The Institute

The 2001 Ordinary General Chapter entrusted to the General Council the creation of an institute of spirituality (A-13a). The 2007 Chapter asked that the council “maintain and promote” such an institute. Its office is located in the General Curia of the Order in Rome. The institute is constituted by an Executive Committee and by a group of collaborators who together with the Executive Committee form the Plenary Council of the Institute. It is governed by its own Statues.

Purpose

Promote:

Spiritual formation in the Order through study and an understanding of Augustinian spirituality

Foster:

The ongoing formation of the friars of the Order
Connections with other commissions of the Order in all that concerns the general area of formation

Organize:

Gatherings, conferences, congresses and study days on Augustine and other authors of our spiritual tradition, either in Rome or in other geographical areas of the Order
Materials on Augustinian spirituality.

Meet:

The Executive Committee ordinarily meets once a year
The Plenary Council, constituted by the Executive Committee and a group of Collaborators, meet ordinarily two times in the course of the six-year term of the General and Council.