February 2 is much more than Groundhog Day. It is also the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (aka Candlemas) and the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life. The Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists) sponsor Assumption University and the publishing ministries of the Pflaum Publishing Group, Twenty-Third Publications, and Creative Communications for the Parish in the US. They also sponsor the work of Novalis in Canada and many more publishing efforts—both religious and secular—in countries throughout the world.
In this time-lapse video, Brother Daniele Caglioni leads us in a prayer composed by Father Emmanuel d’Alzon, founder of the Assumptionists:
O my God, give me the light to see what is lacking in me; give me the strength to acquire the virtues that I do not have. Give me the grace to follow my vocation, so that as a true son of the Church and of the Blessed Virgin I may imitate not too unworthily the virtues of Jesus, my Master.
Lord, this will be my life’s work, as long as you open my heart to hear this word that so few understand, but that is so full of love: “Follow me!”
