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Youth Pilgrimage to Guadalupe, Mexico
18-25 August 2024

The humanitarian situation in Goma, in North Kivu (D.R. Congo), is increasingly dramatic, with hundreds of thousands of refugees driven out by armed rebel bands. The Assumption, religious and lay people in solidarity, is tackling this crisis with great energy and few resources.

To begin with, it was in mid-December 2023 that I settled in El Paso for the first time. So, since then, almost every single experience is for me a learning experience.

Get your day off to a great start with a fresh New York style bagel from Bagel Time (owned by an Assumption family!), a cup of Fair Trade coffee or tea, and great conversation with students, faculty and staff on Thursday, April 4, 9:00-10:30 AM in the Lauring Community Room in the Tinsley Campus Ministry Center.

Happy Easter from the Assumptionist Center in Brighton, MA!

During March 17-24, 2024, a group of French first and second-year college students from the Institut Emmanuel d’Alzon in Nîmes, France, traveled to Massachusetts for a rich cultural, educational, and spiritual journey.

One day, I met with an Assumptionist who asked me: “What grade do you give to the state of the Province? Is it an A?” With a big smile, I replied, “it is better than an A, it is a double A—AA!”

Let me wish each of you personally and all your communities a happy Easter celebration.

You must be busy with the Easter celebrations. Yes, it must keep us busy, because these are the celebrations that take us back to the foundations of our Christian faith.

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ brought profound joy and hope to the early Church. That joy was particularly pronounced because it followed the shock and gloom of Good Friday when Christ’s death seemed to dash all hope.

Throughout the Liturgical Year, there is no day as sad, quiet, gloomy, or empty, as Holy Saturday. The end of a life is so sad. Jesus was laid in a tomb after he was whipped, crowned with thorns, crucified, pierced through the heart, and humiliated. All is just silence!