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October, 2014 No. 14 ligious and lai News Re ty th AAof the Assumption e same mission EDITORIAL A year of the Rule of Life “The Assumption will find here, and here only, the secret of its vocation, of its common life and of its mission in the Church.” >> Official Agenda Emmanuel • September 30-October 3, 2014: Inter-Assumption meeting in preparation for the Formators session in Nairobi (Africa). Ordinary General Councils • October 8-223: in Nairobi (Province of Africa). • November 10 to 14, 2014 • January: Council of the Province of Europe. • November 24, 2014: extraordinary Council on finance • December 12, 2014 John • February 2 to 6, 2015 • March 9 to 13, 2015 • September-December 2014: Chaplaincy of the Worcester • June 3 to 8, 2015 students in Rome. • June 22 to 24, 2015 • January-April, 2015: Chaplaincy of the Worcester students • September 14 to 26, 2015 in Rome. • May-June, 2015: Chaplaincy of the American students in Rome. Plenary General Councils • End of July, 2015: Provincial Assembly of the Andean • December 1 to 10, 2014 (December 5, Wenger Province. Colloquium) • June 10 to 20, 2015 Marcelo • September 23-October 8: in Madagascar. Benoît • November 15-25: Meeting of the Latin-American Laity in • September 23-October 23, 2014: Canonical Visitation Bogota. to the Kinshasa region (RDC) and Nairobi • March 30-April 3: Visit to Bulgaria. • October 25, 2014: meeting with the San Egidio • May 1-9: Visit to Jerusalem. community. • May 29-June 1: Visit to Korea • November 25-28, 2014: Reunion of the USG. Launching of the Year of Consecrated Life. Didier • December 19-24, 2014: Meeting of the Superiors General of the Inter-Assumption. • September 25-October 23: In the Province of Africa. • March 30-April 3, 2015: Canonical Visitation in • October 23-November 4: In Mexico and the USA. Bulgaria • December 19-24: In Paris. • April 13-17, 2015: In Vietnam for the Asiatic • End of January: Visit to the communities of Madagascar. Coordination • April 13-May 5: Visit to Latin America. • May 1-9, 2015: Canonical Visitation in Jerusalem. • May 8-10: in the USA. • May 23-24, 2015: in Paris for the 150th anniversary • May 15: in Paris. of the Oblates. • May 16: Meeting of the General Treasurers in Rome. • May 29-June 1, 2015: Canonical Visitation in Athens. • End of July, 2015: Canonical Visitation in Quebec. • October 5-12, 2015: Canonical Visitation in Korea. Other Meetings • November 1-14, 2015: Canonical Visitation in Africa. • September 19-20: Local Chapter. On the cover: The stained glass window, replacing the one destroyed by the tornado that devastated Greendale and the Assumption Campus in 1953, was restored on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the catastrophe. On Saturday September 20, 2014, Assumption College blessed four other stained glass windows that in the past were in the chapel of the Prep School in Greendale. It joined three others and is called the “Tornado Window”, in memory of the three religious who perished in the catastrophe of June 9, 1953. 2 OCTOBER 2014 NO 14 Editorial << A year of the Rule of Life e will begin the Year of not pessimistic, but I invite each on to Consecrated Life decreed by leap up to go further in the knowledge WPope Francis. of it. It is thus that I propose that for the The Assumption, as all Congregations, Assumptionists, the Year of Consecrated will mobilize itself to live fully this time Life be a year of the Rule of Life. I wish of a return to the essentials of religious that each religious and each community life. You know, because I often insist on put in their program the study and the this point, we are consecrated people. deep study of our Rule. I would also Our legitimate pride resides not only wish that the Rule be translated in the in our religious profession but also in new languages of the Congregation so the remembrance that we have given that it can be better assimilated by the our word to follow Christ, chaste, poor young men who join us. and obedient until death. So what are Our Rule is a badly known treasure. It is we to do so that the celebrations of full of riches that only ask to be shared. this year be occasions to deepen our At the General Councils when we study Fr. Benoît Grière commitment? the requests for perpetual profession General Superior On November 21, 1984, thirty years or of ordination, we have the joy of of the Augustinians of ago, Father Hervé STÉPHAN, the reading the letters of the brothers. Often the Assumption Superior