It was a homecoming of sorts last Friday evening as Floriani made its first trip to Thomas Aquinas College, New England.
At a Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on Saturday morning, a bishop asked seven men — including two Thomas Aquinas College alumni — to make the Promise of Elect. All seven replied, “I do.”
“Thomas Aquinas College set me down a path of intellectual awakening,” says Rev. Joseph O’Hara (’92), founder of Holy Family Monastery in Ferndale, California and an avid student of St. Thomas.
In the wake of a historic presidential election rife with questions about constitutionalism, alumnus scholar Dr. S. Adam Seagrave (’05) has published a timely essay considering the role of the U.S. Constitution in contemporary American political life.
Having sung at Masses and concerts in shrines, basilicas, and cathedrals in over a dozen U.S. states and in Italy, internationally on EWTN, and most recently, at this summer’s National Eucharistic Congress, the men’s choral group Floriani will enjoy a homecoming of sorts on November 22, when it performs at Thomas Aquinas College, New England.
One of the College’s newest graduates, Peter Bockrath (CA’24) has accepted a bold new challenge: to minister to the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces as a member of Team Saint Paul, an evangelization group established by the Most Rev. Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D, Archbishop for the Military Services, U.S.A.
“While the world rejects the idea there is a ‘whole truth of things’ … Chesterton saw that this must be the case — and he grasped that truth far better than most self-proclaimed ‘thinkers’ today,” says alumnus author Ken Colombini (’85) in his latest article in Crisis magazine.