Action Up North

Our Canadian "cousins" recently held a massive meeting of Marist Lay People who wish to take on the tast of evangelization in an increasingly secularizing society by laity and for laity.  Amazingly enough, this rebirth of the Marist Mission is occuring in a country where there has not been a new vocation to the Marist Brothers for the last 40 years.  Marist Alumni and associates who were infused with the Marist Charism as students or faculty, want to take up the task of continuing "to make Jesus known and loved" and have chosen to formalize their desire by establishing "The Marist Lay Association".  They have also received encouragement from young people who have made the pilgrimage to Champagnat Country---the Hermitage, LaValla and other locations prominent in our early history. Gradually, more and more lay people around the world are stepping up to follow in the footsteps of St. Marcellin and take up the Marist Vocation as their own.  He dreamed of Marists in every diocese of the world, and via this lay movement, it seems like that dream will come true sooner than expected.  Those of you who chew on a slice of Daily Bread, can also consider yourselves as part of this movement, though not formally yet, but certainly in spirit. "Take, eat, and distribute wherever  your are.  You are Marcellin's ambassadors in the marketplace.
Bro. Rene