Message of Ms. Grace Wrakia National Coordinator Lasallian Family
Dear Lasallians and readers May the grace and peace of God be with you all. The 2022 schooling year began with high much renewed hope and enthusiasm. I am sure we are back to doing wha we love the most – teaching, learning, educating! Term 2 is at its pick but by the time you receive this mambo issue, the term will be slowing coming to an end. The Easter triduum was special this year, after 2 years of lock downs and restrictions, we were finally able to celebrate as a community. It is not late or wrong to continue this festive and joyful spirit of our Lord’s resurrection in wishing you all Happy Easter – we are Easter People! Happy Easter! The national general election is here now and I am prayerfully reminding all Lasallians, of the children of kings and queens entrusted to us in the classrooms and lecture rooms. The future leaders of this beautiful nation and the Church, need visible angels in classroom, schools, families and communities. We have this golden opportunity to mould and shape future leaders and this responsibility must be taken very seriously. St. John Baptist De La Salle wrote, “We should be God’s messengers bringing God’s wisdom to His children… We must help our children choose between right and wrong ways of deciding what to do…so for your first concern should be to keep them from ever choosing what is bad” (MTR Med 2.2). May we choose the best leader through a fair, just and safe election process. May God bless us and keep us safe this election. Recently we had few big and significant events in the Catholic Church in PNG/SI and in the Institute of the De La Salle Brothers. The 3rd General Assembly of the Catholic Church of PNG and Solomon Island challenges all Christians and particularly Catholics, to journey in communion, participation and service to witness and proclaim God’s love and good news like “Salt and Light”, being the visible signs of God’s love and mercy for all to see. The 46th General Chapter of the Brothers, ended on a high note, with the election of the 28th General Superior and an audience with His Holiness Pope Francis. We join with the rest of the Lasallian Family everywhere in congratulating Bro. Armin Luistro as the 28th successor of St. John Baptist de La Salle. We also join in thanking Br. Robert Schaefer for his term as the 27th Superior General. Br. Robert visited our sector in 2017. Let us continue to keep both men and all leaders of the Institute in our prayers. His Holiness Pope Francis, in his concluding statement to the Brothers encouraged them to continue “evangelising by educating and educating by evangelising’ recalling that ‘a Christian Educator is above all a witness of Christ and is a teacher to the extent that she/he is a witness.”
