LASALLIAN

SPIRITUALITY
AND MISSION
 Good Morning.
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“ANO NA BA ‘YAN,
KUYA?”:
UNDERSTANDING
BY DISTINCTION
ANO ANG ISANG LASALYANO?
. ENROLLED AND STUDYING IN LASALLE SCHOOL
. WEARING LASALLE UNIFORM & I.D.
. WITH CLOSED - RAISED RIGHT HAND FIST, SINGING THE
LASALLE ALMA MATER HYMN
. HAVING COFFEE BREAK @ STARBUCKS, NIGHT OUT WITH
BUDDIES @HIGH END GETAWAYS, OF SIGNATURED
CLOTHINGS & SHOES
. COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH, WITH ROSARY IN HIS POCKET,
GIVING DONATIONS TO THE POOR
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A LASALLIAN IS:
AN INDIVIDUAL PERSON (ISANG TAO)
WHO INTEGRATES IN HIS LIFE (ISINASALOOB SA BUHAY)
AND LIVES (ISINASAMBUHAY)
THE SPIRITUALITY (SPIRITUALIDAD)
AND MISSION (AT ANG MISYON)
OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST DE LASALLE
(SAN JUAN BAUTISTA DE LASALLE)
WHAT IS THE LASALLIAN
SPIRITUALITY?
WHAT IS THE LASALLIAN
MISSION?

*THIS IS OUR TASK

END – GOAL:

MAGING ISANG
GANAP AT TUNAY
NA LASALYANO
“ANG GAAN NG
BUHAY PAG
MAY KASAMA”:
OH, IT’S
SPIRITUALITY
SPIRITUALITY: SPIRIT (NOT MATERIAL: SIMPLE)
(NOT TIME - SPACE BOUND)
(INFINITE, BUT NOT NECESSARILY
ETERNAL)
*ETERNAL: NO BEGINNING &
NO END
*INFINITE: NO END BUT WITH
BEGINNING
(AEVETERNAL = ANGELS)
*TEMPORAL: WITH BEGINNING
& END
SPIRITUALITY: - SOMETHING WITHIN US,
- NOT QUANTIFIABLE,
- THAT WHICH CONNECTS US BEYOND
OUR MATERIAL LIMITATIONS
- THAT MAKES US RELATE TO SOMEONE
GREATER THAN US = PURE SPIRIT (GOD)
PRAYER, BIBLE STUDY, FAITH SHARING, GOING TO
MASS, SUNDAY WORSHIP & SERVICE, ROSARY /
NOVENA, PROCESSION, FASTING &
ABSTINENCE… =>
SPIRITUALITY? BEING RELIGIOUS?
BEING RELIGIOUS: ACT OF DEVOTION
PRAYER LIFE
LITURGICAL/WORSHIP OBLIGATION
MINISTRY / PASTORAL WORK
SPIRITUAL LIFE
*MANY TIMES, IT REFLECTS OUR SPIRITUALITY,
BUT NOT ALWAYS
SPIRITUALITY: A RELATIONSHIP
OF MAN TO GOD
A WAY OF LIFE

WHO IS THIS GOD?

ONE IN 3 DIVINE PERSONS -Mt.28:19-20
CREATOR -Gen.1-2 (SAAN AKO GALING?)
OMNISCIENT -Jer.1:5 (SINO AKO?)
IMMUTABLE -Exod.3:14 (PAANO AKO?)
OMNIPOTENT -Ps.68:34 (ANONG GAWIN KO?)
LOVE -1 Jn.4:16 (SINONG KASAMA KO?)
TYPES OF SPIRITUAL PATH
. DEVOTIONAL: SPENDING TIME WITH GOD THROUGH
PRAYER, REFLECTION,
MEDITATION, & CONTEMPLATION
. PRACTICAL: THROUGH LEARNING, LISTENING TO
TEACHINGS, SELF-EXPERIENCE OF GOD’S
PRESENCE IN THEIR LIVES
SENSE OF RESPECT FOR LIFE
. MORAL: SENSE OF RIGHT AND WRONG
HATES ANY FORM OF INJUSTICE
SENSE OF FAMILY / COMMUNITY
UPHOLDS THE VALUE OF LIFE
COMMON FEATURES TO THE 3 SPIRITUAL PATHS:
. BENEVOLENCE (KINDNESS OF HEART)
. SENSE OF RESPECT
. NOT MATERIALISTIC / HEDONISTIC
. PEACE LOVING
. CHARITABLE => POVERTY CAN BE A MEANS OF GOD’S GIFT /
GRACE

LIVING ONE’S SPIRITUALITY => MISSION

. MISSION (Lt. MITERE: TO SEND)
. SPIRITUALITY => ENABLES US TO GO AND REACH OUT
TO OTHERS i.e. MISSIONARY
 Life of
St. John Baptist
De La Salle
Risk-Taker
Decision-Maker
Servant-Leader
Humble Servant
Educator
"What is nobler than to
mold the character of the
young? I consider that he
who knows how to form
the youthful mind is truly
greater than all painters,
sculptors and all others of
that sort“.
(St. John Chrysostom)
Risk-Taker
Devoted his talents to
open schools for poor
children

Abandoned his family,

canonry and wealth

Established a
community of brothers
Decision-maker
Heroic Vow in 1691
with his two
companions

Established Vaugirard
Novitiate

Received Perpertual
Vows with 12 brothers
in 1693
Servant-Leader
Use vernacular medium
of instruction

Trained Lay Teachers

Superior of the Brothers

Humble-Servant
Went into Solitude at
Parmenie in 1712-14
Serious attack of
Rheumatism
Period of Self-
effacement & doubt

Parmenie, France
Humble-Servant
Received letter from
the Brothers to return

First General Chapter

Election of Brother
Barthelemy
 Achiever: Christian Educator

Pioneered in training college teachers

Reform schools for delinquents
Technical schools
Secondary schools for modern languages,
arts and sciences
Educational Institutions spread across the
globe
Last Days
Died at St. Yon
near Rouen

April 7, 1719 on
Good Friday

Age 68
3-IN-1 GREEN COFFEE:
THE LA SALLIAN
SPIRITUALITY
LA SALLIAN SPIRITUALITY:
A SPIRITUALITY (A RELATIONSHIP WITH
GOD) EMBRACED BY ST. JOHN BAPTIST DE LA
SALLE, AND FROM WHICH PROCEEDS ITS
RELATED AND UNIQUE LASALLIAN MISSION
*NO LA SALLIAN SPIRITUALITY WITHOUT
AND APART FROM, ST. JOHN BAPTIST
DE LA SALLE
*LA SALLIAN SPIRITUALITY IS ONE OF THE
MANY MEANS OF RELATING TO GOD IN THE
WAYS OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST DE LA SALLE
LASALLIAN SPIRITUALITY

 Live in God’s presence, and trust in God’s providence.

 Read the Gospel, and pray always.

 Work with the poor, and work in community.

3 CORE VALUES OF LA SALLIAN
SPIRITUALITY
. FAITH (HOW WE SEE)
. ZEAL FOR SERVICE (HOW WE DO)
. COMMUNION IN MISSION
(HOW WE CELEBRATE)

- TO BRING US CLOSER TO GOD

Lasallian Lived Spirituality