Please pray that a number of our brothers from developing units receive their visas in the next month.

Fr. Chinnaiah Polishety and Bro. Oscar Kerketta have been accepted to the Institute for Religious Formation in Chicago. Chinnaiah, the current novice director in India, has received his visa; Oscar, director of the District's aspirancy/pre-novitiate program, is still awaiting his.

Indian Bros. Balaswamy and George Hans have been accepted at St. Mary's University for the MBA program. Both are preparing for their interviews at the U.S. consulates in Kolkata and Hyderabad for their student visas.

Bros. Thomas Njari and Julius Maingi, from the Region of Eastern Africa, have been accepted at the University of Dayton for master's degrees in educational leadership and English, respectively. Both are awaiting student visas.

Bro. Juan Pablo Espinoza Chavez will soon be returning to Querétaro, Mexico, and is applying for a religious worker visa. He will be part of the new initiative at Holy Rosary parish in San Antonio and will be serving at Central Catholic High School for the coming year.

And, a special intention for two other Marianists who are also seeking religious worker visas.

Bro. Augustus Surin, who has completed his second term as district superior in India, will enter the Ministry to Ministers program at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio. He will attend the MLC-NA Assembly in Dayton before going to San Antonio to begin the program. Welcome, Augustus!

Under current circumstances, immigration applications have become more difficult. Big thanks to Pat Stephens and Bro. Dan Klco for their valuable assistance with these convoluted issues.

Earlier this month, the brothers in Mexico participated in their annual retreat, which was led by Bro. Michael McAward, general assistant for temporalities.

The retreatants included, in back: Bros. José Luis Molina and José Jesús Ruiz-Santillán, Fr. Quentin Hakenewerth, Bros. Mike McAward, Régulo García Hernández and Fermín García García. Front: Bros. Juan Manuel Azamar, Rigoberto Martínez Hernández and Nereo Ramírez Hernández.

If your community has not yet responded to the budget request and Province assessment calculator, please do so as soon as possible.

Final reports are due by July 20. Please also send the bank statement for June 30, or the last one of the fiscal year.

Please send in the final Province assessment payment by July 10 so we can start closing accounts in preparation for our annual audit review.

A special thanks to community business managers for their work in keeping the house accounts in good order.