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Many of you have seen the pictures of the Infant Jesus statues we have been selling in the bookstore for the past few years. It’s not even Advent yet, but…

Life is meant to be lived in as a gift of oneself in love, whether in marriage, religious life, or the single life lived in dedication to service. In the…

A word of thanks to all of you, who faithfully keep our community in your prayers! This summer has been tremendously packed, with helping with VBS programs, giving presentations at…

This past week, our community welcomed a group of Sisters for a nine-day formation course called Esposas de Cristo. The theme for this year was The Eucharist and Consecrated Life….

Here at Casa Maria, we have been enjoying the lovely spring and early summer weather – as a community and with visiting friends. We have enjoyed the fun that comes…

Fourteen Sisters have just returned from a very exciting trip to St. Louis – to participate in Augustine Institute’s first commencement ceremony on their new campus! Over the last several…

So much is held within these most Sacred days of the Triduum celebrations. One of the most precious traditions of this time, one the Sisters always look forward to with…

The Sister Servants had a great surprise recently, as the Blessed Mother herself arranged an unexpected community pilgrimage! Nine Sisters journeyed on behalf of the whole community to the Shrine…

By Sr. Madeleine Marie, SsEW Over Presidents’ Day weekend, Sr. Marie Francesca and I made the trek out to New York City for the annual New York Encounter. The Encounter,…

Blessed 2025! Birmingham has been finishing out the Christmas season with the excitement of a snow day! From all of us at Casa Maria, we hope you have had a…

Let us all rejoice in the Lord,for our Savior has been born in the world.Today true peace has come down to us from heaven. – Entrance Antiphon for Midnight Mass…

Last week, Casa Maria was happily overrun with fifty middle school girls from a parochial school in south Alabama! Their chaplain, a friend of the community, wanted the young ladies…

“Beauty is not an accessory. It is a necessity that has transformative, healing, and encouraging power. It brings us to its source and makes us better without effort on our…

Our Sisters recently participated in a Spanish catechesis day for the Diocese of Birmingham, with about four-hundred attendees. We have been working to expand the Spanish materials we sell in…

Last First Saturday, September 7th, anticipating the feast of our Blessed Mother’s Birth, we had the joy of witnessing Sister Mary Michael’s Perpetual Profession! It was a great and joyous…