Benefactors

On Wednesday evening, members of the Thomas Aquinas College community — including some 120 students on the California campus for the High School Summer Program — were treated to a musical oratory in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel, courtesy of the Schola Cantorum of the London Oratory School.

In gratitude for the tremendous generosity that makes their Catholic liberal education possible, a few students have put together the following video to thank Thomas Aquinas College’s benefactors:

In preparation for the opening of its new campus this fall, Thomas Aquinas College has named its first New England chaplain: Rev. Greg Markey, parochial vicar of St. Lawrence Parish in Shelton, Connecticut.

In late June Thomas Aquinas College’s California campus hosted a retreat for permanent deacons serving the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ Santa Barbara pastoral region. Over the course of their four days on campus, the retreatants stayed and held conferences in the College’s residence halls, took meals in St. Joseph Commons, and attended Sunday Mass in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel — all while contemplating Our Lord’s dying words on the Cross.

For Thomas Aquinas College’s 2019 Week of Giving, which ended on Sunday, friends of the College rallied to raise more than $285,993 — which, when combined with three matching gifts, amounts to more than $510,993. (A final total is forthcoming, pending the receipt of gifts made by mail.)

On the evening of Friday, June 28 — the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus — members of the Thomas Aquinas College community prayed the Holy Rosary for the sanctification of priests. The gathering was part of WorldPriest’s annual Global Rosary Relay, an international prayer chain in which members of the faithful across the world take turns praying a designated set of mysteries, thereby encircling the planet in prayer for 24 hours.

When Thomas Aquinas College, New England, hosts its first-ever Convocation on August 24, the Most Rev. Mitchell T. Rozanski, Bishop of Springfield, Massachusetts, will bless the campus’ century-old chapel in honor of Our Mother of Perpetual Help.

For the first time, Thomas Aquinas College will hold two Convocation ceremonies this August.

On August 24, freshmen and sophomores from across the United States and abroad will commence their studies at Thomas Aquinas College, New England. Welcoming the students for this, the inaugural academic year on the East Coast campus, will be the Most Rev. Mitchell T. Rozanski, Bishop of Springfield, Massachusetts, who will offer the Convocation Mass of the Holy Spirit and preside over the matriculation ceremony.

It’s a rainy day in Brookline, Massachusetts, and officials of Thomas Aquinas College are on the campus of the recently shuttered Newbury College, retrieving a wide array of furniture and other items, ranging from desks and chairs to a kitchen stove, gym equipment, and a grand piano.