Portraits

Would you share a bit about your background: family childhood, early education etc.?
Bro. Ryan: I was born in Colorado but later our family moved to Chicagoland where I attended a Lutheran primary school. After high school I attended the University of Illinois and studied Economics and German.

Would you share a bit about your background: family, childhood, early education etc.?
Fr. Richard: I was born in a big family. We are 11 siblings. 7 men and 4 women. My mam was died when I was 9 years old and my dad was died when I was 27 years old when I finished my formation in philosophy at the seminary.

I was born in Enugu State, Nigeria, into a Christian family with seven children: two girls and five boys. I’m the fourth of the boys and the sixth overall. I completed my high school education at Rev. Fr. Ogbonna Memorial School in Okpatu, Enugu State. I lost my dad during my second year in the congregation in 2016.

I had my first contact with the Assumptionists in 2014 when the Assumptionists came to the Bunda diocese to run Murutunguru Parish, my home parish. I was impressed by the simplicity and the sense of welcoming of the first Assumptionists I met, especially Frs. Bahati Antigon, Jacques Mumbere, and Landry Kambere.

Would you share a bit about your background: family, childhood, early education etc.? Bro. Binh – I was born and raised in Viet Nam and when I was thirteen years old, I moved to Dorchester MA with my family. My years of middle school and high school took place in… Read More »An Interview with Bro. Binh Nguyen, A.A.

I was born on February 26, 1996, in Masaka, Uganda. I am the fifth of nine children in the late Ssenkumba Aloysious Musoke and Immaculate Naggayi family living in Kiwunga-Kyamuliibwa Parish. I received my nursery education from St. Benedict Primary School (2002-2003) and my primary education at St. Leonard Kyamulibwa Primary School (2004–2009). During these years, I began to explore my faith, growing to love the daily rosary and undertaking pilgrimages

I was born in the Philippines, the fifth of six children, all boys. My father, who died in 2000, was a policeman while my mother had been a teacher. I grew up in a very Catholic family, living near the parish church where I was an altar server.

Where did your Assumptionist roots begin? Did anyone in particular have a significant impact on your life?

Would you share a bit about your background; family, childhood, early education etc.
Fr. Francis – I am the fourth son in a family of seven boys. My childhood was from an ordinary modest family in the DRC. I went through nursery school, primary school and high school in Kinshasa, my hometown

We hope that this year’s Novena will enkindle in our parishioners, visitors and pilgrims “a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist”.