Augustinians, Augustinian Recollects and Augustinian Recollect Missionary Sisters celebrated together in Venezuela the Solemnity of St. Augustine, as a sign of unity and family.
“One soul and one heart directed towards God” is one of the first phrases of the Rule of St. Augustine. This is how the solemnity of the Bishop of Hippo was lived in Venezuela. Augustinian and Augustinian Recollect religious and the Augustinian Recollect Missionary Sisters joined in a joint celebration to commemorate the feast of St. Augustine.
It is the first time that the Augustinian family celebrates together the feast of Our Father, a custom that is practiced in other parts of the world, such as, for example, Rome. The Eucharist took place in the Parish of St. Augustine, in the neighborhood of Santa Rosalia, in Caracas. The Vicar Provincial of the Augustinian Recollects in Venezuela, Friar Eddy Polo, presided the celebration together with the Vicar Provincial of the Augustinians in the country, Friar Alexander Vieira.
Several Augustinian religious and Augustinian Recollects concelebrated the Eucharist in which the Augustinian Recollect Missionary Sisters from Maracaibo were also present. Likewise, the lay faithful as well as young Augustinian Recollects were also present.
Eddy Polo said that this moment “fills us with joy and calls us to the commitment of community, communion and fraternity”. On his part, the Augustinian Vicar in Venezuela invited the faithful to “return to Jesus Christ to know Him and, as St. Augustine teaches us, to know Jesus we must ‘be interior’, we must be humble to know my emptiness and my lack”.