Lay Friends of Augustine seeking God today through Augustinian Spirituality

"O Sacrament of love, sign of our unity, bond of our fidelity, we who long for life have here its very source. Let us come here and believe, unite with You and live".

As the year 2000 approached, groups of lay Christians were busy exploring new models of community, which were relevant and accessible to men and women engaged in the secular world. These groups had at least one thing in common; Seeking God through Augustinian Spirituality. So during 16th to 21st July 1999, in Rome, the Augustinian Order hosted an international meeting of Lay Augustinians, and from this, a vision emerged of an international communion of groups and individuals who are trying to live a spirituality that is both Augustinian, and also relevant to the concerns of Christians seeking God in the 21st century. The delegates left to return to their own countries/provinces taking this vision with them. The groups met again in Rome seven years later in 2006 to review and share their experiences.

This web site gives an insight to the Friends of Augustine around the world by giving access to reports of and presentations at the Rome 2006 Conference. Known Web links to the different groups are also available.

Also included are documents based on Augustinian Spirituality with special relevance to living in the World today.

This site is run by the Friends of Augustine at Clare Priory, Suffolk, England and therefore additional details are included on our Group but we participate in National meetings open to all and these are well reported.

Listed below are the Sections of this Web site, (referencing the Navigation Buttons at the top of each page):

About Us

The formation and early history of International lay groups exploring new ways of Community through "Augustinian Spirituality" over the last decade.

Augustine (for) Today

A growing collection of documents exploring the relevance of Augustinian Spirituality for Lay people in today's World.

Book List

A recommended list of books to read for those interested in Augustinian Spirituality.

OSA

Information on the early years of the formation of the Religious Order of St Augustine.

The Rule of St Augustine as the rule for the Order.

St Augustine

A brief introduction to the life St Augustine but to be expanded in the coming months.

Commentaries on the Confessions of St Augustine.

International Groups

A growing list of links to Groups worldwide.

UK Groups

Links and information of English and Scottish groups including the Clare Priory Group.

Forth coming events in the UK.

Friends of Augustine National Meetings.

Web Links

Links to other Augustinian sites, mainly "Religious" - Web sites of Religious Orders of St Augustine. Finally links to other religious sites felt to be of interest.

Contact Us

An electronic on-line method of contacting us.

Latest News

The database incorporated within this web site automatically updates the "Latest News" section with the latest New or Modified Article.

BABEL FISH TRANSLATOR

This invokes the Yahoo Babel fish software driven language translator, (by Systran), into 11 different languages other than English. The results might not be perfect but will be of great assistance if your own English is not too good.

MOST READ CONTENT

Like above, the database counts the number of times an article is accessed and ranks them in order.

NUMBER ON LINE

The number of people accessing the web site at this time

SITE STATISTICS

The number of pages accessed, other than the HOME PAGE since March 10th 2009

Search

A page dedicated to searching for information on THIS web site by key words. [There is also the facility for searching using the "Enter Search" box at the top right hand side of each page].