On Sunday, April 12, 2015, His Eminence Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, archbishop of Manila, celebrated Mass at Assumption College in Manila, an institution run by the Religious Sisters of the Assumption, on the occasion of the golden jubilee of religious life of three of the sisters in the community.

Before the Mass he greeted some of the Assumptionists present (left to right --- Fr. Bernard Holzer, the superior general's delegate for Asia, Fr. Gilles Blouin, vocation director, and Fr. John Franck, assistant general).

He took this opportunity to thank Fr. Gilles for his many years of service to the Filipino Church. Fr. Gilles has been given a new assignment in Nairobi, Kenya, where he will be leaving shortly to join the formation staff at the Assumptionist international house of theology in the Kenyan capital. In the past, Fr. Gilles has worked at the Assumptionist community at St. Peter-in- Gallicantu in Jerusalem and in various assignment in his native Quebec, including shrine director, vice-provincial, campus ministry, and ecumenical work.