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White Double JOHN BAPTIST DE LA SALLE, the teacher of the humble, takes his place today beside Leo the Great, Athanasius, and Gregory of Nazianzum. He has no fear. The victor of Paschal Time is the same Jesus who said during his mortal life: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and unless you be converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, that kingdom of heaven which, after entering into his glory, he manifests so fully upon earth. On the other hand, the Lion of Juda is never more terrible...

Teresa Klein recently received the kind of news that can make a conscientious parent apoplectic. Her 14-year-old son had barely finished the first quarter at his new school, and he had missed so many classes that he was failing at least three of them, according to the progress report that Deer Valley High School had mailed home. But there was something else wrong with this picture: Scott Klein has been enrolled at De La Salle High School in Concord since classes began more than two months ago. Because eighth-graders automatically are enrolled in high schools, Teresa Klein had contacted Deer...

A Contra Costa County jury today found 17-year-old Darren Pratcher guilty of first-degree murder in the 2004 slaying of former De La Salle High School football star Terrance Kelly on a Richmond street. The jury came to the decision after deliberating for more than a week in a trial that began Aug. 23. As the verdict was read this afternoon, Pratcher put both hands over eyes, cast his head down and shook it from side to side. His brother, Larry Pratcher Jr., was ejected from the court room after issuing a string of obscenities. Kelly's family nodded and clapped, and...

April 7, 2006 Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent Psalm: Friday 16 Reading IJer 20:10-13 I hear the whisperings of many:“Terror on every side!Denounce! let us denounce him!”All those who were my friendsare on the watch for any misstep of mine.“Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can prevail,and take our vengeance on him.”But the LORD is with me, like a mighty champion:my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph.In their failure they will be put to utter shame,to lasting, unforgettable confusion.O LORD of hosts, you who test the just,who probe mind and heart,Let me witness the vengeance you...

JOHN BAPTIST de la SALLE 1651-1719 Feast: April 7 This saint is the patron of teachers, his great achievement having been to provide a system of education for the common people at a time when the poor were grossly neglected; not mercy by founding charity schools, a cling which had been attempted countless times before only to end in repeated failure, but by creating a body of trained teachers, and thus setting them on the only possible basis which guaranteed success. It was not by inclination, but solely by chance chat he was led to take up this work....

April 7, 2005Memorial of Saint John Baptist de la Salle Psalm: Thursday 17 Reading IActs 5:27-33 When the court officers had brought the Apostles inand made them stand before the Sanhedrin,the high priest questioned them,"We gave you strict orders did we not,to stop teaching in that name.Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teachingand want to bring this man's blood upon us."But Peter and the Apostles said in reply,"We must obey God rather than men. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus,though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree.God exalted him at his right hand as leader...