by Antonio Carrón OAR | Sep 30, 2024 | A friendly word
St. Augustine and St. Jerome were contemporaries, sharing much of the cultural and ecclesial life of the time, although in different geographical contexts. Augustine was born in 354 and died in 430, spending most of his life in North Africa and Italy. Jerome, on the...
by Antonio Carrón OAR | Sep 30, 2024 | A friendly word
We begin with a paradox: how can a contemplative nun say that prayer, in short, praying, is the most difficult thing in the world? Well… yes, you can say that when you only see prayer from a single flat or obtuse perspective, from your own perspective or that of...
by Mons. Mario Alberto Molina OAR | Sep 28, 2024 | A friendly word
This Sunday’s Gospel presents a series of sentences of Jesus, loosely connected to each other, but individually understandable. The first is understood in a context of harassment and persecution already faced by Jesus. The apostle John comments to Jesus that...
by Wilmer Moyetones OAR | Sep 26, 2024 | A friendly word
What do you see in the night, tell us sentinel? We are going through troubled times, times that seem to darken our vision, where consecrated life seems to have lost its place in the modern world. For many young people of the new generation, the call to religious life...
by Alfonso J. Dávila OAR | Sep 23, 2024 | A friendly word
Some years ago, an Augustinian Recollect -José Luis Garayoa- who today rests in the Glory of the Father, wrote a column with this same title in a personal blog. At the time it seemed to me an exaggeration. Today with a few years of consecrated life and a couple of...
by Mons. Mario Alberto Molina OAR | Sep 21, 2024 | A friendly word
Jesus and his disciples have arrived in Capernaum; they are already in the house, and there, in the quiet of the domestic conversation, Jesus asks them what they had been discussing on the road. It is not that Jesus did not know, for he had listened to them; but what...
