Feast of Saint John Baptist De La Salle

IMPORTANT FACTS:

Father John Baptist De La Salle was a very humble man with a great ambition.He had very big blue eyes

that radiated the Light of Faith which was filled by the Holy Spirit that led him to accomplish great things

in life.

His main focus in life was suddenly drawn to the poor during his time and he felt ashamed for not being to

help them when he came from a wealthy background.So one day,he made up his mind to focus on helping

the poor children in need and to encourage them to love studying.He wanted to bring up the poor ones in

the place he was living.Soon he was known to many poor ones around the world and people came from

all walks of life to seek his help and education.

He had many ways of teaching his students.Father John's teachings was full of  Charism of the Holy Spirit

and zeal.This made him very popular among the young.He was truly animated in faith.Soon his way of teachings were branched out in various places and many came to know his new way of teaching.He was 

a FOUNDER in founding training colleges for teachers, reform schools for lawbreaking,technical schools, and secondary schools for modern languages, arts, and sciences.

One decision led to another until Father John found himself doing something that he had never anticipated. He wrote:

 " I had imagined that the care which I assumed of the schools and the masters would amount 

only to a marginal involvement committing me to no more than providing for the subsistence 

of the masters and assuring that they acquitted themselves of their tasks with piety and devotedness.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. 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."

In 1716,he resigned and stopped giving orders.He lived like the humblest of the brothers,teaching the novices and young boarders.During his free time,he occupied himself with prayers and focused on God to make sure that he was not drifting away from God due to his busy life.

Father John Baptist was Beatified February 19, 1888 and became Blessed John Baptist De La Salle
Then in the year 1900,he was Canonized on May 24 and became Saint John Baptist De La Salle.

Pope Pius X proclaimed Saint John Baptist De La Salle as the Patron of Christian Teachers May 15, 1950.

A video of Saint John Baptist De La Salle's Life and Holiness.

FOUNDER OF THE INSTITUTE OF 

THE BROTHERS OF

 THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 

Quotes of Saint John Baptist De La Salle:

• The more you abandon to God the care of all earthly things, the more he will take care to provide for all your wants.
• Example makes a much greater impression on the MIND and the Heart than words.
• Young people need Good teachers,like visible Angels.
• In the light of faith you see things quite differently.
• Hold prayer in high esteem.It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.

PRAYER TO SAINT JOHN BAPTIST DE LA SALLE: 

O Lasallian Saint,Patron of Catholic Teachers,you who taught the Brothers and teachers the proper way
of handling Catholic schools;gave them guidance in every way that you could to bring God's teachings
to educate the poor.Help the Brothers and teachers who continue teaching in schools to preserve your
ways of teaching.Guide them to always be insipred by the Holy Spirit to carry out proper teachings that
will educated the ones poor in knowledge.May by doing so,the ones poor in knowledge may increase in
zeal to love the faith and be educated.Saint John Baptist De La Salle,pray for all Brothers and teachers to enjoy teaching and to pray for their students like you prayed during your time.Amen.
Saint John Baptist De La Salle,Educator of the Faith,pray for all Brothers and teachers in their way of guiding students in schools!