The youth group wants to thank an amazing group of parishioners who ran the kitchen for Cardboard City Friday night and Saturday morning.

Thank you to Jeannette Krans, Bill Krans, Peggy Sorenson, Judy Curboy, Sylvia Gaumond, Colleen Casey, Sandie Kelly, Pat Haggerty, Terry Johnson, Jecenia Figueroa, Pauline Devlin and a big thank you to our overnight volunteer who stayed awake all night, outside with the kids, and manned the fire, Doug Mrotek. Thank you to all those who donate their cans and bottles, especially Incom, for Kids in the Congo.

This event was possible only because of all of you!

From 1993 to 2013, 10 workshops known as "Assumptionist summer universities" (universités d’été assomptionnistes/UAE) have taken place in France

by Bernard Jouanno, A.A.

The first of these workshops took place in 1993 at the Assumptionist-run reception center near Lyon, France. It had as a theme: "Building Cities for Your Children" and as it aim: "an analysis of the place of the city and its mysteries and traditional structures, to uncover urban culture, and in this context, to re-examine the role of the Church."

Behind this initiative of summer universities was a group of men and women religious of the Assumption Family as well as lay friends taken up with Assumptionist spirituality. They hoped to build on similar efforts that had taken place over the years since Vatican II.

Boston University where Fr. Vincent obtained a Master's degree in Theology and had begun his doctoral studies before returning to the Congo in 2013 has announced that it will be establishing a memorial scholarship and lecture in his memory.

Donations can be made at: http://www.bu.edu/machozi

This scholarship will be offered to one or more students from Africa, attending Boston University’s School of Theology, with a preference for those who are committed to study and service focused on justice and peace. Recipients shall be selected by the Dean of the School of Theology or her/his designee.

This lecture will address global issues of justice and peace, with a particular focus on the grassroots transformation of society.

A Life given

Fr. Vincent Machozi was shamefully assassinated this past Palm Sunday. Death seems to triumph. We are all dismayed, traumatized by this event. How are we to understand this chain of massacres, of death and violence? Assumption has already paid a heavy price to the insecurity that has sown terror in North Kivu. Let us not forget our brothers, Edmond, Jean-Pierre and Anselme, who disappeared more than three years ago. Our congregation continues to demonstrate solidarity with the people of North Kivu and our brothers somehow continue their delicate mission there without giving up. It is our way of responding to the heinous attacks that have been terrorizing the Nande people, the largest ethnic group in North Kivu.

An Assumptionist is a man who demonstrates solidarity with the poor and the least among us. This solidarity is not some empty phrase. It also has a price, let us not forget. But an Assumptionist is also a man of dialogue. We are not motivated by a spirit of revenge, but one of justice. We demand that the truth about these massacres be made known and that justice prevail. There must be an end put to complicit indifference.