a place where we learn together, a place where, together, we discover what it means to be Church.
In order to help that to happen, we need to think and talk together.
And so, we are happy to announce this semester’s
CONVERSATIONS AT THE CENTER on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015
Consecrated Life: The Cloistered Contemplatives
Being the Year of Consecrated Life, the Assumptionist Center will be hosting three conversations this Spring semester around the distinct forms and traditions of consecrated life in the Catholic Church.
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity this year in vites all Christians to drink at Jacob’s well.
How many times, when I was a child, driven by thirs t, did I go to the well to fetch water for me, my family, and our animals. And in summer, there was n ever enough water. Even the garden, with all its vegetables and flowers, was thirsty!
Hiking in the foothills of the Alps near the Center
Recently the Assumptionists assumed responsibility for the "Chalet des forêts" ("Cottage in the Woods") near Lake Léman, nestled in the mountains not far from Lyon, in Haute Savoie (France). Young Assumptionists act as chaplains there organizing activities for young people from throughout the country and the world.
The Chalet des Forêts is a recreation/vacation center for children and young adults founded in 1921 by Fr. Raphanel, pastor of St. Bonaventure's in Lyon. At that time he acquired an old hotel located in Haute-Savoie where he could bring young people from his parish.
On November 20, 2014, Father Richard Lamoureux, A.A., gave this year's D'Alzon Lecture at Assumption College, Worcester, MA. He spoke about "Michelangelo's Thoughts on the Body," with special attention to the unfinished Rondanini Pieta the artist worked on in the last years of his life. It was a remarkably erudite and engaging explication of a mysterious work. Please enjoy it.
Four members of the Assumption College women’s soccer team are traveling this month to help impoverished children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as part of the Hands Together organization. The students are senior Nikki Brady of Rockland, Mass.; junior Meg Campbell of Springfield, Mass.; junior Katie Bealka of East Freetown, Mass.; and first-year student Nikki Sloan of Stow, Mass.
Springfield, Mass.-based Hands Together is a nonprofit organization devoted to educating, inspiring and encouraging people to understand the importance of responding to the needs of the poor and disadvantaged. The organization has several project locations, including Hands Together Catholic Schools.
Campbell—whose father, Doug Campbell is executive director of Hands Together—introduced the idea of a trip to Haiti to Assumption Women’s Soccer Head Coach Kevin Meek and the rest of the team. She has traveled there several times to help the children served by the organization.
"It's had a profound effect on me and expanded my view of the world and of people,” Meg Campbell said of her experiences in Haiti. “Assumption is quite small and relatively protected, and I know that there is a world out there that is not at all like Assumption.
