Click the arrow below to hear a member of the Assumption community read today’s Gospel. Backward step to the Father! A spiritual advisor of the Eastern Church made an amazing suggestion: “[B]egin the Our Father with the last verse, so that one might become worthy to finish the prayer with… Read More »Readings and Reflection for March 8 (Tuesday in the First Week of Lent)
Click the arrow below to hear a member of the Assumption community read today’s Gospel. The king is poor! On the way to the royal palace for an important discussion with the King about his succession, a nobleman met a beggar. The beggar was covered with rags, starving and pitiful.… Read More »Readings and Reflection for March 7 (Monday in the First Week of Lent)
Desert seems a hard place to live; yet it is a wonderful place to renewal. One returns to deserted place to know the true self better and his/her own Creator. The Gospel reading today invites us to enter our own deserted place to know ourselves and God better. We hope… Read More »Meditation on the First Sunday of Lent 2022
New humanity Luke’s account of the temptation is very close to that of Matthew. With a personal touch and in a more precise way than Mark, Luke presents Jesus as a new Adam. Different from Matthew who begins Jesus’ genealogy with Abraham to highlight Jesus’ bonds with the people of… Read More »Readings and Reflection for March 6 (First Sunday of Lent)
Where is there excess in your life? Traditionally, Lent is a time for simplicity. It is a time to take an inventory of your life. Where is there excess in your life? Is this excess taking you away from the one thing that matters the most, to be a son/daughter… Read More »Assess the Excess
Standing up A little girl was sitting with her grandmother on a bench. She said to her: “grandma, I would like to be taller than you.” Her grandmother replied: “Yes, one day, you will be taller than me.” The girl reacted: “No, I would like to be taller than you… Read More »Readings and Reflection for March 5 (Saturday after Ash Wednesday)
The purpose of action In Book I of his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle talks about the purpose of action. For him, the aim of action is the good. In some cases, the activity itself is the end (for example, watching a movie). In other cases, the end goes beyond the activity… Read More »Readings and Reflection for March 4 (Friday after Ash Wednesday)
On the 13th of February 2022 at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Assumption College (Worcester, MA, USA) Brother Daniele Caglioni, A A, made lifelong vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience according to the Rule of St. Augustine and the Assumptionist Rule of Life.
FISKDALE – Rev. Jerome A. Lively, A.A., 57, died Sunday, February 27, 2022 in Harrington Memorial Hospital, Southbridge after an illness. Besides his Assumptionist family, he leaves 7 siblings, Jonathan Lively, Veronica Smead, Hanna Lively, Timothy Lively, Daniel Lively, Martha Lively and Christopher Lively; and many nephews and nieces. He… Read More »In Memoriam – Fr. Jerome A. Lively, A.A.
Click the arrow below to hear a member of the Assumption community read today’s Gospel. It’s my choice! An American was visiting Japan. She entered a restaurant and ordered green tea with sugar. The waiter said: “You cannot put sugar in green tea.” The American replied, “I know it is… Read More »Readings and Reflection for March 3 (Thursday after Ash Wednesday)