Assumption College’s Campus Ministry staff welcomed the campus community to an open house on Feb. 15 to showcase our newest building. After 20 years of planning and discussions, the Tinsley Family Campus Ministry Center has opened its doors. In October, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the naming of the center in recognition of the $1 million leadership gift provided to the College from the Tinsley family. This leadership gift was the anchor to a successful fundraising effort that raised over $4.2 million for this beautiful addition to our campus.
Title Marie-Claire Blais: A Vision of Our Tortured Times Location La Maison Française Auditorium Start Time 3/20/2012 2:30 PM End Time 3/20/2012 3:30 PM Description Marie-Claire Blais presents “A Vision of Our Tortured Times.” Reading by award-winning Quebec novelist Marie-Claire Blais Tuesday March 20, 2012 from 2:30 PM-3:30 PM in La Maison Française Auditorium.
- Fr. Jean Daniel, you have been in Jerusalem for several months. Could you tell us how you see our presence there within the framework of the Assumptionist « Mission d’Orient” (Near Eastern Mission)?
- Let me underline what you say: I have only lived in Jerusalem several months. Since 1973 I have taken about 60 groups of pilgrims there. But it’s one thing to bring a group of pilgrims and another thing altogether to live there.
To answer your question, I would say that Jerusalem holds a unique place within the « Mission d’Orient », because it is at the very source of this mission. Ah, yes! The creation in Jerusalem of a Maronite seminary to train young seminarians whom Fr. d’Alzon received at his collège in Nîmes after the massacres of Christians in the Lebanese hills in 1860 was supposed to be our first foundation in the Near East. Fr. d’Alzon had been informed of the possibility of buying the Cenacle and had obtained the agreement of the Patriarch of Jerusalem and of Cardinal Barnabo, Prefect of the Propaganda Fidei in Rome. Filled with enthusiasm, Fr. d’Alzon even thought of buying the Tomb of the Virgin as a foundation site for the Religious of the Assumption!
Based in Rome at Santa Maria Basilica in Trastevere and named after the church where they were founded, the community of Sant’Egidio was the topic and focus of the recent ‘Conversations at the Center,’ in Brighton. As a canonically recognized Catholic lay movement in the Church, the community, whose pillars are prayer, friendship and service to the poor, is also a dynamic humanitarian effort in the world today.
