2 min read by Brian Flagg, Pretty much everyone knows that Pancho Medina is Minister of Culture at Casa Maria, Katie Bolger, among others, has been the Minister of Agriculture, Nancy Myers has been the Director of Fun and Cesar Aguirre is the new Minister of Public Education. Ernie Lujan is without doubt the Food Expert Numero Uno. We’ve been working him to do a regular food column so to speak, for this blog. Hopefully he reads this and realizes that this is his calling, to write the food column! He and I even talked about him kicking it off with something along

6 min read Thanks much to long time Casa Maria supporter KATHY LYNN who included this piece she wrote along with a Christmas donation. She said that it was loosely based on her family’s experience of helping out here at Casa Maria. I found it to be inspirational. She even won a prize in a writing contest with this! Brian Flagg, ___________________________ Angel’s Army By Kathy Lynn, Zombies. That’s what some of the volunteers called them. Most of the people who came to the soup kitchen were just down on their luck. They had jobs and families and homes but not enough money

3 min read by Brian Flagg, Here is one more reason I am a super-blessed vato. Since I became a disciple of Jesus when I was 22, I have come to believe that the keys to life, the keys to the Kingdom, can be found in the Holy Scriptures, especially the 4 gospels. Many years ago I started to subscribe to a little book put out by the Paulists called Pan de la Palabra. It has the readings for the daily mass, puro en Español, along with a very insightful short commentary on the readings. Hopefully this discipline is good for my soul