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Mary, Mother of Mercy

February 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Jean Coste

The starting point for Colin and all the first Marists was the conviction that Mary wanted something. This was not based on any specific revelation. Their conviction was that Mary wanted something, and the society of Mary exists because of that. But what did Mary want? Let us try to express more this supposed wish […]

Anticipation of the New People of God

February 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Jean Coste

We have seen that the Society of Mary started from an awareness, the conviction of a desire, that Mary wished to save all her children, gathering them into a new people of God. Therefore, our center of gravity is eschatological. The center is not our Society, which happens to be called “of Mary,” but really, […]

Instruments of Divine Mercy

February 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Jean Coste

We have seen that there is this wish of Mary to do something for the Church. In this stage of the history of the Church to make an ultimate effort to gather and to save all her children, because she is the Mother of Mercy, and therefore she wants to embrace all the world. Furthermore, […]

No to Greed

February 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Jean Coste

Up to now, we have presented Colin’s vision. Now we will move into the realm of implications at two levels: the level of certain spiritual implications and certain other implications in the level of structure. We are now starting on what has already been called several times in this room, the three great “No’s” of […]

No to Power

February 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Jean Coste

We are coming to the third and last of the great No’s of Fr. Colin. The third No deals with forms of power where the key person in decision-making uses his power for his own purposes. This is the third attitude that Father Colin will try to fight with the same strength he fought the […]

Government in the Society of Mary

February 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Jean Coste

We are trying to explore Colin’s original vision and its implication for our life today. Now we’ll see the implication of Colin’ s vision at the level of structure. We have seen that the center of gravity of Colin’s vision is eschatological. Colin is looking into the future, into a new people of God, gathered […]

The Society of Mary as an Apostolic Community

February 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Jean Coste

We arrive finally at the last talk, “An Apostolic Community,” or if you prefer, “The Implications of Colin’s Vision at the Level of our Activity.” You remember the vision, we saw in the first days the workshop: the Society of Mary as an instrument of the mercy of God and Mary, and an anticipation of […]

The Earliest Church Sole Model of the Society of Mary

February 16, 2009 by  
Filed under Justin Taylor

1. A Colinian theme Many texts prove that the earliest Church or newborn Church (in French l’eglise naissante) is for: Jean-Claude Colin the model, even the sole model, of the Society of Mary. Take FS 42,3. The year is 1841, and Fr. Colin is defending the preaching style of Fr. Etienne Seon, which some criticized […]

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