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THREE BROTHERS PREPARE FOR PERPETUAL VOWS

At the grotto at Mount Saint John, Fr. Michael Lisbeth (center) with Bros. Daniel Griffin, Andrew Kosmowski and Robert Jones

Please pray for Bros. Robert Jones, Andrew Kosmowski and Daniel Griffin (Province of Meribah), who are attending the Spirit of Saragossa retreat June 6 - 26 at Mount Saint John in Dayton in preparation for their perpetual vows. This is the third time the retreat has been offered for perpetual vow candidates in the Province of the U.S. Fr. Michael Lisbeth is the retreat facilitator. A special word of thanks to the Cupertino community in California and the Chaminade community (Province of Meribah), which have agreed to be the communities of prayer in support of the perpetual vow program. The perpetual vow retreat is based on the Spirit of Saragossa retreat program developed by the International Center for Marianist Formation. Marianists worldwide use the program to prepare for perpetual vows. The retreat focuses on a central Marianist belief: “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, born of a woman, that all who believe in Him may have eternal life.” Read an outline of the retreat.

ON THE ROAD TO “SPIRITUAL BOOTCAMP” WITH LUIS GUERRA

Luis Guerra, a teacher at Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, is leaving his position at the school to join the Marianist aspirancy program or “spiritual bootcamp” as he calls it. Luis left his students with some words of wisdom: “Know yourself. Try your best to understand what God wants you to do with your life. Every day is a new chance to do your best. Never give up. Smile often.” Read more about Luis from the Central Catholic student newspaper.

TROOPS SING THE PRAISES OF BRO. BOB POLITI

Bro. Bob Politi (DeSales Crossings, Cincinnati) was honored May 14 with a private concert given by the 82nd Airborne Division Chorus of the U.S. Army. Tom Tiernan (Purcell, '73) arranged for the special concert in honor of Bro. Bob’s 50th year as a Marianist brother. The 82nd Airborne Chorus was in town to perform the national anthem at the Cincinnati Reds game and made a stop at St. Francis de Sales Church to entertain the Purcell Marian community. In his introduction, Tiernan cited Bro. Bob as one of his most influential teachers during a difficult time in his youth. The concert was his way of giving back. Tiernan encouraged students to recognize the impact they have on others and to appreciate the time they have at Purcell Marian. Special guest Michele S. Jones, special assistant to the Secretary of Defense and White House liaison, also spoke to the students. During the celebration, Aspirant Brandon Paluch, a teacher at Purcell Marian, was congratulated by Al Early (PM president) for his outstanding service to the school. View more photos from the event.

Purcell Marian President Al Early (at podium) honors Aspirant Brandon Paluch

JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE PROVINCE

In San Antonio

In Cape May

The Cape May community celebrated Bro. Al Koch’s 60th anniversary as a Marianist on June 6 with a Mass at St. Agnes chapel in Cape May Point, N.J. Approximately 40 of Bro. Al’s friends attended the celebration. Fr. Ted Cassidy was the main celebrant and homilist. Monsignor Tim Ryan and Fr. James Collins concelebrated. After Mass, the group enjoyed a meal and cake at the Marianist Family Retreat Center.

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION DAY AT THE MARIANIST MISSION

On May 26, the Marianist Mission in Dayton thanked 10 volunteers with a staff luncheon. The volunteers have completed their second year of service in which they gave 2,220 hours, more than that of one full-time employee. In appreciation, the Mission gave each volunteer a pewter three o’clock prayer statue and a gift card. Mission employees brought homemade food for the luncheon and a personalized cake prepared by Lori McClay.

