2. I WAS BAPTISED: I AM A CHRISTIAN

3. Whom am I following in my life? Is it…… Champagnat?

4. ¡¡NO!!

5. I am following the very same one that Champagnat followed

7. I am following Jesus Christ

8. Because He is my Savior Because He is my Redemeer Because He is my Lord Because He gave his life for me Because He is the whole focus of my life Because He is my life Because He is my everything

9. I follow Jesus, in Mary’s way

10. And, what about Champagnat?

11. How does he enter into my following of Jesus?

12. There are millions of ways to follow Jesus

13. We call them Christian Spiritualities

14. Well, one of them is…..

15. TheChampagnat’s Spirituality Spirituality

16. He, the first Brothers and all their successors, lived this spirituality

17. Our Constitutions are the written expression of that Marist Spirituality

18. If we truly accept them as our Rule of life…

19. We structure our whole being according to that spirituality

20. And we follow Jesus in a Marian way

21. Sharing Marcellin Champagnt’s Charism