St. Pachomius Feast date: May 09 St. Pachomius can justifiabley be called the founder of cenobitic monasticism, monks who live in community. Even though St. Antony the Great was the first to go into the desert to live a life of seclusion pursuing evangelical perfection, he lived a heremitic life, that is, a primarily solitary […]

The head of the Midwestern Augustinian province that Pope Leo XIV once led called the U.S.-born new pope's election a "moment of profound significance." The post Midwest Augustinians celebrate in Pope Leo XIV a brother ‘rooted in the spirit of St. Augustine’ first appeared on OSV News.

Reading 1: Acts of Apostles 9:1-20, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 117:1-2, Gospel: John 6:52-59

Fr. Alejandro Moral, Prior General of the Augustinians and a long-time friend of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, tells Vatican News that the new Pope "immediately spoke of justice and peace and of bridges between all, of synodality." Read all