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Monday of the Fifth week of Lent
Book of Daniel 13:1-9.15-17.19-30.33-62.
In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim,
who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah;
her pious parents had trained their daughter according to the law of Moses.
Joakim was very rich; he had a garden near his house, and the Jews had recourse to him often because he was the most …Plus
Monday of the Fifth week of Lent
Book of Daniel 13:1-9.15-17.19-30.33-62.
In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim,
who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah;
her pious parents had trained their daughter according to the law of Moses.
Joakim was very rich; he had a garden near his house, and the Jews had recourse to him often because he was the most respected of them all.
That year, two elders of the people were appointed judges, of whom the Lord said, "Wickedness has come out of Babylon: from the elders who were to govern the people as judges."
These men, to whom all brought their cases, frequented the house of Joakim.
When the people left at noon, Susanna used to enter her husband's garden for a walk.
When the old men saw her enter every day for her walk, they began to lust for her.
They suppressed their consciences; they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, and did not keep in mind just judgments.
One day, while they were waiting for the right moment, she entered the garden as usual, with two maids only. She decided to bathe, for the weather was warm.
Nobody else was there except the two elders, who had hidden themselves and were watching her.
"Bring me oil and soap," she said to the maids, "and shut the garden doors while I bathe."
As soon as the maids had left, the two old men got up and hurried to her.
"Look," they said, "the garden doors are shut, and no one can see us; give in to our desire, and lie with us.
If you refuse, we will testify against you that you dismissed your maids because a young man was here with you."
"I am completely trapped," Susanna groaned. "If I yield, it will be my death; if I refuse, I cannot escape your power.
Yet it is better for me to fall into your power without guilt than to sin before the Lord."
Then Susanna shrieked, and the old men also shouted at her,
as one of them ran to open the garden doors.
When the people in the house heard the cries from the garden, they rushed in by the side gate to see what had happened to her.
At the accusations by the old men, the servants felt very much ashamed, for never had any such thing been said about Susanna.
When the people came to her husband Joakim the next day, the two wicked elders also came, fully determined to put Susanna to death. Before all the people they ordered:
"Send for Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah, the wife of Joakim." When she was sent for,
she came with her parents, children and all her relatives.
All her relatives and the onlookers were weeping.
In the midst of the people the two elders rose up and laid their hands on her head.
Through her tears she looked up to heaven, for she trusted in the Lord wholeheartedly.
The elders made this accusation: "As we were walking in the garden alone, this woman entered with two girls and shut the doors of the garden, dismissing the girls.
A young man, who was hidden there, came and lay with her.
When we, in a corner of the garden, saw this crime, we ran toward them.
We saw them lying together, but the man we could not hold, because he was stronger than we; he opened the doors and ran off.
Then we seized this one and asked who the young man was,
but she refused to tell us. We testify to this." The assembly believed them, since they were elders and judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.
But Susanna cried aloud: "O eternal God, you know what is hidden and are aware of all things before they come to be:
you know that they have testified falsely against me. Here I am about to die, though I have done none of the things with which these wicked men have charged me."
The Lord heard her prayer.
As she was being led to execution, God stirred up the holy spirit of a young boy named Daniel,
and he cried aloud: "I will have no part in the death of this woman."
All the people turned and asked him, "What is this you are saying?"
He stood in their midst and continued, "Are you such fools, O Israelites! To condemn a woman of Israel without examination and without clear evidence?
Return to court, for they have testified falsely against her."
Then all the people returned in haste. To Daniel the elders said, "Come, sit with us and inform us, since God has given you the prestige of old age."
But he replied, "Separate these two far from one another that I may examine them."
After they were separated one from the other, he called one of them and said: "How you have grown evil with age! Now have your past sins come to term:
passing unjust sentences, condemning the innocent, and freeing the guilty, although the Lord says, "The innocent and the just you shall not put to death.'
Now, then, if you were a witness, tell me under what tree you saw them together."
"Under a mastic tree," he answered. "Your fine lie has cost you your head," said Daniel; "for the angel of God shall receive the sentence from him and split you in two."
Putting him to one side, he ordered the other one to be brought. "Offspring of Canaan, not of Judah," Daniel said to him, "beauty has seduced you, lust has subverted your conscience.
This is how you acted with the daughters of Israel, and in their fear they yielded to you; but a daughter of Judah did not tolerate your wickedness.
Now, then, tell me under what tree you surprised them together."
"Under an oak," he said. "Your fine lie has cost you also your head," said Daniel; "for the angel of God waits with a sword to cut you in two so as to make an end of you both."
The whole assembly cried aloud, blessing God who saves those that hope in him.
