The Vocation of Champagnat's Marist Laity

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This document is a product of lived experience. The force behind it and the initiative that it has grown out of, is the experience of many lay men and lay women throughout the world who sense that God is calling them to a vocation: to be lay Marists. It is the fruit of a long path of listening and reflection that the Marist world has been following over decades. The concerns of associations of former students searching for their identity within a renewed Church, courses in spirituality for teachers and parents, the processes of youth ministry and of solidarity, the appearance of the Champagnat Movement of the Marist Family, the deepening of shared mission, the canonization of the Founder – a gift for the entire Church -, the process of the international assembly on Marist mission leading up to the meeting in Mendes (Brazil), these have been some of the more important happenings that have helped us to understand more clearly what the Spirit was raising up in the hearts of many lay men and women