Br. Luis Felipe González Ruiz appointed Provincial for a second three-year term in Mexico Central

The Superior General and his Council, after having polled the Province and computed its votes, have decided to appoint Br. Luis Felipe González Ruiz as Provincial of México Central for a second three-year term.

In the letter sent to the Province on December 12, 2023, Brother Ernesto Sanchez, Superior General, thanked Brother Luis Felipe for accepting with availability and generosity to continue this service of leadership as Provincial: “Thank you for your closeness to the brothers and laity, and for the work you do as a team with the Council and the animation teams”.

The new Provincial mandate will begin with the celebration of the next Provincial Chapter to be held from July 25-27, 2024.

Below, Br. Luis Felipe briefly describes his story

I was born on 12 September ( the Holy Name of Mary, feast of the Marist family) in 1974, in Mexico City. I have the good fortune of having been born in a simple and hard-working family, in which my parents, Felipe and Maria Concepcion, educated us in life and in the faith. we were  nine children, of whom I was the youngest of all. Seven of my brothers are married and one is a religious priest in the Order of Friars Minor.

I studied primary education at the Tabasco School, a Marist school, and from there I began the adventure of my vocation, entering the juniorate in 1986. I made my novitiate under the guidance of Brother Basilio Rueda. I took my first vows on 24 June 1995 and my perpetual vows on 19 April 2001.

I have spent the greater part of my Marist life in the houses of formation, having spent seven years in the Postulantship and nine more years in the Interprovincial Novitiate of Mexico, seven of them as Master of Novices. In addition, I spent a year in the Miravalles School, located on the outskirts of Mexico City, and a term in the mission of Guadalupe, in an indigenous area in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.

I had the good fortune to attend the course for formators in 2005 in Nairobi, and in the International Commission of Brothers Today as well as in the Inter-American Subcommittee of Brothers Today, experiences that have left me with very enjoyable learning and excellent friendships.

For the last five years I have collaborated in the coordination of the structure of animation and government of the Mission of Central Mexico, from where I have been able to be close to all the apostolic works of the province, and to remember every day the mission of the Institute, to make Jesus Christ known and loved, from the point of view of education and mission, which, in the words of Pope Francis, “is always an act of hope that, from the present, looks to the future. I am also a member of the Provincial Council.

I also had the grace to participate in the XXII General Chapter held in Rionegro, Colombia in the year of the bicentenary of the foundation of the Institute.

I was appointed provincial of Central Mexico Central in 2021.

I thank God for the abundant life that he bestows at all times, on the brothers and all the people with whom I have shared and who have helped me to be who I am. I ask Mary and Marcellin to continue to inspire my journey, to bring me the gifts necessary to carry out the service that is entrusted to me.