Since its founding, the Midwest Province of Augustinians has had its base located in Chicago. In our association with each other we find that we are connected to a greater or lesser degree to this city of great heritage as a city of culturally rich neighborhoods where many of us Augustinians were born, raised and still minister.

Prior Provincial Very Rev. Anthony B. Pizzo, O.S.A. Invites You to Celebrate The Solemnity of Saints Augustine & Monica on Saturday, August 28, 2021

A letter of appeal from Fr. Tom McCarthy, O.S.A., Fr. Bernie Scianna, O.S.A., Fr. Ray Flores, O.S.A., & Fr. Paul Koscielniak, O.S.A.

The Midwest Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel is proud to announce the ordination of Fr. Samuel Joutras, O.S.A. to the Order of Presbyter. The liturgy was presided by the Most Rev. Daniel Turley, O.S.A., retired bishop of Chulucanas, Peru, and celebrated on June 12th at the St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel in Chicago.

It is with deep sadness to inform our friends and benefactors that Br. John Patrick Currier, O.S.A. peacefully passed on to eternal life on May 6, 2021. He was 78 years of age.

Please keep Br. John Patrick and his family in your prayers and in your masses.

It is with deep sadness to inform our friends and Midwest Augustinian benefactors that Sister Camino Fernandez, O.S.A. of the Mother of Good Counsel Monastery in New Lenox, IL peacefully passed into eternal life on April 27, 2021.

March News Brief from the Midwest Augustinians

The Advent Stations take us on a tour of the Old Testament. Like the traditional Lenten Stations of the Cross, these seven Advent "stations" or "stopping points" provide a way to ponder the mystery of how God prepared the world to receive his Son at the moment of the Annunciation.