They rose up against the two elders, for by their own words Daniel had convicted them of perjury. According to the law of Moses, they inflicted on them the penalty they had plotted to impose on their neighbor:
they put them to death. Thus was innocent blood spared that day.
Psalms 23(22):1-3a.3b-4.5.6.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In verdant pastures he gives me repose;
Beside restful waters he leads me;
He refreshes my soul.
He guides me in right paths
Even though I walk in the dark valley
I fear no evil; for you are at my side
With your rod and your staff
that give me courage.
You spread the table before me
in the sight of my foes;
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Only goodness and kindness follow me
all the days of my life;
And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
for years to come.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 8:1-11.
Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.
Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.
They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.
Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"
They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.
But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him.
Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
She replied, "No one, sir." Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, (and) from now on do not sin any more."
Commentary of the day : Pope Francis
"Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more"
dailygospel.org/main.php
Book of Daniel 13:1-9.15-17.19-30.33-62.
In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim,
who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah;
her pious parents had trained their daughter according to the law of Moses.
Joakim was very rich; he had a garden near his house, and the Jews had recourse to him often because he was the most respected of them all.
That year, two elders of the people were appointed judges, of whom the Lord said, "Wickedness has come out of Babylon: from the elders who were to govern the people as judges."
These men, to whom all brought their cases, frequented the house of Joakim.
When the people left at noon, Susanna used to enter her husband's garden for a walk.
When the old men saw her enter every day for her walk, they began to lust for her.
They suppressed their consciences; they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, and did not keep in mind just judgments.
One day, while they were waiting for the right moment, she entered the garden as usual, with two maids only. She decided to bathe, for the weather was warm.
Nobody else was there except the two elders, who had hidden themselves and were watching her.
"Bring me oil and soap," she said to the maids, "and shut the garden doors while I bathe."
As soon as the maids had left, the two old men got up and hurried to her.
"Look," they said, "the garden doors are shut, and no one can see us; give in to our desire, and lie with us.
If you refuse, we will testify against you that you dismissed your maids because a young man was here with you."
"I am completely trapped," Susanna groaned. "If I yield, it will be my death; if I refuse, I cannot escape your power.
Yet it is better for me to fall into your power without guilt than to sin before the Lord."
Then Susanna shrieked, and the old men also shouted at her,
as one of them ran to open the garden doors.
When the people in the house heard the cries from the garden, they rushed in by the side gate to see what had happened to her.
At the accusations by the old men, the servants felt very much ashamed, for never had any such thing been said about Susanna.
When the people came to her husband Joakim the next day, the two wicked elders also came, fully determined to put Susanna to death. Before all the people they ordered:
"Send for Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah, the wife of Joakim." When she was sent for,
she came with her parents, children and all her relatives.
All her relatives and the onlookers were weeping.
In the midst of the people the two elders rose up and laid their hands on her head.
Through her tears she looked up to heaven, for she trusted in the Lord wholeheartedly.
The elders made this accusation: "As we were walking in the garden alone, this woman entered with two girls and shut the doors of the garden, dismissing the girls.
A young man, who was hidden there, came and lay with her.
When we, in a corner of the garden, saw this crime, we ran toward them.
We saw them lying together, but the man we could not hold, because he was stronger than we; he opened the doors and ran off.
Then we seized this one and asked who the young man was,
but she refused to tell us. We testify to this." The assembly believed them, since they were elders and judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.
But Susanna cried aloud: "O eternal God, you know what is hidden and are aware of all things before they come to be:
you know that they have testified falsely against me. Here I am about to die, though I have done none of the things with which these wicked men have charged me."
The Lord heard her prayer.
As she was being led to execution, God stirred up the holy spirit of a young boy named Daniel,
and he cried aloud: "I will have no part in the death of this woman."
All the people turned and asked him, "What is this you are saying?"
He stood in their midst and continued, "Are you such fools, O Israelites! To condemn a woman of Israel without examination and without clear evidence?
Return to court, for they have testified falsely against her."
Then all the people returned in haste. To Daniel the elders said, "Come, sit with us and inform us, since God has given you the prestige of old age."
But he replied, "Separate these two far from one another that I may examine them."
After they were separated one from the other, he called one of them and said: "How you have grown evil with age! Now have your past sins come to term:
passing unjust sentences, condemning the innocent, and freeing the guilty, although the Lord says, "The innocent and the just you shall not put to death.'
Now, then, if you were a witness, tell me under what tree you saw them together."
"Under a mastic tree," he answered. "Your fine lie has cost you your head," said Daniel; "for the angel of God shall receive the sentence from him and split you in two."