SAVE THE DATE – MOUNT SAINT JOHN ANNIVERSARY

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Mount Saint John in Dayton. On Oct. 15, 1910, the Society of Mary purchased 80.24 acres from Orange O. Ozias that are now home to Queen of Apostles Parish, Bergamo Center, NACMS, MEEC, Gallery Saint John, and the Meyer Hall and Marianist novitiate communities. All members of the Marianist Family are invited to attend an Open House and Centennial Celebration on the Mount Saint John property on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, from noon to 4 p.m. To receive your invitation, call 937.429.2521, write to:

MSJ Centennial, Mount Saint John, 4435 East Patterson Rd., Dayton, Ohio 45430-1083, or e-mail: msjcentennial@yahoo.com. The MSJ Centennial Committee arranged for banners to commemorate the anniversary. They were erected by Tom Quakenbush (standing on lift) under the direction of Bro. Jack Somerville (on the ground). Courtesy of Bro. Jack

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOUL OF . . .

Fr. Georges Neubert (Province of France), 88, who died June 12, 2010, in Issenheim, France. May he rest in peace. Fr. Georges’ obituary will appear in an upcoming issue of FamilyOnline.

Bro. José María Equíluz (Province of Zaragoza), 79, who died June 8, 2010, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. May he rest in peace. Bro. José María’s obituary will appear in an upcoming issue of FamilyOnline.

Fr. Manuel María Iceta Olaizola (Province of Zaragoza), 74, who died May 19, 2010, in Valencia, Spain. May he rest in peace. Read Fr. Manuel María’s obituary.

Bro. José María Fernández de Retana (Province of Madrid), 82, who died April 27, 2010, in Madrid, Spain. May he rest in peace. Read Bro. José María’s obituary.

Please pray also for Margie Armstrong, Patrick Begley, Fr. J. Ripley Caldwell, S.J., Joseph Chiuri, Theresa Gray, Rosita Guerra, Daniel Harris, Larry Lisbeth, Barbara Long, Kevin Miller, Louis Narke, John Poulicek, Dorothy Radish, Kevin Duggan Woods and Merlin Yat. Read more.

FROM A GARDEN IN NAIROBI, KENYA

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALING OF . . .

Bro. James Billo (Marianist Residence, San Antonio)

Fr. Frank Kenney (Mercy Siena, Dayton)

Fr. John Melloh (South Bend, Ind.)

Fr. Lee Sciarrotta (Washington Street, Dayton)

Fr. Tom Stanley (Mercy Siena, Dayton)

Bro. Pierre Weitkamp (Marianist Residence, San Antonio)

Sr. Audrey Buttner (Marianist Sisters, Dayton)

Please pray also for Bill Carara, Edward Conrad, Catherine Fitzgerald, Bernadine Hardin, Georgia Heffron, Judy Moehl, Margaret Murphy, Frances Phelan, Mary Jane Pieprzyca, Dorothy Russell, Joseph Stanek, Edward White and Maria White. Read more.

TAKING TIME TO REFLECT AT TECABOCA

COMMON BOND SEEKS FORMER MARIANIST RELIGIOUS

Common Bond is a national organization of former Marianist religious that sponsors gatherings and sends regular news bulletins. The largest portion of its membership is from the former Provinces of Cincinnati and New York. Don Ribbing, Jerry Gegg and Fr. Bernie Lee are trying to reach former Marianists from the St. Louis and Pacific Provinces and to spearhead a national meeting at St. Mary's University in the summer of 2011. If you have names and addresses of former professed Marianists who might be interested in belonging to Common Bond, please e-mail Bernie Lee.

MARIANIST LIFE IN CALIFORNIA

Marianist LIFE invites all members of the Marianist Family in and around the Bay Area and Silicon Valley in California to a Marianist Family Gathering on Saturday, June 19 at Presentation Center in Los Gatos. Join the adult community preparing for the Marianist LIFE Pacific summer program for a prayer service and social. Find out more.

WHO'S DOING WHAT. . .

Bros. Gary Morris and Tom Spring performed in the Chaminade University of Honolulu spring production of "Fiddler on the Roof." Bro. Gary, who directed the production, played the lead role of Tevye. Bro. Tom took the role of the rabbi. The cast of 45 actors was made up of students, administrators, faculty and staff and people from the larger island community.

