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Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, SV, to Serve as Thomas Aquinas College’s 2017 Commencement Speaker
The Superior General of the Sisters of Life in New York, Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, SV, has accepted President Michael F. McLean’s invitation to serve as Thomas Aquinas College’s 2017 Commencement Speaker.
“We are honored and grateful that Mother Agnes Mary has agreed to join us for Commencement and to share her words of wisdom with our students,” says Dr. McLean. “For more than 25 years she has been a tireless servant of mothers and their babies — a true testament to the Culture of Life.”
A religious community of women that is both contemplative and active, the Sisters of Life has as its unique charism the protection and enhancement of the sacredness of every human life. Its founder was the late John Cardinal O’Connor, who was also once the College’s Commencement Speaker, having traveled to the California campus in 1989, two years before establishing the order. When the community first began, it consisted of just eight members, Mother Agnes Mary — its first superior general — among them.
Mother Agnes Mary is also the chairperson of the board of directors for the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, a national organization of religious communities that is faithful to the Holy Father and the magisterium. “We look forward to welcoming Mother Agnes Mary to our campus,” says Dr. McLean. “I am confident that she will be a great source of inspiration for our graduating seniors and for us all.”
Joining Mother Agnes Mary at this year’s Commencement will be a good friend of the College, Rev. Paul Scalia, who has graciously agreed to serve as the principal celebrant and homilist at that day’s Baccalaureate Mass. The Episcopal Vicar for Clergy in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, Fr. Scalia the author of the forthcoming book, That Nothing May Be Lost: Reflections on Catholic Doctrine and Devotion. He is also the chaplain of the College’s Washington, D.C., Board of Regents and the son of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who himself visited the College and addressed the community in 1997.
“Fr. Scalia is a good and faithful priest and a great blessing to the Church,” says Dr. McLean. “It has been a joy to visit with him during trips to Washington over the years, and I am delighted that we can now welcome him to our campus.”