The Senses along the Path of Advent
Are we sensitive during Christmas? When we talk about sensitivity we usually think of a very emotional, extremely apprehensive and quite delicate person; who cries very easily. This concept of sensitivity does not help us to walk the path of Advent as a time of preparation for Christmas. So what is it all about? Saint […]
Augustinian Path to Vocational Discernment (Part 5)
Consider the Different Possibilities and Options Due to his restless nature, St Augustine traveled for much of his life through the most diverse paths: student, speaker, teacher, philosopher, Manichean, etc. And it was precisely at the limit of the possibilities these paths could offer that he saw the light of a different path, the true […]
Augustinian Path to Vocational Discernment (Part 4)
The most useful and necessary thing is love The impulse that propelled the life of St. Augustine, even in the most mixed up and convulsive moments of his youth, was love: “I was looking for what to love by loving love […] Loving and being loved was the sweetest thing for me” (Confessions III,1.1). The […]
Augustinian Way to Vocational Discernment (Part 3)
👉 Part 1: St Augustine also discerned his vocation 👉 Part 2: Listen to your ♥️ Know Yourself For St Augustine to know himself is also the way to know God: “Lord, you created man in your image and likeness, you are recognized by those who know oneself” (Soliloquies I,1,4). And what is knowing yourself? […]
Walking with others…
Vocation leaders are servants of an encounter with Christ and we always walk in the Church and with the Church. It is therefore urgent to open ourselves to the awareness of being animators of vocations that feel and walk with the whole Church, the community of the con-voked. There is a song ? by the […]
Augustinian Way to Vocational Discernment (Part 2)
Listen to your heart It is very important for St. Augustine to learn to listen to one’s heart. Moreover, on the path of vocational discernment, it is important to learn to hear God’s voice deep in the heart. But God’s voice is hardly heard in the heart if one does not learn to listen to […]
Is consecrated life worth it?
In mass media, liquid, light, and going at high-speed society, thinking of being a consecrated person today, seem like out of fashion, or that we are not necessary for this society. However, the consecrated persons (religious) or, in general, the religious life at all times in history has been able to respond to the needs […]
Augustinian Way to Vocational Discernment (Part 1)
St Augustine also discerned his vocation as a “servant of God” Words of St Augustine himself: “For many days I had been debating within myself many and diverse things, seeking constantly, and with anxiety, to find out my real self, my best good, and the evil to be avoided, when suddenly one — I know […]
Lamp and Compass
The Sacred Scriptures ought to be the lamp and compass for those who follow St. Augustine, serving as their guide in prayer and in life towards their encounter with God, especially in their listening to God’s will when engaging in an internal dialogue with the Lord; for the good servant of the Lord is not […]
Called by Love
With the slogan “Called by Love“, the Augustinian Recollect vocation ministry wants to recognize the generous dedication of so many women, in the past and present, who, inspired by the Augustinian Recollect Charism, have followed Christ Every vocation is an answer to love God, who loved us first and invites us to walk with him. […]