De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

The latest podcast interview on songwriting from our former pupils, Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor (“Sodajerker On Songwriting” - previously mentioned in relation to Colin Hay) is a quite wonderful episode with the prodigiously talented, young British multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer and double-Grammy winner, Jacob Collier (no. 147 - previous interviewees include Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Johnny Marr, Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Sting and many more). https://www.sodajerker.com/episode-147-jacob-collier/   Listen, in particular, from 15m 40s to 17m 45s where he speaks about collaboration with other musicians as follows:   “I’m going to let the thing that I thought would happen go in favour of what’s happening... collaborating, for me it’s a sort of life exercise. It’s like, how can I strip down things that I expected to happen, but maintain this point of the narrative of my piece and for this to fee...

Every year on November 26th, our schools and Brothers communities worldwide celebrate the life of our congregation's founder, Jean-Marie De La Mennais, a dynamic, influential Breton (Brittany, N.W. France) priest of the 19th century who founded our congregation in 1819 together with another Breton priest, Gabriel Deshayes. Jean-Marie De La Mennais died on December 26th, 1860. But due to that date's proximity to Christmas, the celebration of the anniversary of his death was moved to November 26th instead. In many cases, this day will be preceded in our schools by a week of celebratory activities of one kind or another (Masses, school trips, activity days, sports events, etc...). In our case here in Southampton we had a Founder's Mass, but decided to postpone the Founder's Week activities until the summer term, because of the proximity of the winter exams (including mock GCSEs and some actual GCSE modules). This time next year, we'll be marking a year of celeb...