As you know, Fr. Manuel Cortés has asked you to respond to the consultation for assistant provincial by Dec. 1.  
 
If you haven't yet responded, here is the link:

Assistant provincial consultation form

I hope that the response from the province membership will be as robust as that for the new provincial.

Prayers

Fr. Paul Landolfi is now at a nursing facility run by the Little Sisters of the Poor in New York. He is responding well and has rallied from where he was a few days ago.

Please pray for Fr. Paul and for all of our brothers in the health care communities.

Over the past year and a half, the provincial council has been talking with members of the community and school in Ireland about how to continue the Catholic, Marianist identity at St. Laurence College.

Given the ages of the four brothers there, planning for the long term is a challenge. We intend to do our best, however, to preserve a fine school we have served for 50 years.  

St. Laurence College, Dublin

We believe, and the community and school leadership agree, that entering into one of the "Catholic schools trusts" (Le Chéile or CEIST) would best serve what parents, teachers and pupils want -- continuing Catholic education at St. Laurence.
 
The newly appointed Board of Management (like a board of trustees) was informed about this plan in this letter. We are leaning toward Le Chéile as the trust to enter. The organization's website provides more information. Basically, the trust assumes sponsorship of the school.

Fr. Marty Solma and I will be in Ireland Dec. 4-8 to address the Board of Management and the school community about this matter and the next steps in our planning. We have been in communication with the archbishop and the government's Department of Education and Skills as we have made this plan. There is no intent to close the school or the community.

Please keep this important matter in your prayers.

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