At the beginning of this year, the Assumptionist shrine in Quebec City (Montmartre canadien) launched a new website to promote its various activities: http://www.lemontmartre.ca/culture-et-foi.

Montmarte canadien, as the new site explains, is a place to encounter Christ through prayer, listening to the Word of God, reflection, and fellowship. The center is run by the Assumptionists and their lay collaborators. It seeks to reach those individuals, especially the young, who wish to deepen their faith or return to the Christian faith by joining a Christian community that focuses three areas:

THE ASSUMPTIONIST CENTER...

a place where we learn together,
a place where, together, we discover what it means to be Church.

In order to help that to happen, we need to think and talk together.

And so, we are happy to announce this semester’s

CONVERSATIONS AT THE CENTER
on SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2015

Consecrated Life: The Apostolic Community Life

Being the Year of Consecrated Life, the Assumptionist Center will be hosting three conversations this Spring semester around the distinct forms and traditions of consecrated life in the Catholic Church.

At this conversation, we will focus on the apostolic community life.
We are delighted to have Bro. Gary Davis, a Brother of Hope, and Sr. Palepa Ioane, a Marist Missionary Sister, share their reflection on the significance of the apostolic community life for today’s world.

Conversations at the Assumptionist Center - Feb 1, 2015 (Sunday)

As the Church begins to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life, the Assumptionist Center in Brighton has begun hosting three Sunday “Conversations… this semester around the distinct forms and traditions of consecrated life in the Catholic Church.

At our first session, which focused on the cloistered contemplative tradition, the community, residents and guests welcomed two Poor Clare nuns who shared what is means to them to be contemplatives in today’s world.

(On the occasion of his ordination to the priesthood this past December in Sokode, Togo, we conducted an interview with him.)

- Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?

- My name is Serge Patrick Mabou Simo and I am Cameroonian, from the diocese of Bafoussam in the district of West-Cameroon. I am the youngest in my family, the "Benjamin." After completing my novitiate and my philosophy in the Congo (DRC) and my theology in Nairobi, I came here to Sokode where I was ordained a deacon in June, 2013 and worked mostly with young people both at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish and at St. Augustine Youth Center both of which are run by the Assumptionists in the city.