Diakonia:
COMMON ACTS
2013-2014 Formation Thrust
SACS Celebrates Fr. Nick’s Golden Anniversary Features
SNTH Welcomes Eight Newly Simply-professed Friars
Meet the New Aspirants This collage portrays how our Augustinian way of life transforms us to be a community for service of others. At the center is an Augustinian heart reminding us that true service comes from a heart that truly praises and glorifies God above all things.
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or the second year of its four-year formation program, the San Agustin Center of Studies opens its Formation Year (2013 – 2014) focusing on the thrust Diakonia. While last year’s formation thrust focused entirely on the theme Kerygma, the theme Diakonia is taken as one of the basic functions of the Church. Quoting Saint Augustine regarding Diakonia, Fr. Nelson Zerda, OSA, Master of the Simply-professed Friars, underlined that
EDITORIAL
Diakonia [page 12]
Act, Pray and Serve: a Challenge to the Newly-installed
2013 Augustine’s Day Focuses on Faith and Service
“Agently.” These were the words of Rev. DService: Fr. Eusebio B. Berdon, OSA, Prior Provincial of the Augustinian Province of Sto. Niño de Cebu – Philippines as he challenged 13 Simply-professed Friars whom he installed to the Minor Ministries last July 23, 2013 at the San Agustin Chapel during the celebration of the Holy Eucharist.
rawing from the theme, “From Faith to Augustine’s Steadfast Conviction Towards Holiness,” this year’s feast of St. Augustine intensifies the need to affirm one’s faith in Jesus Christ and to put it into practice, for faith without practice is useless, as the scriptures say. The SACS community, through the initiative of the different committee
Installed [page 10]
FIESTA [page 4]
ct effectively, Pray unceasingly, and Serve
Betwixt and Between SOCIAL ACTION
SP Friars begin Apostolate