“Uno solo es el Jefe y Maestro”
Wednesday, May 25th, the Miami Chapter will host its weekly Guardia at the Our Lady of Belen Chapel. The Chapel was recently dedicated on Sunday, May 1, 2022. The Father Amando Llorente, S.J. Foundation contributed $1 million dollars through its grant program for the construction of the Chapel.
En Guardia la semana pasada, el p. Jorge Luis Rojas, SJ, párroco de Reina, compartió la feliz noticia de que los jesuitas en Cuba han decidido designar el Teatro de la parroquia en honor al P. Felipe Rey de Castro, fundador de la Agrupación Católica Universitaria. Están preparando el teatro para incluir una historia fotográfica de su vida y de la Agrupación Católica Universitaria. Por favor, lea la carta adjunta del P. David Pantaleon, SJ, Superior de Cuba, con el anuncio oficial.
Our group now (around thirty five) is getting ready to start practicing for our daily walk and our first practice walk will begin on Saturday May 14, 2022 for those living in the Miami area.
We will meet in Loyola on Friday July 22, 2022 and will begin walking on Sunday July 24, 2022 arriving in Manresa on Saturday July 30, 2022. Father Julio Minsal-Ruiz SJ, Father Jose G. Cedeño SJ and Father Paul Rourke SJ will be leading us spiritually.
This past Friday night, May 6, 2022, members of the Esto Vir Group traveled to Aventura to see the film Fr. Stu, starring Mark Wahlberg. Picture from left to right are Oscar Miñoso-Rendon, junior, Michael Martelly, senior, Henry Amador, sophomore, Alexander Sanches, junior, and Lucas Jimenez, junior. The group traveled together to see the film and then had dinner to discuss their impressions of the movie.
Fr. Jorge Rojas, SJ speaks to us about how we must allow Our Blessed Mother to lead us and guide us in everything we do, everything we want, and everything that makes us who we are.
As this Friday in the fourth week of Easter and the Church celebrates Our Lady of Fatima, we reproduce an early pamphlet on Las Lecciones de Fátima (The Lessons of Fatima) by agrupado Dr. Raul A. Arango, one of dozens of writings on dogma, apologetics and morals put out by the ACU Bureau of Information and Outreach (BIP, by its acronym in Spanish). And we present another homily of Fr. Llorente, this one from a different liturgical period and year (Oct. 1991), but touching upon the subject of this apparition of our Mother, entitled The Rosary and Our Lady of Fatima, where he updates the Fatima event and even manages to work in a bit of history on the rosary concerning Cuban doctor of Belén Carlos Finlay, recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted by mosquitoes. Enjoy!
On this May, month of Mary, we anticipate the celebration of Our Lady of Fatima next Friday, May 13, fourth week of Easter. We have digitized, so far, four separate Fr. Llorente homilies on Our Lady of Fatima and here’s the last one of them, dated May 20, 1998. Sister Lucia of Fatima was still alive at the time. On this recording one can sense how much Fr. Llorente loved talking about our Mother and our Church. All other homilies of Fr. Llorente will eventually appear in The ACU App. Please download it onto your smartphone, whether Apple iOS or Android devices. We were just informed that all audio cassettes in our possession have now been digitized and look forward to having them reviewed, categorized and released to the world. If you would like to be of assistance on that project, please contact ACUSaints@estovir.org.
On Sunday, May 15, 2022, the Miami Chapter will host its traditional May Crowning Mass at the ACU House. Our Director, Fr. Christian A. Saenz, SJ, will celebrate Mass and lead the. Doors will open at 3:00 p.m. and Mass will begin at 3:30 p.m. Dinner will be served after Mass. Agrupados, spouses, families and friends are welcome! Please RSVP at the link below so we can prepare.
Last Thursday, April 28, 2022, our Director, Fr. Christian Saenz, S.J., led a group of Agrupados in a memorial prayer service at Fr. Llorente's gravesite to commemorate the 12th anniversary of his passing. The effort was coordinated by Congregante Efrain Zabala, Chair of the Canonization Commission. This memorial prayer service is held anually to support the canonization cause and create awareness of Fr. Llorente's intercession for us and our needs. Some of the Agrupados present voiced their needs at the service imploring the intercession of Fr. Llorente.
On May 18th, we will host the executive team of Cristo Rey Miami High School for an update on the opening of the school this Fall. The School is prepared to welcome its first freshman class for the 2002-2023 academic year! Congregate Julio Villafane is a Board Trustee for the High School and has been an integral part of the process. The Fr. Amando Llorente Foundation, S.J., has awarded two grants to the High School to support the campus ministry program.
