Fifth Sunday of Lent • Year A
We are all called to establish this deep union with Christ in faith. In the first reading today from Ezekiel, the prophet promises a defeated and dispersed nation that they will rise again and experience a new life that springs from the spirit of God. John in his gospel story depicts Jesus as challenging all of us to believe in him. “I am the resurrection and the life” Jesus says, and the question for each of us is: “Do you believe?”
Fourth Sunday of Lent • Year A
In our lives we are called to be disciples, to be followers of Jesus, people who continue the ministry of the Lord, a ministry of forgiveness and reconciliation and healing. We are the ones who beg for light again and again, but we are also the ones who are called to see the Lord in those who are rejected, and oppressed. We are the ones who have been sent.
This Day in Province History: March 13, 1920
Rudolph Landas de Berghes, former Archbishop of the Old Catholics in the United States, entered the Augustinian Novitiate at Villanova after having made his profession of faith to Cardinal Hayes on December 22, 1919.
Save the Date for Tolle Lege Day: Monday, April 24, 2023!
Join the Augustinian Friars on Monday, April 24, 2023 for our third annual giving day: #TolleLegeDay! Friends of the Augustinians will come together with one mind and one heart to celebrate the Augustinian charism and all those who share in it. Listen to Prior Provincial Fr. Rob Hagan, O.S.A. share the significance of the date […]
Third Sunday of Lent • Year A
Jesus has invited this Samaritan woman to partake of the water which will always quench her thirst, to quench her needs in life. The waters he speaks of symbolize the waters of Baptism, and the invitation from Christ to all of us to seek that which gives us life, our faith through Baptism.
This Day in Province History: March 4, 1964
Pope Paul VI canonically erected the Prelature of Chulucanas, Peru, six hundred miles north of Lima, with Msgr. John McNabb of the Midwest Province installed as Prelate Nullius the following June.
Second Sunday of Lent • Year A
When the difficulties come and trials beset us and temptation is all around, these are the things we go back to – and we do as the voice from the cloud instructs: we listen. For there is our Truth!
March 19 – Saint Joseph, Husband of the Virgin Mary, Protector of the Order
The General Chapter of 1491, celebrated in Rome, decreed: “In all the houses and monasteries of our Order the Office of Saint Joseph, whose feast is the 19th of March, is to be celebrated.” In 1722 the Order obtained the faculty of celebrating the patronage of Saint Joseph on the third Sunday of Easter, following […]
This Day in Province History: March 1, 2008
The David J. Duffy, OSA Arts Center at Malvern Prep was dedicated by Prior Provincial, Fr. Donald Reilly, and Cardinal Justin Rigali, honoring the memory of Fr. Duffy for his 32 year tenure as Headmaster and President.
John Joseph Ferrence, O.S.A.
1926 – 2023 (February 26) John Joseph Ferrence, O.S.A., was born on May 8, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Andrew and Margaret (Kalavsky) Ferrence. He had two brothers, William and Andrew. He was baptized on May 16, 1926, at Saint Agnes Catholic Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Saint Augustine Parish School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania […]