“To touch the hearts of your students and to inspire them with the Christian spirit is the greatest miracle you could perform, and the one that God asks of you, since this is the purpose of your work.”

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The brother takes upon himself in community an educational mission which the Institute carries out with special preference for the poor. Regardless of the social class of the students with whom he is directly engaged, the brother places his total educational apostolate at the service of those whose poverty hinders their development as persons or their aptitude to receive the message of salvation revealed in Jesus Christ.

The brother makes his contribution to the divine plan of salvation not only by exercising the ministry of the word of God but also by dedicating himself to the education of his students, helping them to grow as human beings and so come to the full maturity of personal development (Gaudium et Spes, 53).

The brother chooses the school as the preferred but not the only means "to form the family of God's children during the present history of the human race" (Gaudium et Spes, 40).

- From The Brother of the Christian Schools in the World Today: A Declaration

“Secondly, the spirit of their Institute consists in an ardent zeal for the instruction of children, and for bringing them up in the fear of God, inducing them to preserve their innocence if they have not lost it, and inspiring them with a great aversion and horror for sin and whatever might cause them to lose purity.

In order to enter into this spirit, the Brothers of the Society shall strive by prayer, instruction, and by their vigilance and good conduct in school, to procure the salvation of the children confided to their care, bringing them up in piety and in a truly Christian spirit, that is, according to the rules and maxims of the Gospel.”

- From the Rule of 1718