WORCESTER  –  Rev. Richard P. Brunelle, AA, 77, of Emmanuel House at Assumption College, died Wednesday, February 20, 2013 in Saint Vincent Hospital after being stricken ill.

The Rule of St. Augustine with a focus on ‘community’ was the theme of this month’s “Conversations at the Center” in Brighton, MA. The presenter, Fr. Claude Grenache, A.A., superior of the local community, shared several citings from the Rule of St. Augustine which touch the hearts and minds of Assumptionists and the way they live on a daily basis. It was Fr. Emmanuel d’Alzon’s choice to adopt St. Augustine’s Rule when he founded his congregation of Augustinians of the Assumption.

By Fr. Lucas Chuffart, A.A.
Moscow, December 2, 2012

During the 2011-2012 year, I was able to send some news from our communities in Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Israel where I spend a part of the sabbatical year I had been granted. It all began right where the Congregation did here in 1862, that is to say, Istanbul.

Making full circle, so to speak, of the Near Eastern Mission, here I am in Moscow, the northernmost city of the Mission. I was only able to get here on November 22 since the visa paperwork which I officially began in August met with frustrating delays, perhaps because I was asking for a resident’s visa in view of religious activity at our parish, St. Louis des Français. Others much less patient than I have also become discouraged with this process. On the advice of Fr. Slava Gorokhov, I had begun preparing all my documents in June, but only received my visa on November 15.