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7/27/2019 The Shared Mission for Parents

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From its origins, the Brothers saw it as their role to assistparents in forming and educating children. De La Salle

wrote that educating children in faith was the primaryresponsibility of parents.

But the poor were unable tofulfill this responsibility

either because they were toobusy struggling to keep theirfamilies alive or because theywere ignorant of their faith.

For this reason, the Brothersbanded together to make the

means of salvationaccessible to the children ofthe working class and thepoor.


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What has changed today is the ever-

increasing role played by non-Brothers in theshared mission of the Institute.

In the face of the many

challenges in todaysworld, it is no longerconceivable that the

Brothers can guarantee

by themselves thecontinuation and vitalityof the Lasallian mission.


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From the late 70s to the late 80s, there arose groupsand individuals hungry for a deeper sharing in thespirituality and missionof De La Salle.

Developments

Signum Fidei and SHARE (1981).

The new emphasis on the Lasallian and

Lasallian family and the Letter to the Lasallian

Family in 1989.

Emphasis on Lasallian formation to help layeducators make of their work a gospel ministry.

Initiatives like LASSA, youth & educators

congresses, etc.


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The Brothers, original

owners of the mission . . .

. . . share their mission with

their lay colleagues.

This is a

paternalisticunderstanding of

shared mission.

HOW DO WE

UNDERSTAND

SHARED MISSION

TODAY ?


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. . . fromsharing in the

Brothers mission to the

one mission in which

faculty, staff, alumni,

parents and youngpeople and Brothers all

share.

The first Lasallian District Synod in 1999

effectively marked a paradigm shift in

the way of thinking about shared mission

in the Philippines. . .


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Lay people take their place as fullpartners and we Brothers gladly

associate with them in our mission.We accept that from now on ourschools will not be Brothers schools,animated by the Brothers community

with the secondary collaboration of layteachers, parents, students. They willbe instead, Lasallian schools,animated by Lasallian educative

communities of faith, within which theapostolic activity of the Brotherscommunity takes place.

- The Lasallian Mission of Human andChristian Education: A Shared Mission 3.1.1


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For the Brothers: this change in

mentality implies that they will no

longer consider themselves theonly trustees or proprietors of the

Lasallian charism in education.

It is their duty to believe in the

vocation of lay people, to supportit and encourage it . . .

For lay people: the change in mentality allows them to considertheLasallian task . . . as something which is proper to them and not

something for which the Brothers alone are responsible. It meansthey should accept their place and responsibilities in the Lasallian

educational plan and feel that they are co-responsible in the common

mission. - The Lasallian Mission of Human andChristian Education: A Shared Mission 3.1.2


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To give a human and Christian education

especially, but not exclusively, in schools;with the service of the pooras a priority;

in order to evangelize and catechize

to promote peace and justice;accomplished together as a

shared mission.


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CO - RESPONSIBLE


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Shared mission. . . demands aprocess of growth in unity, in

communion between persons whoshare the same mission. Thisprocess of communion requiresthe development of links of unity,

of communication, unifiedobjectives, common actions, andgood personal relationships in thesame Lasallian tradition whichbrought the Brothers to make avow of association amongthemselves. . .

- The Lasallian Mission of Human and

Christian Education: A Shared Mission 3.3.1


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* MISSION

* LASALLIAN

SPIRITUALITY

RELATIONSHIP OF COLLEAGUES AND

BROTHERS IN THE SHARED MISSION

Different degrees and

levels of commi tment and

sharing.


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Everyone activelycommitted to the

Lasall ian vision andmission.


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The ideal of shared mission

would be. . . the formationof a ministerial community

among those who share the

Lasallian mission. This new

ministerial community hasto be for the Lasallian

school the sign that the

Kingdom of God is present

and grows in this place.

- The Lasallian Mission of Human and

Christian Education: A Shared Mission

3.3.3Aladdin Antiqueo


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Partnership in shared mission involves not just aconsultative role for the laity in determining apostolic

directions but a deliberative one. The Holy Spirit is

alive, works and speaks through men and women of

faith who gather to discern Gods will for the shared

mission. This holds true for the laity as much as the

religious. The mission is in our hands.


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STRUCTURES

OFGOVERNANCE


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Becoming communities of life and love.

Building up the family as a community of faith

the Church in the home.

Serving the Church and participating in themission of evangelization.

Serving the needs of the wider society.


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1. Take seriously the vocation of families to becommunities of life and love in a world ofviolence and broken relationships.

2. Take responsibility for the moral andreligious formation of children. Build the

Church in the home.3. Support and collaborate in the educational

and pastoral efforts of the Lasallian school.

4. Collaborate in Lasallian initiatives to

address the needs of poor & at-risk youth insociety.

5. Internalize the Lasallian spirit of faith andzeal for the salvation of youth and the thepoor.

Aladdin Antiqueo


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Aladdin Antiqueo


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Special thanks to Mr. Aladdin Antiqueofor the use of his paintings.

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