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Gospel Bullet Points (John 10:12-15) • One priest wanting to express his feeling that it was impossible to preach about the mystery of the Trinity said: TODAY IS TRINITY SUNDAY, therefore, there will be no homily in this mass. The human mind can never fully comprehend the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. How can three persons in one God be equal in divinity but distinct in personality? It is not a correct mathematical statement: one plus one plus one equals ONE. • The doctrine of the Trinity says that there is one God in essence but three in persons: The…

Communion in the Augustinian family
The General Councils of the Augustinians, Augustinian Recollects and Discalced Augustinians held a meeting in which they highlighted the fraternity and the sense of family. ROME–On February 14, 2020, the general councils of the three Augustinian orders–Order of St. Augustine, Order of Augustinian Recollects and Order of Discalced Augustinians–held a meeting in Rome to begin…

Alto Xingu-Tucumã Prelature receives its Augustinian Recollect Bishop
Bishop Jesús María López Mauleón, OAR took possession of the newly created Episcopal See in the Amazonian territory in Brazil. BRAZIL–The new Augustinian Recollect Bishop, Most Rev. Jesús María López Mauleón, DD, OAR, already worked in the prelature that has been entrusted to him in the Amazonian territory. The bishop who is of Navarrese origin, took…

LOGO FOR 2020 PASTORAL DIRECTIVE
The Augustinian Recollects present the visual image that represents the guideline for this year 2020: “We are prophets of the Kingdom: poor, social projects and peripheries”. The pastoral directive for the year 2020 has an image that represents it. The Order of Augustinian Recollects presents the logo that symbolizes the motto proposed for these months:…

Chota and Augustinian Recollects: 75 years of history
Note: This article was translated from the original Spanish post on the official website of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. (www.agustinosrecoletos.com) The Augustinian Recollects celebrate the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the first religious to the Chota region, in Peru. For this, different commemorative events have been prepared. It is an important fact that marked…

Today we celebrate the 431st birthday of the Augustinian Recollection. Happy Fiesta!
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Fray Jesús MarÃa López Mauleón, OAR, named as bishop in Brazil
This article was translated from the original Spanish text posted in the official website of the Order (www.agustinosrecoletos.com) BRAZIL–Another Augustinian Recollect was named by Pope Francis as Bishop of the Prelature of Alto Xingu-Tucumã, in the Amazon. A missionary in Brazil from 1999 to the present, Fray Jesús María López Mauleón, OAR, will shepherd the People…

Pope Francis names new Augustinian Recollect bishop
This article was translated from the original Spanish text posted in the official website of the Order (www.agustinosrecoletos.com) ARGENTINA–An Argentine Augustinian Recollect, Fray Darío Rubén Quintana, OAR, is appointed by Pope Francis as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Mar del Plata (Argentina). From 2012 to 2018 he was Vicar Provincial in Argentina. He has also…

New structure of the Order of Augustinian Recollects: 4 new Provinces
Note: This was translated from the original Spanish article posted in the official website of the Order of Augustinian Recollects (www.agustinosrecoletos.com) The four Priors Provincial explain what is the new reality of the Augustinian Recollects after the process of joining provinces carried out during 2018. General Curia, ROME–The Augustinian Recollects face from the past year…

Bp. Carlos celebrates his first Mass as Auxiliary Bishop
Note: This was translated from the original Spanish article posted on the official website of the Order of Augustinian Recollects (www.agustinosrecoletos.com) The new Augustinian Recollect bishop celebrated his first Eucharist as Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo in the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista, accompanied by Augustinian Recollect and religious Bishops. ARGENTINA–Without having completed…