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A Certain Way

  • A Certain Way
  • Origins
    • Consider the rock
      • Silent voice
      • An echo of what I heard
      • Six thousand pages
      • Such is the first step
      • I heard interiorly
      • The dispersal
      • Jeanne-Marie Chavoin
      • Marcellin Champagnat
      • Jean-Claude Colin
      • The project came from God
      • Unheard of … a monster
      • The finger of God
      • Consider the rock…
    • Something new for our times
      • It makes a difference
      • Something never thought of
      • The end times
      • New world – new church
      • The Work of Mary
      • In this world
      • Instruments of divine mercy
      • Useful instruments
      • The great No’s
      • The only way to do good
      • Flesh to the Word
  • Life from within
    • Life force
      • Icons
      • Least Marian yet most Marian
      • Woman, mother and disciple
      • Most hidden
      • Most present
      • I am watchful
      • A parent’s care
      • Care for the people of God
      • A Marian Church
      • Silence gives you perfect sound
    • Fire and rose
      • A place to stand
      • A place of the heart
      • Pentecostal fire
      • One in mind and heart
      • A bridge to souls
      • Losing itself in the church
      • Power bursting forth
      • Caught up
      • Life from within
  • On mission
    • Setting out
      • Any part of the world
      • An uncommon deed
      • A woman of great virtue
      • The Pioneers
      • Set out in haste
      • Buried in the rich soil
      • New language
      • Free people
      • Setting out again
    • On the fringe
      • The Bugey missions
      • The world as mission
      • A taste for sinners
      • Feel the pulse of the age
      • Leave the ninety-nine
      • At the margins
      • Beyond the margins
      • Compassion to the limits
      • Saved without the law
      • Do we hesitate?
  • Making it happen
    • Humble people
      • Tree and branches
      • Today the Society begins…
      • Family likeness
      • Power in the name
      • Marist spirit
      • Cornerstones
      • Take a second look!
      • Portraits and last words
      • A dream or a certain way
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A Certain Way

There is a certain way of living the Gospel, the way Mary lived it, as understood by a group of people called Marists.

This is the story of those men and women who in the 1800’s committed themselves to what they called “The Work of Mary” and began a movement which is still developing today. It is also the story of what makes today’s Marists think, judge and act.

Over the years, many people have provided scholarly research into the origins and spirituality of the Marist project. Many have added to it. Resources such as “A Certain Way” come alive only when they are sought, searched and used. By reading this, you have already brought further live to the Marist project, but how will you let it speak?

This resource can be read from start to finish, as a continuous text, or on the other hand each resource title is self-contained and can be used as a single unit for reflection.

The pages here can be opened at any part in to get a taste of this way of life in the Church.

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A Certain Way – scanned originals

Chapter 1
Consider the rock

Chapter 2
Something new for our times

Chapter 3
Life force

Chapter 4
Fire and rose

Chapter 5
Setting out

Chapter 6
On the fringe

Chapter 7
Making it happen

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