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Becoming a Brother to All
Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a Lasallian Brother and if you could pass muster?
There are three qualities that you must have to be a candidate for Brotherhood:
- A Brother must be at least a college graduate and willing to earn another degree in Religious Education, Catechetics or Theology. You can be a graduate of any degree program, and you can still exercise your professional training as a Brother.
- A Brother must be emotionally and intellectually mature to be able to form, guide and educate young people. He must have a genuine concern for young people and act as their role model.
- A Brother must also be a man of prayer. Through prayer, a Brother nurtures the love that God has for young people in need.
Candidates must go through four stages of formation before becoming a Brother.
- The Aspirancy
The Aspirancy is a vocation discernment program. An aspirant meets with a Brother-mentor for informal monthly discussions and sharing of his faith experiences. With his Brother-mentor, he clarifies his interests and motives, and focuses on the question: “Am I called to be a De La Salle Brother?”
This stage does not require the candidate to live with the Brothers, and normally takes two years.
- The Postulancy
When a candidate successfully completes his Aspirancy program and wishes to continue exploring his vocation, he is invited into the Postulancy. A postulant lives in a formation community and is given time to mature and develop, with the help of qualified personnel, in his personal relationship with God.
At the same time, a postulant helps in the Brothers’ apostolates and begins to study the life and writings of St. John Baptist de La Salle in the context of a religious community.
This stage usually lasts for one year.
- The Novitiate
The decision to enter the Novitiate indicates a desire to move more deeply into the religious life of the Brother. A novice is initiated into religious life and gradually understands and commits to the spiritual legacy that St. La Salle left to the Church.
At the end of the two-year formation, the novice professes his first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
- The Scholasticate
In the Scholasticate, the Brother begins his formal training for the apostolate. Given the inevitable difficulties in adjusting to this new stage, the young Brother is adequately mentored or accompanied during this period. This stage takes about a year.
After the scholasticate, the young Brother is sent to his first community where he learns how to integrate his consecrated life in the apostolate. This normally lasts for three years.
At the end of this stage, the Brother is admitted to Final Profession. To be admitted to Final Profession, a Brother has to be at least 25 years of age with at least five years of temporary vows, first made at the end of the Novitiate, in the Institute. He also has to have lived for three years in a community from which he has been actively engaged in an
educational work of the Institute.
For more information on becoming a De La Salle Brother, please contact Vocations
Director Br. Rey Mejias at brothers@lasallian.ph or broreyfsc@gmail.com.
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