The 2025 was, without a doubt, an extraordinary year for the Augustinian Recollect family. Throughout twelve months, we have experienced an authentic path of hope, marked by encounters, celebrations, farewells, welcomes, calls to communion, and new paths of mission. Rome was the beating heart of this jubilee year, where religious and lay people from all over the family gathered to cross the Holy Door. Today, as we remember what we have experienced, we want to go through the year from twelve verbs: one for each month, a word that helps us interpret what we have experienced and project what is to come. It is not everything we did during the year, only some events that we would like to highlight.
January ā Communicate: Making what matters common
We begin the year with a fundamental verb for the life of the Church and our Order: to communicate. In Rome, the International Meeting of Communicators and Secretaries took place, a space to refine our words, means, and projects at the service of the Gospel and communion. Communicating is more than informing: it is building bridges, listening, narrating with truth what the Spirit does in our family.
February ā Educate: Ignite the desire for truth
In Madrid, the Augustinian Classroom was held, a training space where the intellectual tradition of Saint Augustine illuminates the challenges of the present. Educating, as the Bishop of Hippo said, is not filling empty glasses, but lighting fires: accompanying the desire for wisdom, forming the mind and heart in the truth that liberates.
March ā Serve: Making authority a delivery
In the heart of the Jubilee, the major superiors of the Order made a pilgrimage to Rome. It was an opportunity to rediscover that governing is serving, and that evangelical authority is played out in humility and closeness. Serving is letting oneself be worn out for the brothers, as Christ did.
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April ā Deliver: Saying goodbye from faith
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The death of Pope Francis did not catch everyone by surprise, it was Easter Monday. It was a moment to look at his life as a continuous delivery to the People of God, an act of confident abandonment in the hands of the Father. Delivering is offering without reservation, with hope placed in eternal life. We can never forget that he told us to trust the laity, and so we do.
Pope Francis and the Augustinian Recollects: a prophetic friendship full of hope
Pope Francis has asked the Augustinian Recollects to be a prophecy of hope. Discover his encounters, words, and gestures that strengthen a deep spiritual relationship.
May ā Welcome: An Augustinian Pope, a brother Pope
With the election of Pope Leo XIV, it was an unexpected gift. Welcoming the new successor of Peter was also an act of communion, filial obedience, and renewed hope. Welcoming is recognizing that God always surprises us and renews us through the men he chooses. Pope Leo is someone we know and whom we call brother.
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100 days of Pope Leo XIV: a pontificate with an Augustinian heart
June ā Visit: Making yourself present with tenderness
The Prior General made multiple visits to communities of the Augustinian Recollect family. Visiting is more than moving: it is making oneself present, listening, embracing the concrete realities of our brothers. It is the pastoral care of closeness, where the fraternal face becomes a sign of Christ. In the month of June, he specifically visited Peru.
July ā Celebrate: Give thanks with shared joy
Thousands of young people from the ARJ made a pilgrimage to Rome to celebrate their Jubilee. Celebrating is more than celebrating: it is recognizing together the signs of God in our lives, it is making grateful memory that strengthens faith. The young joy was a testimony of a living and hopeful Church.
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The first time: Young ARJ meet Pope Leo XIV
In an unexpected gesture, Pope Leo XIV met for the first time with the young people of the world within the framework of the Jubilee. The ARJ was there and tells us about it with their hearts still beating with emotion.
August ā Walk: Going together towards the horizon
The EDUCAR Network organized the Camino de Santiago for families. Walking is a symbol of faith and life: we do not stop, we move forward together, we share the fatigue and the goal. In each step, the Augustinian educational community reaffirmed that the family is the first place where hope is learned.
From effort to gratitude: lessons from a family on the Camino
September ā Renew: Return to the first love
The young friars lived their month of renewal in Rome. Renewing is remembering the call and rekindling the passion of the first encounter with God. It was a month to let the Lord look at them again and let his grace regenerate the vocation.
October ā Meet: Let yourself be touched by the other
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More than 200 members of the Augustinian Recollect family won the Jubilee of Consecrated Life in Rome. Young and old friars, religious, nuns, and lay people shared the same space of listening and celebration. Meeting is recognizing oneself as part of a common history, of the same vocation in diverse forms.
The Augustinian Recollect family celebrates the Jubilee in communion with Peter
On October 9, the Augustinian Recollect family experienced an intense jubilee day in Rome with Pope Leo XIV, culminating in a prayer before Saint Monica for the consecrated vocation.
November ā Pilgrimage: Cross the door with faith
In different cities of the world, jubilee pilgrimages of the Augustinian Recollect communities were experienced. Pilgrimaging is letting oneself be moved by faith, walking as a people, crossing holy doors with the certainty that each step opens the heart a little more to God. The Prior General made a pilgrimage with the Augustinian Recollect family that lives in Madrid, Getafe, and Guadalajara; also the religious of Mexico made a pilgrimage to Guadalupe.
āDream of a united family, at the service of the Gospelā: the Prior General encourages walking together in La Almudena
December ā Announce: Announce Christ wherever you can
On December 5, recoletos.org, the new website of the Order, was born. This new digital space is born with the desire to evangelize from communion. Announcing is the essential vocation of the Church: doing it with humility, without imposing, with the strength of lived truth. The website wants to be a digital home where we can all find resources, news, and living word.
One soul, one hope
In 2025, Rome was, without a doubt, the geographical heart of the Order. But beyond the city, what we have experienced in these twelve months has shown us that the true capital of our Augustinian life is Christ. He is the one who gives meaning to each verb, to each step, to each gesture. With gratitude for this jubilee year, we now open ourselves to the Missionary Year, with the desire to live and proclaim: āAnnounce Christ wherever you canā.
