15 December 2005

To All Assumptionist novices

Dear Albert, Aníbal Patricio, Bienvenu, Célio, Charles, Edward, Elvis, Elysé, Fleury, Florentin, GiaDinh, Isidore, Jean Berthin, Jean Ignace, Jean Paul, Jean-Claude, Jean-Marie, Jean-Marie, Jean-Marie, Jeannot, Joakim, Jorge, Matabishi, Mihaï-Julian, Monulphe, Nicolas, Pierre, Regis, Richard, Richard, Venceslas, Victor, Vincent, and Vital,

This Christmas we celebrate the 160th anniversary of our founding (in 1845). I think of you because on Christmas of that year, Father d’Alzon was himself a novice with five companions (a layman and four other priests). Those first six Assumptionist novices began to lay the foundations for their life together and in so doing for the religious body of which you and I are members today.

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