The Province of San Ezequiel Moreno celebrates its 18th anniversary

uring this year 2017, the Province of San Ezequiel Moreno of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, celebrates its 18th anniversary. It was at the General Chapter of 1998 that the decree was approved for the creation of this new province, which over the years has given rise to many vocations mainly in the Philippines and in which great work has been done in the educational apostolates And ministerial in Sierra Leone and Taiwan.

The Prior General has sent to all the friars who make up the Province of San Ezequiel Moreno a letter in which he shows his union to the thanksgiving for this event, joining in prayer and remembering all the graces that have been pouring into it during this years.

A young and fruitful province

The Province of San Ezequiel is a young province but that over the years has been a place of new vocations for the Order of Augustinian Recollects, has meant a growth in its ministerial and educational work and is a reason for thanksgiving to the OAR, “to continue to grow in faith and love by living with joy his vocation and mission of Augustinian Recollects.”

The Prior General in the letter sent to you encourages this Year of Holiness to be “a revulsion to be open to the action of the Holy Spirit that renews our hearts and impels us to be creators of communion with our fidelity in prayer, charity And dialogue of fraternal life and the passion to proclaim the Gospel and to approach the poor and needy. ”

“Do not fall into survival”

The General Chapter to consolidate the Province and to promote its missionary expansion entrusted to the Province to erect at least two houses in a country of Asia, to consolidate the mission of Sierra Leone and I exhort them to feel all co-responsible in the preparation a Project of life and mission of The Province in line with that of the Order and thus prepare the provincial chapter next.

Fr. Miguel Miró, Prior General, invites you to “not fall into the temptation of survival”, as Pope Benedict XVI recalled at the last World Day of Consecrated Life: “The attitude of survival makes us reactionary, fearful, we are going Locking up slowly and quietly in our homes and in our schemes. It projects us backwards, towards the glorious, but past, gestures that, far from awakening the prophetic creativity born of the dreams of our founders, seeks shortcuts to evade the challenges that now strike our doors. The psychology of survival robs our charisms of strength because it leads us to domesticate them, make them “accessible to the hand” but depriving them of that creative force they inaugurated; Makes us want to protect spaces, buildings or structures rather than enable new processes. The temptation to survival makes us forget grace, makes us professionals of the sacred but not fathers, mothers or brothers of the hope that we have been called to prophesy. That survival environment dries up the hearts of our elders depriving them of the ability to dream and, thus, sterilizes the prophecy that the younger ones are called to announce and perform ”