FEATURES OF LAY MARIST LIFE

Features of lay Marist life
can say today that knowing Marcellin made me
I become a happier person for several reasons:
-It has awakened and continues to challenge me
about my interest in others, in my Church, my
wish to be part of it.
-It made me recognize that as a Christian I must
commit myself, avoiding fanaticism, by respecting
others in their beliefs.
-It made me want not only money in my life but
something more that would make me go further
thanks to simplicity.
-I feel proud to be a Christian disciple of Jesus
with the style of Marcellin and the help of Mary. I
see consistency in my family life, in my Christian
life and in my Marist life. (Guatemala)
Three Dimensions of
a Single Life: Mission,
Shared Life, Spirituality
One of the pillars of my Marist life is the
sharing in fraternity of my faith, as a place
of meeting in a group of persons, we who be-
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Extended Bureau of the Laity
lieve in God and who live following the style of
Marcellin. Another very important pillar is the
witness that I give in the accompaniment of
a group of young university students in their
awakening of faith, and through the example
and the style of presence in different places
where my life takes place: work, family… Also
the family spirit, reflected in my own family
(parents, brothers) as in the fraternity and
with my friends. An important mention must
be made also and that is that I am taking the
first steps with my fiancée to found a new family,
and the way and the characteristics of that
which we wish to found are going to be a faithful
reflection of my experience, both personal
and of faith. (Spain)
found a fraternity in the Marist style, that
I is to say: confidence in others, in faith, in
God, in Our Good Mother, in the brothers, in
people and in myself; solidarity, to be with the
poor and for the poor, the possibility of making
something out of what I have received by the
grace of God, the conviction of education as a
means of saving humanity… (Colombia)