This August, the Augustinians welcomed Elizabeth Mazur as the Associate Director - Annual Fund for the Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel.  Click here to read about Elizabeth's background.

On Thursday, October 3, Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., the Archbishop of Chicago, celebrated a Novena Mass with the Augustinians at the St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel in Chicago.  The Novena Mass, in devotion to St. Rita, has been celebrated in perpetuity over 100 years. 

The Augustinians met Pope Francis on the Feast of St. Augustine this past August.  Check out our new photo gallery online!

On April 25, 2014, the Augustinians will hold their second gala at the Drake Hotel in downtown Chicago.  Our inaugural gala, held one year earlier, attracted 460 guests, 40 sponsored tables, and raised over $130,000 in support of the Augustinians.  This year, we are pleased to announce our three honorees will be...

We just posted pics from our recent retreat, Daily Living with the Values and Teachings of St. Augustine, online.  Click here to see these photos from St. Jude Catholic Church in New Lenox.

Fr. Brian Barker, O.S.A., an Augustinian priest serving at Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, will release his fourth album Promise by the end of September 2013.  Fr. Barker began serving in Tulsa after professing his first vows in the Augustinian Order in August 2013.  He is currently the school's Campus Minister and Director of Music Ministry.

Fr. Bernie Scianna, O.S.A., Prior Provincial of the Midwest Augustinians, offers his closing thoughts of the Augustinians' 2013 General Chapter in Rome.  

The St. Rita of Cascia Parish in Racine, Wisconsin recently welcomed the new Augustinian novices.  Check out the link to the new photo gallery just posted!

We are happy to share that the Augustinians of the Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel have been awarded two Lumen Awards by the National Catholic Development Conference (NCDC):   Best Publication Without a Gift Envelope and Best Accountability/Annual Report.  Read more.

Fr. Bernie's update from Augustinian General Chapter in Rome:  New Prior General elected to lead the worldwide Augustinians.  Also, Augustinians write declaration to stand with Pope Francis in prayer for peace on September 7.

Prior Provincial, the Very Rev. Bernard C. Scianna, O.S.A., Ph.D. updates us from Rome on the General Chapter:  honoring Fr. Robert Prevost, O.S.A.'s final day in office, reflecting on Pope Francis' prayers for peace in Syria, and more.  Read on...

For the second year in a row, students from Villanova College, and Augustinian school in King City, Ontario, visited the Augustinian missions in Northern Peru.  Read on about their experience, being united in Christ with those in our missions thousands of miles away.