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Marist relationship with Mary Marists commit themselves "to thinking as Mary, judging as Mary, feeling and acting as Mary" in all things. A certain idea of the Society of Mary For Jean Claude Colin, belonging to this Society did not mean for him simply adding a certain way of doing things to the religious vows. For a Marist the basic fact of history is that they they have been chosen to belong to a family bearing the name of Mary, and the remembrance of that fact dominates their behaviour. Administration of temporal goods The Society belongs to Mary, and with regards to the administration of temporal goods, this has two major consequences, namely: to count only on Mary and to administer strictly the goods intended for her work. Elements in Marist spirituality This essay is an attempt to look at the question of Marist Spirituality it seeks to ask what is essential, what is it that defines the character of a Marist. Fr Colin, prayer and the Marist Spirit Almost inevitably when Colin refers to the characteristic traits of the Marist he mentions prayer as one of them. The Marist must learn to unite prayer and action. The Marist spirit is one of simplicity and prayer. Fourviere - something that fits Fourviere represents our call from God and our response in terms of the decision to refashion, refound the Society in our generation. It’s the place where "we feel comfortable" but it is also our responsibility to recreate the experience for today. - Pat Bearsley Implications of a Marian life in the school of Fr Colin Constitution 50 clearly indicates that it was to contain the consequences of principles enunciated in Constitution 49. It is a move from the general principles we proceed to the practical applications. Reflecting on whether the particular insight of the Founder is in fact the basis of what one may call a spirituality, or whether it remains simply an intuition within the framework of, for example, a basic Ignatian apostolic spirituality. An outline of the Marist charism taken from selected phrases in the constitutions. It is clear that Marists still form their concept of poverty guided by the requirements laid down by the Founder, even though they are completely involved in a new situation. Fr. Colin's insight of Mary's place in the Church leads him to see the Society of Mary as a congregation which effaces itself before the mystery of the Church; which prefers the development of the Church to its own personal security or even survival. - Jean Coste A conference concerned with a fundamental theme of Marist tradition in the field of Community Life - Mary as superior. Mary as foundress and superior therefore says more about how a superior should lead than it does about a religious obeying. The superior must lead with one ear open to what Mary might be asking and the other ear flapping for the voice of the world. - Pat Bearsley Nature of the spirit of the Society of Mary Article X, numbers 49, 50 of Fr. Colin's 1872 Constitutions. (Number 228, of 1988 Constitutions) In essence, the spirit of the Society is a consequence of the relations which exist between Mary and Marists and, as far as the latter are concerned, consists in their living as intensely as possible the life of their Mother. "One in mind and heart" in it's Marist context Mary's concern is one of gathering together, of bringing into unity, all of God's people. The Society was to be a chosen instrument by which Mary would realise the mediation of God's mercy to all men and women. Society of Mary, the work of Mary During the twenty years between the promise of Fourvière in 1816 and the approval of the Marist Fathers in 1836, those men and women who gave themselves fully to the project conceived in the major seminary of Lyon in 1815 used two names alternatively to describe what they were working for: Society of Mary, and the work of Mary. The beginning of the Society of Mary lies in Mary’s compassion for a suffering world. The Society began as a result of her initiative. Its origin therefore is an act of compassion on the part of Mary, the Mother of Mercy, for a torn and broken world. - Pat Bearsley The early Marists were convinced that Mary had chosen them to form a new family in the Church - one which would bear her name and do her work.
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