January 11, 2025

January Fun!

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 fruitful Christmas season. The Church so graciously gives us these three weeks after Christmas to ponder the wonder of the Incarnation, the Word becoming flesh, the second Person of the Trinity becoming like us in every way but sin.

Several Sister Servants were blessed to travel to Salt Lake City for FOCUS’ annual SEEK Conference. Usually held during the first week of January, it is an extremely powerful experience to attend Mass with 17,0000 other participants, especially during the Solemnities of the Christmas season. Christ the King reigns from His holy throne in Bethlehem, a swaddling infant destined to redeem every single one of us.

Sr. Mary Grace, SV, commented during one of her SEEK talks: “Jesus Christ doesn’t just bring meaning to our life, He is the meaning of our lives and we are wanting until we have Him.” 

We revived last year’s fun of making Christmas ornaments out of eggshells, and love seeing the variety in everyone’s creativity! This year, six eggs went to the SEEK conference for six lucky raffle winners.

Let us resolve this year, especially in this Jubilee Year of Hope, that Jesus be the center of our lives. Let us entrust ourselves totally to the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Virgin in order to imitate Christ more closely!