Radio-broadcast Life of Saint Augustine in 52 Episodes Enters Recording Phase
The recording of the 52 episodes of a radio drama In the Life of Saint Augustine has begun in Mexico. After the recording is completed, the series will be broadcast on Spanish-speaking radio stations beginning in March. The author of the series, journalist Tere García, received expert help in the composition of the text from the noted…
José Manuel Romero: “In China, there are twelve Augustinian Recollects serving nine parishes”
José Manuel Romero Hernández (Madrid, 1972) has recently arrived from Shangqiú (China), where he has directed some days of formation for Chinese religious friars and sisters. He is an Augustinian Recollect since 1998. He was ordained priest in 2003 and immediately, he moved on to stay in Taiwan, until last September. From…
La Ciudad de los Niños receives a prize as the most popular social institution on Facebook
Boy’s Town, is an educational institution run by the Augustinian Recollects in Costa Rica. It has just won a $ 10,000 prize in the "Painting Dreams" competition, which was proposed by the social network, Facebook, during the months of December and January. The event was aimed at financially supporting the Costa Rican social institution that…
Lacunza: “At this time, the government and the indigenous people are in dialogue with the intermediation of the Catholic Church.”
The Augustinian Recollect José Luis Lacunza, Bishop of David (Panama) and president of the Episcopal Conference of the Central American country, is mediating between the government and the Ngäbe Buglé tribe in order to end a conflict that has caused one death and several other wounded casualties. Lacunza has sent a message to…
The youngest Province of the Order decides its future for the next three years.
Although the Philippines is one of the oldest ancestral homes of the Recollection - present there since 1606- the Province of St. Ezequiel is the youngest among the eight Provinces that compose the Order. It was created on 1998, when the country celebrated its 100 years of independence. There are 145 religious whose medium age is 40 years. They…
Spectacular presentation of Augustinian Recollect history and present reality
It’s the merit of the Augustinian Recollect’s news publication, “Canta y Camina”, which is now on its 25th year of existence. On the 113th edition, which we present here, offers a graphic of the 400 years of the Order’s history and it’s distribution on an updated world map








