The Purpose and Practice of The De La Salle Brothers

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The Purpose and Practice of The De La Salle Brothers

"The Purpose of this institute is to give a human and Christian

education to the young, especially the poor according to the ministry

which the church has entrusted to it"

The De La Salle brothers run and teach schools across the world and

they also decided to open a college for "bad" teachers.

Retreat centres have been opened to help give a Christian education to

the pupils of all Christian schools throughout Britain: Kinsbury. This

Centre encourages spiritual reflection and relaxation.

They have also opened a pre-exclusion for pupils from De La Salle in

St Helens/Liverpool to be revitalised, and if the 'treatment' doesn't

work, they could face exclusion from De La Salle School. This Is

Called The Bartimaeus Centre.

They Do all this because they want to make a difference for other

people, just as Jesus did. Caring for the poor and vulnerable is part

of Jesus' Work, and this is what John Baptist De La Salle.

John Baptist de La Salle was a pioneer in founding training colleges

for teachers, reform schools for delinquents, technical schools, and

secondary schools for Modern Languages, Arts and Sciences. His work

quickly spread through France and, after his death, continued to

spread across the globe. In 1900 John Baptist de La Salle was declared

a Saint. In 1950, because of his life and inspirational writings, he

was made Patron Saint of all those who work in the field of education.

John Baptist de La Salle inspired others how to teach and care for

young people, how to meet failure and frailty with compassion, how to

affirm, strengthen and heal. At the present time there are De La Salle

schools in 80 different countries around the globe.

The first De La Salle Foundation in England was opened in 1855, just

five years after the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Britain.

A group of French Brothers set up a school called Saint Joseph's

College, in Clapham, for a mixed community of English and French boys.

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