STUDENTS GATHER IN DEEPAHALLI FOR UD 2010

Seven brothers arrive in Deepahalli, Bangalore, to participate in the University of Dayton 2010 program in Bangalore. They will study for three years. Shown are Bro. Rajesh, SOLA (Society of Our Lady of Africa), Marianist Bros. Pratap Guria, Prince A., Dan Stupka and Ismail Sindur, Bros. Sanjog (SOLA) and Nitish (SOLA) and Marianist Bro. Santosh Savarimuthu. Courtesy of Bro. George Hans

LAETARE MEDALIST CREDITS MARIANIST EDUCATORS

Dana Gioia, noted poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, was awarded the Laetare Medal in May at the University of Notre Dame. During his speech, he mentions his Marianist education, including Bros. Terrence Wong and John McCluskey, who was so passionate about Shakespeare that he stood on desktops to recite lines. View the Laetare address.

FROM THE SCHOOLS . . . Jim Adams with a group of CCP students CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY, CALIFORNIA. Congratulations to President Jim Adams, who was named the San Fernando Valley Business Journal’s Best Not For Profit Executive. During his time as president, CCP spearheaded a successful capital campaign which raised $6 million to construct the Condon Family Foundation Center for Science and Technology and the Father Allen DeLong Center for Arts and Athletics. CCP also instituted a personal computer educational program, increased financial assistance for deserving students from $59,000 to $2 million, and increased enrollment by 300 students. Read more. CHAMINADE-MADONNA COLLEGE PREPARATORY concluded its yearlong 50th anniversary jubilee celebration on May 22. The C-M community, former students and administrators, officials of the Archdiocese of Miami and many other friends attended a celebratory Mass presided by Archbishop John C. Favalora and a picnic. Read more from C-M and the Florida Catholic. C-M President Fr. Larry Doersching receives a Proclamation from Heidi O’Sheehan (vice mayor of the city of Hollywood board of commissioners) declaring May 22, 2010, as “a day in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory.” CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU will receive $200,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation over the next two years to help address the issue of racial inequality for native Hawaiians. The grant is one of 119 awarded nationally by the foundation to support racial equity and healing. Chaminade is the only institution in Hawai’i to receive the grant. Read more. ST. ANTHONY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and St. Anthony Grade School joined forces to collect school supplies for the children of Afghanistan. St. Anthony alum Scott Williams, who is stationed in Afghanistan, e-mailed his father Michael Williams, also a St. Anthony alum, about the needs of the school children in Afghanistan. Michael Williams approached the schools for help in organizing a collection of school supplies. The outcome was 16 boxes of supplies that are now en route to Afghanistan. Michael Williams and groups at St. Anthony helped with the cost of mailing the boxes. LEFT: St. Anthony students pack up the school supplies for Afghanistan; RIGHT: Scott Williams in a classroom in Afghanistan Bro. Cletus works on the mural with a St. Mary’s University student ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY and Haven for Hope, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of homeless people in San Antonio, gathered May 19 to dedicate one of the largest murals in San Antonio. The mural, designed by Bro. Cletus Behlmann, St. Mary’s Artist in Residence, spans nearly the length of two football fields and adorns Haven for Hope’s outdoor safe sleeping area for the chronically homeless. It depicts San Antonio landmarks, religious imagery and nature scenes. Bro. Cletus enlisted more than 50 St. Mary’s students to help him paint the mural. Read more from St. Mary’s and the San Antonio Express News. ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY TO BUILD HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING LAB. The St. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering & Technology was recently awarded a nearly $150,000 grant from the Army High Performance Computing Research Center of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to establish a Linux cluster laboratory. Read more. Bro. Dennis Bautista (standing, far right) with The Rattler staff at a newspaper competition earlier this year ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER WINS AWARD. Congratulations to the staff of The Rattler student newspaper for winning First Place with Special Merit in the American Scholastic Press Association's annual review and contest. The national contest reviews over 2,000 scholastic publications. Scoring 945 out of 1,000 points, The Rattler was judged to be an outstanding example of a scholastic publication in format, content and presentation. Bro. Dennis Bautista is the faculty advisor for the publication. CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL hosted donors and Marianist brothers and priests for the President’s Pillars Club Recognition Reception. The donors represented alumni, past and current parents, faculty, staff, foundations and local businesses. At the donor event, front, Fr. Don Cowie, Fr. Joseph Rasky, Bro. Peter Pontolillo, Fr. Joe Tarrillion, Bro. Leo Willett, Bro. Bill McCarthy, Bro. Ed Loch and Bro. Jim McCaffrey; back, Bro. Tom Suda, Bro. Al Gillis, Bro. Bill Chewning, Bro. Paul Metzger, Bro. Jim Jaeckle, Fr. Pat McDaid, Bro. Jim Burkholder, Bro. Dave Quigley, Bro. Mike Sullivan, Bro. Richard Dix, Bro. Richard Martens, Bro. Terry O’Connor, Bro. Bob Jones and Aspirant Norman Capinpin Nolan student Emily Collins hugs a LIFT student. Courtesy of Joan Kurkowski-Gillen, North Texas Catholic NOLAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL students participated in a Life Industrial and Functional Training Program (LIFT). Each week the students traveled to the Transition Center in Fort Worth where they mentored young adults with physical and cognitive challenges to help them better learn to cope with the world. Read more from a story in the May 7 North Texas Catholic (story may take a moment to download). ST. JOHN VIANNEY HIGH SCHOOL. Congratulations to the Griffin volleyball team, which won its fifteenth state championship May 20 with a win over Bishop DuBourg High School. NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL seniors Lexie DeRiggi and Drew Nowak and moderator Pam Connolly appeared on KDKA TV in Pittsburgh and presented CPR training skills. View the video.

