Brother Augustine

My hometown is Wenatchee, Washington, an agricultural community at the foot of the Cascade Mountains and on the banks of the Columbia River. I am the second of three brothers and raised Catholic. I spent six years at the University of Notre Dame for both undergraduate and graduate work, studying pre-medicine and theology towards a Bachelor of Science degree and recently completing the Masters of Theological Studies program this spring. For a year interlude between undergraduate and graduate studies I was employed as a mental health counselor. The people through whose lives God inspired my vocation are those who are deeply in love with Jesus Christ: faithful priests both in the parish and in the dorms on campus, friends pursuing their own priestly and religious vocations, professors of theology and philosophy, religious and lay missionaries. What attracts me most to the Order of Preachers is the Dominican commitment to the pursuit of truth through prayer and study undertaken for the salvation of souls and the benefit of the Church. I appreciate its tradition of handing on to others in a moving and loving way the fruitful truths about God and about the human person grasped in the contemplative life. Thomas Aquinas remains close to my heart as a model and teacher of this kind of preaching. The communal life of prayer fostered at the school of the Blessed Virgin Mary and devotion to the rosary are elements of Dominican spirituality that Louis de Montfort has instructed and formed me in. I would love to teach theology, to preach the Gospel in the missions, and to minister in the parish. I enjoy lifting and working out, hiking in God’s mountains, waterskiing and boat camping, a lively tennis match, country music, reading clever literature, and the company of family and friends.

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