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Address by Julian McDonald to EREA Principals in Canberra

Julian McDonald What Follows are a few extracts from an address given by Br Julian McDonld While these thoughts are addressed to principals of the EREA Schools, much of it applies to the total membership of the Edmund Rice Network.The full text is available for reading or printing. Full Text Let me say at the outset that the Christian Brothers' Oceania Province Leadership Team (OLT) has great confidence in you and in the EREA executive and endorses the value and expertise of our lay leaders. The fact that the Brothers have moved to establish Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) is eloquent testimony to that, despite the fact that our action in establishing EREA would appear to make some of our Church leaders just a tad nervous. The OLT subscribes to a belief in a lay Church and is committed to pursuing shared leadership with other lay men and women. I say "other" because the Congregation of Christian Brothers is itself lay in character.... We also subscribe to the belief that Christian Brothers do not have a monopoly on the charism of Edmund Rice. His charism is living and ever-evolving and will, as a consequence, find a variety of new expressions according to the insights and decisions of... Read more...

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