Sunday, December 2^nd, 2012
5:00 PM
Kennedy Building K 112

The Assumption College Jazz Ensemble will be presenting it’s second performance of the year on Sunday evening, December 2nd, in the auditorium at Kennedy Hall.  The concert will start at 5 PM and will feature an eclectic mix of compositions made famous by Duke Ellington, as well as compositions by Miles Davis, George Gershwin, and Benny Golson.   The 11 piece jazz ensemble is an excellent representation of the Assumption College Community and will also feature vocals by Assumption students Michelle Gibson and Marie Ebacher.

This concert is free and open to the public.   We hope you can join us for this event.

Witnesses, the three religious of the parish of Notre-Dame-des-Pauvres, in Mbau, in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since their kidnapping on October 19, 2012 their parishioners, colleagues, and the entire Church have mobilized to respond.

Wed, Nov 28, 2012 starting at 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Assumption College, Salon, La Maison Française

Fr. Lucian Dinca will speak to 'the Assumptionists' 150-year mission to the East.'

Every year, the Ecumenical Institute at Assumption College sponsors the Emmanuel d'Alzon Lecture. This event honors the memory of Fr. Emmanuel d'Alzon, founder of the Augustinians of the Assumption. Called the "Saint Paul of the 19th Century" by the people of his homeland, in southern France, d'Alzon was a tireless apostle for the restoration of Christian unity.

Fr. André Brombart, a Belgian Assumptionist, launched a blog in French in 2010 and has recently been placing it online in English at http://a-heedful-idiot.blogspot.com. The most recent entry follows. Fr. André gives the following biographical information about himself: "Born in 1942. Belgian mother (Catholic tradition); Jewish father (who lost all his family members in the Shoah). Studied law. Legal advisor of a company for 12 years. Baptised as a Catholic in 1980. Religious vows in 1983. Priestly ordination in 1987." From 2005-2011, he served in Rome as an assistant general for the Assumptionist Congregation. He is currently back in Brussels where he is member of the Maranatha Christian Community and helps out at the Church of the Madeleine in downtown Brussels.