FRANCE - WHAT MIGHT BE THE SIGNS OF A CALL TO THE LIFE OF A BROTHER?
The joy of living with and for children and young people especially the most deprived, felt during an experience of school education or during an extra-curricular educational experience (animation, catechesis, scouting, volunteer movement…).

A love of Creation in spite of the wounds inflicted. The ardent desire to contribute to a better world and to collaborate in the work of God who wishes that all should be saved.

The wish to be happy in a life which includes the search for God, a fraternal life educating the young.

The intimate wish to follow Christ in giving oneself for others, in community.

Being available to let oneself be formed by living together, sharing the word of God and looking at the world with the eyes of faith.

The desire to share the experience of God at the heart of social transformation.

Enthusiasm for the idea of announcing the Gospel with lay persons who are waiting for witnesses and companions along the way.

Availability for following a course of formation with a view to joining the teaching and education profession.

An attraction towards education and the service of the overall growth of the person.

A taste for and a desire for collaborating with other bodies in thinking up creative, flexible, educational systems for the many young people who are suffering and are forgotten by the established systems.

This list is indicative and the stages of formation should allow for authenticating these calls and then integrating the different dimensions of the religious vocation of being a Brother in a more existential manner.
^{(Brothers of the Christian Schools, Pour que les jeunes aient la vie! (District of France, 2006), p. 2. )}

AUSTRALIA-NZ-PNG - LASALLIAN YOUTH MINISTERS FOR 2007 : On 11 December 2006, the District of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea posted on www.delasalle.org.au some good news about the organization of its Young Lasallians activities.

A few of the District’s part-time Youth Ministers in 2006 (namely Tom McIlroy, James Camden, and Darren Perrett) accepted re-appointment for 2007. Tom had been one of the District’s delegates at the International Symposium of Young Lasallians (Rome 2006).

In addition, two more Youth Ministers have been appointed. Bec Barrett will work as a part-time Youth Minister at Holy Spirit College Lakemba, and Andrew Ulugia will work as a full-time Lasallian Youth Minister for the New Zealand sector of the District of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Not only will Andrew co-ordinate programs and events for Young Lasallians throughout the country, including leadership programs, retreats, the 8th Asia-Pacific Lasallian Youth Congress 2007, and World Youth Day 2008, but he will also become the Youth Minister at Francis Douglas Memorial College, New Plymouth.

Bec Barrett, formerly known as Bec Belton, was one of the founding members of the International Council of Young Lasallians and a participant at the 1st International Symposium of Young Lasallians (Quebec 2002) and at the 2nd International Symposium of Young Lasallians (Rome 2006). She is pictured here at her November 2006 marriage to Andrew Barrett, who was also a participant at the 1st International Symposium of Young Lasallians.
^{(Adapted from www.delasalle.org.au)}

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