The Lasallian Pause

Stop. Breath. Remember.

Welcome to The Lasallian Pause, a weekly reflection from the Office of the Vice President for Lasallian Mission. It arrives at the start of the week on purpose so that our week of daily ministry begins the way everything in a Lasallian community begins: with prayer.

A university is a busy place, and DLSU-D is busier than most. Between classes, consultations, deadlines, accreditation cycles, enrolment periods, and the ordinary weight of serving thousands of students, it is entirely possible to spend a whole semester doing Lasallian work without once stopping to notice that it is Lasallian.

Saint John Baptist de La Salle saw this same risk in his own teachers. His answer was not to lighten their workload. It was to teach them to keep an interior spirit in the middle of it to remain aware of God's presence while the chalk was still in their hand. He warned the Brothers about activity that has lost its soul, and he wrote moments of recollection directly into the rhythm of the school day.

The Lasallian Pause is one small, modern way of keeping that instruction alive. You are already generous. You are already working hard. This asks nothing more of your effort only a few minutes for meaning.