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CAMPUS LIFE
MULTIMEDIA |
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Video: Happy Anniversary,
Fr. Marotti (’07)! |
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Lecture:
Dr. O’Reilly on the New Atheism |
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Aristotelian-Thomistic Conference 2013 |
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Slideshow: 2013 Seniors and Thesis Titles |
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Slideshow:
Fr. Buckley, KofC Installation Mass |
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Slideshow: Summer Construction |
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UPCOMING EVENTS |
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Summer Seminar Weekend #1
July 12 - 14 |
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Summer Seminar Weekend #2
July 19 - 21 |
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Summer Great Books Program for High School Students
July 21 - August 3 |
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Napa Institute Seminar: “On Human Work”
August 1 |
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Feast of the Assumption
Office holiday
August 15 |
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Residence Halls Open for Freshmen
August 22 |
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Freshman Orientation
August 23 - 24 |
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Residence Halls Open for Returning Students
August 24 |
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Convocation
The Most Rev. Kevin Vann, Bishop of Orange, presiding
August 26 |
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Lecture: Mr. John Baer
Thomas Aquinas College
“On Catholic Liberal Education”
August 30 |
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Feast of Bl. Mother Teresa
September 5 |
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Fall Concert
Symbiosis Ensemble
September 13 |
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Alumni Day
October 12 |
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Columbus Day
Office holiday
October 14 |
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Lecture: Rev. Robert Barron
Word on Fire Catholic Ministries
“On Catholicism”
October 18 |
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Don Rags
October 22-24 |
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Lecture: Dr. Paul O’Reilly
Vice President, Thomas Aquinas College
“Does Religious Faith Delude Reason?”
UCLA Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions
October 24 |
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UCLA Seminar: Readings from Summa Theologica
Dr. Paul O’Reilly
Vice President, Thomas Aquinas College
UCLA Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions
October 26 |
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Feast of All Saints
Office holiday
November 1 |
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Board of Governors Retreat
November 1-3 |
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Lecture: Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain
U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit
“On Natural Law and the American Founding”
November 8 |
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Lecture: Rev. Kevin Flannery, S.J.
Pontifical Gregorian University
“On Cooperation with Those Doing Evil”
November 22 |
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Thanksgiving Break
No classes / office holiday
November 28-9 |
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IN MEMORIAM |
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David Ellis (’83)
May 7, 2012
Brother of Sabrina Bjornstrom (’79) and Jennifer (Tenney ’85)
Jervis Ernest “Bud” Larson
June 18, 2013
Grandfather of Ian (’10)
Elena Grant Cahir
June 22, 2013
Daughter of College Governor Maria and Richard Grant
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ALUMNI VOCATIONS
Ordination for Rev. Nathaniel Drogin, O.Praem. (’01), First Vows for Sr. Maria Battista of the Lamb of God (’07)
On Saturday, June 20, Rev. Nathaniel Drogin, O. Praem. (’01), received the Sacrament of Holy Orders at Mission Basilica in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Fr. Drogin is the College’s 59th alumni priest, and the fifth at St. Michael’s Abbey in Orange, Calif., where four other alumni are currently seminarians or novices. Ordaining Fr. Drogin was the Bishop of Orange, the Most Rev. Kevin Vann, J.D., D.D., who will offer the opening Mass of the Holy Spirit and preside at Matriculation at the College’s Convocation exercises on August 26.
Also last month, Maria Forshaw (’07) was clothed with the habit of a Discalced Carmelite novice at a June 8 ceremony at the Carmel of St. Joseph in St. Louis County, Missouri. Having spent a year as a postulant, she took the name of Sr. Maria Battista of the Lamb of God. At the Carmel, she is deeply involved in music-making as both a singer and organist.
Full story: Fr. Drogin 
Full story: Sr. Maria Battista
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Fr. Nathaniel Drogin
(’01) and Bishop Vann
Sr. Maria Battista (’07) |
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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
LECTURE & CONCERT SERIES
College Announces Schedule for 2013-14
On Friday nights throughout the 2013-14 academic year, the students of Thomas Aquinas College will have the privilege of attending lectures from some of the nation’s most distinguished scholars — covering a wide range of topics from evolution to natural law to Thomistic theology — through the St. Vincent de Paul Lecture and Concert Series.
The Series, endowed by Barbara and Paul Henkels, complements the the College’s classroom discussion method and academic program. It also provides for several concerts of classical, operatic, or sacred music.
Full story & schedule
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PRAYER & SONG
Interview with “Chart-Topping”
Alumna Sister
Writing in the Cardinal Newman Society’s Catholic Education Daily, Timothy Drake has conducted a rare interview with Sr. Mary Josefa, OSB (Kathleen Holcomb ’07), of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles. The Sisters’ Advent at Ephesus album of sacred music topped the Billboard Classical Music Chart for six weeks last year, and the community has recently released a new album, Angels and Saints at Ephesus. In his interview, Mr. Drake asks Sr. Josefa about her experience at Thomas Aquinas College and about the role of liturgy, sacred music, and Catholic identity in higher education. Among her notable responses:
“I chose to attend Thomas Aquinas College because it integrated classical and Catholic education; I was fascinated by the liberal arts program, with its consideration and discussion of original sources, introducing the student to the perennial questions with which mankind has always grappled, but I was further drawn by the Catholic identity of the school, which orders this program of studies to lead the student from the contemplation of created truth to the contemplation of God Himself.”
Read the full interview
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Sr. Mary Josefa, OSB (’07), sings with the Benedictine Sisters of Mary |
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