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The videos on this page were created by Scott Gibbs in 1998 and 1999 for major gatherings of Lasallians of the District of San Francisco. Scott was hired by the District because of his professional expertise in putting together videos for large professional corporations. He was tasked with going to all the places where District of San Francisco had invested personnel and financial assistance and convey – through his eyes – what these involvements had led to. There was no advanced “message” that was prescribed beforehand. As a result, the first video, called “Inspiration,” was created, with the subsequent videos emerging afterwards.

Until the end of his life, Scott was highly appreciative of the opportunity to have been able to learn about, document, and be involved with the Brothers, the Lasallian community, and Lasallian education.

These brief 3-4 minute videos by Joseph Alexander-Short are wonderful, poignant, and inspiring insights into the lives of some of the Brothers of the San Francisco New Orleans District of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. They are part of an effort both to share the rich vocational heritage of the province and to make the vocation of the Brother more generally known and appreciated.

Below are the updated set of individual videos.

New videos will be posted on this page as they are released.

These videos were created by Mr. Ed Sirois, a religion teacher at La Salle Academy in Providence, RI. There were made for the morning prayer times for the school’s student-body, focusing attention on a specific person, event, or commemoration that was the subject of prayer that day.

Each video is short, poignant, and well-focused.

A full list of the videos, aligned with an academic-year calendar, is available HERE.

There is a new video that introduces the Meditations for the Time of Retreat. It is the first of a series of planned videos that introduce the major Lasallian texts, so that others may be given a quick overview of their contents, context, and relevance for today’s Lasallian world. This presence video is a short overview of the 16 meditations that De La Salle wrote for the Brothers during their … Read More

The Season of Advent prepares us for Christmas, and it is a good opportunity to reflect about what it is that we are waiting for. These short 7-minute Lasallian reflections take the Gospel for each Sunday of Advent, along with the meditation that St. John Baptist de La Salle wrote for that Sunday, and integrate them into a video reflection designed to spur your personal reflection. The videos are HERE. … Read More

A group of twelve De La Salle Christian Brothers have provided videos and statements answering “what it’s like to be a Brother in the time of COVID19?” The answers range from Singapore to Pakistan to South America to Africa. A wide range of answers and perspectives, but all around the same vocational journel. Go HERE to watch and read them.

The Buttimer Institute of Lasallian Studies is an intensive Lasallian education and formation program that studies the life, work and spirituality of Saint John Baptist de La Salle and the origins of the Lasallian educational mission. The videos below are the sessions from the first year of the Buttimer Institute, concentrating on the life and times of St. John Baptist de La Salle.

Note that the audio has been enhanced, but the video is limited by the quality of video tapes at that time. Nevertheless, it is possible to experience and learn from Br. Luke Salm, FSC, who for years was the major anchor of the program, and whose published works are available HERE.

Links to reference works used during these sessions may be found in the section below the videos on this page.

In celebration of the World Day for Consecrated Life, here are some videos of Brothers around the world responding to “what it’s like to be a Brother in the time of COVID19.

For the text versions and for translations of videos in other languages, see below the video on Facebook.

We are now in the Season of Christmas, which runs from December 25th through January 8th, the Baptism of the Lord. For this season, a short video was created that includes a Lasallian perspective of the feast. The text of the reflection is below, and the video is HERE. So what is it that we have been waiting for? Many people go through Advent like those who stand in a … Read More

This is a redesigned 2018 PDF booklet that accompanies the www.footsteps.org website. It starts with a complete short biography of St. John Baptist de La Salle, and includes text, photographs, live links to videos and relevant website pages from specific locations in France associated with his life. Reflection questions for personal and group processing are also included. The booklet may be printed out or used on a computer or tablet, so that the links to videos and web pages might be engaged along with the text.