Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memory of Saint Marcellin Champagnat, founder of the Marist Brothers.
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Newsroom (06/06/2022 2:00 PM, Gaudium Press) Saint Marcellin was born in the French city of Marlhes on May 20, 1789, and his mother consecrated him to Our Lady. He entered the minor seminary even though he had not attended any school. Among his classmates was St. John Mary Vianney, also known as the Curé of Ars.
He was ordained a priest in 1816. The following year he was inspired and founded the community of Marist Brothers, through which he formed many religious teachers and catechists. The essence of his formation method, which forbade humiliating treatment and physical punishment, was love for Our Lady.
“Our community belongs entirely to Our Lady, the Mother of God. Our activities should be directed to make her loved, esteemed and glorified. Let us teach our young people devotion to her, and thus we will lead them more easily to Jesus Christ”, he advised his religious brothers.
On June 6, 1840, at the age of 51, Saint Marcellin gave his soul to God, leaving a legacy that continues to bear fruit to this day. Pope John Paul II, who canonized him in 1999, said that the founder of the Marist Brothers “was sensitive to his time’s spiritual and educational needs, especially to the religious ignorance and situations of abandonment experienced particularly by young people.
Phrases of Saint Marcellin Champagnat
01 – “Frequent communion is the great means of burning with love for Jesus, of making great progress in virtue, and of assuring salvation.”
02 – “Religious life is essentially a life of prayer.”
03 – “It is not in men that we must trust, but in God who is everything and who does everything.”
04 – “Can we fear failure when we have God in our favor and we work for Him?”
05 – “Providence cannot abandon us, for it is for Her that we work.”
06 – “One of the advantages of God’s presence is to inspire us with great courage, great zeal to work at our perfection.”
07 – “The divine presence is sufficient to establish order in a soul and bring it peace.”
08 – “Mary alone is the cause of our prosperity. Without Mary we are nothing, but with Mary we have everything, for she is always with Jesus in her arms or in her heart.”
09: “Mary’s ‘yes’ is for all Christians a lesson and an example, to make obedience to the Father’s will the way and the means of their own sanctification.”
10 – “Education is a work of love.”
Prayer to Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Saint Marcellin Champagnat, during your life, you walked in the presence of God, full of faith and deep filial trust in Mary’s protection, and you were merciful to your neighbour, full of love and affection for the poor and the little ones, God’s beloved ones. Therefore, with great confidence, we turn to you. Obtain for us from the Lord the grace… (request a grace). We ask you for the glory of God, our beloved Father. Amen. (EPC)
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Today, the Catholic Church is celebrating the liturgical memory of St. Marcellin Champagnat, founder of the Marist Brothers.
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