Edmund Rice Network Oceania
Queensland Networking
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History
The Christian Brothers have been following in the footsteps of Edmund Rice in Queensland since 18?? Their works were concentrated in schools which provided a high standard of education to Catholic boys. Over the years, with government funding, the schools grew beyond the capacity of the Brothers to manage alone. More and more lay staff were needed to help in the schools.
Education Introduced
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Edmund Rice chose education as the main way through which he would would serve God and the most disadvantaged people of Waterford. He inspired others to join him in this work. Soon his Brothers developed a system of Catholic Schools which spread to every contenant.
Education is still very important to Edmund Rice's followers but with the reduction of numbers of Brothers and the complexity of managing an Education System the day to day management of our schools in Australia has been entrusted to Edmund Rice Education Australia.
Developing Nations Introduced
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The former Provinces of the Christian Brothers in Oceania have, for some time, had outreaches to Developing Nations.
Oceania Brothers have been in China since the 1930's, Papua New Guinea since the 1950's, in the Pacific Islands, Africa, Timor Leste and the Philippines,
Edmund Rice
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Edmund Rice was a human being with a great and expansive heart. He was a man of creative vision, practical wisdom and energetic know-how. He was in many respects a bridge builder. He wanted to build a bridge from what had been his experience of life in eighteenth century Ireland, and before, to what needed to emerge in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Christian Brothers' Constitutions
Blessed Edmund Rice
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Blessed Edmund Rice (1762-1844)
The Question today is not 'What do we remember about Edmund Rice?' but 'Why do we remember him at all?' or, better still, 'How do we remember him?' Do we remember him on his Feast Day as a hero or as a saint? I suggest that it is the latter.
This is not to deny that, from one point of view, Edmund was a hero; for saints are often described as people of heroic virtue and, as the Book of Revelation (21:8) states, there are no cowards in the Kingdom. But there is a difference, indeed several differences, between heroes whose deeds quite rightly invite our admiration and saints whose lives call for our imitation.
