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Triduum Prayers in Thanksgiving For The Canonization Anniversary of Saint Benilde

The document summarizes the three days of triduum prayers in honor of Saint Benilde Romancon. Day 1 focuses on being gifted with faith. Day 2 looks at being called with zeal. Day 3 discusses being sent with communion. Key aspects of Saint Benilde's life are highlighted, including his prayerful study of scripture, awareness of God's presence, and commitment to the Lasallian mission of education through extraordinary love and devotion.

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Triduum Prayers in Thanksgiving For The Canonization Anniversary of Saint Benilde

The document summarizes the three days of triduum prayers in honor of Saint Benilde Romancon. Day 1 focuses on being gifted with faith. Day 2 looks at being called with zeal. Day 3 discusses being sent with communion. Key aspects of Saint Benilde's life are highlighted, including his prayerful study of scripture, awareness of God's presence, and commitment to the Lasallian mission of education through extraordinary love and devotion.

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Triduum Prayers

In Thanksgiving For The Canonization Anniversary Of


Saint Benilde

October 26, 2021 (Tuesday)

Opening Song – We are here in the presence of our God

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DAY 1 – GIFTED WITH FAITH
We are gifted. Everything we have comes from the Giver who gives us life, health,
family, talents, friends, opportunities, and everything else out of love. Our response is to
stand in awe and wonder at the beauty and sacredness of everything, a profound
awareness of the presence of God in our lives and in our world.

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Opening Prayer

God our Father,


we thank you and praise you
for entrusting us to
Benilde Romancon, the teacher saint.

Through the intercession of this great witness,


with his faith, zeal for service, and communion in the Lasallian mission,
guide us on the road
of New Evangelization
to spread the Good News of your Son Jesus Christ.

Give us holy vocations


to answer the needs of your Church.
Make us a people of the Word of God
so that we may bring
the light of the Gospel
in today’s world.

Amen.

1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service,
but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who
inspires them all in every one. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the
common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to
another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the
same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of
miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to
another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are
inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

(If you can put images of Saint Benilde while this is being read, with the text.)
From the book – Brother Benilde Romancon, FSC: The Teacher Saint by Br. Luke
Salm, FSC
Of the means recommended by De La Salle to acquire and develop a spirit of faith,
among the most important are the prayerful study of the Scriptures, awareness of the
presence of God, and the practice of mental prayer. These practices were at the heart of
the religious and devotional life of Brother Benilde.
His familiarity with the Scriptures was one of the features that made his catechism
lessons so attractive. To those who knew him well, he seemed to have a continual
awareness of the presence of God. God was real to him, he was wrapt up in God, and he
thought of nothing else except in relation to God. As the Rule required, he never failed to
adore the presence of God when he entered a room in the house or a classroom in the
school.
Following the doctrine of the Founder, Brother Benilde cultivated this sense of the
presence of God by prolonged periods of meditative prayer. The Rule prescribed for the
Brothers extended periods of mental prayer every morning and evening in community.
He was ingenious in finding other opportunities.
It was this intense spirit of faith in the Lasallian sense, nurtured by prayer and
awareness of the presence of God that explains the effectiveness of Brother Benilde in
the classroom and in the community. His spirituality was rooted in the spiritual doctrine
of John Baptist de La Salle.

PRAYER TO SAINT BENILDE ROMANÇON

O glorious Saint Benilde, who from a simple and humble gesture, carried out the
Lasallian mission to excellence and charity, we come to you with great devotion. Pray for
us to God that we may see everything in charity and faith, and be always renewed by His
loving presence. Pray for us to Jesus that we may be open and resilient to change by
forming ourselves and the young people into becoming sensitive and zealous agents of
renewal in the world today. Pray for us to the Holy Spirit that we may be an inclusive
and innovative community, welcoming the poor and the needy and helping them to
attain the fullness of life that God desires.

O loving God, we thank you for giving us Saint Benilde, our Brother, as an instrument of
inspiring the young people. Continue to give your Church educators who will devote
themselves in the Lasallian mission by doing ordinary things with extraordinary love
and devotion. Through the intercession of our Patron, we also bring to you our deepest
needs and longings, (Mention your personal intention/s) with the help of your grace,
allow us to bring into fulfillment our mission of education. We ask this through Christ
our Lord. Amen.

Our Lasallian Prayer


I will continue, O my God, to do all my actions for the love of you.
Mary, Our Lady of the Star, pray for us.
Saint John Baptist de La Salle, pray for us.
Saint Benilde Romancon, pray for us.

Live, Jesus, in our hearts, forever!

Closing Song – Hymn to Saint Benilde

DAY 2 – CALLED WITH ZEAL


We are called. The heart of the Gospel is a call to discipleship, to follow Jesus. Jesus' call
is for every Christian. We are called to live out the Gospel values in our lives as
committed Christians in our families, our schools, our workplace, and in our
community.

Ephesians 4:4-7, 11-13


There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to
your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above
all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each of us according to the measure
of Christ’s gift.
And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some
pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the
body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;

From the book – Brother Benilde Romancon, FSC: The Teacher Saint by Br. Luke
Salm, FSC
In the vision of De La Salle, the spirit of faith and the spirit of zeal are not two distinct or
subordinated dynamisms. Faith and zeal are two aspects of the same spirit. Faith
overflows into zeal; zeal is rooted in faith. The same is true of the relationship in
Lasallian spirituality between the spirit of faith and the spirit of community. The spirit
of faith that overflows into a spirit of apostolic zeal is lived in a community of men
consecrated in faith and brotherhood to an educational mission.
For a Brother of the Christian Schools, therefore, sanctity consists in living day by day
the spirit of faith, zeal and community. Faith is the dominant element that integrates
and energizes the two. Thus, to call Brother Benilde a “man of faith” is to define his
sanctity.

DAY 3 – SENT WITH COMMUNION


We are sent. Our baptism commissions us to carry on the ministry of Jesus, to love and
serve our brothers and sisters. God sends us out to establish God's kingdom of justice,
love, and peace.

Romans 12:1-3
I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be
conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may
prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think of himself more
highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the
measure of faith which God has assigned him.

From the book – Brother Benilde Romancon, FSC: The Teacher Saint by Br. Luke
Salm, FSC
Along with changes, there is continuity. The Rule of 1987 expresses that same essential
goals and values as the Rule that Saint John Baptist de La Salle wrote in 1718 or the Rule
that Brother Benilde lived for forty years a century and a half ago. The purpose of the
Institute remains the same, as does its spirit, its mission, and its priorities. The Brothers
are challenged, as much as they ever were, to live their brotherhood as consecrated men
in apostolic communities. One would hope, were Brother Benilde alive today, that he
could adjust and be at home with such a Rule, finding in it a sanctity appropriate to the
times and circumstances in which we live.
In one important aspect the Rule of 1987 represents a significant step forward, a
creative adaptation of a traditional value inherited from the Founder. That is the
extension of the meaning of association, in the mission and even in the spirituality and
community life of the Brothers, to include the entire Lasallian family: students,
graduates, relatives, friends, but above all the lay and clerical colleagues who share the
day to day involvement in the ministry of Christian education.

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