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The Clare Priory Virtual Craft Fair, July 11th to August 31st 2020

The Virtual Craft Fair website started, as all our Craft Fairs do, on the second weekend of July. The first day alone brought a surge of interest with more than 1400 visitors in more than 14 different countries.. There are about 100 crafters who can be contacted through the VCF website. If you haven’t browsed through the marquees or contacted the crafters, then you’d better do so now, because this week is your last opportunity. Visit the dedicated website: http://vcf.clarepriory.org.uk/

Being Christian in a Secularised Europe

Given as a talk in June 2004 to the lay volunteers who staff the Millennium Chapel, an outreach project of the Maltese Augustinians bringing religion to the young people who frequent the nightspots of Paceville, Malta. Europe today presents a particular challenge for the Church. For so long it was identified with Christianity, and from it missionaries took the Gospel to most parts of the world. In fact, the Augustinians were at the forefront of the great period of missionary expansion in the 16th century. They were the first missionaries in the Philippines, got into China before the Jesuits, and played a major role in establishing the Church in Central and South America. But now Europe h

August 28 - St. Augustine’s Feast

There is no doubt that St. Augustine is one of the great saints of our Church. His Confessions reveal not only his conversion but a journey and a search that could only end in him being declared a saint. That is, his whole life was dedicated to getting to know God and having discovered God he wished with the passing of each day to get to further his relationship with him, the giver of all life. Augustine offers us this simple yet profound thought; “Let my soul rouse itself, Lord, from its weariness, lean on Your creation and soar up to You who made it all. For in You we are remade and find true strength.” Yet, one would not necessarily see Augustine as a devotional saint like St. Francis or

‘They can burn bodies, but they cannot burn the idea’: Fr Augustine Schubert OSA 1902-42

We have been so taken up with the pandemic that other significant events in 2020 have been pushed to one side. This year marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two, reminding us of the horrors of that time, especially the Holocaust and the Bomb. A witness to that period was a Czech Augustinian, Fr Augustine Schubert, OSA, who died in Dachau concentration camp in 1942. The Augustinians are trying to promote his cause for beatification. In 2008, a well-researched account of his life was written by František Futera and published by the Augustinians in Prague in Czech. Since then, progress towards his cause has slowed down. However, an English translation of Futera’s life will be pu

One Mind, One Heart Intent Upon God

Feast of All Saints of the Augustinian Order

Meeting of the executive committee of the Augustinian Spirituality Institute

Virtual encounter of secular Augustinian fraternities

The Clare Priory Virtual Craft Fair, July 11th to August 31st 2020

Being Christian in a Secularised Europe

August 28 - St. Augustine’s Feast

‘They can burn bodies, but they cannot burn the idea’: Fr Augustine Schubert OSA 1902-42