Putting him to one side, he ordered the other one to be brought. "Offspring of Canaan, not of Judah," Daniel said to him, "beauty has seduced you, lust has subverted your conscience.
This is how you acted with the daughters of Israel, and in their fear they yielded to you; but a daughter of Judah did not tolerate your wickedness.
Now, then, tell me under what tree you surprised them together."
"Under an oak," he said. "Your fine lie has cost you also your head," said Daniel; "for the angel of God waits with a sword to cut you in two so as to make an end of you both."
The whole assembly cried aloud, blessing God who saves those that hope in him.
They rose up against the two elders, for by their own words Daniel had convicted them of perjury. According to the law of Moses, they inflicted on them the penalty they had plotted to impose on their neighbor:
they put them to death. Thus was innocent blood spared that day.
Psalms 23(22):1-3a.3b-4.5.6.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In verdant pastures he gives me repose;
Beside restful waters he leads me;
He refreshes my soul.
He guides me in right paths
Even though I walk in the dark valley
I fear no evil; for you are at my side
With your rod and your staff
that give me courage.
You spread the table before me
in the sight of my foes;
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Only goodness and kindness follow me
all the days of my life;
And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
for years to come.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 8:1-11.
Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.
Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.
They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.
Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"
They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.
But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him.
Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
She replied, "No one, sir." Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, (and) from now on do not sin any more."
Commentary of the day : Pope Francis
"Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more"
dailygospel.org/main.php
Other Saints of the Day:
Albert of Tournai
Aphraates
Brenach of Carn-Engyle
Calliopus of Pompeiopolis
Cyriaca of Nicomedia
Donatus of North Africa
Edward Oldcorne
Epiphanius the Martyr
Finian of Kinnitty
George the Younger
Gibardus of Luxeuil
Goran
Guainerth
Hegesippus of Jerusalem
Henry Walpole
Herman Joseph
John Baptist de La Salle
Josaphata Mykhailyna Hordashevska
Mary Assunta
Peleusius of …Plus
Albert of Tournai
Aphraates
Brenach of Carn-Engyle
Calliopus of Pompeiopolis
Cyriaca of Nicomedia
Donatus of North Africa
Edward Oldcorne
Epiphanius the Martyr
Finian of Kinnitty
George the Younger
Gibardus of Luxeuil
Goran
Guainerth
Hegesippus of Jerusalem
Henry Walpole
Herman Joseph
John Baptist de La Salle
Josaphata Mykhailyna Hordashevska
Mary Assunta
Peleusius of Alexandria
Peter Nguyen Van Luu
Ralph Ashley
Rufinus the Martyr
Saturninus of Verona
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Martyrs of Pentapolis - 4 saints
Martyrs of Sinope
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Heiliger Johannes-Baptist de La Salle
französischer Name: Jean-Baptiste
Gedenktag katholisch: 7. April
gebotener Gedenktag
Hochfest bei den Schulbrüdern: 15. Mai Gedenktag III. Klasse Im alten Messbuch entspricht die III. Klasse einem gebotenen Gedenktag. Grundsätzlich werden offiziell alle Klassen als „Feste” bezeichnet, da der Rang ja nicht durch das Wort „Fest”, sondern durch die Klasse …Plus
Heiliger Johannes-Baptist de La Salle
französischer Name: Jean-Baptiste
Gedenktag katholisch: 7. April
gebotener Gedenktag
Hochfest bei den Schulbrüdern: 15. Mai Gedenktag III. Klasse Im alten Messbuch entspricht die III. Klasse einem gebotenen Gedenktag. Grundsätzlich werden offiziell alle Klassen als „Feste” bezeichnet, da der Rang ja nicht durch das Wort „Fest”, sondern durch die Klasse gekennzeichnet wird.
Die Feste III. Klasse sind außerhalb der geprägten Zeiten (Advent, Weihnachtsoktav, Fastenzeit, Osteroktav) immer zu feiern, wenn sie nicht von einem Fest I. oder II. Klasse verdrängt werden. Innerhalb der geprägten Zeiten können sie in der Regel nur kommemoriert, aber nicht gefeiert werden. 15. Mai, Todestag: 7. April
nicht gebotener Gedenktag bei den Schulbrüdern: Übertragung der Gebeine: 26. Januar
Name bedeutet: J: Gott ist gnädig (hebr.)
B: der Täufer (griech.)
