GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO ALL!!

Dear Servites,

May this Easter Season be cause for joy and new life for each of us, our families, and our Servite communities and fraternities. Since February, 2008, we have welcomed new members to our Servite Family with great joy and hope. We are pleased to know that there are others who wish to share with us the joy of living out the call to be Servants of Mary, to follow in the footsteps of our Seven Holy Founders. We celebrate 775 Years of faithful service, inspired by Mary, Mother and Servant of the Lord, following the example and model of life received from those who have gone before us HAPPY 775TH ANNIVERSARY TO ALL!!

We welcome the following new members to our Servite Family:

January 6 MO, Affton – Seven Holy Founders Community
Betty Cloughley
Marian Reitz
Ed Schmitt
Kathy Schmitt
Wally Schultz

February 8 FL, Lady Lake, Our Lady of Sorrows Community
Barbara L. Gorry
John E. Gorry
Barbara A. Lazzari
Diane Rambo

February 17 CA, Fullerton, Comunidad Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
Patricia Alfaro
José Manuel Chavez
Maribel Chavez
Marisela Flores
Silvia Garcia
Yazmin Garcia
María Gomez
José Gomez
Eva Ledezma
Edela Luna
Laura Nieto
María Noria
Bertha Raygoza
María Luisa Rojas

February 17 CA, Fullerton, Salve Regina Community
Kerri Dillon
Teresa Enriquez
George Krajacic
Susan Richard
Yvonne Rominger

February 17 IL, Chicago, Our Lady of Sorrows Community
Marjorie Cobbs
Gregory Michalek
Wayne Morris
Deborah Turner

February 21 CA, Fullerton, Comunidad Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
María Guevara

February 25 IL, Chicago St. Mary Source of Our Joy Community
Nancy Debiasi

April 9 WI, Ladysmith, St. Juliana Falconieri Community
Kathy Mai
Mary Morgan

Our sincerest congratulations to all the new Secular Servites and to all those who have been involved in their formation and preparation to make their Promise as lifetime members of the Secular Order of the Servants Of Mary. Let us pray continually for vocations to our Servite Family. Let us extend an invitation to others to come and walk with us this journey of faith and of mission, under the guidance and protection of our Seven Holy Founders, St. Philip Benizi, St. Juliana Falconieri, St. Peregrine Laziosi, St. Anthony Mary Pucci and all the Blessed who have preceded us and who inspire us.

Fr. Vidal Martinez,OSM

National Assistant

Servite Secular Order