays
world, it is no longer conceivable that the
Brothers can guarantee by themselves the
continuation and vitality of the Lasallian
mission. Thus, the worldwide Institute today
often speaks of Lasallian mission as a shared
mission.
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From the late 70s to the late 90s, there arose
groups and individuals hungry for a deeper
sharing in the spirituality and mission of De La
Salle.

• General Chapter of 1976 speaks of the Lasallian
  Family.
• Signum Fidei and SHARE begin in 1981.

• The new emphasis on Lasallian formation.
• General Chapter of 1986 speaks of shared
  mission.
• Initiatives like LASSA, youth educators
  congresses, etc.
• Letter to the Lasallian Family (1989).
• Lasallian mission redefined in A Shared
  Mission (1997).

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. . . from sharing in the Brothers mission to
the one mission in which faculty, staff, alumni,
parents and young people and Brothers all share.

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Lay people take their place as full partners
and we Brothers gladly associate with them in our
mission. We accept that from now on our schools
will not be Brothers schools, animated by the
Brothers community with the secondary
collaboration of lay teachers, parents, students.
They will be instead, Lasallian schools ,
animated by Lasallian educative communities of
faith, within which the apostolic activity of the
Brothers community takes place. -
Quoted in The Lasallian Mission of Human and
Christian Education A Shared
Mission 3.1.1
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For lay people the change in mentality allows
them to consider the Lasallian task in which they
work as something which is proper to them and not
something for which the Brothers alone are
responsible. It means they should accept their
place and responsibilities in the Lasallian
educational plan and feel that they are
co-responsible in the common mission.
- The Lasallian
Mission of Human and
Christian Education A
Shared Mission 3.1.2
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A Ministerial Community
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This is a paternalistic understanding of shared
mission.
HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND SHARED MISSION TODAY ?
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Who comprise the Lasallian Family today?
BROTHERS
Faculty Administrators
Support Staff
Students Alumni
Chaplains
PARENTS
Trustees
Friends Benefactors
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ONE MISSION
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Different degrees and levels of commitment and
sharing.
RELATIONSHIP OF COLLEAGUES AND BROTHERS IN THE
SHARED MISSION
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BROTHERS
LAITY
Something new is being born . . .
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Lay partners enabled to exercise a more
deliberative role in determining the directions
and conduct of the Lasallian mission.
LAY EMPOWERMENT
Increased opportunities for new and creative
types of apostolates.
Evolve new structures and learn skills to
facilitate lay-FSC collaboration.
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Greater collaboration, sharing and
interdependence among institutions.
Need to guarantee the dynamic vitality and
continuity of the Lasallian heritage in all
institutions.
RE-ORGANIZING THE RP DISTRICT
Creation of structures that facilitate a more
concerted and unified approach to the Lasallian
mission.
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Evolve new forms of association geared to a
deeper sharing in the Lasallian mission.
Develop a new, richer understanding of the
Lasallian charism.
RENEWED UNDERSTANDING OF CHARISM SPIRITUALITY
Develop a more lay-centered Lasallian
spirituality.
Dissemination of Lasallian spirituality/ charism
beyond the Lasallian Family.
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STRUCTURES OF GOVERNANCE
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SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS
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Some new directions from the Convocation. . .
EMPLOYEE WELLBEING PROGRAMS
SPIRITUAL ACCOMPANIMENT IN
SCHOOLS
NEW FORMS OF ASSOCIATION
COMMON SOCIAL DEVT. FRAMEWORK
INCREASING STUDY GRANTS
COMMON FRAMEWORK FOR LASALLIAN FORMATION
CENTERS FOR LIVELIHOOD PROMOTION DEVT.
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Partnership in mission involves not just a
consultative role for lay Lasallians in
determining apostolic directions but a
deliberative one. The Holy Spirit works and
speaks through men and women of faith who gather
to discern Gods will for the shared mission.
This holds true for the laity as much as the
religious.
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• FAITH
• REVITALIZATION
• ASSOCIATION
• TRUST IN PROVIDENCE

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FAITH

• belief in a loving God who wants to bring the
  means of integral human and Christian development
  within reach of youth and the poor
• belief that we are called and gifted by God to
  help realize this goal
• belief that we are called to realize this
  through the ministry of Christian education

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REVITALIZATION

• generate creative ways of serving youth- at-risk
• attend to the promotion of justice, peace and
  integrity of creation
• attend to evangelization/pastoral action in and
  out of our institutions
• educational innovation in the service of the
  integral human/Christian development of students
  
• formation of Lasallian educators who share in
  the spirituality and mission of the Founder

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ASSOCIATION FOR MISSION

• internalize the same vision, values and spirit
• explore new forms and structures of
  collaboration
• realize all involved in this ministry are gifted
  and that we need to identify, release and
  utilize their gifts
• need to create genuine ministerial communities
  where gifts can be affirmed, released and
  utilized for the sake of the mission

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TRUST IN PROVIDENCE

• realize that we cannot accomplish this mission
  alone
• realize that we must place our trust in God
  through prayer
• take risks, act boldly if it is Gods work, it
  will bear fruit in its own time

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Q Why share the mission ?
Because the Lasallian charism belongs to the
whole Lasallian Family.
Because the needs of youth and the poor are many.
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