Casa Maria Marianists

Above: Brother Ralph Neumann (Holy Rosary Community) finds the baby hidden in his slice of king cake during a Mardi Gras celebration at Casa Tuesday on Feb. 16.

Above: Brother Ralph celebrates finding the baby in his king cake with Aspirant Norman.

Above: Sister Gretchen slices a piece of king cake. See more photos on our Flickr set.

The General Administration of the Society of Mary  gathered at the Marianist Residence with San Antonio-area membership on Sat., Feb. 13.

Members of the General Administration began with a brief presentation highlighting current issues that face the Society of Mary throughout the world.

Following their presentation, first vespers was celebrated at the chapel of the Marianist residence with Brother Bob Jones as the organist and Aspirant Andrew Caruso as cantor.

A social and dinner—featuring  a memorable dessert of Texas-sized strawberries dipped in chocolate (check out the photo)—concluded the evening.

This trip to San Antonio is part of their international visitation of Marianist communities throughout the world.

More photos on our Flickr set.

Rev. Manuel Cortés (center), S.M., superior general of the Society of Mary, prepares a breakfast plate with Aspirant Norman Capinpin (left) at the Woodlawn Marianist Community on Sat. Feb. 13, while Brother Mike Sullivan (right) loiters in line.

Cortés, along with the rest of the members of the general administration, is in San Antonio this weekend as part of their international visitation of Marianist communities throughout the world.

Saturday Mass and brunch is a joint effort shared each week by the Casa María and Woodlawn Marianist communities, with each one alternating as host.

The new Dell 1125 multifunction 4-in-1 printer

Without a functioning printer for over three weeks and a working fax machine for longer than some brothers care to remember, Casa María installed its new 4-in-1 Dell 1125 multifunction printer + scanner + copier + fax on Thurs., Feb. 11—the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.

“How appropriate it is to welcome this addition on a feast of our Blessed Mother,” said Brother Dennis as he installed the machine in the office.

Thanks to a sweet deal arranged through the university’s IT department, this ‘machine-on-a-mission’ comes with a four year warranty, “enough to see through the transition of our provincial leadership, the graduation of an incoming freshmen class at our two schools, and, God-willing, four more classes of aspirants,” mused the head of the community’s office of temporalities.

The first page printed on the machine—a Windows Printer Test Page—arrived at 3:20 p.m., followed by the first fax at 3:33 p.m. from Joanne Sanchez, manager of operations at the Marianist Residence.

The new machine replaces the broken hp LaserJet 5M and some old fax machine which never really worked correctly since it was brought over from the Provincial Offices in St. Louis, Missouri, a few years ago.

Goodbye, broken printer and fax

Rev. Andre Fetis and Aspirant Andrew Caruso share Valentine’s Day desserts with St. Mary’s students at Casa Tuesday

With vespers that featured Hawaiian instruments, a meal blessing led in French, Tex-Mex tacos for supper and mini-cheesecakes for dessert, Casa Tuesday captured an eclectic spirit on Feb. 9.

Rev. Andre Fetis plays the ipu heke while Norman plays the ‘ukulele

More photos on our Flickr set.