Dear Friends on Line. I have just returned from Sierra Leone. It was a very intense week visiting the Augustinian Recollect missionaries and witnessing at first hand the vitality of a country emerging after a terrible civil war.  It was fourteen years ago that I first visited the fledging mission of Kamabai.  The images that [...]

Last March I visited the communities in England. In London the Augustinian Recollects are present in various parts of the city, in what we call, the Latin American Chaplaincy, which is based in the parish of St. Anne’s, Vauxhall. Sunday Mass is said in Spanish,  and is always well attended. In the Eucharist, Spanish-speaking families who have emigrated from several American countries, celebrate their faith with joy and share the feasts with their own cultural nuances. I witnessed this shared happiness [...]

Friends on line: Rejoice! Jesus of Nazareth is risen! This is not, repeat, not a mirage or a computer-generated virtual image. It is true: Jesus of Nazareth lives! We have not seen him with our own eyes, but he comes to us when we open our hearts in humility and we press the intimate keys [...]

20 May 2012 The Ascension of the Lord (B) Mk. 16: 15-20: Homily of Saint Augustine (S. 233, 1.2) «You have heard what the Lord said to his disciples after his resurrection. He sent them to preach the Gospel, that is what they did; the Gospel was preached, and it even reached us. And thus, [...]

13 May 2012 Sixth Sunday of Easter (B) Jn. 15: 9-17: Homily of Saint Augustine (In Io. ev. tr. 83, 2.3) «This is my precept, He tells us, that you love each other as I have loved you. (Jn. 15: 12) Whether we talk of a precept or a commandment, both are translations of one [...]

6 May 2012 Fifth Sunday of Easter (B) Jn. 15, 1-8: Homily of Saint Augustine (In Io. Ev. Tr. 81, 3) «Consider insistently that which the Truth adds besides, when He says:   I am the vine, you are the branches.  He who remains in me, and I in him, produces much fruit, because without me [...]

After days of intense living, unforgettable moments of prayer, friendship, celebration and joy, it only remains to thank all the involvement, the effort to be present, the enthusiasm shown, and the collaboration. And a special thank to the responsible of organization! Madrid will not forget this historic event. It was a big moment of grace: [...]

We the Augustinian Recolect Youth gathered in Madrid, Spain, during the WYD XXVI want to express our wishes and ideals in order to share them with all the Augustinian Recolect family and with all the youth in the world. We have travelled from Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Republica Dominicana, Spain, the United States, The Phillipines, [...]

The Pope’s cap flew, the vigil was interrupted, but no despair. A night for history: more than a million young people by facing to inclement weather. And on stage a Pope excited to see their response. The more it rained more singing and dancing. Stunning images, thrilling, difficult to forget. But the rain passed, there [...]