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The poems ranged from modern to classics, and people recited from computers, iPhones, memory and old-fashioned paper at a fun poetry reading Friday night at The Bean of Ave Maria. More than 30 people attended and readers included university and high school students, town residents, clergy, and university professors and administrators. (Above AMU student Zach Harned reading classic poetry from his laptop.)
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The Ave Maria Stewardship Community District at its meeting Tuesday will consider the creation of a design review board that would have authority to approve plans for all non-residential construction in the town. The recommendation is one of several items on the agenda for the AMSCD meeting at 9 a.m. March 2.
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The Dominican Sisters of Mary who appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show earlier this month presented Oprah with a rosary and taught the TV star how to pray it, Sr. Teresa Benedicta told a packed gathering at The Bean of Ave Maria Tuesday night.
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Priests for Life and the Terri Schiavo Foundation have announced that the "National Mass for Terri's Day" March 31 will be celebrated again at the Ave Maria oratory. The "Terri's Day" Mass was celebrated at Ave Maria last year as well.
(Left, a photo of Terri Schiavo displayed at the oratory at the Mass last year.)
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Ave Maria University officially dedicated the Paul M. Henkels Academic Building Friday before an enthusiastic gathering that included the late Mr. Henkels' wife, Barbara, nine children and 21 grandchildren. Above, the family poses outside the building after the dedication.
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 Several hundred people attended Stations of the Cross Friday evening in the oratory. Stations of the Cross will be held at 7 p.m. in the oratory every Friday in Lent. (Right, Fr. Robert Tatman, the parish administrator, leading the observance Friday.)
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Bishop Frank Dewane thanked students at Ave Maria University and the Donahue Academy for their pro-life commitment when he celebrated the noon Mass in the oratory Friday. (Above, Bishop Dewane greeting students from the Donahue Academy after Mass)
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The Casa de Bambini Montessori pre-school welcomed 30 children when it opened for business Thursday morning in the Ave Maria town center. Above, teaching assistant Krista Henley with Michael and Maria Buccheri.
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Internationally-known art historian Dr. John Spike will give two free, public lectures at Ave Maria University Feb 20: The Fundamentals of the History of Christian Art and The History of the Annunciation in Art.
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 Visual arts, poetry, music and drama will be showcased Friday at an exhibition on the Ave Maria University campus exploring the question, "But What is Love?" All are invited to the free event organized by students beginning at 7 p.m. Feb. 19.
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With construction already under way, the official groundbreaking was held Tuesday morning for the Ave Maria University Golisano Field House, which will house a gym and training facilities. Above, Mr. Golisano talks with AMU basketball players Chris Scanlan (center) and Marc Rozanski.
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Fr. Robert McTeigue will speak about his missionary experiences in the Far East at the next Theology on Tap, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Queen Mary Pub and Grille. Theology on Tap is open to all. Raffle tickets will be sold to support his missionary work. |
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Cardinal Adam Maida, retired archbishop of Detroit, praised Ave Maria University as "a great work of the Church" after celebrating the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass. Above, Cardinal Maida greets Emerson Park resident Mary Mitchell after Mass.
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Headmaster Dan Guernsey says the school is grateful to the entire community and to the Knights of Columbus, who put on a pancake breakfast fundraiser the Sunday following the festival events in the town center.
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An Ave Maria University football team has long been a dream of founder Tom Monaghan. AMU announced today that it has hired a head football coach, Barry Fagan, currently an offensive co-ordinator at Hillsdale College, and will field a team in 2011.
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Anyone interested in the Institute of Pastoral Theology will have an opportunity to hear a talk by one of the professors Friday, and attend open classes at Ave Maria University Friday through Sunday. The IPT is a graduate program in theology designed for the non-traditional student.
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The Dominican Sisters of Mary, some of whom teach at the Donahue Academy in Ave Maria, were featured Tuesday on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Reporter Lisa Ling, who spent a night in their convent in Ann Arbor, MI, called the sisters "some of the kindest people I've ever encountered." Above, Sr. Francis Mary (L) and Sr. Mary Judith with Oprah Winfrey
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Dazzling singing from five AMU students highlighted the meeting of the Naples chapter of the Ave Maria Founders Club Tuesday night. Students sang selections that will be part of a musical theater evening March 27 at the Festival of the Arts in Ave Maria. Above, sisters Jamille (L) and Alia Seaberg sing the duet Sull'aria from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Other singers included Nathaniel Page, April Rutherford and Vanessa Tompkins.
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The Respect Life Committee of the Ave Maria quasi parish will be available after masses Feb. 7 and Feb. 14 to sign up volunteers to participate in vigils outside Planned Parenthood in Naples as part of a nation-wide 40 Days for Life campaign.
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Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago, opened Ave Maria University's conference on Catholicism and America with an address before the university's spring-term convocation. Above, Cardinal George receives an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from AMU President Nick Healy. Left-right: AMU Board Chairman Michael Timmis, Bishop Frank Dewane, Cardinal George, Mr. Healy, and AMU VP Jack Sites.
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