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To you belong spiritual men, yours are the carnal men; you showed wisdom and truth to the first; and like the moon as consolation of the night, you console the second with the manifestation of your humanity. Enarrationes in psalmos 73,19...

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February 2012. PANAMA

Bishop Lacunza mediates between the Government and the natives in order to resolve the conflict and avoid deaths

Last February 5 a person died and 46 others have been wounded on account of the encounters between the police and the natives, in a nearby mission of the Augustinian Recollects in Boca del Toro. The conflict between the Government and the ethnics Ngäbe Buglé, is due to the fact that the latter demand legal guarantee that in their…

February 2012. BRAZIL

The “St. Monica’s Home” project has been working to restore the human dignity of 41 minors who have been sexually abused.

February 2012. Brazil

The City of Rio de Janeiro hosted the Augustinian recollects first encounter for the promotion of vocations.

Organization chart

The Prior General presides over and governs the Order by his proper authority or with his Council. He exercises his authority in accordance with the Constitutions over all the provinces, houses and brothers. The General Secretariats are organs of administration at the service of the Order. Their principal function is to provide information, incentive, and organization for activities in specific areas.

The institutes are organs of the Order created for specific purposes. At present, there are two, the Institute of Augustinology and the Institute of Spirituality and History of the Order.

The Procurator General is responsible for handling matters which require the intervention of the Holy See. Other posts of the government of the Order are the Secretary General, the financial officer, the Postulator of causes of canonization, the chronicler, and the archivist.

The provinces are juridical entities of the Order and are formed by a certain number of houses and a sufficient number of religious as well as sufficient resources to carry out a mission of service to the Church.

In the following schema, it is possible to see the internal organization of the Order of Augustinian Recollects.

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