Order: United in One Mind & Heart

evident throughout the Chapter, the common denominator that influenced every aspect of the encounter and that gives life and purpose to our Augustinian community is that we are united in charity, a divine love that calls us together as one. Charity, the unifying aspect of our community life, does not erase or eliminate our diversity so that we are all the same, but rather highlights it in such a way to awaken us to renewal as Augustinians as we authentically live our vocation as friars.

supporting each other in the challenges of our particular circumstances while celebrating with each other in successes and new opportunities. Each one of us, from our home circumscriptions, brought diversity to the unity that calls us to live together with one mind and heart on our way to God. The ethnic, lingual, cultural, racial, social and age diversity of the Intermediate General Chapter animated our encounters and conversations, which encouraged each one of us and strengthened our unity as an Order.

As we discerned at Chapter how a renewal will direct us into the years ahead, with our focus always on Christ, we realized that we continue to walk together, in a synodal way, with the diversity of the gifts we bring. While the international diversity was continued on next page