by Fray Alfonso Dávila, OAR | Sep 12, 2025 | A friendly word, News
The canonization of Carlo Acutis left us with an image that went beyond the cameras: the face of his mother, Antonia. In this article, Friar Alfonso Dávila invites us to contemplate that look from an Augustinian perspective, recalling St. Monica and reflecting on how...
by Antonio Carrón OAR | Sep 8, 2025 | A friendly word
To celebrate the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is to contemplate the dawn. It is not yet the midday sun – Christ, “the Day of the Day” – but it is the first brightness that announces its rising. St. Augustine, in Sermon 189 on the birth of the...
by Fray Alfonso Dávila, OAR | Sep 7, 2025 | A friendly word, News
In this article, Friar Alfonso Davila invites us to look at Pier Giorgio Frassati, proclaimed a saint today, not as a pious memory, but as a young man who continues to speak to a restless heart. A testimony that connects with Augustinian spirituality and inspires us...
by Fray Alfonso Dávila, OAR | Aug 28, 2025 | News, We're telling you
In this month of St. Augustine, the Augustinian Recollect family raises a prayer of gratitude to God for the gift of our Father. We celebrate with joy his life, his teaching and the fire that he kindled in us, a fire that keeps us “restless for Christ”.....
by Fray Alfonso Dávila, OAR | Aug 27, 2025 | A friendly word, News
Willmer Moyetones reflects on Augustinian leadership: an authority understood as service, inspired by St. Augustine and his vision of the community as “one heart and one soul towards God”. St. Augustine, a natural leader St. Augustine can be considered a...
