WORCESTER – Bishop McManus is to ordain 10 men deacons at a 10 a.m. Mass at St. Paul Cathedral May 31, 2014.
All are welcome to attend the Mass and a public reception for all the newly ordained afterwards in the cenacle in the cathedral’s lower level. Helping with the reception are the diocesan Office for Vocations, Serra Club North and South, and the Knights of Columbus, Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Ann Parish Council.
The Mass is to be broadcast on Charter TV 3 at 1 p.m. June 1 and 10 a.m. June 4.

Funeral of Jean-Marie Chuvi Adubangho

Manila, May 24, 2014

Homily, by Fr. Bernard Holzer, A.A.
Provincial’s delegate for the Philippines and the Superior General’s delegate for Asia

Fr. Jean-Marie Chuvi: Brother, Friend, Missionary, Pastor, True Assumptionist

Known as a kind and jolly fellow, Fr. Jean-Marie Adubangho Chuvi, passed away last May 20 in Manila, Philippines due to a sudden illness. He is one of the founding members of the Philippine Mission, esteemed and cherished by his Assumption brothers and those whom he had befriended, worked and lived with.

Commencement Greetings

Your Excellency, Bishop McManus, Commencement honorees Very Reverend Fr. Benoit Griere, Superior General of the Augustinians of the Assumption,  Frances Hogan, Paul Carpentier, Janice and Mark Fuller, and members of the Board of Trustees, family and friends  of the graduates, and members of the class of 2014, on behalf of the faculty, staff, and administration of Assumption College, I welcome you to this morning’s commencement exercises.

It is with great joy that I announce my upcoming Ordination to the Diaconate with nine other men by Bishop Robert McManus on Saturday, May 31^st at St. Paul's Cathedral in Worcester.  I want to express my deepest gratitude to my family in the Philippines, my Assumption family both religious and lay, the Filipino community and all those who have so generously and prayerfully supported me over the years. I ask for your prayers as I continue my journey toward priesthood, for my ministries as Campus Minister at Assumption College and Director of Vocations and for an increase of Assumptionist vocations.

Brother Ronald Sibugan, A.A.

(In order to undertake the extensive renovations necessary to restore the century-old church of St. Augustine, the bishop of Constantin-Hippo sent out a wide appeal to religious, political, cultural, and private organizations for help. As members of the broader Augustinian Family, the Assumptionists, also known as the Augustinians of the Assumption, made a substantial gift to this worthy cause. As a result, they were invited to participate in the festivities celebrating the completion of the renovations and the raising of the church to the status of a basilica. The superior general, Fr. Benoît Grière, unable to attend the ceremonies, asked one of his assistants, Fr. John Franck, to represent him at the beginning of May. He sends us the following report).

The church of St. Augustine in Hippo, newly and magnificently renovated and duly raised to the status of a basilica, stands perched prominently on an isolated hill commanding a view of the entire surrounding countryside: the Mediterranean coast, the modern city of Annaba, the imposing heights of the Edough plateau, and, at its feet, the vast complex of ruins of the ancient Roman and Byzantine city of Hippo.

The Assumption Family

welcomes

Fr. Benoit Grière, A.A.,

Superior General of the Augustinians of the Assumption,

for his month long visit to the United States!

What a mobilisation ef-fort!!! Nobody wanted to be caught sitting around: members of the Assumptionist provin-cial council, other Assumptionists, Oblate Sisters of the Assumption, Brothers of the Assumption, administrators and students from ISEAB (Institut Supérieur Emmanuel d'Alzon de Butembo), masons, volunteers from our Assumptionist-sponsored NGO, and who knows how many others showed up at the ISEAB work-site on the morning of Wednesday, March 26, 2014, to help with the construction project and especially with the cement preparation and pouring. More than 200 people donated their time working energetically from morning till night. Everyone got involved, even curious bystanders and grammar school children, who were pressed into service, at one point needed to provide ballast for a truck that got caught in the sand.

On Saturday, March 29, 2014, in the basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes, in Santiago, Chile, four young men publicly pronounced their final vows as Augustinians of the Assumption/Assumptionists: