Photos from Alumni & Parent Day 2023!

Although September 23 at Thomas Aquinas College, New England, dawned cool and cloudy, the wet weather did nothing to dampen the spirits of students’ families and friends who made the trek to Western Massachusetts for this year’s Parent-Alumni Day.

The festivities began with Mass in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel, followed by brunch in Gould Commons. Recent graduates greeted old friends, and families squeezed around the tables to catch up with each other. “It is so wonderful to see you all here,” said Paula Cummings, president of the TAC Parent’s Association, to the cheerful crowd in Gould Commons. “You are here because you believe in this program, in your children, and the impact TAC will have on them.”

Next on the agenda were two seminars: one for parents and their students, another for alumni. Both groups read and discussed a selection from St. Thomas Aquinas’s treatise on the sacraments. Participants pondered whether the sacraments can be validly conferred by evil ministers and debated how they can be said to cause grace in their recipients. Parents got a taste for the Discussion Method, while alumni revived old habits, vigorously discussing great texts with good friends.