Priester, Ordensgründer
* 30. April 1651 in Reims in Frankreich
† 7. April 1719 in Rouen in Frankreich
Bild von Pierre Léger, 1734
Johannes-Baptist stammte aus der adeligen Juristenfamilie der de La Salle. Nach seiner Weihe zum Priester 1678 wurde er zum Kanonikus der Kathedrale von Reims ernannt. Angeleitet durch seinen geistlichen Berater rührte ihn vor allem das Leid der Kinder und Jugendlichen der Armen an, deshalb gründete er 1679 eine kostenlose Schule für Knaben. Die Lehrer nahm er in sein eigenes Haus auf und setzte sein Familienvermögen ein. 1680 wurde er zum Kanonikus am Dom in Reims ernannt, dieses Amt gab er bald wieder auf, um sich ganz der Gemeinschaft in seinem Haus zu widmen. Diese Gemeinschaft im Geiste des Franz von Sales wurde immer intensiver; 1684 legte er mit seinen Brüdern ein Gelübde ab und gründete die Genossenschaft der Brüder der christlichen Freischulen. Die Gemeinschaft diente zunächst ausschließlich dazu, die christliche Erziehung zu verbessern und gründete Sonntagsschulen und Erziehungsanstalten für verwahrloste Jugendliche. 1685 entstand in Reims auch eine Schule zur Ausbildung der Lehrkräfte, eines der ersten Institute dieser Art.
Pädagogisch wurden neue Wege beschritten mit lebensnahem Unterricht und Klassenunterricht statt Einzelbeschulung; statt Latein wurde das Französische als Unterrichtssprache verwendet. In ganz Frankreich folgten weitere Freischulen, so 1688 in Paris im Zusammenwirken mit den Sulpzianern, dazu Realschulen und Lehrerseminare. Johannes-Baptist ist somit der Begründer des französischen Volksschulwesens.
Johannes-Baptist wurde in der Pfarrei St. Sever in Rouen bestattet. Reliquien wurden mehrmals übertragen, zuerst im Jahr 1734 in die Kapelle von St-Yon in Rouen, dann mit der Verlegung des Mutterhauses in der Französischen Revolution nach Lembeek / Lembecq-les-Ha in Belgien, schließlich 1937 nach Rom.
1724 / 1725 wurden die Statuten der Christlichen Schulbrüder von Papst und König bestätigt, der Orden verbreitete sich immer weiter in der ganzen Welt. Die Schulbrüder sind heute einer der größten Orden überhaupt.
Kanonisation: Johann Baptist de la Salle wurde am 24. Mai 1900 von Papst Leo XIII. heiliggesprochen. 1950 wurde er durch Papst Pius XII. zum Patron der Lehrer erklärt.
Patron des christlichen Unterrichts, der Lehrer und Erzieher
Catholic Encyclopedia
www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienJ/Johann_Baptist_…
französischer Name: Jean-Baptiste
Gedenktag katholisch: 7. April
gebotener Gedenktag
Hochfest bei den Schulbrüdern: 15. Mai Gedenktag III. Klasse Im alten Messbuch entspricht die III. Klasse einem gebotenen Gedenktag. Grundsätzlich werden offiziell alle Klassen als „Feste” bezeichnet, da der Rang ja nicht durch das Wort „Fest”, sondern durch die Klasse gekennzeichnet wird.
Die Feste III. Klasse sind außerhalb der geprägten Zeiten (Advent, Weihnachtsoktav, Fastenzeit, Osteroktav) immer zu feiern, wenn sie nicht von einem Fest I. oder II. Klasse verdrängt werden. Innerhalb der geprägten Zeiten können sie in der Regel nur kommemoriert, aber nicht gefeiert werden. 15. Mai, Todestag: 7. April
nicht gebotener Gedenktag bei den Schulbrüdern: Übertragung der Gebeine: 26. Januar
Name bedeutet: J: Gott ist gnädig (hebr.)
B: der Täufer (griech.)
Priester, Ordensgründer
* 30. April 1651 in Reims in Frankreich
† 7. April 1719 in Rouen in Frankreich
Bild von Pierre Léger, 1734
Johannes-Baptist stammte aus der adeligen Juristenfamilie der de La Salle. Nach seiner Weihe zum Priester 1678 wurde er zum Kanonikus der Kathedrale von Reims ernannt. Angeleitet durch seinen geistlichen Berater rührte ihn vor allem das Leid der Kinder und Jugendlichen der Armen an, deshalb gründete er 1679 eine kostenlose Schule für Knaben. Die Lehrer nahm er in sein eigenes Haus auf und setzte sein Familienvermögen ein. 1680 wurde er zum Kanonikus am Dom in Reims ernannt, dieses Amt gab er bald wieder auf, um sich ganz der Gemeinschaft in seinem Haus zu widmen. Diese Gemeinschaft im Geiste des Franz von Sales wurde immer intensiver; 1684 legte er mit seinen Brüdern ein Gelübde ab und gründete die Genossenschaft der Brüder der christlichen Freischulen. Die Gemeinschaft diente zunächst ausschließlich dazu, die christliche Erziehung zu verbessern und gründete Sonntagsschulen und Erziehungsanstalten für verwahrloste Jugendliche. 1685 entstand in Reims auch eine Schule zur Ausbildung der Lehrkräfte, eines der ersten Institute dieser Art.
