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.clarepri

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 missionar

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, L

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 a