Please remember to let the Provincial Office know when you have received the vaccine. (If your vaccine is two shots, please wait until you have received both.) Please notify Donna Tucker. We want everyone to be safe.

The General Council released its newsletter, Via Latina 22 on April 1. The newsletter was sent directly to each Marianist by the General Administration. Directors, please remember to share this publication with Brothers that do not have access to email. Click here for a copy.

Please click here for helpful information on surviving in this time of COVID.

In a spirit of Easter joy, we join with each other in remembering our Founder on his birthday. If you have not already had a chance to do so, I invite you to read the S.M. Three Offices, Fr. Pablo Rambaud’s reflections on holiness and our call for ongoing formation. This paper provides a resource for personal reflection and community reflection perhaps at a community meeting in Easter.

This summer we have been accepted into the Missionary Cooperation Plan for three Archdioceses:

This will amount to preaching at approximately nine parishes and about 27 Masses on behalf of our missions particularly in India. As I work out the dates and times with the various pastors, I am looking for Marianist priests who have had some experience/visit to our missions who might be able to assist us. I will also be reaching out to some of you in these areas. I invite you to check your schedules and get back to me within the next week since we have to provide names and letters of suitability.

Thank you for your consideration and for this opportunity to raise funds for the work of our Brothers and their ministries to the poor.

Recently I sent a letter (click here to read) to the teachers at all of our schools across the Province asking them the question, ”Which of the Characteristics of Marianist Education most influences the teaching of your subject and how?" We are in the season of Easter’s message of life and joy. In the weeks ahead, this spirit will be reflected in the responses to my question from our Marianist educators. I believe that you will be moved and inspired by their words, as I was. May the explicit articulation of our CME’s continue to be a guiding focus for how we educate as Marianists. Our first two reflections are from Michelle Trotman, an English teacher at Villa Angela- St. Joseph High School (Cleveland) and from Karen Ann Thumm, a Film teacher at Chaminade College Preparatory (West Hills, California). Click here to read their reflections.

April 8: José Luis González Molina

April 9: Jack Ventura

April 10: Ralph Siefert

April 8: Birthday of Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, 1761