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Central Catholic High School (CCHS) students and parents joined in a pilgrimage for Our Lady of Guadalupe. The school also undertook various service projects and food and supply drives for organizations such as VFWs, Project MEND, ADL, LovePurse, Catholic Charities, and more. Our Campus Ministry team here at Central Catholic has been exceptionally busy over the past two months! For the first time, Central Catholic joined other Catholic faithful in the Our Lady of Guadalupe Pi

We had a reflective conversation on February 12, 2026, focusing on various themes. A synopsis of the Conversation is shared below. Further, we have shared this year’s   Prayer and Reflection Guide  for the Annunciation of the Lord, March 25, 2026, the Patronal Feast of the Marianist Family. Our February 12, 2026, Conversation Series was attended by five Marianist Encounters Committee members: Sr. Leanne Jablonski, FMI, Bro. Steve O’Neil, SM, Tara Poling, Tony Garascia, and Ha

Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory’s annual Service Week, this year, united students, faculty, and the Board of Trustees in a transformative experience of reflection and hands-on volunteering across the local Broward County to actively embody their Catholic-Marianist mission of compassion, justice, and environmental stewardship. CMCP Service Week February 17-21, 2026, Each year, Service Week invites the Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory community to step beyond the cla

CCP High School's plant nursery continues to produce and distribute plants for restoration projects across the LA basin. The following are some of the initiatives undertaken by them, including some proposed plans and future opportunities. We donated 300 plants to an organization in Westlake that looks to convert their lawn and hillside into a native habitat. Students will help install plants on Saturday, February 21, 2026. We donated 600 plants to test plots for restoration p

Colegio San Jos é ’s faculty, staff, and students participated in community service in the local Rio Piedras community. They undertook trail cleaning, weeding, and replanting, and other activities. Colegio San José has made conscious efforts to strengthen its presence and engagement with the local Rio Piedras community. In line with this goal, Colegio San José has established a partnership with the Capetillo Garden located within this community.   Huerto Capetillo (Capetillo

Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day by hosting a dynamic panel of alumni and current women sports leaders that translated the Marianist commitment to women in education into an inspiring dialogue on leadership, resilience, and the holistic development of young women. National Girls and Women in Sports Day offers more than a moment of recognition—it is a call to action. Within the Marianist Family’s Global Compact on Educatio

In the Marianist Encounters Newsletter, November 2025 - January 2026 issue, we honor Our Lady of Lourdes on her feast day, February 11, also the World Day of the Sick. This issue also provides updates from Marianist Institutions around the US and highlights the teachings of Pope Leo XIV, including the Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te and the Apostolic Letter, Drawing New Maps of Hope. The final section features extensive quotes from Blessed Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon on pre

Our MFEP Conference 2024: Follow-up Conversations Series for Participants resulted in fruitful exchanges of experiences, ideas, and opportunities. Given below is a brief synopsis of the two days of Conversations on Jan 12 and Jan 20. Jan 12, 2026 Conversation We had a 45-minute conversation that included a welcome, prayer, introductions, and sharing. We had three Marianist Encounters Committee members, including our co-chair Sr. Leanne Jablonski, FMI, and   three MFEP Confere

Our Marianist Schools, Universities, Parishes, and Institutions in the US and internationally celebrated Marianist Heritage Week this January. Whether it is called Founders Week, Chaminade Week, Marianist Heritage Week, or—for some—Marianist Heritage Month, every January, Marianist institutions pause to celebrate the humble yet bold beginnings of the Society of Mary. Across schools, parishes, libraries, and ministries, the Marianist Family once again made visible a living cha

This Christmas season, Marianist Schools turned faith into action through works of charity and love. St. John Vianney in St. Louis, MO, combined fun and charity by hosting a pajama day bake sale and raised funds for a local children’s hospital. The class of 2031 at Colegio San José in Puerto Rico volunteered at the island’s only children’s hospital and shared their joy with the patients. Purcell Marian in Cincinnati, OH, hosted a coats-and-gloves drive for free concession tre

St. Mary’s South Side Catholic High School, St. Louis, MO, and its Dragon LIFE group honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. The school also celebrated its Latino students, providing an opportunity for cultural learning and enrichment.  Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe December 12, 2025   Our Lady of Guadalupe’s feast day this year allowed us to have a guest speaker at St. Mary’s to share about Our Lady of Guadalupe. Niko Lignore, a friend of St. Mary South Side’s Campus Minister, came

Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory (CMCP), Hollywood, FL, English department, promoted Goal 4 of the Marianist Encounters through the Global Compact on Education’s commitment to finding new ways of understanding the economy, politics, growth, and progress that can truly stand at the service of the human person and the entire human family, within the context of an integral ecology. Many CMCP faculty members would ask me how they can incorporate the Goals of the Marianist Fa

Twelfth-grade Social Justice students from Chaminade College Preparatory High School, CA, read the Laudato Si’ encyclical and created posters with quotes from the encyclical for three proposals: Team Sea, Save the Bees, and Solar Energy.      I have my 12th-grade Social Justice students interact with Laudato Si, the encyclical, after watching a video about Saint Francis and his beautiful writings about how we are to care for creation. The groups interact with Laudato Si’ and

Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory (CMCP), Hollywood, FL, gathered for its second Annual Thanksgiving Prayer Service, giving thanks to God through the prayer service. At the end of the service, the CMCP Girls Volleyball team presented the proceeds from the 16th Annual Cares Volleyball Invitational, held on September 19 and 20, 2025, to Holy Cross Hospital in support of breast cancer research and care.     Goal #3 of the Marianist Family Encounters Project states that we w

Chaminade College Preparatory (CCP) in CA raised funds this year to support campus upgrades that enhance student experiences. Watch the video below. Chaminade College Preparatory’s Native Plant Nursery initiative has grown over 1000 plants and plans to give away around 400 plants for conservation efforts. The school also plans to give an additional 500 plants in the coming year for various lawn-to-habitat projects.   Watch a video about Chaminade College Preparatory , CA, cam

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

This year, St. Mary South Side Catholic High School in St. Louis, MO, partnered with 14 local area organizations to participate in a day of service. St. Mary’s students prepared a vacant property for rehabilitation through the St. Joseph Initiative, sorted and prepared groceries for those in need, and cleaned up the Mississippi River and the local streets. The students shared their positive experiences and felt empowered as a community through their participation in this day

A Beaver Moon is the name given to a full moon that occurs in November. This year’s Beaver Moon was also a supermoon. A supermoon occurs during a full moon when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit. View some pictures of the Beaver Moon taken by Central Catholic’s students. We recently had a Super Beaver Moon on November 5, 2025. It gets the name “Beaver Moon” because this is typically the time of the year when beavers are most active at building

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, on International Peace Day, Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School installed a Peace Pole in a garden dedicated to Sister Dorothy Stang, SNDdN. CJ became the first Catholic secondary school in Ohio to have a Peace Pole, joining with the University of Dayton's Peace Pole, which was installed in 2013. On the afternoon of Friday, September 19, Chaminade Julienne’s Peace Ambassadors Student Group commemorated International Peace Day with a peace pole dedication ceremo