Casa Maria Marianists

From day 1 in Europe. First stop: Madrid, July 6, 2010. More photos on Flickr.

Novice Norm Capinpin shares with us his experience at the Province Assembly.

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Central Catholic High School held its commencement ceremony at Bill Greehey Arena on the campus of St. Mary’s University, a few yards away from Casa María, site of the annual post-graduation party for faculty and staff.

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Señor Greg Pardo models with the new mop at Casa María

In an effort to maintain good stewardship of the community’s facilities and replace dilapidating equipment, Casa María has acquired a new, commercial-grade mop to be used exclusively for the dining room and kitchen.

Brother Dennis, head of the Office of Temporalities at Casa María, purchased the mop at Cleaning Ideas, shortly after his morning shopping run was completed at HEB Marketplace, Tuesday, May 18.

“The Pardos [Casa María’s cooks] suggested it was time to replace the old mop with a commercial-grade one so I went next door [to the HEB] and got one,” Brother Dennis recalled.

To celebrate this occasion, Brother Bob, head of the Office of Religious Life at Casa María, suggested that it would be appropriate to plan a formal blessing of the mop on a Friday morning, while reciting Psalm 51—Create in me a clean heart and a clean kitchen.

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Casa María hosted Button LIFE social, the end-of-the-year celebration for the student leaders, attendees, faculty and staff of Central Catholic who participated in Marianist LIFE (Living in Faith Experience) on Saturday, May 15.

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The community celebrated Brother Bob’s birthday with a dinner of crispy tacos, chicken-and-beef nachos, rice and a green-and-pink-colored chocolate ice cream cake on Thursday, May 13—the ‘vigil’ of his actual birthday.