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Rue Neuve

Discover Your Purpose, Discern Your Call

Named for the street where St. John Baptist de La Salle and his companions first lived together, Rue Neuve participants live in an active Brothers’ community to more intentionally discern God’s invitation to follow the Gospel path as a baptized Catholic. This one year immersion in the life of the Brothers will help you more clearly respond to God’s request that you “come and see” where God’s presence is alive and shared in a fraternal community. Participants have the option to keep their current job, or serve alongside the Brothers in a Lasallian ministry

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Marco Hague

I chose to join the Rue Neuve program because I recognized that spending this year living in community and …

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Malcolm

I was invited! I had felt a call to consecrated life and love teaching, and when I was invited to explore …

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Eligibility and Placements

Rue Neuve is available to post-collegiate men who are engaged in discernment with the Brothers. Potential placement cities include Pittsburgh, Towson, New York City, and Wyndmoor PA. Take your first step in active discernment by contacting us today!

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The Brothers of the Christian Schools

District of Eastern North America

444-A Route 35 South

Eatontown, NJ 07724

732-380-7926

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Marco Hague

Why did you choose to join the Rue Neuve program?

I chose to join the Rue Neuve program because I recognized that spending this year living in community and teaching with the Brothers would provide me with valuable insight to where God is calling me in life. Like many young people, I feel an openness to a vocation to religious life but also feel unsure of what specifically the Lord is asking me to do. This year is an opportunity for me to listen to God and allow Him to lead me.

The communal life of the Brothers provides me a daily opportunity to humbly serve others. I recognize that the success of our community life relies on each member fulfilling his daily duties. Even within the first month, I have been challenged several times to be “radically available” to the other Brothers, given the chance to put my own wishes second and offer up service to God, especially if the work feels inconvenient to me. Also, our commitment to praying the Liturgy of the Hours together has become a beautiful daily habit for me and reinforces the truth that our faith must be practiced in community with others.

By nature of living in a religious community and working at a Catholic school, I have many opportunities to receive the Sacraments of Holy Communion and Reconciliation; this is a great grace in that keeping a close friendship with Jesus in prayer and the Sacraments is necessary to discerning His will. Our community is also blessed with Brothers of different age ranges and stages of the vocation- one who is new out of the Novitiate, and several that have taken Final Vows. This is beneficial because it gives me the opportunity to hear from men of various backgrounds who were all drawn to the same calling, and reflect on what this means in my own discernment.

Malcom

Why did you choose to join the Rue Neuve program?

I was invited! I had felt a call to consecrated life and love teaching, and when I was invited to explore a life that combined these two callings, I jumped at the opportunity. It was challenging to leave a life I had established and move to a new home and a new city, but having such a unique opportunity to discern God’s will for my life is certainly worth it.

I  have prayed the Liturgy of the Hours alone for years. Praying Morning and Evening Prayer each day in community has greatly contributed to the way in which I consecrate the day to God. Eating dinner together, going on retreats, and doing chores other things like a family gives me so much belonging and enables me to find Christ in others.

It certainly makes it easier to discern if you are actually living life with the brothers! I consider myself an honorary member of the La Salle Brothers because I’m not just a spectator in the house or in the ministry. I am actively engaged in leading prayer, teaching classes, counseling students, and living the charism of St John-Batpist de la Salle. I am also growing daily by following the example of the brothers and reading and reflecting upon the life and teachings of The Founder.