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Members of the Province Renew their Vows August 17, 2025 Having completed their annual retreats, the members of the Province of Meribah renewed their perpetual and temporary vows. The religious of the province gathered in the chapel at Chaminade High School on Sunday, August 17, 2025 for the annual renewal of vows and the celebration…
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Dear Graduates of Chaminade and Kellenberg Memorial, Welcome to Firebirds and Flyers from the Class of 2025! This is the first time you are receiving your Magnificat in the mail – the first of many monthly Magnificats making their way to your home addresses in the summer and to your college addresses during the…
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Dear Graduates of Chaminade and Kellenberg Memorial, Greetings for downtown Des Moines, Iowa, where it is currently a sultry 87 degrees Fahrenheit, with thunderstorms predicted for the next couple of days as the air grows thicker and more oppressive by the minute. I’m here for a week-long National Speech and Debate Association Tournament in…
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“WHY NOT BECOME A SAINT?” June 1, 2025 COLLEGE-AGE ALUMNI RETREAT AT FOUNDER’S HOLLOW “Why not become a saint?” Fourteen college-age graduates from Chaminade and Kellenberg gathered at Founder’s Hollow from May 27 to May 29 to consider that question. Our retreat for college-age grads included time for prayer and Eucharistic Adoration, Mass, thought-provoking discussions,…
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Dear Firebirds and Flyers, As I write my Magnificat reflection for the month, I can’t help reflecting on what happened in May with the election of Pope Leo XIV and what’s in store for us all this June and beyond. I’m preparing to leave for our annual Marianist LIFE program, a religious leadership retreat that…
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Discerning God’s Call More than 100 young men from Province High Schools attend the latest Operation Fiat program! The cultivation of a religious vocation is a process requiring many factors. God calls in infinite ways, but that call needs to be discerned, welcomed, understood and responded to, all over time. We have seen that there…
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Pope Leo XIV elected as the 267th Successor of St. Peterand First American Pope The Province of Meribah, of the Society of Mary, gratefully gives thanks to the Holy Spirit and the College of Cardinals for giving us a new shepherd to guide the universal Church. We are excited by the election of Pope Leo…
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Serving the Church – Consecrated Lives Brother Stephen shares a message for this year’s commemoration of the vocation of the Religious Brother What is a religious brother? Pointing to two recently deceased members of the Province of Meribah, Bro. Gary Eck, SM, and Bro. Richard Hartz, SM, Brother Stephen shares their example as a fitting…
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May’s Pilgrims Marianist Reflection for May 2025 by Michael Patrick Duffy, SM AN INVITATION TO SAY “YES” TO THE JOURNEY “April showers bring May flowers. And what do May flowers bring? Pilgrims!” This answer to this well-known and admittedly somewhat corny riddle is, nevertheless, very appropriate for us today. We are pilgrims! We are on…
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REST IN PEACE, POPE FRANCIS April 21, 2025 It has pleased God to call to himself, Pope Francis, our Holy Father, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Christ. The news early on the morning of April 21, 2025, that Pope Francis had passed from this life to eternal life in the “House of the Father”…