The “Marcelino the Builder” icon is a complementary symbol that gives continuity to the others, reminding us that the Marist vocation is a constant call to build a new era — a new L’Hermitage — born on the banks of the Gier River and now renewed on the shores of the world.

Marcellin, with steady hands and a heart moved by the Spirit, builds with love and hope, grounding us in the Gospel. Together with him, we are living stones in this work begun more than two centuries ago — a home of brothers and laypeople, of faith and fraternity, rising from attentive listening to the calls of the Institute and the Church.

As companions on the journey, called to build life-giving communities (AR 123), we follow in Marcellin’s footsteps, creating spaces where God’s presence becomes close, fraternal, and incarnate in reality. Our first mission is to be brothers and to build fraternity (C 39), making daily life a true construction site of the Kingdom, where every gesture is a living stone, every encounter a foundation, and every response a new brick laid with faith, hope, and love.

Thus, like a river that flows and gives life, we too are both shore and current: we chart new courses, inspire new paths, and allow the Spirit to lead us — in Mary’s way — to where the mission most needs our hands and hearts. In this way, every life bears witness, every community is renewed, and every brother becomes a sign of the new era the Spirit is bringing forth in the Church and in the Institute.