Prof. Mattias Augé CMF

Prof. Mattias Augé CMF (born in Perafort, in Spain in 1936), made his religious profession in 1953 and was ordained Presbyter in Valls in 1961.

In 1962, he received his diploma in Theology at the Angelicum, in Rome, while in 1967 he graduated in Theology with a specialization in Liturgy at the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico of the Anselmianum in Rome.

Moreover, he studied Geography and History at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia of Madrid. He was President of the Institute of Theology of Consecrated Life Claretianum from, 1976 to 1982 and from 1991 to 1997.
Contemporaneously and subsequently he was an Ordinary Professor of the Claretianum, from 1973 to 2006. Then from the academic year 2006-2007 he became Professor emeritus.

From 1968 to 2006, he was Professor Lecturer at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of the Anselmianum and successively honorary Professor.

From 1990 he was the Professor Responsible for the Chair of Liturgy and General Sacramentary at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of the Pontificia Università Lateranense, and was in the last academic year an invited Professor.He was an invited Professor of Liturgy in the Centro de Estudios Superiores Legionarios de Cristo in Rome for the academic year 1991-1992. This Centre then became the Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum, and he was invited to give lectures in Pastoral liturgy in the academic years of 1999 to 2001. He was an invited Professor of Introduction to the Liturgy in the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure Seraphicum, in Rome from 1995 to 2006.

For several years he taught in the Istituto di Liturgia Pastorale of St. Justina, in Padua, and in the Institute Regina Mundi of Rome. He was also invited to give a seminar at the Pontifical Theological Faculty Marianum.He has held conferences and has taken part in Congresses in various parts of Europe and in Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.

He has been the Consultant of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (nominated 3/17/1994, reconfirmed for a second five-year term 9/20/1994, and a third 3/12/2005); as well as auditor in the IX Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Consecrated Life and its Mission in the Church and in the world (cfr. L’Osservatore Romano 8/27/1994).

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the series Monumenta Studia Instrumenta Liturgica (Libreria Editrice Vaticana), and of the Editorial Counsel of the magazine Ecclesia Orans as well as the Editorial Counsel of the magazine Rivista Liturgica.