Pädagogisch wurden neue Wege beschritten mit lebensnahem Unterricht und Klassenunterricht statt Einzelbeschulung; statt Latein wurde das Französische als Unterrichtssprache verwendet. In ganz Frankreich folgten weitere Freischulen, so 1688 in Paris im Zusammenwirken mit den Sulpzianern, dazu Realschulen und Lehrerseminare. Johannes-Baptist ist somit der Begründer des französischen Volksschulwesens.
Johannes-Baptist wurde in der Pfarrei St. Sever in Rouen bestattet. Reliquien wurden mehrmals übertragen, zuerst im Jahr 1734 in die Kapelle von St-Yon in Rouen, dann mit der Verlegung des Mutterhauses in der Französischen Revolution nach Lembeek / Lembecq-les-Ha in Belgien, schließlich 1937 nach Rom.
1724 / 1725 wurden die Statuten der Christlichen Schulbrüder von Papst und König bestätigt, der Orden verbreitete sich immer weiter in der ganzen Welt. Die Schulbrüder sind heute einer der größten Orden überhaupt.
Kanonisation: Johann Baptist de la Salle wurde am 24. Mai 1900 von Papst Leo XIII. heiliggesprochen. 1950 wurde er durch Papst Pius XII. zum Patron der Lehrer erklärt.
Patron des christlichen Unterrichts, der Lehrer und Erzieher
Catholic Encyclopedia
www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienJ/Johann_Baptist_…
San Giovanni Battista de La Salle Sacerdote
7 aprile
Combatte l’ignoranza per tutta la vita, e molti combattono lui. Nato da genitori nobili, ma non ricchi, e con dieci figli, Giovanni Battista si laurea in lettere e filosofia; è sacerdote nel 1678, e a Reims assume vari incarichi, collaborando anche all’attività delle scuole fondate da Adriano Nyel, un laico votato all’istruzione popolare. Scuole …Plus
San Giovanni Battista de La Salle Sacerdote
7 aprile
Combatte l’ignoranza per tutta la vita, e molti combattono lui. Nato da genitori nobili, ma non ricchi, e con dieci figli, Giovanni Battista si laurea in lettere e filosofia; è sacerdote nel 1678, e a Reims assume vari incarichi, collaborando anche all’attività delle scuole fondate da Adriano Nyel, un laico votato all’istruzione popolare. Scuole che vanno male, però, soprattutto perché hanno maestri ignoranti e senza stimoli.
E di qui parte lui. Dai maestri. Riunisce quelli di Nyel in una casa comune, vive con loro, studia e li fa studiare, osserva metodi e organizzazione di altre scuole... Comunica a questi giovani raccogliticci la gioia dell’insegnamento, dell’aprire scuole; li appassiona a un metodo che da “ripetitori” li fa veri “insegnanti”, abolendo le lezioni in latino, e introducendo in ogni disciplina la viva lingua francese. Da quel primo nucleo ecco svilupparsi nel 1680 la comunità dei “Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane”: il sodalizio degli educatori. In genere non sono preti (lui li vuole laici, vicini al mondo che devono istruire nella fede, nel sapere, nelle professioni); vestono una tonaca nera con pettorina bianca, con un mantello contadino e gli zoccoli, e sotto la guida del La Salle aprono altre scuole. Nel 1687 hanno già un loro noviziato. Nel 1688 sono chiamati a insegnare a Parigi dove in un solo anno i loro allievi superano il migliaio.
Poi cominciano le battaglie, e tutto sembra crollare. Il fondatore si trova via via attaccato dall’alto clero di Parigi, da vari parroci e dall’autorità civile, dai cattolici integrali e dai giansenisti, abbandonato da gente che credeva fedele, e più tardi anche esautorato. Lui in quei momenti si immerge – si inabissa, potremmo dire – nell’isolamento penitenziale, nella meditazione. Studia e si studia. Ma resiste, con la sua mitezza irreducibile. Da Parigi dovrà portare la sua comunità nel paesino di Saint-Yon, presso Rouen.
