In each high school of the District, lay Partners and Brothers act as Vocation Coordinators, and plans are underway to include a more extensive and informative Lasallian vocation component in the religion curricula. Each campus has an annual workshop for juniors, with emphasis on service and relations to others, and a workshop for seniors, with emphasis on self-understanding and looking within. The Lasallian Youth program gives students opportunities to see and take part in the Brothers' works. And there is a Senior Vocation Retreat each November at Mont La Salle, at which young men who are already active in the Lasallian mission in their schools can spend a weekend prayerfully reflecting, meeting others at various stages of discernment, and gaining insight into the deliberate and unhurried character of the discernment process, with its stages of Contact, Aspirant, Postulant, Novice, and Temporary Professed. That's especially true of the vocation to be a Christian Brother.
Relationships take time to develop.
He develops his prayer life, meets with other Contacts, may volunteer in some Lasallian ministry, and chooses annually whether to continue his involvement. James Coloma is a Contact in San Diego. He's a college student who shares a house with roommates and hits the books hard. But in the summer you might find him in Oakland, California, and in the winter you might catch him in Camden, New Jersey, tutoring kids and living for a while in community with the Christian Brothers. James is about to graduate from U.C. San Diego in Human Development.