GIVING “FACE” TIME TO THE ISSUES ON MAUI

TECABOCA RECEIVES BUILDING GRANT

Kay Tally-Foos, executive director of the Tecaboca retreat center in Mountain Home, Texas, reports that the facility has been selected as a recipient of a Renewing Our Communities Account (ROCA) nonprofit capacity building grant. The retreat center and boys camp will receive up to $25,000 from the grant to build its capacity and strengthen its collaborative partnerships. Read more.

WALL STREET EXEC TOUTS TEACHINGS OF FR. FERREE

ORGANIZATION TACKLES SOCIAL JUSTICE IN SOUTH JERSEY

OOPS . . .

In the May 19 issue of FamilyOnline, we mistakenly wrote that Fr. Paul Fitzpatrick is joining the Hale Malia community in Honolulu. Fr. Paul is joining the Marianist Hall community in Honolulu. Our sincere apologies for the error.

SPRING CLEANING AT GOVERNOR’S ISLAND

CUPERTINO. Read the latest news from the Cupertino community in California from Fr. Steve Tutas.

CAPE MAY. Read the June 2010 issue of The Beacon, the newsletter of the Marianist Family Retreat Center in Cape May Point, N.J.

MLNNA. Read the June 2010 issue of E-News, the newsletter of the Marianist Lay Network of North America.

MSJC. Read the May 2010 issue of Justice Jottings, the newsletter of the Marianist Social Justice Collaborative.

MLC. Read the May 2010 issue of Gifts and Tasks, the newsletter of the International Organization of Marianist Lay Communities.

FR. GENE CONTADINO GETS THE RIDE OF HIS LIFE

Tom and Eileen Dharte, friends of Fr. Gene Contadino, wanted to do something special to commemorate his 50th anniversary as a Marianist. Aware of his lifelong dream to own a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, the two UD alumni secretly organized “Project Heaven’s Angel” to raise funds to purchase Fr. Gene a Harley. A few weeks ago, they lured Fr. Gene to a local Harley dealership where 50 of his friends and a brand new Harley awaited him. “I was flabbergasted,” said Fr. Gene. His friends said it was the first time they had seen him speechless. View a video of this special event.

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