‘This is going to be our mission: singing and laughing with them, but at the same time, feeling their losses as if they were our own’, explained the first superior of the San Jose community, Jacinto Anaya, the founder of Radio Santa Monica in Chota, and a...
On 22nd September 1989, at the age of 89, the Augustinian Recollect Mariano Gazpio Ezcurra died in theNavarraHospital inPamplona, Spain. He was buried in the community’s vault in Marcilla, where he had spent the last 26 years of his life in the monastery....
The social labor of the Order of Augustinian Recollects is continuing to grow. It is a work that cannot be disassociated from their evangelical spirit. As we read in their Constitutions: “… a committed conscience as … it faces the real problems of...
Throughout his life, the Bishop of Tarazona has been closely linked to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL). On the 3rd November 1975 he started work for it, and this work came to an end with his appointment as...
Within the limits of their Parish of Saint Pius X , the Augustinian Recollects administer the Saint Jude Thaddæus Shrine and a community center of the same name. In the community center they offer social services which continue to expand as necessities increase,...
Typhoon Haiyan left behind total devastation. Many speculating scavengers are taking advantage of the destruction and the misfortune of others to search for things that may bring them profit. The Recollects have been in the Philippines for over 400 years doing exactly...
