Recently, while sitting in 22B on a United Airlines flight, I had a great awakening when the president of United came on the screen in front of me with a commercial. He wore a shirt with the United emblem on the chest. Behind him stood a plane with the usual markings, but not once in his [...]
A few months ago the Nobel Prize in Physics confirmed the Higgs Boson, the most basic building block of the universe that forms the world we know today. Once upon a time these particles slowed down, like a marble rolling through molasses, in an invisible field that pervaded the universe. The resulting clumps formed atoms [...]
Not long ago a chapel full of Lasallians gathered at Manhattan College to celebrate and send: celebrate a new Lasallian mission in Jamaica and send Rich Ward, Brother Gus Nicoletti and Brother Jim Wallace to work at St. Vincent Strambi Catholic High School in Bull Savannah. It was August 15, 2013, the feast of Mary [...]
“Community for Mission” defines the Lasallian charism across the world today as it has since the beginning. For most of Lasallian history, its family members have been De La Salle Christian Brothers who have lived and worked together in schools and institutions. We call them residential communities. This Spirit-filled insight of De La Salle grew [...]
“We are the Church, and we are to build that kingdom in our society. I have been chosen by God, just like He did with De La Salle to bring the salvation of God to young people and all persons that cross my path, which is a great challenge.” Joan Eoe, a Papua New Guinean [...]
“Ed, there are electrical problems at Ocean Rest and we moved the retreat to Pennsylvania. Can you pick up the retreat director at Newark airport and drive her out to Malvern?” “No problem, Dennis!” Close friends know this response from me is anything but that. It is what I say when three people want to [...]
The yin-yang symbol intrigues me. It attracts a part of me beyond reason, similar to an attractive painting in the art gallery. It reminds me of my own light and dark sides as a person. I suspect it applies to the Lasallian family as an organization. Personal Shadow Carl Jung might say my ego (what [...]
At 3 pm each day, John Joyce (22) reviews the day’s assignment with his class of 7th graders. For them, a review is often a new view. Some even stay later after school for extra practice in math. Most of the children at De La Salle Blackfeet in Browning, Montana, get this level of special [...]
On a foggy day before Christmas in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, Chris Giangregorio (33) followed his early morning routine on the school steps: he greeted each and every student by name, with a firm handshake and a word of welcome. At just about the same time on Hale Street in sunny Memphis, TN, [...]
For some time, Lasallians have published statements and chapter documents beginning with the words: “We Lasallians, Brothers and Partners...”