The Most. Rev. Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, has accepted President Michael F. McLean’s invitation to serve as Thomas Aquinas College’s 2018 Commencement Speaker.

“We are grateful that our longtime friend Bishop Morlino has agreed to come to California to join us for Commencement,” says Dr. McLean. “We are honored that he will be part of this important day in the life of the College and its newest graduates.”

On Friday evening, in honor of the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, Chaplain Rev. David Gonzalez, O.Praem., led a small group of students in a candlelit, Candlemas procession around the campus. The group began outside Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel and processed along the perimeter of the academic quadrangle to the Guadalupe Fountain.

Our Lady of the Presentation, pray for us!

After the close of classes on Friday, January 26, more than 200 Thomas Aquinas College students departed for San Francisco and the 14th annual Walk for Life West Coast. They arrived late in the night at North Beach’s Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, where the Salesian fathers graciously offered them places to sleep. The next morning, they attended Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral offered by the Most Rev. Salvatore J.

After the close of classes on Friday, more than 200 Thomas Aquinas College students met up behind St. Joseph Commons to begin their pilgrimage to San Francisco and the Walk for Life West Coast. They heard some encouraging words from Dean John J. Goyette, then received a blessing from Head Chaplain Rev. Paul Raftery, O.P., before boarding three buses and numerous cars for the voyage north.

Their seven-hour, 350-mile journey is now under way. Please pray for their safe travels and their witness!

Members of the Thomas Aquinas College Board of Governors, students, faculty, and staff met in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for OneLife LA — the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ annual event to promote the beauty and dignity of all human life. Pictures from the event are available in the slideshow below:

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.

Audio

By the Most Rev. Carlo Maria Viganò
Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to United States of America
January 12, 2018
Adapted transcript

“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.

Before the Thomas Fire, before the deadly mudslides in Santa Barbara County, there was, one night last November, the Thomas Aquinas College Choir’s Fall Concert — video of which is now available. The performance serves as a much-needed consolation after several weeks of disaster and tragedy. Enjoy!