On Friday, October 10, coinciding with the feast of Saint Thomas of Villanova, patron of studies in the Order of Saint Augustine, the Prior General of the OSA, Fr. Joseph Farrell, presided over the opening of the academic year at the Augustinian Theological Institute in Valladolid, where attendees heard an inaugural message from Pope Leo XIV. The day included several significant moments. In the morning, at 11:00 a.m., the Prior General met with the professed students of the V

The contemplative Augustinian nuns from the various federations of the Order have spent several years working together, in coordination with the assisting friars of each federation and the Prior General, to renew their Constitutions. A working session had long been scheduled for May 15th–19th at the International College of Saint Monica in Rome . Providentially, the gathering coincided with the inaugural Mass of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, and the working sessions unfol