Però la semina continua a dare frutti: nascono le scuole per adulti, le scuole per maestri, gli istituti d’istruzione nelle carceri, i collegi “di istruzione civile a pagamento”: e i suoi libri, trattati e sillabari pilotano l’opera dei maestri. Nei momenti più desolati giunge a dubitare della propria vocazione per la scuola e si accusa di nuocere alla stessa opera. Ma intanto le dedica ogni energia, scrivendo e insegnando per il futuro dei Fratelli, che la fine del XX secolo troverà presenti e attivi ben oltre i confini della Francia e dell’Europa.
Quando muore nel piccolo centro di Saint-Yon, le sue case sono 23 e gli allievi diecimila. Ma per i funerali accade l’imprevedibile: trentamila persone si riversano nel paese per dargli l’ultimo saluto. Trentamila risposte a persecuzioni e tradimenti. Papa Leone XIII lo canonizzerà nell’anno 1900. E, cinquant’anni dopo, Pio XII lo proclamerà "patrono celeste presso Dio di tutti gli insegnanti".
Autore: Domenico Agasso
7 aprile
Combatte l’ignoranza per tutta la vita, e molti combattono lui. Nato da genitori nobili, ma non ricchi, e con dieci figli, Giovanni Battista si laurea in lettere e filosofia; è sacerdote nel 1678, e a Reims assume vari incarichi, collaborando anche all’attività delle scuole fondate da Adriano Nyel, un laico votato all’istruzione popolare. Scuole che vanno male, però, soprattutto perché hanno maestri ignoranti e senza stimoli.
E di qui parte lui. Dai maestri. Riunisce quelli di Nyel in una casa comune, vive con loro, studia e li fa studiare, osserva metodi e organizzazione di altre scuole... Comunica a questi giovani raccogliticci la gioia dell’insegnamento, dell’aprire scuole; li appassiona a un metodo che da “ripetitori” li fa veri “insegnanti”, abolendo le lezioni in latino, e introducendo in ogni disciplina la viva lingua francese. Da quel primo nucleo ecco svilupparsi nel 1680 la comunità dei “Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane”: il sodalizio degli educatori. In genere non sono preti (lui li vuole laici, vicini al mondo che devono istruire nella fede, nel sapere, nelle professioni); vestono una tonaca nera con pettorina bianca, con un mantello contadino e gli zoccoli, e sotto la guida del La Salle aprono altre scuole. Nel 1687 hanno già un loro noviziato. Nel 1688 sono chiamati a insegnare a Parigi dove in un solo anno i loro allievi superano il migliaio.
Poi cominciano le battaglie, e tutto sembra crollare. Il fondatore si trova via via attaccato dall’alto clero di Parigi, da vari parroci e dall’autorità civile, dai cattolici integrali e dai giansenisti, abbandonato da gente che credeva fedele, e più tardi anche esautorato. Lui in quei momenti si immerge – si inabissa, potremmo dire – nell’isolamento penitenziale, nella meditazione. Studia e si studia. Ma resiste, con la sua mitezza irreducibile. Da Parigi dovrà portare la sua comunità nel paesino di Saint-Yon, presso Rouen.
Però la semina continua a dare frutti: nascono le scuole per adulti, le scuole per maestri, gli istituti d’istruzione nelle carceri, i collegi “di istruzione civile a pagamento”: e i suoi libri, trattati e sillabari pilotano l’opera dei maestri. Nei momenti più desolati giunge a dubitare della propria vocazione per la scuola e si accusa di nuocere alla stessa opera. Ma intanto le dedica ogni energia, scrivendo e insegnando per il futuro dei Fratelli, che la fine del XX secolo troverà presenti e attivi ben oltre i confini della Francia e dell’Europa.
Quando muore nel piccolo centro di Saint-Yon, le sue case sono 23 e gli allievi diecimila. Ma per i funerali accade l’imprevedibile: trentamila persone si riversano nel paese per dargli l’ultimo saluto. Trentamila risposte a persecuzioni e tradimenti. Papa Leone XIII lo canonizzerà nell’anno 1900. E, cinquant’anni dopo, Pio XII lo proclamerà "patrono celeste presso Dio di tutti gli insegnanti".
