This past week was quite eventful for our local Augustinian community. Earlier this year, the friars voted Rev. Thomas McCarthy to be their new Prior Provincial for the next four years.
As you no doubt remember, locally, Father Tom is a graduate of St. Adrian Grammar School and St. Rita High School. Also locally, among his many assignments as an Augustinian, he has spent many years at St. Rita High School beginning as a teacher all the way up to president. He has been Vocation Director for the Midwest Province and is the Director of the St. Rita Shrine.
His installation as Prior Provincial took place on Wednesday, June 10, which you may remember as an evening when severe storms threatened and the traffic signals leading in every direction to the Shrine were flashing red.
But that did not stop people from filling the pews of the shrine at 77th and Western. Even with the electricity out for the night, folks adjusted to the candlelight and used the flashlight feature on their cell phones to guide them…