2024 Legacy Campaign Recap

Thank you for your prayerful support!

Our recent “Legacy” Capital Campaign was a resounding success thanks to the generosity and support of members of our Augustinian community, raising over $3.1 million to support vocations, formation, and evangelization.

We are grateful for all of you who contributed your time, talents, treasure, and prayerful support to the campaign, including our Campaign Director Michael Gerrity, our Honorary Chairs, Cardinal Robert Prevost, O.S.A., (now Pope Leo XIV) and Bishop Daniel Turley, O.S.A., our Chairs Fr. Bernie Scianna, O.S.A., and Fr. Tom McCarthy, O.S.A., and our Prior Provincial Very Rev. Anthony B. Pizzo, O.S.A. We are also immensely grateful for the work of our Province Advancement Council to support and promote this campaign.

The funds raised by this effort have already been put to good use to enhance the vital work of the Province, enabling us to expand our efforts to evangelize and spread the teachings of St. Augustine and provide for the formation of future Augustinians - work that is now more vital than ever as the Augustinians enjoy the global spotlight with our honorary campaign Co-Chair named as Pope!

Maryellen Harrington was hired as the Director of Augustinian Lay Engagement, a newly-created position to develop new Augustinian evangelization ministries and programming, coordinate outreach efforts across existing ministry sites, and provide engagement opportunities for members of our diverse community.

Maryellen has already collaborated with Augustinian parishes and schools across the Province to identify opportunities for outreach and to connect with the community. She has organized multiple retreats, pilgrimage days, a youth camp, and speaker events, gathering dozens together to share in faith. She has supported existing school and parish ministries and events, including the Student Augustinian Values Institute.

Your contributions to the Legacy campaign directly support this work.

Additionally, funds raised by the campaign have supported our vocation and formation ministry. Our Vocation Director, Fr. Tom McCarthy, O.S.A., and Assistant Vocation Director, Fr. Jack Tierney, O.S.A., continue to promote vocations in person and online, traveling across the country to speak in schools, at parishes, and to potential candidates.

We have been blessed to receive a significant influx of interest in our vocation and formation programs since Pope Leo's election. Fortunately, we have in place the people, systems, and processes necessary to handle this new volume.

We continue to utilize digital advertising campaigns to encourage young men to explore their calling with us. In addition, we support the education and formation requirements of our men at Catholic Theological Union and at our various houses of formation (more than $50,000 per man per year).

One of our pre-novices, Kurt Bragg, perhaps said it best: “Due to your philanthropy, I’m able to invest this time [in formation] with God and His people. As Our Lord shared in the Gospel of Matthew, ‘the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.’ I’m profoundly grateful to be with the Augustinians, in formation, so that I can be equipped to go out into the harvest and serve Christ, Our Lord, and His people.”

We are immensely grateful for your support – know that you and all the benefactors of the Order are in the daily prayers of our Augustinians.

For more information about this campaign please visit www.augustinianlegacy.org/