“Jonathan is a young man of character and heart,” says Michael Phelan of his son, Jonathan (CA’23), a recent TAC graduate who entered the Norbertine Order this summer.
“The Lord has given me so much grace,” says Helen Blain (’20), as she prepares to enter the Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Roswell, New Mexico. “If He can make a cloistered, contemplative nun out of me, what can’t He do?”
The extensive oeuvre of Rev. Sebastian Walshe, O. Praem. (’94), continues to expand!
Mary Rose (Bacani ’03) Valenti and Veronica Ferri (’06) were friends during their overlapping year at Thomas Aquinas College, but in the years since they have bonded over another common love: Madonna House in Combermere, Ontario, an apostolate dedicated to living the Gospel without compromise.
“The contemplative is the stay-at-home mother within the Church,” reflects Sr. Mary Josefa (Kathleen ’07) Holcomb, O.S.B.
TAC Mom Allison Eddyblouin passes along the joyful news that, on July 27, her daughter, Mary Catherine (’19), made her first profession of simple vows with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.
With great joy, the Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey welcomed their newest postulants on August 27, and among them were four Thomas Aquinas College alumni.