By : Eunice Chua, 12-3
June 5, 2023
With a theme inspired by this year’s school thrust, “Assumption education as a blessing
and response to the needs of the world”, the Grade 12 students had their first and last school
recollection on the weekends from November 18 to December 10, 2022. This meaningful
activity called to mind the new beginnings the seniors will soon face, wherein the values instilled
through AA’s transformative education will be put into practice in the bigger world outside AA.
Pre-pandemic, the highly-anticipated Seniors' Recollections were held at the Assumption
Sabbath Place in Baguio. However, due to current health protocols, AA Batch 2023 had their
overnight recollection in campus, at the St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II building. This did
not hinder them from having a meaningful and special recollection after two years of online
school, ...with the guidance of St. Myrna Eugenia A. Maluyao, R.A. of the Faith and Spirituality
Formation Center in Assumption San Lorenzo who facilitated the various reflection activities
which allowed the Seniors to welcome the Lord into their hearts.
Throughout her different retreat sessions, Sr. Myrna highlighted the students’ self and
their communities; how they receive ‘light’ from their various ‘sources’ and how they can give
back to them. As preparation for the Seniors' upcoming graduation from AA, she also gave
attention to Assumption's transformative education and core values by showing a video of
Assumption alumna, Ms. Gina Martin, who applied her own Assumption education in her career
in politics, and by asking the Seniors to make their personal credo based on St. Marie Eugenie's
own.
The recollection concluded in the chapel where confessions were held, followed by the
reading of palanca letters from parents, and a thanksgiving mass celebrated by the Order of
Augustinian Recollects priests. Before the students were dismissed, the sisters gave the students
the cross necklace (as a tradition for the Seniors’ last recollection. This will serve as their
reminder that no matter where they go after their last year in AA, they will always have the grace
of God and St. Marie Eugenie with them every step of the way.