The Augustinian Recollects, missionary disciples today
The recent meeting of the General Secretariat of Missionary and Ministerial Apostolate has established new guidelines for the parish ministries and missions of the Augustinian Recollects.
Organs
Secretariats and commissions, mostly headed by the General councilors, are formed in order to deliver better the services of the general government of the Order. These are bodies of an administrative nature, and carry out their tasks within the limits and guidelines indicated by the Prior General with the consent of his Council. Their main function is to provide and solicit information, initiatives and to push for the realization of goals. They act with the habitual faculties contained in the statutes of each secretariat and approved by the Prior General with the consent of his Council. They always act under the direction of the Prior General, who is responsible for the decisions together with his Council.
Secretariat for Spirituality and Formation
The General Secretariat for Spirituality and Formation is one of the organs of an administrative nature, through which the General Government carries out its function of service to the Order in the animation of the spiritual life, the experience of its own charism and the initial formation and permanent.
To carry out its own functions, the Secretariat is divided into four sections:
- Initial Formation Section
- Permanent Formation Section
- Spirituality and Liturgy Section
- Secular Augustinian Recollects Fraternity Section
Its main purpose is coordination, initiative and momentum. It also has the following functions:
a) Advise the Prior General and his council regarding Spirituality and Formation.
b) Ensure compliance with the decisions regarding Spirituality and Formation contained in the Life and Mission Project of the Order 2016-2022.
c) Ensure that the guidelines of the sexennium are included in the programming of the Provinces of the Order.
d) Suggest and support initiatives that strengthen our charismatic identity throughout the training process.
e) To promote the formation and updating of trainers according to the charismatic guidelines of the Formative Itinerary (IFAR).
f) Encourage communication and collaboration with the other General Secretariats, the Provincial Secretariats of Spirituality and Formation and the Revitalization Team of the Order (ERO).
President: Francisco Javier Monroy Rodríguez
Initial Formation Section
Francisco Javier Monroy Rodríguez
Miguel Ángel Hernández Domínguez
Héctor Manuel Calderón Muñoz
Ian Espartero
Permanent Formation Section
Francisco Javier Monroy Rodríguez
Enrique Gómez García
Carlos González Castellanos
Raul Buhay
Spirituality and Liturgy Section
Francisco Javier Monroy Rodríguez
Juan Pablo Martínez Peláez
José Ramón Pérez Sáenz
Pablo Panedas Galindo
Secular Augustinian Recollects Fraternity Section
Francisco Javier Monroy Rodríguez
José Ramón Pérez Sáenz
Miguel Ángel Hernández Domínguez
Secretariat for the Apostolate
The General Secretariat of the Apostolate is one of the organs of an administrative nature, through which the General Government performs its function of service to the Order in the animation and promotion of evangelizing action in the ministries of mission, in parish ministries or in pastoral action centers of various kinds entrusted and assisted by the Order, as well as in their own educational centers.
To carry out its own functions, the Secretariat is divided into three sections:
• Missionary Apostolate Section.
• Ministerial Apostolate Section.
• Educational Apostolate Section.
It also has the following functions:
a) To advise the Prior General and his Council, regarding the ministerial, missionary and educational apostolate.
b) Ensure compliance with the decisions regarding the ministerial, missionary and educational apostolate contained in the Life and Mission Project of the Order of 2016-2022, fostering collaboration with ecclesial structures.
c) Ensure that the guidelines of the sexennium are included in the pastoral plans, or the programming of the missionary, ministerial and educational apostolate of the Provinces of the Order.
d) Suggest and support initiatives that strengthen our charismatic identity in parishes, missions and educational centers served by the Order.
e) Promote the shared mission in the missionary, ministerial and educational apostolate of the Order among religious and laity.
f) To promote the formation and pastoral updating of religious and laity to carry out their responsibilities in the mission, ministerial and educational fields.
g) Encourage communication and collaboration with the other general secretaries and with the provincial secretariats of apostolate and their respective sections of missionary, ministerial and educational apostolate.
h) Promote communion with the local Church.
Ministerial Apostolate Section
Raul Buhay
Nicolás Pérez-Aradros Rubio
Francisco Javier Acero Pérez
Juan Carlos Avitia Aguilar
Missionary Apostolate Section
Raul Buhay
Simón Puertas Pérez
Gabriel Ángel Palacio Tobón
Educational Apostolate Section
As a section of the Apostolate Secretariat, it is an administrative body that performs the function of information, initiative and momentum in the educational work developed by the Order of Augustinian Recollects.
In addition, the Educational Apostolate Section has the following functions:
- Advise the Prior General and his Council, regarding the Educational Apostolate
- Ensure compliance with the decisions concerning the Apostolate of Education contained in the Life and Mission Project of the Order
- ensure that the guidelines of the sexennium in the area of the Educational Apostolate are included in the educational plans of the Provinces
- suggest and support initiatives that strengthen our charismatic identity in our own educational centers or assisted by the Order
- promote the shared mission between religious and laity
- promote the formation and pastoral updating of religious and laity to fulfill their responsibilities in the educational field
- encourage communication and collaboration with the sections of the Educational Apostolate of the Provincial Secretariats.
