By “Tasting God … that feeling that delights not only the senses, but also the heart and makes us vibrate towards our deepest call … we begin our journey in Marist spirituality and discovers that our call is for the community and within a community, discovering that it is with God and for God at the same time. A call that does not seek to impose itself but rather to accompany, in the style of Mary, the one whose heart is wounded.

Stabat Mater
Through her heart, His sorrow sharing,
All his bitter anguish bearing,
Now at length the sword has passed.

For Fr. Colin, SM, the communion of mind and heart was basic to the very mission of the Society. It would be the means by which Marists learn to discover the Gospel together and live it as Mary did.

Stabat Mater
At the cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Near her Son until the end.

The last prayer that Jesus prayed for His disciples on the night before He died … simply “that they may be one” so that the world would believe that Jesus was God and had been sent by the Father for the salvation of the world.

Stabat Mater
While my body here decays,
May my soul your goodness praise,
Safe in paradise with you.