RESIDENCIA LA SALLE
DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - DASMARIÑAS

FROM COMMITMENT TO COMMITMENT

1680 “My God, I do not know whether to I should endow the schools or not. It is not up to me to establish communities. I do not even know how they should be established. You alone know this… I do not know what you want. I beseech you to make your holy Will known to me.” Blain 1. bk.1 p. 119

Indeed, if I had ever thought that the care I was taking of the schoolmasters out of pure charity would ever have made it my duty to live with them, I would have dropped the whole project. For since, naturally speaking, I considered the men whom I was obliged to employ in the schools at the beginning as being inferior to my valet, the mere thought that I would have to live with them would have been insupportable to me. Indeed, I experienced a great deal of unpleasantness when I first had them come to my house. This lasted two years.

“It was undoubtedly for this reason that God, Who guides all things with wisdom and serenity, Whose way it is not to force the inclinations of persons, willed to commit me entirely to the development of the schools. He did this in an imperceptible way and over a long period of time so that one commitment led to another in a way that I did not foresee in the beginning.”

Can you still recall how you first got “engaged” in this work of education that has brought you here and now? What “commitments” have you made that served as stepping stones in your “personal / ministerial” journey as a Lasallian disciple/apostle? Name some people who played a meaningful part in your progressive response to the “cry of the poor” as a human and Christian educator today? What “lights and shadows” have you experienced as the Spirit “in an imperceptible way and over a long period of time” led you?

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Br Ceci Hojilla
De La Salle, Dasmariñas