General, wrote the preface to their texts are studded with quotations our Rule of Life. He gave us a very clear from Saint Augustine or of Emmanuel text to introduce the new Rule of the d’Alzon. Sometimes it is the Rule of Life Augustinians of the Assumption. This that is chosen. But we can go further text, yet today, is a source of inspiration and deeper. The time of novitiate for all the religious. In speaking of the is a privileged moment to study our Rule Hervé wrote: “The Assumption will foundational texts, but it is necessary find here, and only here, the secret of to pursue that study all through our its vocation, of its common life and of life. I keep a lively remembrance of my its mission in the Church.” Truly it is novitiate where with other brothers we “here and only here” that we must seek were discovering these foundational to know the path to follow Christ “in the texts. I thank Marie-Bernard Kientz, manner of Emmanuel d’Alzon.” Jean-Paul Périer-Muzet, Hervé Stéphan, When I travel around the world, I am for having introduced us to them. Today often surprised to see that the Rule is let us take the time to re-read and to not sufficiently known and consulted. share them in community. Also let us Numerous religious still don`t know not forget the Lay Assumptionists. They the text that allows us to live in fidelity have received at Way of Life, but it to the spirit of Emmanuel d’Alzon. is directly inspired by our Rule. Soon Rare are the communities who do the you will receive my letter on “religious healthy exercise of reading the Rule fraternity”. It has no other ambition than together. How many brothers don`t to comment our Rule on that precise know entire sections of this document? point. Everyone is to go further in the Yet on the contrary how many others discovery of our treasure. So have a are inspired by it to live a greater good Year of Consecrated Life ! n fidelity to their consecration! So I am 3 >> Official (continued) Calls, Nominations, Changes... ather Benoît Grière, Superior General, with his FCouncil, has called ■ TO PERPETUAL PROFESSION 1. Bro. WAWERU GICHUKI, Wilson (Africa) (09.11.14) 2. Bro. PHAM VAN, Huan (Europe) (09.11.14) 3. Bro. JERMAKOVICS, Victors (Europe) (09.11.14) 4. Bro. NGUYEN VAN, Ha Paul VI on the day of the beatification of the Ugandan martyrs (Europe) (09.12.14) 5. Bro. DOAN MINH, Tuan André (Europe) (09.12.14) Jean-Pierre, Anselme, Edmond, 6. Bro. ALIBERT, Arnaud we will not forget you (Europe) (09.12.14) On October 19, 2014 in Saint Peter’s Square in Rome, Pope Paul VI, (Giovanni Montini) ■ TO ORDINATION TO THE DIACONATE was beatified. But for us Assumptionists, we 7. Bro. KAKULE MBAKULA, Jean-Baptiste remember that day two years ago, our three (Africa) (09.18.14) brothers were kidnapped in the parish of Notre 8. Bro. PALUKU KAMILI, Jean-Paul Dame des Pauvres of Mbau (Democratic Re- (Africa) (09.18.14) public of the Congo). We remember also that the newly beatified Pope is also the first ■ TO ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD Pope to have kissed African soil in July 1969 in Uganda where the martyrdom of Charles 9. Bro. PALUKU, SSIRIWENGE, Désiré Lwanga and his 21 companions (+1886) can- (Africa) (09.18.14) onized by him fifty years ago on October 18, 10. Bro. MABOU SIMO, Serge-Patrick 1964. (Europe) (09.18.14) For two years now we do not know the fate of our brothers, Jean-Pierre Ndulani, Anselme Kakule Wasukundi and Edmond Kisughu. But we do not forget them. We keep them in our fraternal affection and our prayers with the words of the Blessed Pope Paul VI: “We 1 2 3 4 thank God who, through his admirable but of- ten admirable designs hidden to the eyes of the world, always raises up for his church the pas- tors it needs, the missionaries that bear witness 5 6 7 8 to him and the martyrs that seal it with their blood. Let us thank the Lord for these gifts that he so generously gives to his Church, and let us show ourselves worthy of them.” (Homily 9 10 for the beatification by Jacques Berthier, Oc- tober 17, 1965). 4 OCtober 2014 No 14 Life of the Congregation << The General’s 3rd Letter on Fraternity ay this letter is a sign and manifests revive our de- How good and how pleasant it is to all eyes the presence when brothers dwell together as one sire to live as (Psalm 133) of the Triune God whose M brothers and be united. aim is the communion Our credibility in the among all men and no- eyes of the world de- tably in its most eminent pends on our resolute expression: in the Eucha- commitment in brotherly rist.