So I invite you: Study this Catechism! That is my heartfelt desire. This Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life. It places before you the Gospel message as the “pearl of great value” (Mt. 13:46) for which you must give everything. So I beg you: Study this Catechism with passion and perseverance. Make a sacrifice of your time for it! Study it in the quiet of your room; read it with a friend; form study groups and networks; share with each other on the Internet. By all means continue to talk with each other about your faith.

“The Ministry of Catholic Secondary Education”

Once again, another year has begun by offering a series of ‘conversations’ at the Assumptionist Center in Brighton, MA. Continuing the Center’s commitment to be a place where in word and action “we can learn together and discuss what it means to be Church.”

Autumn Flames

Flaming red, orange, and yellow leaves
  Have flown off from now barren limbs,
   Carried off, away, and down to the ground,
    To return to earth and feed the soil anew.

Who was Emmanuel d’Alzon and what was his vision as founder of the Augustinians of the Assumption? That was the theme of a Day of Recollection at St.Anne/St.Patrick Parish in Sturbridge, MA, on Saturday, September 24^th. Fr. Richard Lamoureux A.A., former Superior General of the Congregation, led thirty-five spiritually curious lay and religious in a consideration of the charism and mission of the Assumption and its founder.  The theme for the morning session was “The Kingdom for Emmanuel d’Alzon.”