Year of Lasallian Spirituality

Why a ” Year of Lasallian Spirituality” ?

Two years ago, our delegates, at the General Chapter, decided “to dedicate the year 2025 to deepen and share Lasallian spirituality in the Church and the world, on the occasion of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Bull of Approbation”. (46th GC, 2.1)

This decision was connected with two others: that of “creating an international network of Lasallian spirituality which supports animators and accompaniers in the interior life, which will sponsor international, regional and District programmes, experiences, and resources”. (2.3) And, in addition, it indicated a way of accompaniment with a Councillor in charge and a possible Secretariat (2.2).

This is all part of the Institute’s second Pathway of Transformation, the Pathway of Radical Availability to God. Some of these Chapter proposals are still to be specified after a couple of attempts. This year is an opportunity to start again.
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Meditation

The spirit of this Institute is, first, a spirit of faith, which ought to 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 everything to God, always entering into these sentiments of Job, “The Lord gave me everything, and the Lord has taken everything away from me; nothing has happened to me except what pleases him”, and into other, similar sentiments so often expressed in Holy Scripture and uttered by the Patriarchs of old.

R 11.1.2

Reflection by Br. Josean Villalabeitia, FSC - Spain

This is an important text for De La Salle.

In fact, he reproduces it in almost identical terms in the Common Rules (RC 2,2) and refers to it in other places.

Not least because it is the spirit of the Institute, that is to say, the basis, the origin, the foundation of all that follows. This original Lasallian foundation is none other than faith. Logical, because without a deep, convinced faith, it is impossible to understand the Lasallian experience, to become deeply involved in its project.

At least if we try to do so from the original point of view of its Founder, who always saw it as ‘the work of God’ (RP 3,0,8). God is, in short, the one who gives the Lasallian project its profound meaning and, in this line, faith would come to be a way of observing reality from God’s point of view, a divine light which colours it in a particular way, those spectacles with which God himself contemplates the world and which De La Salle invites us to use. It is a matter of getting used to it…