|  | As an associate of Marist, have you ever asked anyone what it means to be Marist?
In the first offering of the “Mary and the Marist Way class,” two Marist Way seniors, Julia Black and Kelly Williams, spanned the globe seeking how vowed Marists described their special mission and how they defined “being Marist.”
Here are some of the responses they received:
One part of being a Marist I love is openness to the world. We don’t enter a situation knowing all the answers but seek to listen and dialogue. Another Marist virtue I believe in deeply is ‘hidden and unknown.’ For me, it is about keeping our feet on the ground, being ordinary, not looking for high honors, doing what I can for whomever my life brings me in contact with.
- Fr. Paul Cooney, SM, Australia
For me, being Marist is about ‘giving flesh to the Word’ here and now - working with and for the Church, in a reasonably low-profile fashion.
- Fr. Merv Duffy, SM, Auckland, New Zealand
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I am a New Zealand Marist priest working on the Thai-Myanmar border with migrant laborers who are treated very harshly in Thailand. I am hoping that in the future our little mission here, especially our small efforts in education for the children of the migrant workers in Burma, can somehow be connected with Marist Atlanta.
- Fr. John Larsen, SM, on the Thai-Myanmar border
I try to be, and I try to help others be, the best possible version of the person God created
them to be. I have put the key values in the list way:
M erciful
A ttentive to the needs of other
R esponsible for my own actions
I nitiator – making things happen rather than waiting on them to happen
S ensitive to other people’s differences
T olerant of those I come in contact with
To me, one of the key aspects of Mary’s life is that she was there totally for her Son, and then after his death, she was there for the early church. She was like a signpost: it was not a matter of what people thought of her, but what people thought of Jesus Christ because of her.
- Fr. Mark Walls, SM, New Zealand
We are urged to think like Mary, to judge and act as Mary. It may sound a bit unusual, but it makes sense when you think that people like girls at your school are called to live like a man, Jesus. What makes being Marist special is that we are on a first name basis with this woman, Mary.
- Fr. John Craddock, SM, New Zealand
We try to see and treat people as Mary would, we try to give Christ to people as she did, we try to build up the Church, the body of Christ, as she nurtured the physical body of Jesus. We try to do all of this as a community that is committed to each other. We try to do great things for God, while remaining hidden and unknown, to avoid greed, vanity, and worldly ambition.
- Fr. Barry Malone, SM, Brazil
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