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Chapel of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity to be Dedicated at Thomas Aquinas College
Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel is the 12th of 15 buildings to be completed on the campus of Thomas Aquinas College. At a cost of $23 million, it is 15,000-square feet in area and is the most prominently situated and most elaborate of the structures on the campus.
Designed by Duncan Stroik, a professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame and a principal of Duncan G. Stroik Architecture, a firm that specializes in ecclesiastical design, the Chapel is cruciform in shape and features a 135-foot bell tower.
In 2003, before construction began, Pope John Paul II blessed the plans for Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel, and just this past fall, the cornerstone of the new building was shipped to Rome to receive the blessing of Pope Benedict XVI. Says college president Dr. Thomas E. Dillon, "Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel will be a statement in stone, as it were, for our students and for all who visit our campus that Thomas Aquinas College is resolved to remain ever loyal to the Vicar of Christ and faithful to the teaching Church."
The new chapel has permanent seating for 415 in its nave and transepts, and its generous side aisles can be used to accommodate another 300 in temporary seating. The chapel's soaring vaulted ceiling, while helping to lift the hearts and minds of the congregation to God, will also provide outstanding acoustics for the college's student choir and chant schola, which will provide the music at the Dedication Mass with selections from composers such as Hassler, Mozart, Dubois, and Palestrina.
Says college chaplain Rev. Cornelius Buckley, S.J., "The name that has been chosen for our new chapel is fitting, since the entire academic program at Thomas Aquinas College culminates in the study of St. Thomas Aquinas' treatise on the Trinity." He adds, "And Mary is our model par excellence in her relationship to the Holy Trinity - the perfect daughter of the Father, the most admirable mother of the Son, and the dearest spouse of the Holy Spirit."
Once dedicated, the new chapel will be the site of the College's four daily Masses as well as the many devotions initiated and attended by a large majority of its 350 students, who hail from across the country and abroad.
Attendance at the Dedication Mass on March 7 and at the Alumni Masses on March 8 is by invitation only, and access to the campus will be limited to pass-holders during the Dedication Weekend.