Father Chaminade and Schools Workshop I

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Father Chaminade and Schools - Workshop I
Rev. Joe Lackner, S.M. Director of
Education Cincinnati Province
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Chaminade and Schools

• CME Workshop I

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Mission -- Bordeaux, 1800

• to transform post-revolutionary France
• engender a renewed
• Christianity

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New Times, New Methods

• Communities of Apostolic Faith
• Sodalities
• various ages, sexes, occupations, social
  classes, Christian commitment
• joined together in liberty, equality, and
  solidarity

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liberty, fraternity, equality
Acts, 1 Cor





frequent reunions reciprocal formation delegation
Catholics of various ages, socio-economic
classes, occupations, Christian
commitments, lay and clerical, male and female
family spirit
unity in diversity
Apostolic faith
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New Development

• 1816 Daughters of Mary
• 1817 Society of Mary

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Choice of Schools as an SM Apostolate

• some members already teachers
• teaching in disarray
• a principal means for transforming society

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Chaminade to Gregory XVI

• By opening schools of all levels, especially
  for those classes of people most numerous and
  most abandoned, and by engaging in teacher
  training, I am seeking to counteract the
  anti-Christian spirit ushered in by the French
  Revolution, forming teachers and students in an
  apostolic faith that will result in the Christian
  transformation of French society.

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Distinction betweenEducation and Instruction
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Instruction

• the development of skills and the transference
  of knowledge of various disciplines

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Education

• the cultivation of habits of mind and heart,
  the integrated maturation of the potential of
  body and soul -- the intellect, will, emotions,
  and spirit -- all informed, animated, by the
  Christian ethos

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INCARNATIONGoverning Insight ofChaminades
Spirituality

• God chose to renew creation through becoming one
  like us

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Mary

• Pivotal to Gods plan of Incarnation
• chosen to give birth to, nurture, educate the
  humanity of the one who shows us how to be human
  as only God can do

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Incarnation An-Ongoing Experience

• Mary, central to each successive incarnation
• Gives intentionality and direction to all who
  collaborate in the Marianist project
• Schools an apostolic means of participating in
  this perpetual mission

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Almost 200 Years of ReflectionOnMarianist
Spirituality and Mission

• 1996
• Characteristics
• of
• Marianist Education

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The Past

• responsibility for engendering the Marianist
  spirit in schools assumed by the religious
• no longer possible or desired

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The Present and Future

• if schools are to offer an education filtered
  through a Marianist optic, the laity must be
  major leaders and collaborators in the process

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Osmosis Is No Longer Enough

• Need
• the explicit intention to create a Marianist
  school culture
• on-going articulations of beliefs, which are
  expressed in practices, rituals, stories, etc.

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1st Workshop

• to lay the ground work for the process of
  creating a Marianist school culture

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2nd Workshop

• to reflect on how the LIT can lead the school
  community in developing an action plan for
  implementing the characteristics of Marianist
  education

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Thanks