With deep sadness, the Order of Augustinian Recollects has learned of the death today, November 20, 2024, of Monsignor José Luis Azcona Hermoso, who leaves a void that is difficult to fill and an ...

Madrid is today a vibrant and cosmopolitan city, a meeting point where history, art and spirituality intertwine to form a unique cultural fabric. As the capital of Spain, Madrid welcomes visitors from ...

In this Friendly Word, Friar Alfonso Davila invites us to discover the friendship between St. Jerome and St. Augustine. A sincere relationship, with differences and debates, but always sustained by ...

The coat of arms of Pope Leo XIV is divided into two fields. In the upper part, a marian blue with a fleur-de-lison the lower one, the burning heart of Saint Augustinecrossed by an arrow and on an ...

Every October 20, the Augustinian Recollect family celebrates St. Magdalene of Nagasaki, Japanese martyr and patroness of the Secular Augustinian Recollect Fraternity. Her lay life, given to the ...

The interview, broadcast on the program Mediodía COPE, began with a key question: what coat of arms is used when the Church is in a vacant see? Rafael explained with simplicity and precision the ...

St. Alonso de Orozco (1500-1591) was an Augustinian friar from Madrid who lived with radical simplicity. Known as “the saint of the everyday”, he discovered that the greatness of the Christian life is ...

St. Augustine remains one of the most influential authors both in the Christian tradition and in Western culture. His reading of the human condition, of history and of political power remains ...

St. Augustine did not live Advent as we understand it today nor did he write specifically about it, as this liturgical celebration developed in the Church centuries after his death. However, Augustine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sister Blanca Estela shared the motivation for her participation: “Here to Granada I have come to take a course that the Federation of the Augustinian Recollect Nuns has invited all the communities ...