University at a distance, workshops of prayer and centers of spirituality in order to rediscover the charism of St. Augustine.
The Prior General, Miguel Miró, accompanied the inter-Provincial team of revitalization. The five religious who make up the team have the responsibility of offering to the Augustinian Recollect Family, “spiritual accompaniment and theological formation” following the directives of the last General Chapter. For five days, they…
The writings of the Augustinian Recollect foundress, Mariana of Saint Joseph, were compiled and printed shortly after her death on 15 April 1638, exactly 375 years ago. Now they are found only in some libraries. A critical edition of these writings is to be made available to the public by the BAC (Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos) of the Spanish…
The Colegio Agustiniano de Madrid, among the best of Spain for three consecutive years, according to the ranking of El Mundo daily
The Colegio Agustiniano de Madrid is in the 16th place in the classification of 100 best schools of Spain, which the El Mundo daily develops in detail every year, and has published at the beginning of the month of March. In its 14th Edition, this ranking has gathered 150 centers, the result of a careful and detailed analysis of 1000 colleges; an…
Evangelization work of the Augustinian Recollects in Casanare and the closing ceremony of the jubilee year dedicated to the Virgin of Manare
The jubilee celebration of the 300 years of veneration of the image of Our Lady of Sorrows of Manare was concluded last February 2013. In his homily during the Eucharist the Nuncio emphasized on the work of evangelization of the Augustinian Recollects in Casanare, which started more than three centuries ago.
Paschal Triduum: Passion, Death and Resurrection
The experience takes form in the art and in verse as well. The art and verse nourish at the same time the life of the Church, which, during the Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum, come out of churches and go all over the streets. An excellent example from the Augustinian Recollect tradition is the Cristo de la Victoria. The life of the nuns of…
Jairo Soto: “The best investment must be in the religious themselves.”
Jairo Orlando Soto Moreno (Bogotá 1952) is the new Prior of the Augustinian Recollects in Colombia and Chile. He takes the place of Norberto Escobar, who has resigned for health reason. Soto has been Vicar Provincial. Circumstances have pushed him to make a step forward and put on the table his ideas and projects.
Pope Francis seen by the Augustinian Recollects in Buenos Aires: “He travels by bus and by train, it would cost him to get accustomed to the vatican protocol"
“Francis, fresh air from the South”, is the title of the blog of the Prior General of the Order about his reflection on Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who from March 13 is Pope Francis. He who is up to now the Archbishop of Buenos Aires has had a very close relation with the Augustinian Recollects who administer the parish…
Revitalization of the Order in the educational apostolate to avoid “conformism, stagnancy, and lukewarmness”
More than fifty religious who are involved in the educational apostolate asked the Prior General, Miguel Miró, for a message about revitalization in the field of education. The superior explained, in a long letter, the criteria of identity and the need to live a life that is coherent with this identity, reminding the religious that our…
After 400 years the Augustinian Discalced left their convent in Alcoy to be integrated in the monastery of Benigánim.
The Augustinian Discalced of the monastery of Santo Sepulcro in Alcoy (Alicante) left, after four hundred years of presence in the said city, to join their sisters in the monastery of Purísima Concepción and Beata Inés de Benigánim (Valencia). The monastery of Santo Sepulcro, which has been occupied by the sisters since…
The prelature of Cametá now a diocese and with an Augustinian Recollect as bishop
Cametá is one of the 45 prelatures in the Church. Five of these territories were entrusted to Augustinian Recollect bishops. With the establishment of Cametá as diocese last February 6 there remain but 44 prelatures. Jesús María Cizaurre, the Augustinian Recollect who headed the Church in this said territory, became its…