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From OSV News:
The Augustinian order has been in the spotlight since May 8, the day one of its own was elected pope. Interest in Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, has been steady, and so have the inquiries into joining the U.S. provinces of the men’s Order of St. Augustine.
Augustinian Father Jeremy Hiers of the Province of St. Thomas of Villanova on the East Coast said in the weeks since then-Cardinal Robert F. Prevost became pope, the office of vocations for the Midwest and East Coast counted 200-plus inquiries that have passed the first level of screening.
“Just yesterday, I had three new ones,” exclaimed the East Coast vocations director. “I’m used to getting maybe three in three months.”
The vocations director for the Midwest province, Augustinian Father Tom McCarthy, said the order’s website for inquiries about joining had 39,000 hits in the first week since the pope’s election.
“We have never had volume like this,” Father McCarthy, a vocations director of 15 years, told OSV News. “A lot of that is people trying to find out who the Augustinians are and what we do.”
Curious about the Augustinians? Check out their Augustinian Vocation website (cleverly titled BeAFriar.org.)
Photo: From BeAFriar.org