Autore: Domenico Agasso
7 avril Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
Fondateur des Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes
(1651-1719)
Au moment où Dieu est chassé des écoles publiques pour être plus sûrement chassé du coeur des enfants, il est plus opportun que jamais de publier les grands exemples des Saints qui se sont faits les éducateurs dévoués de l'enfance chrétienne. Parmi ces éducateurs, saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle …Plus
7 avril Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
Fondateur des Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes
(1651-1719)
Au moment où Dieu est chassé des écoles publiques pour être plus sûrement chassé du coeur des enfants, il est plus opportun que jamais de publier les grands exemples des Saints qui se sont faits les éducateurs dévoués de l'enfance chrétienne. Parmi ces éducateurs, saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle occupe le premier rang. Outre la fondation si admirable des Frères des Écoles chrétiennes, dont le mérite lui appartient, on peut dire qu'il a été l'inspirateur des fondateurs de l'avenir, et que les institutions plus récentes ont bourgeonné autour du tronc vigoureux qu'il a planté.
Jean-Baptiste, né le 30 avril 1651, appartenait à une noble maison de Reims. Il eût pu aussi bien que personne, grâce à ses talents et à sa situation, briller dans le monde; mais il préféra se cacher dans le sanctuaire, ignorant que là était pour lui la source d'une gloire infiniment supérieure à celle du monde, la gloire de la sainteté. Orphelin à dix-huit ans, après l'achèvement de ses études, il veilla si bien à l'éducation de ses frères et de ses soeurs, qu'il eut deux frères prêtres et une soeur religieuse: c'était le commencement de son apostolat.
Ordonné prêtre à l'âge de vingt-sept ans, il comprit, sous l'inspiration de Dieu, le plus grand besoin de son époque, et songea à combler une lacune regrettable dans les oeuvres si belles et si multiples de la sainte Église. Recruter des jeunes gens, les installer dans sa maison de chanoine de Reims, les former à l'enseignement de l'enfance, tel fut le commencement de son entreprise. Cette entreprise subit dès l'abord des épreuves terribles.
Peu de Saints ont eu à souffrir un plus entier crucifiement, que le bienheureux de La Salle; peu de Saints ont montré plus de désintéressement, plus de joie dans le sacrifice; il poussait l'amour divin jusqu'à joindre à tant de Croix d'effrayantes mortifications volontaires, soutenues par un esprit de prière tout angélique.
La bénédiction de Dieu ne pouvait manquer à son oeuvre, et, en peu d'années, l'Institut comptait seize écoles, où plus de quinze cents enfants recevaient les leçons de la vertu et de la science; mais chaque année les développements devenaient de plus en plus merveilleux, et quand le saint fondateur, affaibli par la maladie, força ses frères à accepter sa démission, en 1717, toute la France était couverte par les légions de son armée pacifique.
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle employa les deux dernières années de sa vie à sa propre sanctification: "La victime est prête à être immolée, disait-il; il faut travailler à la purifier."
Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950
Fondateur des Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes
(1651-1719)
Au moment où Dieu est chassé des écoles publiques pour être plus sûrement chassé du coeur des enfants, il est plus opportun que jamais de publier les grands exemples des Saints qui se sont faits les éducateurs dévoués de l'enfance chrétienne. Parmi ces éducateurs, saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle occupe le premier rang. Outre la fondation si admirable des Frères des Écoles chrétiennes, dont le mérite lui appartient, on peut dire qu'il a été l'inspirateur des fondateurs de l'avenir, et que les institutions plus récentes ont bourgeonné autour du tronc vigoureux qu'il a planté.
Jean-Baptiste, né le 30 avril 1651, appartenait à une noble maison de Reims. Il eût pu aussi bien que personne, grâce à ses talents et à sa situation, briller dans le monde; mais il préféra se cacher dans le sanctuaire, ignorant que là était pour lui la source d'une gloire infiniment supérieure à celle du monde, la gloire de la sainteté. Orphelin à dix-huit ans, après l'achèvement de ses études, il veilla si bien à l'éducation de ses frères et de ses soeurs, qu'il eut deux frères prêtres et une soeur religieuse: c'était le commencement de son apostolat.
Ordonné prêtre à l'âge de vingt-sept ans, il comprit, sous l'inspiration de Dieu, le plus grand besoin de son époque, et songea à combler une lacune regrettable dans les oeuvres si belles et si multiples de la sainte Église. Recruter des jeunes gens, les installer dans sa maison de chanoine de Reims, les former à l'enseignement de l'enfance, tel fut le commencement de son entreprise. Cette entreprise subit dès l'abord des épreuves terribles.
Peu de Saints ont eu à souffrir un plus entier crucifiement, que le bienheureux de La Salle; peu de Saints ont montré plus de désintéressement, plus de joie dans le sacrifice; il poussait l'amour divin jusqu'à joindre à tant de Croix d'effrayantes mortifications volontaires, soutenues par un esprit de prière tout angélique.
