On Friday morning, Thomas Aquinas College was blessed with a visit from the Most Rev. Carlo Maria Viganò, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to the United States of America. His Excellency stopped by during a trip to Southern California, where he met with the Most Rev. Kevin Vann, Bishop of Orange, and visited the Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey. The Archbishop toured the campus, viewed damage from the Thomas Fire, and offered Mass in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel. He then joined President Michael F. McLean and Dean John J.

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By the Most Rev. Carlo Maria Viganò
Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to United States of America
January 12, 2018
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“We Have a Lord, a Good One. Let Us Follow Him.”

Dear brothers and sisters, you give me unexpected joy to be with you today for the celebration of this Eucharist at this college dedicated to St. Thomas Aquinas.

On Thursday morning a long-anticipated delivery made its way to the campus of Thomas Aquinas College: a beautiful grand piano, arriving just in time for the inaugural concert of the College’s new lecture and concert building, St. Cecilia Hall. The piano is the gift of two generous parents, Cathy and Charles Mires, whose daughter, Nina, came to the College as a freshman in 2006 and graduated in 2010.

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By Rev. Robert Marczewski
Chaplain
Thomas Aquinas College
January 10, 2018

“Our Security Ultimately Comes
from God and God Alone”

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Roy Rohter, the healing of his wife, Theresa, and the consolation of their family. Early this morning, a mudslide swept Mr. and Mrs. Rohter from their home in Montecito, California. Mrs. Rohter was rescued and is in stable condition, but Mr. Rohter did not survive.

In light of the ongoing rainstorms and mudslides in Santa Barbara County, the Most Rev. Robert Barron has postponed the post-Thomas Fire Mass of Thanksgiving that was scheduled to take place at Thomas Aquinas College on Wednesday, January 10. A new date for the Mass will be announced after the dangers have subsided.

Please pray for the affected residents in Bishop Barron’s pastoral region, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.

UPDATE: In light of the ongoing rainstorms and mudslides in Santa Barbara County, the Most Rev. Robert Barron has postponed the post-Thomas Fire Mass of Thanksgiving that was scheduled to take place at Thomas Aquinas College on Wednesday, January 10. A new date for the Mass will be announced after the dangers have subsided.

Please pray for the affected residents in Bishop Barron’s pastoral region, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.

Note: Dr. Dawn Eden Goldstein is an assistant professor of dogmatic theology at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut. She is the first woman to have received a doctorate in sacred theology from the University of St. Mary of the Lake. She also holds a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical Institute of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. In addition, Dr. Goldstein is a noted author under the name Dawn Eden.

In its newly released 300 Best College Values for 2018, Kiplinger Personal Finance ranks Thomas Aquinas College as No. 14 among American colleges or universities, making it the highest-placed Catholic institution on the list.

Just days before the outbreak of the Thomas Fire, some 150 Thomas Aquinas College students brought the joy of Advent and the promise of Christmas into the marketplace, staging a choral “flash mob” at The Oaks shopping mall in Thousand Oaks, California.