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Listening Attentively to the MovementMovement of
the Holy Spirit
The Christian and Gratuitous School as a Sign of the Reign
of God
ObjectivesTeaching as vocation; founding a community of religious BrothersBrothers as apostles and ambassadors
The Christian school as creative response to evangelize and catechizeevangelize and catechize the young, especially those who are poor
Teaching as Ministry
Salvation
Two Principal Organizing Concepts in De La Salle’s Theological Pedagogy
is the power to discover and to relate
to Godpresent in our lives,resulting in a qualityof affective presence
that is decisivefor the Reign of God.
is the power to discover and to relate
to Godpresent in our lives,resulting in a qualityof affective presence
that is decisivefor the Reign of God.
Christian spirituality
“To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.”
The 17th century was a time of crisis for traditional primary education in France
Claude Joly, Paris’ superintendent of schools resisted the Council of Trent’s reform decrees
Ill-Preparation of male teachers
Le grand chantre lampooned Joly for employing a motley collection of “low pot-house keepers, second-hand shop proprietors, silk-weaver flunkies, wig makers, and marionette string pullers.”
Primary school teachers were under diocesan authority
It was at the end of the first six months and at the beginning of the year 1682 that new candidates appeared… And it was then that a true form of community began to appear in the house. It was also at the beginning of that same year that what were known as exercises began to be practiced, and the teachers were called Brothers.
Canon Blain, CL 4, 47
Creating a distinct identity as Brothers of the Christian SchoolsCommunity…Brothers
This name seemed to them more unassuming and moreappropriate to the common life they had adopted, andmore capable of maintaining the union that reigned among them. All they had became common property, no private interests distracted their minds, and in this way the regularity of their conduct was a vivid image of their life of the first Christians.
Maillfer, CL 6, 54
Creating a distinct identity as Brothers of the Christian Schools
Creating a Distinct Identity as Brothers of the Christian Schools
Christian instruction and a holy education
should be understood places where young people go to learn how to read, write, and count for a fee. By Christian and Gratuitous Schools should be understood places where they go to acquire Christian instruction and a holy education for no payment.
Canon Blain CL 7, 34
Schools
The creative response: the role of the Brothers within the Church
Workers with God
Ministers of Jesus Christ
Builders of the Church
The creative response: the role of the Brothers within the Church
Ministers of Jesus Christ
Since you are ambassadors and ministers of Jesus Christ in the work that you do,
you must act as representing Jesus Christ himself.
He wants your disciples to see him in you and receive your instructions
as if he were instructing them. MTR 195.2
The creative response: the role of the Brothers within the Church
Workers with God
God is so good that…he wills thatall people come to the knowledge of the truth.
This truth is God himself… This is why God wills all people to be instructed,
so that their minds may be enlightened by the light of faith.
MTR 193.1
The creative response: the role of the Brothers within the Church
Builders of the Church
You must show the Church what love you have for her and give proof of your zeal,
since it is for the Church…that you work.
You have become her ministers accordingto the order God has given you
to dispense his word.
MTR 201.2
Who were these children in the first Christian Schools?
the (almost) always poor & the (new) occasionally poor
non-attendance absence and truancy
drop outs
“parents preoccupied…children often left on their own…
being formed by bad companions in the streets”
in need of salvation…salvation from…salvation for…
the reign of god…brothers and sisters of one human family
What made the Christian Schools so unusual and desirable?
Order and focus
Appropriate
curriculum
a Community of stable
and competent teachers
Gospel values
PedagogyLove for students
A particular kind of school: a response beginning in 1680
teaching well prepared & adapted to pupil’s level…in their own language…in useful skills and knowledge
religious/spiritual formation
good order & social formation
correction (re-turning) from the
values of the street to the values of the
reign of god
student involvement and responsibility is
fostered
relationships are
paramount
teachers-students
students-students
teachers-teachers
The Reign of God is here but not yet
God acting here and nowI came…that they might have life and have it to
full. for this had to be the kind of ardent zeal you had for the salvation of those you instruct,
when you were led to sacrifice yourself and to spend your whole life to
give these children a Christian education and to procure for them the life of grace in this world and eternal life in the next. MTR 201.3
De La Salle’s thought on role of Lasallian schools
Unfavorable Economic
Conditions of Working
People and the Poor
Ignorance Lawlessness
The Christian School
De La Salle’s Thought continued…
The Christian SchoolFinancial Support
Competent Christian Educators
Social Formation
CivicResponsibility
SecularInstruction
ReligiousInstruction
VocationalIncompetence
ChristianSpirit
At the Serviceof the Churchand the State
The Double Contemplation
John Baptist de La Salle
A Double Contemplation
Is led from one
commitment to another
Children of artisans
God Who wants ALL saved
Who are far from
salvation
To MakeSalvation
AccessibleTo ALL
Making Salvation Accessible to ALL
God has had the goodness to remedy such an obstacle by the setting up of the Christian Schools
MTR 2.1
Christian Schools Teachers
Maintaining schools together and by
association