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Sarah Clancy ’18 Receives SOPHIA Grant to Volunteer with Religious Sisters of the Assumption in New Mexico

Each summer, Assumption College invites students to develop proposals to receive grants that enable them to explore a particular vocation or to conduct academic research. This summer, Global Studies major Sarah Clancy ’18, of Dedham, MA, will use her High Impact Summer Grant to work closely with immigrants and their children while attaining a better understanding of God’s calling for her in Chaparral, New Mexico.

While in Chaparral, Clancy will work with the Religious Sisters of Assumption as an Assumption Mission Associate (AMA), serving as a leader of a summer camp for children of immigrants. Over the years, the Sisters have built a bond of trust with the local people, which has allowed them to help the immigrant community in many different ways. A cornerstone of the mission is the educational and recreational programs offered to children and youth, with an eye to helping them develop leadership skills and a culture of community service. During the summer, the Sisters will welcome groups from other parts of the country and Mexico for three or four weeks of camps; in addition to all the fun, these groups get a chance to learn about the realities of life on the border (Chaparral is located near the U.S. and Mexico border).

April 30, 2016, on the 177th year anniversary of the Foundation of the Religious of the Assumption, the sisters of the US province gathered at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Assumption College not only to celebrate the anniversary of their foundation but also to witness the First Vows of Sr. Akeneta, their first vocation from Fiji Islands. Gathered around her were her relatives who came all the way from California, the Assumption family, past and present AMA volunteers, and the friends of the Assumption. Indeed "Purple Reigns!", We were there to celebrate it!

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ST. ANNE/ST. PATRICK YOUTH GROUP HOSTS CARDBOARD CITY ONCE AGAIN

The youth group wants to thank an amazing group of parishioners who ran the kitchen for Cardboard City Friday night and Saturday morning.

Thank you to Jeannette Krans, Bill Krans, Peggy Sorenson, Judy Curboy, Sylvia Gaumond, Colleen Casey, Sandie Kelly, Pat Haggerty, Terry Johnson, Jecenia Figueroa, Pauline Devlin and a big thank you to our overnight volunteer who stayed awake all night, outside with the kids, and manned the fire, Doug Mrotek. Thank you to all those who donate their cans and bottles, especially Incom, for Kids in the Congo.

This event was possible only because of all of you!

1993-2013: A Look at 20 years of a Novel Idea: "Summer Universities"

From 1993 to 2013, 10 workshops known as "Assumptionist summer universities" (universités d’été assomptionnistes/UAE) have taken place in France

by Bernard Jouanno, A.A.

The first of these workshops took place in 1993 at the Assumptionist-run reception center near Lyon, France. It had as a theme: "Building Cities for Your Children" and as it aim: "an analysis of the place of the city and its mysteries and traditional structures, to uncover urban culture, and in this context, to re-examine the role of the Church."

Behind this initiative of summer universities was a group of men and women religious of the Assumption Family as well as lay friends taken up with Assumptionist spirituality. They hoped to build on similar efforts that had taken place over the years since Vatican II.