John Futoshi Matsuo, O.S.A. (seated left) is Ordained to the Diaconate
John Futoshi Matsuo, O.S.A. was ordained to the Diaconate on Saturday, July 23, 2016, at St. Augustine Kasai Church in Tokyo, during a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Peter Okada.Futoshi, a member of our Vicariate in Japan, has been in formation in Australia and will come to the U.S. this weekend to attend the formation gathering and the simple […]
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Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
As time quickly passes, we find things that were once important fading into the recesses of our consciousness and our to-do list. Take for example the Apostolic Letter of Pope Francis announcing the Year of Mercy. As a reminder to us all, Pope Francis mentioned…
Group Bound for 2016 Augustinian Youth Encounter (AYE) in Prague, Czech Republic
A group of young women and men, along with several friars, arrived in Europe in anticipation of attending the Augustinian Youth Encounter (AYE) to be held in Zajecov, near Prague in the Czech Republic.
Father Tony Burrascano, O.S.A., Named Executive Director of ADROP.
Effective July 1, 2016, Father Tony Burrascano, O.S.A., was named the Executive Director of the Augustinian Defenders of the Rights of the Poor (ADROP), an Augustinian ministry which serves the needy in Philadelphia.
Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
Tony Gittins, who is a professor at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and a missionary, used to say that “hospitality should be given according to the receiver, not according to the person who offers it!” Very often we try to be so hospitable when there are guests visiting us, that we become quite the opposite: we become fastidious and inhospitable!
Novices to Profess Vows as Augustinians
On Sunday, July 31, 2016, novices of the three North American Augustinian Provinces will profess their first vows at a Mass in the Saint Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel, Chicago, Illinois. Two of the novices will be affiliated to the Province of Saint Thomas of Villanova: they are Elizandro Contreras and Daniel Madden. A third, […]
Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
The Good Samaritan of Jesus’ parable found in Luke’s gospel is a hero to all the world. Even the name, “Good Samaritan”, is a common term used by men and women of other great religions and distant cultures for all they wish humanity to become. He was the one who didn’t pass over to the other side when he saw the man lying in the road. He stopped even though he could have been in a hurry to get on with his journey. But it is especially because he took care of “the other”, someone who was “different”.
Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
There once was a monastery filled with older monks. For more than thirty years there wasn’t a single vocation that joined their religious order. One day all the monks gathered together for a meeting to determine their future. Some monks said that they should just die out one-by-one until there would be no one left. Other monks said that they should continue to pray for people to join their way of life. Finally they all decided to bring in a consultant to give them advice on what they should do
Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
As Jesus began his public ministry, he never intended to do it alone. From the beginning he felt the need to have others involved in his life and work. Like the prophets of old, he intended to call others to follow him and to share in his life, to share in his ministry from God. Our Readings today speak of people being called to share in the work of God.