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Lasallian Mission Office

Our Mission

The Lasallian Mission is a shared calling for the entire University community — inviting every member to help build an institution that stands as a living catalyst for Church and society. Rooted and committed to the poor, the marginalized, and in the peripheries, this mission accompanies each person toward becoming an agent of justice, compassion, and renewal.

Five Flagships

Animated Lasallian community life through formation programs, retreats, and faith-sharing.

Revitalized commitment to the poor and marginalized through community engagement and immersion.

Renewed care for at-risk youth through mentorship, shelter, and psychosocial support.

Deepened sacramental and spiritual life through liturgical celebrations and pastoral accompaniment.

Strengthened vocation promotion and discernment through accompaniment and exposure programs.

Core Mission

The Lasallian Mission Office already holds the language it needs. We find it in the prayer we share whenever we gather — a prayer that is not a preamble to our work but its very job description. From it flow Faith, Service, and Communion: three core values, also share its core mission.

Mission Pillars

FAITH

“Let us remember that we are in the holy presence of God.”

An open circle: the whole inhabited world, no line drawn around it. Faith is not a fence around the faithful. It is a horizon wide enough to hold the stranger.

At the center, a star — light received, not made. We are lit by it. And the star never touches the circle. It holds the space by lighting it.

To see with faith is to see that God is already here: in the classroom, in the community, in the student in front of you.

Service

“I will continue, O my God, to do all my actions for the love of You.”

A lamp. The rim and the vessel are drawn as two separate strokes, never closing, so the lamp stays open — something that can be filled. The flame is the only warm color in the set, because that is where the meaning sits.

Service means immersing ourselves in the life of our partner communities — and staying. Staying long enough that the answers begin to come from the community rather than from us.

That is why the word is continue. Anyone can begin.

Communion

“Live Jesus in our hearts — forever.”

Three open circles, overlapping. Three, not two — two circles read as a partnership; three read as a body. Each stays open and whole, because communion does not dissolve the parts. The single warm accent sits exactly where all three meet.

No Lasallian carries this mission alone.

Communion is the deliberate work of forming one family out of many — Brothers, faculty, staff, students, alumni, partners — and of preparing the next generation to receive what has been entrusted to us. Belonging that leads to commitment.

"No Lasallian carries this mission alone" works better as its own line than buried mid-paragraph, so I gave it space. Dropped the "associative, not merely relational" gloss — the two-versus-three contrast already makes that point without the vocabulary lesson. The office and program list is out for the same reason as the others; it belongs in a following paragraph.

The Institute has given us Lasallian Reflection No. 12: Building a Fraternal World — a pedagogy of fraternity, a pedagogy of encounter. Our President's Pastoral Letter takes up the same call.

Fraternity is not a soft theme. It is a pedagogy. How we treat one another in this University is itself a form of teaching, and our students are learning from it. For this school year our theme is:

Walking Together: Fraternity in Motion.

One De La Salle Family, building a fraternal world.

In motion — because a fraternity that only sits still and agrees with itself has not yet moved.

Contact Information

Office of the Vice President for Lasallian Mission