On Saturday, April 30th, 2013, the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Assumption College in Worcester, MA was filled with great joy, gratitude and celebration as Bro.Ronald Sibugan, A.A. pronounced his final vows as an Augustinian of the Assumption.
Early on the morning of Saturday, February 21, 1863 the Phase entered the Bosphorus straits after a week's voyage across the Mediterranean Sea. It was snowing. From the ship's deck, Fr. d'Alzon and his travel companion, Louis Guizard, trained at the Assumptionist high school in Nîmes, discovered an enchanting landscape: "a city of marble....under a wide-open sky," in the words of Fr. Siméon Vailhé, the great biographer of Fr. d'Alzon. At the residence of the Patriarchal Apostolic Vicar, Msgr. Paolo Brunoni, Fr. d'Alzon received gracious hospitality. His first impressions of the city? He would write of them two days later in a letter to "his dear children" at Assumption high school (Collège de l'Assomption). "Constantinople is the most beautiful city in the world seen from afar and from the rooftops, but the streets!! Ah! It's unbelievable. People who are dirty; streets that are dirty; people on horseback continually splashing you; stagecoaches with drivers always on their feet; dead dogs; cobblestone streets that I can't possibly describe...."
Francesco C. Cesareo, Ph.D., president of Assumption College has been named the next chair of the National Review Board (NRB) by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The NRB advises the bishops' Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection and was established by the Charter for Protection of Children and Young People, which the bishops adopted in 2002.
"It's a real privilege and great responsibility to serve in this capacity and to really help the bishops in the continued implementation of the Charter," President Cesareo told The Catholic Free Press, the diocesan newspaper of Worcester.
This part winter Cardinal Pham Minh Man did the honors of blessing the new Assumptionist scholasticate in the archdiocese of Saigon. Some 300 people crowded into the interior courtyard/patio of the house to attend the celebration which also included a Mass of Thanksgiving presided by the rector of the renowned Marian shrine, Our Lady of Fatima, where the new residence is located. Fr. Vincent Cabanac, provincial treasurer of the province of France, delivered the homily. Guests included not only members of the Assumption Family but concelebrants from other religious congregations and priests from the Diocese of Vinh.
Originals were destroyed by the 1953 tornado that ripped through Assumption’s Greendale Campus.
On June 1, Assumption College dedicated three stained-glass windows that were once part of the College and Preparatory School’s Greendale campus chapel, which was damaged 60 years ago by a tornado. One of the restored windows to be unveiled is called “The Tornado Window,” in remembrance of the three Assumption community members who perished in the June 9, 1953, storm.
