Today is the feast of All Saints of the #Augustinian Order, the Institute of Augustinian Spirituality is sending the prayer service. In these difficult times surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, we believe that praying together can help all of us to strengthen our fraternal bond. Theme: the gift of fraternity. The proposed service is a basic structure to which you can add or adapt according to the desires of your community and situation. Link to the service in English Link to

The Executive Committee of the Augustinian Spirituality Institute, formed by Frs. Luis Marín, Joseph Farrell, Robert Guessetto, Pasquale Cormio and Enrique Martín, met on November 6, the members residing in Rome in person and the rest telematically. The following topics were discussed: 1. Given the situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, it was decided not to hold the Spirituality course planned in Spanish for 2021. It will be organized as soon as possible. 2. The propos

A Congress of the Augustinian Secular Fraternities of Latin America initially organized from October 7 to 11, 2020 in Lima took place virtually from October 9 to 11, 2020. The purpose of this meeting was to follow what was proposed at the previous Congress in Colombia, that of achieving a Union in Latin America as one soul and one heart towards God, hence its motto: "Called by his Grace: Communion of Life, Communion of Goods and Communion of Spirit." The presentations on diff

The French television network KTO made a documentary on Saint Augustine on the occasion of the Augustinian Days of Carthage held in November 2019 and organized by the ATLAS and Via Augustina associations. The documentary, "Saint Augustin: Parcours d'un Berbère Romain", was broadcast on Tunisian television on Monday, September 28, 2020 and can now be viewed on YouTube. During the days of the Conference, dedicated to the dissemination of the thought and person of Saint Augusti

On the occasion of the 16th anniversary of the death of Saint Jerome, Pope Francis has published the Apostolic Letter Scripturae Sacrae Affectus. The Pope describes the life and work of this Father and Doctor of the Church and recalls not only the keys to understanding Saint Jerome, but also proposes him as an example and guide for today's scholars. Francis also honors our Order with an explicit mention to the Patristic Institute of Rome: “Centres of excellence for biblical r

Given as a talk to a gathering of English-speaking Augustinians at Clare College, Cambridge, in September 1998, to celebrate 750 years of the Augustinian Order’s presence in the British Isles, and subsequently published in Religious Life Review 37 (November/December 1998) 330-338, with the title, ‘The Future of Religious Life: A Post-modern Augustinian Perspective’. We have come here to celebrate 750 years of our Order’s presence in Britain and Ireland and, more importantly,

The Provincial Council of the Province of Ireland, which met for an Ordinary Meeting on Thursday 29th October, 2020, in the Provincial’s Residence in Zion Road, Dublin 6, (with the assistance of Zoom Communications Technology) taking into account the consultation of the brothers of the Anglo-Scottish Province, following the relevant Constitutions (§237, 361 and 362), decided to nominate Reverend Father Robert K. Marsh OSA for the Office of Provincial Superior of the Augusti

A Hackney chef is helping reduce food waste and feed her community for free at her Hoxton community kitchen. Aina Omo-Bare welcomes everyone at Idia’s Kitchen, which she runs three times a week at St Monica’s Roman Catholic Church, our Augustinian parish in Hoxton. She often cooks for up to 40 people at a time and all the food at her community kitchen is free to anyone who needs a hot meal. [...] The project grew and the Catholic charity Caritas Westminister helped her find n