This past Thursday, June 16, 2011, Fr. Benoît Grière, Superior General of the Augustinians of the Assumption, appointed Fr. José Miguel Diaz Ayllón  Provincial of North America.

Fr. Miguel Diaz accepted the mission entrusted to him and will take office on July 1, 2011.

NEW BEGINNINGS

The St. Peter and St. Andrew Center opened officially on January 17, 2011 in Bucharest.  The building, confiscated  63 years ago, was returned to the Assumptionists after the fall of the Communist regime.

The Center is first of all a place for ecumenical dialogue and research especially with the Orthodox Church.  It is also a residence with a dozen rooms available to university students.  The Center  houses an important theological library of some 15,000 volumes mostly in the area of ecumenical studies and research.

Fr. Dinh has something in common with the figure of David in this morning’s first reading:  Dinh is the last to be ordained from his ordination class in the diocese of Dalat in Vietnam, and he is the youngest of his class – we won’t make so much of the description of David as “a youth handsome to behold and making a splendid appearance,”  lest we flatter Dinh’s vanity.

A WORD TO OUR ASSUMPTIONIST BROTHERS,
TO LAY ASSUMPTIONISTS,
AND TO SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY

Dear friends, brothers and sisters,
The 32^nd General Chapter of the Assumption began on May 3, 2011, in Rome, in the immense house of the Brothers of Christian Schools the day after the beatification of Pope John Paul II.