This summer I had the opportunity to visit the Assumptionist communities in Romania and Bulgaria.  In the first part of my trip I was in Bucharest, Romania. An Assumptionist community there operates the St. Peter – St. Andrew Center, which is both a house of studies and a meeting place for Catholics and Orthodox. While there I learned about the work being done to foster relationships between Catholic and Orthodox believers. At a conference hosted by the center we had the opportunity to meet with the Orthodox Bishop of Bucharest and listen as he described the situation in the Orthodox world.

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 first of this year’s

CONVERSATIONS AT THE CENTER
on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5

The Church outside of Boston:
A Perspective From Iraq

At this conversation, we are delighted to have Fr. Khalid Marogi share with us his experience of the church in Iraq.

October 1, 2014

7 p.m. Hagan Center Hall

John L. Allen Jr., D.S.Litt, Associate Editor of The Boston Globe and Senior Vatican Analyst for CNN will deliver the first lecture of the 2014-2015 Assumption College President's Lecture Series. The Series provides a public forum in which important ethical, spiritual and human issues are illuminated and examined within the Catholic intellectual tradition.

Originals Destroyed by 1953 Tornado that Ripped through Assumption’s Greendale Campus; Worcester Diocese Bishop to Attend Sept. 20 Blessing, Dedication

Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014, Assumption College will dedicate four additional stained-glass windows that were once part of the College and Preparatory School’s Greendale campus chapel, which was damaged 61 years ago by a tornado. They will join three other stained-glass windows—one of which is called “The Tornado Window,” in remembrance of the three Assumption community members who perished in the June 9, 1953, storm—that were dedicated in June 2013.

Joining Assumption College President Francesco C. Cesareo, Ph.D., at this Saturday’s dedication will be Bishop Robert McManus of the Diocese of Worcester. The ceremony will start at 3:30 p.m. on the ground floor (Atrium) of Testa Science Center for the dedication of the first two windows, The Crowning of Mary and The Adoration of the Magi. These windows’ restoration was donated by the Assumption Prep classes of 1957 and 1962, respectively. At 4 p.m., the ceremony will move to the Chapel of the Holy Spirit for the dedication of Christ before Pilate and The Last Supper. The restoration of these two windows was funded by donations by the Assumption Prep classes of 1956 and 1964, respectively. Bishop McManus will bless all four windows.