Stefano Bellesini

Last November 7, our Augustinian nuns of Talavera de la Reina, Spain, had a very special meeting in the Clementine Hall with Pope...

Nos asomamos por un día a la vida de la Casa Hogar La Gloria, el orfanato que los agustinos de California regentan en Tijuana

On December 10, 2024, the formators, students, seminarians, relatives and friends of the International House of St. Augustine Convent in...

During the month of November, the Assistant General for Latin America, Father Alexander Lam, made a visitation of renewal to the Vicariate of the Antilles.  Six houses, some 26 friars, 11 parishes and two schools are distributed among the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Texas.  “The work that the Vicariate is carrying out is very beautiful and impressive. They are also trying to respond to the guidelines given by the Order to promote community life, although there is stil

Dear brothers and sisters, members of the Order and of the Augustinian Family: What contradictory times we are living in! They are times...

During the last week of November, the Ordinary Provincial Chapter of Ecuador was held in the house of St. Francis de Sales in the city of...

On November 2nd, 3rd and 4th of  2024, in the community center of the Order of Saint Augustine in Colombia, located in Villeta,...

“In the here and now of our lives, history calls out to us and urges us to offer a prophetic response to the existing challenges.” This...

Last July, the Fifth International Congress of the Augustinian Laity took place in Rome. Nearly 100 participants from 28 circumscriptions on five continents met again, five years later, after the 2019 Congress in Sacrofano, Italy, to continue this path of synodality, fraternity and love among equals. Having let rest what was clearly a great experience of deepening the vocation of the Augustinian laity and his way of implementing his legacy in those places where the Order is p

From August 5 to 9, 2024, the Province of Saint Augustine of Nigeria gathered at the Augustinian Institute in Makurdi, Benue State, to...

From September 26th to 30th, the commission in charge for the revision of the Constitutions of the contemplative sisters of the Order of Saint Augustine met at the Fray Luis de León house in Guadarrama, Madrid province (Spain). Convened by the Prior General in order to review the work done so far and to plan what still remains to be done, this group of sisters – 15 nuns on behalf of the five federations – represents the monasteries of the Order that, for over a year, have bee

"As Augustinian educators, we guide our students toward an encounter with the True Teacher." The University of San Agustin in Iloilo (USA), Philippines, hosted the first international congress on education held in the Asia-Pacific region. Over five days, more than two hundred participants from various continents —academics, directors, teachers, and pastoral agents from educational centers of the Order worldwide— reflected on the risks and opportunities Artificial Intelligence

On September 25, the appointment of Father Juan Antonio Cabrera Montero as the new president of the Pontifical Augustinianum Patristic Institute was announced After 24 years crossing its corridors, coming and going through its classrooms and offices; getting to know its bibliographical heritage during his 11 years in the Library or sharing with his students the thought and theology from Gregory the Great to the iconoclastic polemic of the ninth century, Father Juan Antonio no

The work of “liturgical improvements” carried out in the Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro have come to a happy conclusion for thousands of devotees and pilgrims from all over the world. In the Lombard city of Pavia, where the reliquary in which the remains of St. Augustine has rested for more than 1,300 years and which the Augustinians are in charge of conserving, the celebrations presided over by the Prior General took place last 12 October.  These works have had as an o

Amidst the joyful hustle of the community and the thatched huts, with millet porridge and chapati as breakfast for the entire day, the...

The Board of Directors of the Organization of Augustinians of Latin America (OALA) held its annual meeting in the city of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, from 15th-19th April. On the first day of activities, a fraternal welcome was extended to the participants and the work programme for the week was set out. In his opening speech, secretary general Fr Márcio Antonio Vidal stressed that the aim of the meeting was to share the actions that could be carried out in the

The Prior General of the Order of Saint Augustine, Fr. Alejandro Moral Antón, addressed his Easter greetings to the brothers, sisters and...

After the death of Fr. Nello Ciprirani, one of the great masters of the Pontifical Patristic Institute Augustinianum, last February 17,...

The University of San Agustin in Iloilo, Philippines, will host from 22-26 July this year an International Congress on Education under...