“Union in a community is a precious gem, which is why Our Lord so often recommended it to his apostles before he died. If we love this, we love everything. Preserve it with care, therefore, if you want your community to survive.”
A De La Salle Christian Brother devotes himself to the lives of young people, especially the poor. Brothers live a vocation of faith, service, and community – one that has purpose and personal fulfillment.
"Our communities of Brothers throughout the Lasallian world should be an icon of Trinitarian life in the world and Church today, as the Founder proposed to us, when he told us that within our communities there should appear the essential union which exists between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Meditation 39.3).
We are called to be prayerful witnesses and prophets, attentive to the poor, the small, and the abandoned, and to the compassionate action of the Father who cares for them. Prayerful witnesses and prophets united to Jesus, consecrated for their disciples up to the point of giving our lives for them. Prayerful witnesses and prophets in an apostolic community, sent and moved by the Spirit who propels us to share our faith, aware that 'in community life, the power of the Holy Spirit at work in one individual passes at the same time to all. Here not only does each enjoy his own gift, but makes it abound by sharing it with others; and each one enjoys the fruits of the other's gift as if they were his own.' (Saint Basil quoted in Vita Consecrata, 42)"
Pastoral Letter to the Brothers – December 27th, 2007. Br. Álvaro Rodríguez Echeverría
Superior General
"It is necessary that the Brothers take for the foundation and support of their observance of the Rule what Saint Augustine says at the beginning of his Rule: that those who live in community should, before all else, love God and next their neighbor because these are the principal commandments given to us by God and because any observance of the Rule is useless if separated from the observance of these two commandments and is quite useless for salvation because it is established in communities only for the purpose of giving the members facility to observe with exactness the commandments of God."
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