This Day in Province History: October 1, 1919
An eight room house on the corner of 12th and Lawrence Streets, in the Brookland area of Washington, D.C. was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Franklin C. Parks for $7,000 for friars pursuing higher studies at Catholic University.
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SEPTEMBER 30 – SAINT JEROME
“In a building nothing comes before the foundation. Thus, whoever has Christ in his heart in such a way as to place nothing ahead of him, nothing earthly or temporal, even of those things that are licit and permissible, has Christ as his foundation.”
City of God XX, 16
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SEPTEMBER 29 – SAINT MICHAEL, GABRIEL, RAPHAEL
“You have before you always the one to follow. The Lord left the model on earth, when he left you the Gospel, and through the Gospel he is always with you.”
Sermon 142, 9
This Day in Province History: September 29, 1820
Fr. Matthew Carr, the principal leader and first superior of the Augustinians in the United States, died on this day at the age of 64 at St. Augustine’s Friary, Philadelphia. He was interred in the vault of the church there.
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SEPTEMBER 28 – BLESSED PETER AND THOMAS & COMPANIONS, O.S.A.
“If you would be safe from your enemy, learn to love him. Make charity grow in yourself, for it will shape you and restore you in God’s image. When your charity extends to your enemies you will resemble the One who makes his sun rise not only on the good but on good and evil, and waters not only the field of the good man, but the field of the just and the sinner alike.”
On Psalm 99, 5
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SEPTEMBER 27 – SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
“God stretches our desire through delay, stretches our soul through desire, and makes it large enough by stretching it. Let us desire, then, because we have to be filled.”
On the First Letter of John, 4
This Day in Province History: September 27, 1908
Archbishop Patrick Ryan dedicated the basement chapel to serve as the first church of the new Saint Rita’s Parish, Philadelphia, established to care for both Italian and “American” parishioners. Provincial Martin Geraghty celebrated the Mass.
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SEPTEMBER 26 – SAINTS COSMAS AND DAMIAN
“Whoever goes to Christ goes from fear to love.”
Confessions IV, 14, 22
This Day in Province History: September 26, 1984
The Diocese of Ogdensburg, New York, entrusted to the Province the Parish of St. Rita in Deferiet, under the episcopal care of Bishop Stanislaus Brzana.
September 14, 2019 — Augustinian eNews
Augustinian eNews Keeping you up-to-date Augustinian eNews Opening Mass of the General Chapter The Augustinian General Chapter has begun in Rome with the opening Mass in the Basilica of Saint Augustine on September 1. Pictured : The 186th Ordinary General Chapter of the Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) Chiclayo Bishop Robert F. Prevost, O.S.A., […]