Priesthood / Religious Life

While on the campus of Thomas Aquinas College, New England, last week to offer the President’s Day lecture, a prominent alumnus priest and scholar visited the men of St. Augustine Hall to recount how he discovered his Cistercian vocation — offering some practical discernment advice along the way.

As part of an ongoing series of vocations visits, three members of the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa — including one Thomas Aquinas College alumna, Sr. John Paul Maria (Michaella ’12) Pape, MSSR — visited the California campus last week. After touring the campus, they gathered in St.

Please pray for Eric Patrick (’11). By God’s grace, he will be ordained to the transitional diaconate for the Diocese of Sacramento on Saturday, with his priestly ordination to follow in the spring!

By God’s grace, and at the hands of the Most Rev. Jaime Soto, Bishop of Sacramento, Rev. Br. Patrick Rooney, O.P.