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AgustinongPinoy Updates
The fact that the first page of this website does not change does not mean that I’ve given up on the web. In fact, if you have been looking at the linked items to the right of your screen, you would have found out that the RSS Feeds of three other AgustinongPinoy websites are quite dynamic. The Bible Workshop and Res Biblica are updated frequently. The Mystical Geek which functions almost like a journal gets updated several times a month. At the moment, these are the three websites that I am concentrating on. So if you are a frequent visitor here, check out the RSS feeds of those three websites and you’d get the latest pages from my keyboard.
Read more about the most read topics at the Mystical Geek here.
AgustinongPinoy Turns Twelve!
From August 28, 1999 to the present, AgustinongPinoy has been serving webpages on topics ranging from Catholicism, Catholic Education, Augustinian Spirituality, Life in the Philippines, Internet and Web Design. It was and continues to be a labor of love by a Filipino Augustinian friar who, from the time he logged onto the web in an Iloilo Internet Cafe in 1998 has never ceased to believe that the Church cannot do without the Internet in its evangelizing work.
Read more about it here.
Of Friars, Shepherds and the GIRM
We were at Balay Isabel, Batangas from May 10-12. Read about it here.
Munting Buhangin and a Recollection

Pictures from two MGCP events are now in the Gallery:
The pictures from Munting Buhangin, Batangas were taken on the occassion of Fr. Bong’s birthday. The community took a day off and we went on a long drive to a semi-private resort. We didn’t swim but we did enjoy the view and the lunch!
The first MGCP BEC Animators’ Recollection was finally held on April 19, Holy Tuesday. We have been planning it for a long time, but it was only this year that we were able to hold it. The theme of the recollection was “In the Service of the Total Christ” and consisted of reflections on John 4, John 15:1-17 and the Mystery of Light from an evangelizer’s perspective.
OSA Intermediate Chapter 2010

Sto. Niño de Cebu — Southwoods was the venue of the closing mass of the Augustinian Order’s Intermediate Chapter 2010. The Prior General, Most Reverend Robert Prevost, OSA presided over the Mass which was attended by quite a number of priests, formandi, nuns and the laity. After the Mass, a fraternal agape was held at the nearby Colegio de San Agustin Gym. Photos of the event are now available at the Gallery. You may access them here.
Priests and Evangelization in the Digital Age
The Pope’s message for the 44th World Day of Communications (May 2010) is available. The link to the document and a video can be found at the Mystical Geek. The Pope writes:
All priests have as their primary duty the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word of God, and the communication of his saving grace in the sacraments. Gathered and called by the Word, the Church is the sign and instrument of the communion that God creates with all people, and every priest is called to build up this communion, in Christ and with Christ. Such is the lofty dignity and beauty of the mission of the priest, which responds in a special way to the challenge raised by the Apostle Paul: “The Scripture says, ‘No one who believes in him will be put to shame … everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? And how can people preach unless they are sent? (Romans 10:11,13-15).
Responding adequately to this challenge amid today’s cultural shifts, to which young people are especially sensitive, necessarily involves using new communications technologies. The world of digital communication, with its almost limitless expressive capacity, makes us appreciate all the more Saint Paul’s exclamation: “Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel” (1 Corinthians 9:16) The increased availability of the new technologies demands greater responsibility on the part of those called to proclaim the Word, but it also requires them to become become more focused, efficient and compelling in their efforts. Priests stand at the threshold of a new era: as new technologies create deeper forms of relationship across greater distances, they are called to respond pastorally by putting the media ever more effectively at the service of the Word.
The call to use the new technologies that have come out recently — especially the internet and mobile networking — is not new. Pope John Paul II said years ago that those who proclaim the word ex officio cannot but make use of these emerging technologies. We continually hope and pray that AgustinongPinoy continues to be faithful to its avowed mission: to let the face of Christ shine through the digital lights of the web.
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