Assembly - Rome - 25-27 June 2018 ‘Institute’ may sound like a building where teaching takes place, but in fact it is a group of friars appointed by the Prior General to promote Augustinian spirituality within the Order of St Augustine. This was only the second assembly since the foundation of the Institute in 2012. A governing body of seven sees to its work. One of its most successful projects has been the organising of three-month renewal courses for friars and religious

This year we will have over 200 exhibitors of traditional and contemporary crafts, food, drink and children’s entertainment in the 14th century Priory and its beautiful grounds set next to Clare Castle Country Park and River Stour. Visitors to the 2018 Clare Priory Craft Fair in Suffolk (14th and 15th July) will be offered free guided tours of Clare Priory Church. The newly extended and Grade 1 listed scheduled monument which in 2015 won the Building Conservation Award and wa

© John Maclean The RIBA National Awards are given to buildings across the UK recognised as significant contributions to architecture. After winning the RIBA regional award, St Augustine's church has now won the RIBA national award. Extract from architecture.com: "This project demonstrates how with simple moves and extraordinary care and attention, an otherwise unprepossessing building can be transformed, in this case into a place with a calm, ethereal quality, wholly fitting

They are some individuals of selfless heart who find little satisfaction in life unless they give of themselves continually and without reservation. Saint John was one such person who repeatedly divested himself of honours and privileges in order to gain the inheritance of eternal happiness. In doing so, he enriched the live of others by his word and example as well. John González was born in 1430 of a well-to-do family in Sahagún de Campos, Spain. He studied under the Benedi