Blog Orden de Agustinos Recoletos

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 [...]

Some days ago I attended the 15th Augustinian Days held in Madrid. The topic was suggestive: “Two loves founded two cities”. The lectures were about the City of God, the work that Saint Augustine wrote after the sack of Rome in the year 410. The pagans said that God no longer protected the Christians, whom [...]

The religious of the Province of Saint Ezequiel Moreno held their Fifth Provincial Chapter at Talavera House of Prayer – Recoletos in Cebu City, Philippines. It’s a province that is barely 12 years old and has 162 religious, almost all of them Filipinos. The average age, 41.6 years, is much lower than that of many [...]