The formation team of the St. Augustine Postulancy of the Augustinian Recollects in Mexico City met at the beginning of the last quarter of the 2025-2026 academic year to carry out the end-of-year preparation and evaluate the formation activities.
The last quarter began with the missionary sending of the trainees to the Holy Week mission, which took place in the Parish of Saint Joseph in Cañada Morelos, Puebla, in the Diocese of Tehuacán.
The postulants, accompanied by their trainer, took the Word of God and the celebrations to different rural communities, sharing life and faith with all people and experiencing the role of accompanying the People of God, motivating themselves for a future as evangelizers.
Later on, the classes returned and, considering that it was the last term, the defense of the Research Protocol in Philosophy took place for three of the students of the Postulancy.
Three others, Iván, Ángel, and Jair, are already officially preparing to enter the Augustinian Recollect novitiate in Monteagudo (Navarra, Spain) at the beginning of summer. To this end, they are receiving special formation, delivered by the prior of the community, Augustinian Recollect Miguel Miró, who for many years served as novice master, in the form of roundtable discussions and fraternal dialogue.
Previously, the three had undertaken a special experience called “Mountaineers”, which took place in the mountains, accompanied by their trainer Jorge Quirós and by Carolina Jaramillo, from the Augustinian-Recollect Youth (ARY).
The pre-novitiate is a particularly intense time for these postulants. Once their philosophical studies are complete, the experience is entirely new, given their move to Spain —for many, the first time they have left their country and culture—and the beginning of a formative stage in which they enter the consecrated life.
The novitiate ends with the option to freely live the three evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience through the public profession of vows and the acceptance of their admission into the community by the prior general or his representative.