La bénédiction de Dieu ne pouvait manquer à son oeuvre, et, en peu d'années, l'Institut comptait seize écoles, où plus de quinze cents enfants recevaient les leçons de la vertu et de la science; mais chaque année les développements devenaient de plus en plus merveilleux, et quand le saint fondateur, affaibli par la maladie, força ses frères à accepter sa démission, en 1717, toute la France était couverte par les légions de son armée pacifique.
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle employa les deux dernières années de sa vie à sa propre sanctification: "La victime est prête à être immolée, disait-il; il faut travailler à la purifier."
Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950
April 7 Saint John Baptist de LaSalle Founder (1651-1719)
Complete dedication to what he saw as God's will for him, dominates the life of John Baptist de LaSalle. Founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, or Christian Brothers, he was canonized in 1900. In 1950 Pope Pius XII named him patron of schoolteachers.
Saint John Baptist was born of the nobility of Rheims in 1651, and after a very …Plus
April 7 Saint John Baptist de LaSalle Founder (1651-1719)
Complete dedication to what he saw as God's will for him, dominates the life of John Baptist de LaSalle. Founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, or Christian Brothers, he was canonized in 1900. In 1950 Pope Pius XII named him patron of schoolteachers.
Saint John Baptist was born of the nobility of Rheims in 1651, and after a very pious youth was ordained a priest at the age of 27, becoming at once a Canon of the Cathedral there. It was said that to see him at the altar was sufficient to give an unbeliever faith in the Real Presence of Our Lord. The people would wait for him to come from the church to consult him. His life was marked by a rule he set for himself, to maintain perfect regularity in all his duties.
He became interested in the creation of gratuitous schools for poor and abandoned children. He himself was invited to help in their education; and after directing the teachers for four years, decided to join them. In this he was opposed by most of the city, for whom such a life was very humiliating for a Canon of the Cathedral. His spiritual director, a virtuous Franciscan Minim priest, encouraged him, saying that for teachers, whose vocation is to aid the poor to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, the only suitable inheritance is the poverty of the Saviour.
Saint John Baptist divested himself of the patrimonial wealth he still controlled, then took religious vows with his co-workers. His tender and paternal charity soon sanctified the house and the labors; peace reigned, and the members of the new society loved one another sincerely. The Institute developed and spread amid a thousand difficulties and persecutions; these, by humiliating its members, brought down graces on them and made the Providence of the Lord more evident.
The blessed Founder died in 1719; a religious superior said of him that his humility was universal; he never acted without taking counsel, and the opinion of others always seemed better to him than his own. He listened to others in conversation, and was never heard to say any word tending to his own advantage... Indeed it is God who elevates those who take the last place for themselves, to place them among the first.
Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 15; Saint of the Day, edited by Leonard Foley, O.F.M. (Saint Anthony Messenger Press: Cincinnati, 1974), Vol. I
Complete dedication to what he saw as God's will for him, dominates the life of John Baptist de LaSalle. Founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, or Christian Brothers, he was canonized in 1900. In 1950 Pope Pius XII named him patron of schoolteachers.
Saint John Baptist was born of the nobility of Rheims in 1651, and after a very pious youth was ordained a priest at the age of 27, becoming at once a Canon of the Cathedral there. It was said that to see him at the altar was sufficient to give an unbeliever faith in the Real Presence of Our Lord. The people would wait for him to come from the church to consult him. His life was marked by a rule he set for himself, to maintain perfect regularity in all his duties.
He became interested in the creation of gratuitous schools for poor and abandoned children. He himself was invited to help in their education; and after directing the teachers for four years, decided to join them. In this he was opposed by most of the city, for whom such a life was very humiliating for a Canon of the Cathedral. His spiritual director, a virtuous Franciscan Minim priest, encouraged him, saying that for teachers, whose vocation is to aid the poor to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, the only suitable inheritance is the poverty of the Saviour.
Saint John Baptist divested himself of the patrimonial wealth he still controlled, then took religious vows with his co-workers. His tender and paternal charity soon sanctified the house and the labors; peace reigned, and the members of the new society loved one another sincerely. The Institute developed and spread amid a thousand difficulties and persecutions; these, by humiliating its members, brought down graces on them and made the Providence of the Lord more evident.
The blessed Founder died in 1719; a religious superior said of him that his humility was universal; he never acted without taking counsel, and the opinion of others always seemed better to him than his own. He listened to others in conversation, and was never heard to say any word tending to his own advantage... Indeed it is God who elevates those who take the last place for themselves, to place them among the first.
Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 15; Saint of the Day, edited by Leonard Foley, O.F.M. (Saint Anthony Messenger Press: Cincinnati, 1974), Vol. I