Information regarding the upcoming Ecumenical Prayer Service

Date, Time and Venue:
Friday, January 24, 2014
7 PM
Assumption College - Chapel of the Holy Spirit

• This year’s theme “Has Christ Been Divided?” reflects on St. Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians 1:1-17.

• The theme and the prayer service is adapted from the one jointly made by the World Council of Churches’ Commission on Faith and Order and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. A background from the WCC website:

We had received 35 Chinese Catholics in St. James Church, Chinatown in Boston on Dec. 14, 2013, to response the Group of Spirituality Development as the organizer to encourage Chinese Catholics to prepare ourselves for the Coming of the birth of Jesus and the Coming of his Kingdom. All those 35 people had confessed during the day retreat. Our retreat started by 8:30 in the morning and ended at 5pm in the evening.

At the beginning of the month of December, after a nine-hour journey, the novices, along with Fr. Richard and Fr. Alex, arrived in Quebec and were warmly welcomed by the local Assumptionist community. Though the novices were far away from home, the novitiate program continued in only slightly altered form for the week in Canada: two classes on the Sermons of Saint Augustine regarding poverty, with reference to the recent letter of our Superior General on the same theme, and one class to review novitiate practices as outlined in the handbook called “Guidelines for the Novice”.

From August 23 to 27 the community of Riobamba organized its second annual vocation retreat at Copalillo--- a time to meet God in the wilderness, surrounded by God's gift of nature. Br. Alejandro Godoy Vásquez, the vocation director, together with a steering committee, prepared the event. Over 50 young people from the two parishes that we run participated in the camp this year. Our pastor, Fr. Marco, commented: “For young people this camp is an opportunity to grow in their faith and at the same time discover what it is that God is calling them to in their lives."