Casa Hogar La Gloria (Tijuana, Mexico)

• Augustinians partner with Casa Hogar La Gloria, an orphanage for children.

New York

Saint Augustine Parish (Troy, NY)

• Maintains a food pantry.

Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church (Waterford, NY)

• Maintains a food pantry.

Augustinians International (New York, NY)

Oklahoma

Cascia Hall College Preparatory School (Tulsa, OK)

• Partnership with the community Food Bank.
• Volunteer with Emergency Infant Services.
• Volunteer with Morning Star Mission.
• Students complete a poverty simulation as part of their 10th grade retreat.
• Students take a course on the Church’s teachings on important social issues with close attention given to capital punishment, poverty, globalization, the media, and environmental stewardship.
• Sponsors a “Green Team” to pursue the efficient integration of eco-friendly practices into the school to educate and inspire students to make informed choices about care of the environment both on and off campus.

Augustinian Defenders of the Rights of the Poor / ADROP (Philadelphia, PA)

• Weekly spiritual support meeting and annual retreats for those who were recently released from incarceration and/or suffer from addictions.
• The Mary, Mother of Captives pen pal program connects volunteers with incarcerated people who would otherwise not have anyone to talk to.
• Provide “Drugs to Prison pipeline” presentations to local high schools on the line between poverty, drugs, and mass incarceration to help stop the cycle of crime where it begins.
• Voices from the Prison and the Edge newsletter provides an opportunity for the incarcerated to share their experiences of incarceration.
• Provide English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes.
• Various ministries to those who have immigrated to the U.S. including primary care medicine at the Unity Clinic and language classes.

Malvern Preparatory School (Malvern, PA)

• All students are required to participate in one Christian Service Experience each year.
• In the summer before their senior year, students participate in an intensive domestic or international experience to foster service-oriented leadership competencies.

SCI Chester Prison (Chester, PA)

• Augustinian Friars offer the Sacraments, spiritual direction, and Mass on Sundays and other major holidays throughout the year.

SCI Phoenix Prison (Collegeville, PA)

• Augustinians participate in offering a degree granting program to inmates through Villanova University.

St. Augustine Parish (Philadelphia, PA)

• Maintains a food pantry and monthly donuts/coffee to the homeless.
• Provides a Healing Garden as a place of remembering, praying for, and reconciling those who have been harmed by violence in the greater Philadelphia area and beyond.
• Created a committee on the Environment to develop practical steps the parish and parishioners can take to help care for the environment.

National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia (Philadelphia, PA)

• Offers the Sacrament of Reconciliation daily.
• Monthly healing Masses.

St. Nicholas of Tolentine (Philadelphia, PA)

• Offers English as a Second language classes.
• Food cupboard.
• Provides financial assistance.

Villanova University (Villanova, PA)

• Annual Day of Service where over 5,000 people come together to perform service throughout the Philadelphia area.
• Students are encouraged to spend their fall and spring semester breaks participating in a Service and Justice experience involving service at a number of domestic and international service sites.
• Provides one fo the oldest prison degree-granting programs in the United States.

Other Augustinian Initiatives in Pennsylvania

• Partnership with the Sisters of Charity Food Bank (Norristown, PA)