{"id":123777,"date":"2026-03-20T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/?p=123777"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:26:04","slug":"infographics-on-the-work-from-one-community-to-another-by-brother-pedro-gil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/infographics-on-the-work-from-one-community-to-another-by-brother-pedro-gil\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographics on the work \u201cFrom One Community to Another\u201d by Brother Pedro Gil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To accompany the reading of the two volumes of his work\u00a0<\/span>\u201cFrom One Community to Another\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(<\/span>Lasallian Studies No. 19<\/span><\/i>),<\/span> Brother Pedro Mar\u00eda Gil,\u00a0who belongs to\u00a0the Arlep District (La Salle in Spain and Portugal), has shared some infographics produced using Artificial Intelligence.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u201cIt is a good exercise for gaining an overview,\u201d said the author, referring to this resource which complements <\/span>his research on the commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the recognition of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools<\/b>, through the Bull\u00a0<\/span>In Apostolicae dignitatis solio<\/span><\/i>, issued by Pope Benedict XIII at the end of January 1725. \u201ca good occasion to look to the future and to ask ourselves about the meaning of its journey through these three long centuries of life\u201d, as he himself states in the presentation of the book.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, as he delved deeper into the convictions that accompanied him during the process of research and systematisation, Brother Pedro acknowledges that \u201cthroughout my life, I had come to realise that De La Salle was not the founder of the Christian Schools\u2014as some of our hymns sang\u2014but that he had founded the Brothers of the Christian Schools, that is, communities that would animate the schools.\u00a0<\/span>That network of communities was the essence of our inherited institutional structure<\/b>\u201d,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom that point on, I understood better what had happened during the last century and perceived the Institute\u2019s desire to establish a new model. In other words, I interpreted the entire 20th\u00a0century as a movement towards the refounding of the Community of the Christian Schools\u201d, he adds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

Restore, Renew, Refound<\/b><\/h2><\/div>

He has developed this perspective extensively throughout the first volume of his work:\u00a0<\/span>\u201cA Century of Signs<\/b>\u201c. \u201cIt was first a time of perplexity and attempts at restoration. Then, another time, full of generosity, dedicated to the renewal of what had been inherited. Finally, we are living the fruit of this and we speak of a time of refounding\u201d, he asserts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, in the second volume,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThe Interior Architecture\u201d,\u00a0<\/b>he refers to the axes of the new Community and proposes six criteria for building it: (1) An Institution in History; (2) the New Evangelisation; (3) the Call; (4) the Commissioning; (5) the Christian School; and (6) the Community of the Christian School.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, he emphasises that the objective of his study has been \u201cto achieve a common language regarding Lasallian identity\u201d as \u201ca possible underground architecture for a possible future\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The two volumes of this new work by Lasallian Studies No. 19,\u00a0\u201c<\/span>From One Community to Another<\/b>\u201d,\u00a0218 and 232 pages respectively, are now available in Spanish, English and French, both in digital and print formats.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>