With deep thanksgiving to God and with our Augustinian hearts overflowing with joy, we wish our brother, Pope Leo XIV, the love and support of the entire Augustinian Family on this first anniversary of his election as the Successor of Saint Peter. In these past twelve months, Pope Leo has shown the world what we always knew to be true: that his life and his ministry are rooted in a deep love of Jesus Christ and in a commitment to love others without measure. Pope Leo's bro

Opening of the boxes containing the documentation of the Diocesan Phase of the Cause of the Servant of God Friar Serapio Rivero Nicolás, O.S.A. Rome, April 28, 2026. At the headquarters of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the boxes containing the Transumptum and the Public Copy of the diocesan inquiry in the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Friar Serapio Rivero Nicolás, O.S.A., a professed priest of the Order of Saint Augustine, were opene

-- Reflection by Fr. Fred Wekesa, OSA It was May 8, 2025, shortly after the election of Pope Leo XIV, that visitors who usually come at our Basilica of Saint Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, first began to ask: since the Holy Father is an Augustinian, when will the Holy Father pay us a visit in Annaba? Without much reflection on the issue, I responded casually, uncertain of what the future would offer. But during quiet time, I would quietly wonder why, how and when can a Pope ch

“Holiness is measured by the stature Christ achieves in us, by the extent to which, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we model our whole life on his. It is becoming like Jesus...” (Benedict XVI, 13 April 2011) The stature Christ achieves in us. Holiness. Words which, far from remaining a mere emotional impulse, take flesh in faithful men who have known how to make their Baptism bear fruit and yield fruits of holiness. We can apply them with full propriety to the Servant o

The Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) and the Order of Augustinian Recollects (OAR) have presented the audiobook of Saint Augustine’s Confessions — a joint initiative of the Augustinian Family that is being released today, April 23, 2026, on World Book Day and on the eve of the anniversary of the conversion of the Saint of Hippo, April 24th. The work, available on digital platforms, constitutes the first complete Spanish-language audio edition of this classic of Christian litera

Celebrating the Augustinian spirit taking root in Vietnam

Faced with a profound anthropological crisis, marked by the loss of identity and the breakdown of fundamental bonds such as fatherhood, sonship, and brotherhood, Mother Prado, of the Monastery of the Conversion (Ávila, Spain) , proposed to the Augustinian friars of Panama a return to the essential foundation of human existence: the recognition of being children of God, contemplating the sonship we have as men of God, and as children of God in baptism. From this perspective,

The Order of Saint Augustine and the Vatican Publishing House (LEV) will officially present the unpublished book of Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., now Pope Leo XIV.