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 In a ceremony unique to the Jesuit order, Fr. Robert McTeigue will make his profession of final vows at a ceremony and Mass in the Ave Maria oratory Saturday, Nov. 20, at 5 p.m. Fr. McTeigue will renew the vows he made as a novice almost two decades ago and, he says, "The Society of Jesus will make an unconditional commitment to me."
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 The Ave Maria University men's and women's basketball teams are playing well early in the season, but both face tough schedules and the men have adjustments to make after season-ending injuries to two key players. Both teams play their opening home games this week.
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The Collier County Commissioners voted Tuesday to hire an arbitrator to decide a question of how many commissioners' votes it takes to approve a zoning change necessary for the Jackson Lab development near Ave Maria. The ruling is needed because the dynamics of the board will change soon when a new commissioner who is more skeptical of the Jackson Lab project is seated.
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The Ave Maria Hometown Band has added a beginners band and an orchestra and now has about 55 area musicians participating. The band's fall/winter concert Dec. 4 will feature a varied repertoire of classical, popular, patriotic and Christmas music.
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 The next presentation of the Ave Maria University Film Society is the 1996 film Michael Collins, starring Liam Neeson as the Irish revolutionary and political leader. The screening is at 6:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the academic building, with a discussion following at the Queen Mary Pub led by AMU history professor Colin Barr. All are welcome. Dr. Barr says on the film society's blog that the film, among other things, examines the questions of who is truly heroic.
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News about what's happening in the lives of Ave Maria residents is reported in the new Ave Herald feature Around the Neighborhoods. First installment -- what's going on in Del Webb from resident June McCann.
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Work has started on the complicated engineering task of affixing the 75-ton marble sculpture of The Annunciation to the front of the Ave Maria oratory. Above, a fence has been erected that will block use of the oratory's front doors for at least a month.
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The Ave Maria Choirs sang Fauré's Requiem Mass in D Minor Tuesday evening at the second annual special All Souls Day Mass in oratory. The Mass Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form was dedicated to Alex Klucik, a 19-year-old Ave Maria resident who died last summer shortly before he would have started his freshman year at AMU.
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 The non-traditional 1992 western for which Clint Eastwood won an Oscar for best director, will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the academic building lecture hall with a discussion following at The Bean led by Literature Professor Blanford Parker. Dr. Parker, interviewed by the Ave Maria University Film Society, said Unforgiven illustrates "the idea that if you give yourself over to violence, you will go back to a maniacal and vengeful, crude violent character and you won’t be able to control it."
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Emerson Park resident Tom DiFlorio has become the first resident of Ave Maria to serve on the board of supervisors for the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District. Mr. DiFlorio (above, left, being congratulated by Barron Collier's Tom Sansbury) was elected at a meeting Tuesday morning.
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 Members of the Ave Maria community will have an opportunity to meet the dean of the Ave Maria School of Law, Eugene Milhizer, Wednesday evening at a "town hall" meeting at The Bean. Dean Milhizer will talk about the history and mission of the law school and answer questions.
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Children in Ave Maria celebrated All Hallows Eve Sunday, prowling the town center on the eve of All Saints Day, with many dressed as saints. Above, winners of the costume judging with pastor Fr. Robert Tatman (l-r): Marialejandra Chaparro, 9, as Mother Teresa, Joseph Raiger as St. Francis, and the Northon family portraying figures from Noah's Ark.
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Well over 200 people, including busloads from Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, participated Saturday in the Upon This Rock retreat put on by the Ave Maria Founders organization. Above, musician Martin Doman leading the group in song at the start.
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The 31 players on the fledgling AMU football team concluded their fall practices with a scrimmage Saturday. "We're off the field now," said Coach Barry Fagan, "and it's time to use the off season to get bigger, stronger and faster." The team begins playing in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in fall, 2011.
There will be a landowners' meeting as well as the regular meeting of the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board Tuesday, Nov. 2, at which a resident will be elected to the board, according to Tom Sansbury of Barron Collier, the developers' representative to the board. The regular meeting will be asked to give final approval to creating a design review board, among other matters.
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Bella Dix's second-grade teacher at the Donahue Academy in Ave Maria, Linda Fox, also taught Bella's mother, Monica, religion in high school 22 years ago in Ohio. Above, l-r, Mrs. Dix, Bella and Mrs. Fox.
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The European Culture Wars in Ireland, The Callan Schools Affair 1868-81, by Ave Maria University professor Colin Barr, looks at how a dispute between an Irish parish priest and his bishop turned into an international controversy. Above, Dr. Barr signs a copy for AMU student Chantal Foss.
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[Update] The The Ave Maria University Film Society's second season of film screenings got under way Thursday with a large group attending the showing of The Dark Knight, and packing The Bean afterward for a talk on the film by Literature professor Mark McCullough (above). The society has also launched a blog for discussion of film topics.
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John Knowles, the director of external affairs for the Ave Maria School of Law, has been named to the additional post of interim director of development, the school announced. Ave Maria resident Ian Northon has been named special assistant to the dean and director of alumni relations, and the law school also announced that Elizabeth Hinkle, who has been with the Ave Maria University development department, has been hired as its major gifts officer.
The European-style town center of Ave Maria took on a decidedly Bavarian flavor Saturday as hundreds of people turned out for an Oktoberfest event.
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