Augustinian Sisters Proclaimed “Blessed”
On Saturday, December 8th, two Augustinian Missionary Sisters who had been martyred in Algeria in 1994 were beatified. Sisters . . .
Augustine For Today
December 17
“It is one thing to throw off a fever, another to recover from the weakness which the fever leaves behind it; it is one thing to remove from the body a weapon stuck in it, another to heal the wound it made with a complete cure. The first stage of the healing is to remove the cause of the debility, and this is done by pardoning all sins. The second stage is healing the debility itself, and this is done gradually by making steady progress in the renewal of this image of God.”
The Trinity XIV.17.23
December 17, 1874
Fr. Thomas Galberry was elected unanimously by 14 voters on the first ballot as first Prior Provincial, the second day of the Chapter.
Augustine For Today
December 16
“Do not stay outside yourself, but enter within yourself, because within the interior person truth dwells; and if you find that your nature is changeable, transcend yourself; never forget that in climbing above the heights of yourself, you are lifting yourself higher than your soul, which is gifted with reason. Direct your steps, therefore, to where the light of reason is enkindled.”
On True Religion 39, 72
December 16, 1243
Pope Innocent IV issued the bull Incumbit nobis calling on several eremitical communities in Tuscany to unite themselves into a single religious order with the Rule and way of life of St. Augustine. The following March, the hermits held a chapter in Rome, thus laying the foundation for the Order out of which the American Provinces were born.
Augustine For Today
December 15
“Be particularly mindful of the poor, so that what you deprive yourself of by living sparingly, you may lay away in heavenly treasures. Let the needy Christ receive what the fasting Christian deprives himself of. Let the restraint of the willing soul be the sustenance of the one in need. Let the voluntary neediness of the one who has an abundance become the necessary abundance of the one in need.”
Sermon 210,10,12
December 15, 1874
The first Provincial Chapter of the American Province opened this day at Villanova with 14 voting members. It lasted seven days.
Saint John of the Cross
December 14
“Do not be slow to make a vow, for it is not through your own power that you will keep it. You will be found wanting if you trust in yourselves, but if you trust in him to whom you make your vow, then make a vow and you will keep it safely.”
Exposition on Psalm 75, 16
Fr. Kail Ellis, O.S.A. – Talk on The Role of the Patriarchs and Bishops of the Eastern Church on the Development of Nostra Aetate: Vatican II’s Document on Islam
On Dec. 7th, Fr. Kail Ellis, O.S.A., presented a talk entitled, The Role of the Patriarchs and Bishops of the Eastern Church on the Development of Nostra Aetate: Vatican II’s Document on Islam at Villanova University. . .
Third Sunday of Advent – Year C
This Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:23 p.m. EST, the winter solstice occurs. This is the day we have the shortest amount of sunlight and the most amount of darkness for the year. It also marks the beginning of the day to lengthen. In a poetic sense, it marks the conquest of light over darkness, the victory of good over evil, of life over death. It promises that beyond the cold of winter there will be another spring. It invites us to be people of hope, patience, and trust. It invites us to be encouraged in spite of and in the midst of everything that would rob us of hopes, dreams and the faith and the promise that all things are possible with God.