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 "You should put away the old self of your former way of life, be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self"
(Eph 4:22-24).
On Sunday, August 5, as nine young men awaited the moment that they would officially begin their novitiate at Evening Prayer by receiving the cross of the Congregation, Fr. Richard Lamoureux, A.A., their novice-master, called to mind the second reading from Sunday's Mass and encouraged them all to allow themselves to be molded into the new creatures to which God was calling them. Making further reference to the gospel passage chosen for Evening Prayer (Mk 3:13-14), he pointed out that a novitiate year is an opportunity to prepare oneself ultimately for mission but a mission that presupposes a deep friendship with Jesus. It is the forging of this friendship that the novitiate is all about. Just as Jesus took the chosen twelve aside to prepare them for mission, so, too, these young men will spend a year apart with the Lord to know themselves better, to know and love Him better, and so prepare themselves to be true apostles for the Kingdom, in the Assumption.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:43 |
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In mid-April we were happy to receive a visit by Fr. John Franck to San Román. Fr. John is an assistant general of the Assumptionists stationed in Rome. He was in Argentina to get to know our work better since he has been given responsibility for South America as a continent and Assumptionist educational institutions around the world as a particular area of concern. He was accompanied by Fr. Juan Carlos Cisterna, the provincial of the Assumptionists in Chile-Argentina and his first assistant Fr. Esteban Monsalves.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 02 August 2012 08:25 |
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Fr. Nicolas Potteau was born on June 12, 1979 and ordained a priest by Most Rev. André Vingt-trois, archbishop of Paris, on June 30, 2012 in Notre Dame Cathedral.
His voice soft and composed, Br. Nicolas Potteau answers your every question with care, without a useless word, concerned to describe as best he can what he is thinking or feeling. Having made his final vows with the Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists) two years ago, he likes to speak about his call to religious life and priesthood by alluding to the famous painting of Caravaggio, "The Call of St. Matthew": "In this painting, you see Christ, accompanied by the apostle Peter; Christ is pointing to Matthew who is aglow with a halo of light. This is meant to underline that a call always includes three persons: God, the person called, and the Church. It also recalls that it is always God who takes the initiative."
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It was in the home of Joachim and Ann where the Virgin Mary received her training to be the Mother of God. Thus, devotion to Ann and Joachim is an extension of the affection Christians have always professed toward our Blessed Mother. We, too, owe a debt of gratitude to our parents for their help in our Christian formation.
According to the 1962 Missal of Bl. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Ann; St. Joachim's feast in this rite is celebrated on August 16.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:27 |
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On July 18th 2012, the beginning of the annual novena to St. Anne, the new bronze sculpture named "Generations," which depicts the Holy Family embraced by St. Anne and St. Joachim, was dedicated by the Most Reverend Robert McManus, Bishop of Worcester.
This year marks· the 125th anniversary of the shrine and novena which will culminate on July 26th, the feast of St. Anne.
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