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Sr. Mary Ignatius, “Migs” shares her personal experience of the General Chapter 2024
A PIECE IN A STAINED-GLASS WINDOW(My experience of the General Chapter 2024 by Sr. Migs Vedua, ra of Asia Pacific Province)I came to the General Chapter 2024 (GC24) conscious to enter it like it is a new chapter of my journey. As I relish the many encounters of the past 30+ days, it’s a challenge to…
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Welcome to the Philippines, Sr. Marthe Marie and Sr. Irene Cecile!
From April 18 to May 7, 2024, the communities in the Philippines had the joy of welcoming our 2 General Councilors, Sr. Marthe Marie and Sr. Irene Cecile for a Complementary visit. We share with you glimpses of their visit, short but sweet!
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70 Years of Educational Mission in Japan
As we celebrate 70 years of our Educational Mission in Japan – we are in communion with the whole Congregation celebrating 185 years of our Foundation! Indeed, “the PRESENCE of the Lord, the Holy One is HERE”…
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Assumption’s Beginning in the Philippines
On November 13, 1892, four Religious of the Assumption in Barcelona, boarded the steamer Isla de Panay bound for the Philippines. They represented the first batch of Assumption Sisters who reached the Philippines’ shores and opened the first Assumption school: a Superior Normal School for women. Last November 18, 2023, over 130 years from that…
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Environmental Youth Conference (EnviCon) 2023, igniting climate awareness and bold action among youth leaders in some schools in Rizal.
“Everything that exists ceases to be a gift for which we should be thankful,esteem and cherish, and instead becomes a slave,prey to any whim of the human mind and its capacities.”- Pope Francis in Laudate Deum, 22To heed the call of Pope Francis to be bolder in our actions in being stewards of our common home,…
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Deepening the Assumption Spirit
Bridging Cultures: Deepening the Assumption Family Spirit (Assumption Learners Exchange Program) From August 19 to September 2, 2023, Assumption Iloilo extended a warm welcome to a group of Japanese learners from Assumption Kokusai, Osaka, Japan as part of an Assumption Learners Exchange Program. Accompanying them were Miss Cecile Adrias, our former English Teacher here, now,…
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A Missionary ends her many years of service in Thailand
Sister Catalina has been in Thailand since its foundation in 1980 and this year 2023, 43 years after she will be going back to the Philippines to continue her journey. Sr. Catalina spent some weeks putting a closure to her missionary experience. She said goodbye to the people she has served and grown to love. …
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Installation of the Assumption Herran Marker
2023 marks 50 years since the Religious of the Assumption sold this land to the Gokongwei group of the Universal-Robina Corporation, the Manila Midtown Corporation. We want to give thanks and honor the 80 years that Assumption Herran provided Christian transformative education in this country by installing a marker that will remind us of the…
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Journeying Together as Peoples of Asia
FABC 50 : JOURNEYING TOGETHER AS PEOPLES OF ASIA “… and they went a different way.” ( Mt. 2:12) A sharing by Sr. Deanna Maria, r.a.: The General Conference which the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) has planned over a past number of years finally took place last 12-30 October. Baan Phu Waan ( House…