Updates

A notable event at the National Catholic Youth Conference, Indianapolis, was a live digital conversation with Pope Leo XIV on Friday, November 21, 2025, during which he engaged in dialogue with a group of five high school students, one of whom was a Marianist student from Saint Louis School in Honolulu, HI.   Micah Alcisto, a senior at Saint Louis School  in Honolulu, was among the five high school students chosen to participate and interact with Pope Leo XIV in a digital con

We are organizing a Conversation Series for all participants in the MFEP Conference, held in Dayton, OH, in October 2024. This 45-minute Conversation Series is also open to Ministry Leads and Marianist Religious. Further, read our inaugural Marianist Encounters Newsletter, August-October 2025 . We are organizing the MFEP Conference 2024: Follow-up Conversation Series for Participants . This Conversation Series will be held in January and February 2026. The Conversation Series

FamilyOnline - October issue featured two articles on Marianist Education, among other stories. The first article shares two personal stories about an inclusive Catholic and Marianist Education for children with special needs at our Marianist schools, and the second article highlights the new nursing program at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. St. Mary’s South Side and Our Lady of Pillar School are part of the One Classroom  initiative. This initiative is part of a netw

This year, the Marianist Family will celebrate St. Francis of Assisi’s feast on October 4 with a Pilgrimage of Hope for Creation...

The Laudato Si Movement is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Laudato Si encyclical with the Raising Hope Conference. Pope Leo XIV...

Every year, the Marianist World Day of Prayer is often celebrated on or around October 12, the feast day of Our Lady of the Pillar in a...

Pope Leo’s prayer intention for September: For our relationship with creation. Let us ask for grace to deepen our relationship with our...

Let us pray in this Season of Creation in solidarity with all who are grieving and suffering. From Laudato Si Movement: In Christ, we too...

View and register for any of the Marianist Family's upcoming events, such as the Autumn Inspiration Retreat on September 20 at Mount St....

Send an appeal (link below) to the EPA to stop revoking the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, which supports the findings that...

The World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation (Creation Day or Feast of the Creation) is celebrated annually on September 1, beginning the...

Read Pope Leo XIV’s message for the World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation, September 1, 2025, wherein he calls us to become seeds of...

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the publication of the encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Leo XIV issued the Decree for the Mass for...

Catholic Climate Covenant is inviting everyone to submit original prayers, reflections, meditations, hymns, liturgies, and artistic...

Read a summary of Pope Leo XIV's video message to the Network of Universities on the tenth anniversary of the Laudato Si’ encyclical. On...

Please join the Marianist Encounters' Shared Conversations group. The Marianist Encounters website will offer a new discussion group...

-       Bro. Jesse O’Neil, SM, co-chair of the Marianist Family Encounters Project. The Marianist Family Encounters Project, now in its...

Let us remember Pope Francis in our prayers. Read an excerpt from Pope Francis’ homily on hope in Christ. At the onset of his papacy in...

Read about and register for some upcoming events from Catholic Climate Covenant. Pilgrimages of Hope for Creation Catholic Climate...

On the feast of St. Patrick, read about his association with the Shamrock leaf, a symbol of the Holy Trinity. St. Patrick, revered as the...