Members:
Antonio Carrón de la Torre
Jorge Chaparro Caro
Raul Buhay
Pedro Rivas Durán
Francisco Ariza Bertos
Secretariat for Vocations and Youth
El Secretariado General de Vocaciones y Juventud es uno de los órganos de carácter administrativo, a través de los cuales el Gobierno general realiza su función de servicio a la Orden.
Este Secretariado tiene encomendada la misión de:
a) Seguir de cerca y orientar el trabajo vocacional y juvenil de la Orden en las diversas Provincias, según el carisma Agustino Recoleto.
b) Velar por el cumplimiento de las directrices que en materia de pastoral vocacional y juvenil emanan de nuestras leyes.
c) Promover y coordinar, con la autorización del Prior general y su Consejo, las iniciativas que estime convenientes para el logro de la misión de animación vocacional y juvenil de la Orden.
Presidente: Juan Pablo Martínez Peláez
Sección de Pastoral Vocacional
Juan Pablo Martínez Peláez
Bruno d’Andrea
Wilmer Moyetones Alvarado
Gustavo Barbiero Mello
Fabián Martín Gómez
Sección de las Juventudes Agustino Recoletas
Juan Pablo Martínez Peláez
Francisco Javier Monroy Rodríguez
Juan Pablo Magnanelli
Jóvenes de JAR:
Heber Hermosillo (México)
Francisco Lostia (Argentina)
Miguel Ángel Gonzalo (España)
Commission for the Social Apostolate
La Comisión de Apostolado Social (CAS) es un órgano de animación, reflexión, coordinación, diálogo y comunión para ayudar a poner en práctica las opciones y prioridades capitulares en el campo del apostolado social; un cauce institucionalizado para fomentar la corresponsabilidad y coordinación entre los ministerios y los agentes locales -religiosos y laicos- de la Orden y de la Familia Agustino Recoleta.
La CAS nace con el empeño de despertar, alimentar, alentar y acompañar el espíritu misionero, de justicia y de solidaridad universal propio de la Iglesia y del carisma Agustino-Recoleto, haciendo que esta dimensión se convierta en un eje transversal de la vida y de la actividad pastoral y misionera de la Orden de Agustinos Recoletos.
La Comisión se ocupa, al menos, de estos objetivos generales, que recogen sus prioridades socio- evangelizadoras:
a) Espiritualidad misionero solidaria que sostenga y exprese nuestro compromiso con la vida, la justicia social, la solidaridad, la paz y la integridad de la creación.
b) Sensibilización y educación en la solidaridad y el desarrollo que promuevan una lectura creyente de la realidad, formen conciencias críticas, promuevan estilos de vida austeros, solidarios y activamente comprometidos.
c) Facilitar cauces de solidaridad para personas, ministerios y colectivos por medio de acciones comprometidas en justicia y paz e integridad de la creación, en acción social, migraciones y refugiados, cooperación para el desarrollo, incidencia político-social, comunicación de bienes y promoción del voluntariado.
d) Cuidar las misiones en las que está la Orden. Dar a conocer, animar y acompañar (material y humanamente) la labor misionera desarrollada.
e) Promover la implicación potenciando la coordinación y el trabajo en red. Potenciar, cuidar o crear estructuras locales, provinciales y de orden que aúnen las acciones de solidaridad, que faciliten la coordinación, y promueva la implicación cada vez mayor de religiosos y laicos en estas. Constituir y apoyar una red solidaria internacional, en la que participen las organizaciones sociales de la Familia Agustino Recoleta. Potenciar el trabajo en red intercongregacional, interreligioso y con organizaciones de la sociedad civil.
Miembros:
Antonio Carrón de la Torre
Simón Puertas Pérez
Jazeeal Jakosalem
Francisco Javier Acero Pérez
Commission for Communication and Publications
La Comisión de Comunicación y Publicaciones (CCP) es un organismo de consulta y al servicio de la Orden, dependiente del Prior general y su Consejo, al que corresponde aprobar los planes y propuestas de la CCP y tomar las decisiones oportunas.
El fin primero de la CCP es presentar y difundir el carisma de la Orden, y salvaguardar la imagen institucional de la misma.
El fin específico de la CCP es animar la vida de comunión en la Orden teniendo como objetivo último la evangelización.
