Portrait of a Christian Brother featured in the 2026 KabarA Challenge

Br. David Galinski

Senior Brother, Midwest District
David Galinski's most formative relationship in religious life was with his novice master, Brother Emory Hogan, who showed him what being a Brother was all about by living it.
His Story

David Galinski's most formative relationship in religious life was with the man who served as his novice master — Brother Emory Hogan. It is a relationship Br. David recalls with genuine love. "He showed me what being a Brother was all about," he says. Brother Emory did not simply talk about the values of the Lasallian vocation — he lived them. He preached what he practiced. And in that consistency between word and life, Br. David found the clearest possible model for his own journey.

That kind of integrity — the alignment of belief and behavior, of what one professes and what one actually does — has been the hallmark Br. David has tried to carry into his own decades of ministry. It is a standard he holds not lightly but with the seriousness of a man who knows how much it matters, especially to young people watching from the other side of the desk.

Throughout his years in the Brothers, Br. David has offered to students not just knowledge but example — a life demonstrably devoted to something larger than personal ambition or comfort. In that, he continues to honor the man who first showed him what it meant.

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