During the last week of January, the first Chapter of the Province of the Sacred Heart of Jesus took place at the Franciscan retreat house in Boquete, in western Panama. Four months after the 188th General Chapter, at which the decision was made to elevate the Augustinians of Panama from Vicariate to Province, more than forty participating brothers were able to share in the “great joy” of this new stage together with the Prior General, who presided over the Chapter. With Fath

On the afternoon of September 18, the capitular brothers listened to the solemn reading of the Acts of the 188th Ordinary General Chapter of the Order of Saint Augustine. It was a Chapter filled with innovative thinking, changes agreed upon point by point in the instrumentum laboris, and long days of group work and plenary assemblies to support the Prior General and his newly elected Council in a strategic plan for the next six years. We spoke with some of our brothers from d

On Saturday, September 6, during the sixth day of the 188th Ordinary General Chapter of the Order of Saint Augustine, Prior General Alejandro Moral Antón delivered his farewell address to the capitular friars.