General Councils

The time for celebration and for the feast is already here. Last evening, we celebrated the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc before they return to their country. A moving evening prayer and a buffet, to which had been invited the communities of the Family present in Rome, was an occasion to thank Sisters Marie-Jeanne, Marguerite and Antonine for twenty years of  fraternal presence and  countless service in the general house of Rome.

General Councils

Michael, Gabriel and Raphael ----- the "General Council" of the Angels ---- watched over the meeting we held this day. On the agenda: to evaluate common initiatives and accomplishments in the past few years, and to set in motion, if possible, others for the future.

If there was one conviction that surfaced from today's work, it was the renewed awareness of the reality of the Assumption Family and how fruitful collaboration among the different branches can be.

General Councils

Thursday September 28

“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity !” such was Ecclesiastes’ announcement at the Mass which opened our work day. . . . That is a clear invitation to take up our session with modesty and humility, but not, for all that, without dynamism and enthusiasm.