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Twice yearly during the freshman, sophomore, and junior years, each student sits with his tutors and hears their observations on his work. The primary aim of the Don Rag is not, like a report card, to state the degree of a student’s mastery of the material. It is, rather, an occasion for offering him specific advice on how to improve his class preparation and participation and to help him advance in the intellectual life. Tutors thus work with the student to enable him to pursue more successfully the wisdom offered by great books.

In the above video, Leslie Galvan — a senior on the California campus who will be graduating in just two weeks — looks back on her experience of Thomas Aquinas College’s unique program of Catholic liberal education. “It makes you feel so empowered,” she says, “while also humbling you at the same time.”

The Church Building as Sacred Place Embodied in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel

By Roseanne T. Sullivan
The Latin Mass Magazine, Journal of Catholic Culture and Tradition
Winter/Spring 2021
Reprinted with permission

Please say a prayer for Dr. Elizabeth Reyes (’03), a tutor on the California campus. Dr. Reyes will be undergoing an emergency appendectomy this afternoon.

Five shipping crates recently arrived on the campus of Thomas Aquinas College, California, each of them filled with precious, carefully bubble-wrapped objects.