Instead of relaxing at home during their winter break from school, nearly 50 Assumption College students have opted to participate this month in community service trips to Ecuador, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Baltimore, M.D.; and Camden, N.J. The students are volunteering their time to help families impacted by economic strife and to rebuild neighborhoods.

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, FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Consecrated Life: The Cloistered Contemplatives

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.

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

"Give me to drink."

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity this year in vites all Christians to drink at Jacob’s well.

How many times, when I was a child, driven by thirs t, did I go to the well to fetch water for me, my family, and our animals. And in summer, there was n ever enough water. Even the garden, with all its vegetables and flowers, was thirsty!

Hiking in the foothills of the Alps near the Center

Recently the Assumptionists assumed responsibility for the "Chalet des forêts" ("Cottage in the Woods") near Lake Léman, nestled in the mountains not far from Lyon, in Haute Savoie (France). Young Assumptionists act as chaplains there organizing activities for young people from throughout the country and the world.

The Chalet des Forêts is a recreation/vacation center for children and young adults founded in 1921 by Fr. Raphanel, pastor of St. Bonaventure's in Lyon. At that time he acquired an old hotel located in Haute-Savoie where he could bring young people from his parish.