Worcester Housing Authority Apartment Complex Gets Spruced Up Thanks to Assumption College Volunteers

By Tyla Wade ‘15

Assumption College students love Worcester— so much so that more than 200 of them returned to the city before the start of fall semester to help out at a Worcester Housing Authority (WHA) apartment complex on Lakeside Street that provides affordable housing for low-income residents. Wearing gray T-shirts emblazoned with “Assumption Loves Worcester,” Assumption students worked alongside WHA staff to clean hallways, sweep walkways, and rake leaves.

As it is every year, the feast of our three Assumptionist  Bulgarian martyrs is an opportunity to stop to reflect on the heritage that they have left not only to us who are called to work today in the Mission in Eastern Europe, but to every brother and sister of our Assumption Family and the Church at large.

Keeping alive their memory means rendering present among us these brothers whom the Church, by means of their beatification, considers to be a gift for all of Christianity. Praying to them, invoking their intercession, allows us to receive the spiritual support we need to make Christ alive in us and around us.

By Fr. François Kambale Nzanzu, AA
September 2014

Assumption is spreading its wings as the Congregation officially assumes responsibility for the new parish of St. Charles Lwanga in KYABAKKADE, Uganda, some 25 kilometers from the capital city, Kampala.

« My sons, spread your wings » !

As I write this article, after my brief stay in Kyabakkade, a week after the official launch of this parish dedicated to St. Charles Lwanga, I can hear inside of me this invitation of our founder, "My sons, spread your wings ».

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 the second of this year’s

CONVERSATIONS AT THE CENTER
on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9

The Church outside of Boston:
Perspectives on Mission in East & Southeast Asia

At this conversation, we are delighted to have Fr. Joseph Zhang, AA and Sr. Ashwena C. Apao share with us their experiences of what it means to be on mission in China, in the Philippines and in Myanmar.