Otros objetivos de la Comisión son:
- establecer la política general de la Orden respecto a las comunicaciones y publicaciones
- promover la comunión a través de las comunicaciones y publicaciones entre los religiosos, y facilitar la relación con el resto de la Familia Agustino Recoleta
- ofrecer la adecuada información de la Orden en los medios
- fomentar las relaciones entre los religiosos y demás miembros de la Familia Agustino Recoleta
- informar sobre acontecimientos importantes de la vida de la Orden y, si procede, de la Iglesia o de la sociedad
- difundir nuestra espiritualidad, legado cultural, historia y forma de vida, tanto entre los más cercanos como entre los que no nos conocen
- colaborar con los Secretariados y organismos de la Orden, y promover y difundir sus iniciativas y actuaciones
- cooperar en la formación permanente de los religiosos y religiosas de la Familia Agustino-Recoleta, y de los seglares relacionados con ella
- cuidar que se instituya la CCP en todas las provincias y velar por su conveniente funcionamiento
- establecer cauces para que los religiosos se formen adecuadamente en el uso de los medios de comunicación social.
Miembros:
Antonio Carrón de la Torre
Ernil Almayo
Rafael Nieto Lerena
Francisco Javier Acero Pérez
Team for the Revitalization of the Order
El Equipo de Revitalización es un equipo internacional e interdisciplinar de religiosos que promueve la espiritualidad Agustino Recoleta y la formación de religiosos y seglares para responder desde nuestra identidad carismática a la llamada de la nueva Evangelización. Entre sus funciones está la de elaborar los ejercicios espirituales anuales, los materiales de formación permanente, retiros mensuales, experiencias de interioridad, Lectio Divina, formación de docentes y agentes de pastoral y otras muchas cosas.
Miembros:
Enrique Eguiarte Bendímez
Carlos González Castellanos
Carlos María Domínguez
Jairo Soto Moreno
Lauro Larlar
José Ramón Pérez Sáenz
Economic and Assets Council
El Consejo Económico y de Patrimonio de la Orden de Agustinos Recoletos es un organismo administrativo, creado por el Prior general y su Consejo. Su misión es asesorar al Prior general y su Consejo en asuntos económicos, y ayudar al Ecónomo general en la administración de los bienes temporales de la Orden. Ha de procurar que, en la gestión económica de la Orden, resplandezca siempre el espíritu evangélico y se sigan las disposiciones de la Iglesia, del Derecho y de nuestras Constituciones, y se compagine perfectamente dicha gestión con el voto de pobreza y la ley común del trabajo.
Miembros:
José Ramón Pérez Sáenz
Simón Puertas Pérez
Javier Tonatiuh Espinosa Pino
Javier González Velásquez
Commission for the Protection of Minors
The Commission for the Protection of Minors of the Order of Augustinian Recollects is a body dependent on the Prior General whose objectives are:
- Address cases of child abuse that occur, or have occurred, within the scope of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, either by religious, or by contracted or volunteer personnel.
- Propose concrete measures to promote the prevention of abuse and the protection of minors, among others:
- care for victims and affected people;
- accompany those denounced;
- promote the initial and ongoing formation of religious;
- to guide the religious in function of government;
- create safe spaces within the scope of the Order.
- Advise the Prior General and Priors provincial in cases that may arise in the field of child protection.
- Ensure immediate compliance with the protocols and regulations that, in terms of child protection, are determined in the Order of Augustinian Recollects.
The creation of this Commission represents a renewed commitment of the Order against all types of child abuse and the creation of safe environment in all the places where we are and in the apostolic works we serve. With this Commission, the Order joins the efforts of the Church to promote prevention, transparency and determination in the treatment of sexual crimes against minors.
Since 2015 the Order of Augustinian Recollects has a Protocol for the Protection and Prevention of Childhood and Adolescence which is obligatory throughout the Order. The Protocol is complimentary to the Code of Canon Law, to the Modifications to Normae de Gravioribus Delictis from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and to the regulations of the different Episcopal Conferences.
Along with this protocol, in recent years steps have continued to be taken to create safe spaces in all the communities and apostolic works of the Order. As a result of this effort, the following elements have emerged:
– Guidelines for activities with children in relation to minors and how to avoid improper conduct (Rome, 2018), obligatory for all religious and contracted and voluntary personnel of the apostolic works of the Order. Its contents are to be communicated to all and their knowledge and dedication is to be recorded.
– Communication manual for Crisis Management (Rome, 2018).
– Model Guide for the Protection of Minors of the Order of Augustinian Recollects
(Rome, 2018), to adapt to the different apostolic works, according to the culture and laws of each country
In addition, the Commission for the Protection of Minors offers an e-mail box [email protected] to make queries or report possible cases of abuse in the context of the Order.
Miembros:
Antonio Carrón de la Torre OAR (General Councilor. Rome). President.
Ricardo Daniel Medina OAR (Doctor of Cann Law. Buenos Aires). Secretary.
Gustavo Camarena Lara OAR (Canon Law Student, Rome). Deputy Secretary.
Daniel Portillo Trevizo (Professor of Theology and Psychology. Mexico).
Carmen Lavigne (Specialist in Child Protection, PhD Psychology. Philippines).
