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The article below is part of a series introducing students and their families to the prefects for the 2021 Great Books High School Summer Program.

Three Suggestions to Save Your Soul — and Others

by the Most Rev. Michael C. Barber, S.J.
Bishop of Oakland
Commencement 2020
Thomas Aquinas College, California
May 29, 2021

Hold Fast to Faith

by the Most Rev. Michael C. Barber, S.J.
Bishop of Oakland
Mass at the Baccalaureate Mass of the Holy Spirit
Commencement 2020
Thomas Aquinas College, California
May 29, 2021

Photographs from both of this year’s Commencement exercises — for the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021 — are now available for viewing and purchase.

Thomas Aquinas College’s  76^th alumnus priest — and the first ordained for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles — returned to the California campus Monday morning for a Mass of Thanksgiving. Just two days after his ordination at the hands of the Most Rev. José H. Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Rev.

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Sam Morson (’24), a rising sophomore and the son of Tracy (Colton ’99) and Vince Morson (’00). Sam was injured in an automobile accident last night and, after receiving last rites, died this morning. Please pray also for the consolation of his family, friends, and classmates.

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By Graham Crawley (’20)
Class Speaker
Commencement 2020

When the coronavirus forced members of the Thomas Aquinas College Class of 2020 to return home early last year, just weeks shy of their canceled Commencement, they were given a choice: How — and when — would they like to celebrate their graduation?