Today, like yesterday, the sons and daughters of the Assumption, inspired with an ardent zeal for the Kingdon of God, commit themselves to the mission without borders. Missionary adventure!

There have just appeared, in the collection “Recherches Assomption” and under the direction of Father Bernard Holzer, A.A., The Acts of the Colloquium History of the Assumption which was held at Valpré-Lyon on November 22 to 26, 2000. After 150 years of existence, a pause was needed, a slide projection on the congregation’s mission since its origin, which undoubtedly served as a springboard for the Assumptionist mission in the new millennium. Father Richard Lamoureux, A.A., firmly believes this.

Thanks to the contributions of Father Jean-Paul Périer-Muzet, A.A., and other archivists of the Provinces of the Congregation, as well as the serious studies of historians and theologians of uncontested reknown on this mission, the book, Aventure missionnaire assomptionniste (Assumptionist Missionary Adventure), unique of its kind, illustrates the history of the Assumption’s missionary settlements while revealing the dynamic forces both internal and external which presided over the realization of the A.R.T. (Adveniat Regnum Tuum) in us and around us. This motto dear to Assumptionists belongs, neverthe less, to all Christians. Assumptionists are very simply Catholics, their founder, the Servant of God Father Emmanuel d’Alzon, loved to say.

Bernard Holzer, A.A., (editor). L’aventure missionnaire assomptionniste (The Assumptionist Missionary Adventure) Acts of the colloquium on the History of the 150th anniversary of the Congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption, Lyon-Valpré, November 22-26, 2000, (French) 571 pages.

ISBN 88-901718-2-0

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Father Adélard PALUKU MAYANI, A.A.