Marists are to welcome and embrace all, to the exclusion of no one, and to have an open heart for all.

Stabat Mater
O our Mother, fount of love,
touch my spirit from above;
Help us love as you have done.

The world today is wounded. Today more than ever there are people who need to feel the love of the Mother, the touch of mercy in a world that rejects the different … it is required that each one first recognize his wounded heart …to be able to accompany the wounded heart of his brother or sister and …be able to see in his neighbor the living face of Christ.

Stabat Mater
Can the human heart refrain?
From partaking in her pain,
In that Mother’s pain untold?

In a rapidly changing world, the Marist priests and brothers follow in Mary’s footsteps keeping their eyes fixed on Jesus alone and “understand that Mary is the one who knows that we worship a God for “whom nothing is impossible.”

Stabat Mater
Is there one who would not weep,
Whelmed in miseries so deep,
Christ’s dear Mother to behold?

The word Marist is composed of the first three letters of Mary’s name, and the last three letters of Christ’s name. You may begin by looking at Mary, but you always end up looking at Christ.

Stabat Mater
Christ above in torment hangs,
She beneath beholds the pangs,
Of her dying glorious Son.