The space allotted in the web for each official language of the Order contains 42 pages. In these pages one can also find the augustinian decalogue on spirituality including prayers of supplication in special occasions used by the religious in their daily morning and evening prayers (lauds and vespers) in the different liturgical season throughout the year.
Internet has become an important means in the globalization of faith through prayer. Using these new technologies, the Order believes it very vital to share its secular experience on prayer with the internet users. This collection of prayers wants to bring us to encounter God through the communitarian prayer with the brothers. Those who share this form of prayer can make global his petitions, offerings and thanksgiving.
Request for Prayer
The official website of the Order started on April 24, 2009 feastday of the conversion of St. Augustine. Throughout these months there are many email messages received requesting prayers for all kinds of needs. The Augustinian Recollects want to satisfy these demands at the same time inviting everybody to unite with them in this grateful and beneficial act so as to grow spiritually.
The space offers, among others, some theoretical aspects of prayer as well as an augustinian guide to pray the Lord's Prayer (Our Father). These texts are included in the phrase "Teacher of Prayer". Other special topics offered are: "Pray with St. Augustine"; "Prayer to St. Augustine", – with the prayers of Paul VI and John Paul II– "Prayer in the Order", "Petition Prayers", and "Special Prayers".
Possibility of Including/inserting Comments
One of the initial functions by the website of the Order is the possibility to introduce some comments or reactions. Besides, the user does not need to register himself in the web of the Order of Augustinian Recollects because he is a Facebook member, a very popular social web in the world. One can leave his comment without doing a new registration. This novelty is available in the Special section "United in Prayer" and in all news published at the beginning.
The possibility of connecting to more than 150 social network
Facebook, Twitter, Google Bookmarks, Live are very familiar names to most web users. These last years, the social networking and the sites of evaluating news have increased. At the mainpage of the web it is incorporated the task "compartir" (share or connect), to facilitate the users in drawing out the contents of their interest. More than 150 social network (contacts) which the searchers or users have only click once.