Br. Luis Enrique appointed Provincial of México Occidental for a second three-year term
Br. Ernesto Sánchez, Superior General, sent a letter to the Marists of México Occidental announcing that the General Council, after having studied the results of the survey carried out in the Province, has appointed Br. Luis Enrique Rodríguez Santana as Provincial for a second three-year term.
Br. Ernesto thanked Br. Luis Enrique for his generosity in accepting to continue in this service of leadership. He also thanked the Provincial Council and the different provincial animation teams for their work of animation during these three years.
Br. Luis Enrique’s second term of office will begin with the celebration of the Provincial Chapter to be held from July 20-23, 2024.
Br. Luis Enrique Rodríguez Santana
Born on 2 July 1965, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Son of Salvador and Baudelia, he is the 14th of 16 siblings.
He began his Marist formation in the juniorate in Tepatitlán, in 1978. He did the 2nd and 3rd years of his Juniorate in Loma Bonita, in Guadalajara. He also did his first year of Postulancy there. He did the other two years in Querétaro, while he was studying at the teacher training school. He did his Novitiate in Morelia and the Scholasticate in Querétaro and made his first religious profession on 6 July 1986.
Luiz Enrique has a degree in Psychology.
He began his work as a Marist Brother in the community of Nuevo Laredo. Later he moved to the city of Aguascalientes. “I had the good fortune to begin my apostolate in two communities with excellent Brothers. It was here, in Aguascalientes, that I made my definitive consecration on 20 July 1992.”
The third community where he lived was in Mexicali. Here he worked in a school for children from humble families, three years as a teacher and six as director.
After nine years in Mexicali, he was asked to join the Vocation Ministry Commission, where he worked for eight years. During this time, he lived for three years in the Provincial House, for four years stayed with the young Brothers of the Scholasticate, and spent one year in the insertion community of Villa de Guadalupe.
From 2010 to 2019 he was on mission in Haiti, firstly in Jéremie and for the last five years in the city of Okay, where he shared his life in the formation of the young postulants who were interested in following in Marcellin’s footsteps as Marist Brothers. “Here Life goes on and our God who is Love is who makes Life sing”.
On his return to Mexico, he returned to being on the formation team in the Postulancy and Scholasticate of Guadalajara, and in 2021, when he was animator of the Postulancy community in Morelia, he was appointed provincial.