by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The Virgin Mary was converted into «Mater Gratiae» the moment she was greeted by the angel with the title of full of grace. Being the mother of the one and only mediator, Jesus, she is both mother of the author of grace and dispenser of grace. «Mater...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
This Augustinian friar was martyred in Ireland in 1654 during the Cromwellian persecution of the Church. He would obey the civil authorities in temporal matters but not in spiritual affairs where he saw his allegiance as clearly for the Pope and the superiors of his...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
«Late did I love you, beauty always ancient and always new, late did I love you» (Confessions 10, 27, 38). With this cry from his heart, Augustine expresses his sorrow for having wasted in vain things so many years of his life. For him, conversion...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
In 1903 Leo XII included the invocation «Mother of Good Counsel» in the Laurentine litany. The cult to the Virgin with the title of Mother of Good Counsel, now spread all over the world, has its origin in the city of Genazzano which is situated at the...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
In the 1930’s Spain was tearing itself apart. A 3 – year vicious civil war was beginning. The Church was suffering much, especially in areas where communist and anarchist dominance was greatest. The southern province of Granada was such an area and in...
