ENCYCLICAL LETTERFRATELLI TUTTIOF THE HOLY FATHERFRANCISON FRATERNITY AND SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP 1. “FRATELLI TUTTI”.[1] With these words, Saint Francis of Assisi addressed his brothers and sisters and proposed to them a way of life marked by the flavour of the...
Hundreds of Augustinians and Augustinian Recollects -religious and tertiary- shed their blood for Christ in the midst of atrocious torments in Japan between 1617 and 1637. In 1623, barely thirty-five years after the beginning of the Augustinian Recollection, the first...
July 14, 2020 marks the centenary of the death of Bishop Toribio Minguella, an Augustinian Recollect religious and bishop in Spain and Puerto Rico. The life of Bishop Toribio Minguella is one of many lives that have experienced the grace of God through the Augustinian...
St. Augustine felt the fire of God in his heart after reading an excerpt from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans: “No more eating and drinking”. St. Paul, whose feast day is celebrated on June 29, played a fundamental role in the life of St. Augustine,...
On their feast day, the Augustinian Recollect Sisters of the Heart of Jesus celebrate the 25th anniversary of the beatification of their foundress: Blessed Mary of St. Joseph. “The testimony of this simple woman of our time invites everyone, and in particular...
