Regular Masses and Devotions

(Monday-Friday)

7:00am Mass, Extraordinary Form

11:30am Mass, Ordinary Form

5pm Mass, Ordinary Form

10pm Mass, Ordinary Form (M-Th)

Saturday Masses: 7:15 (EF); 11:30 (OF)

Sunday Masses:7:15 Missa Cantata (EF)

9:00 Sung Mass (OF); 11:30 (OF)

3:45pm Divine Mercy Chaplet, chapel

5:30-6:30pm Adoration & Benediction

6:40pm Vespers, chapel

9:15pm Community Rosary, chapel

9:35pm Compline [night prayer], chapel

Confessions before and after every Mass

Your Chaplains

Fr. Joseph Illo, Head Chaplain

Fr. Cornelius Michel Buckley, S.J.

Fr. Hildebrand Garceau, O. Praem.

Fr. Michal Chaberek, O.P.

August 26, 2013

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Welcome Class of 2017! We have never met most of you, but we like you already (sort of

like “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve”). We’ve met some

of you at last year’s Summer Program, but we look forward to

knowing you better. We will try to learn your names quickly, but

please forgive us if we call you “Sally” or “Stu” when you normally

go by other monikers.

Thomas Aquinas College is dedicated to providing excellent

spiritual formation to all who seek. The architectural pride of our

campus, the Chapel of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, stands at

the head of our quadrangle. Each building bears a saint’s name and

supplicates his patronage. We offer four Masses a day throughout the

week, and various devotions throughout the day (see a complete

listing to your left). You may speak with any of your four priests,

who are simply delighted with our assignment at TAC, at any time,

either for confession or spiritual direction. May God bless you all!

Events

Aug 22 Res. Halls open for Freshmen

Aug 23-23 Freshmen Orientation

Aug 24 Res. Halls open for all students

Aug 26 Convocation, 9am

Aug 30 Lecture, Dr. John Baer, “On

Catholic Liberal Education,” 7:30pm

Feast Days

Aug 27 St. Monica (bless our dorm!)

Aug 28 St. Augustine (bless our classes!)

Aug 29 Passion of St. John the Baptist

Sept 3 St. Gregory the Great (bless our

Gregorian Chant Schola)

A Weekly Bulletin of Events and Commentary from your Chaplains

Thomas Aquinas College

Fr. Michael

has arrived!

Thomas Aquinas College added a

fourth chaplain to our ranks over the

summer. We welcome, along with all

the other Freshmen, Fr. Michael

Chaberek, a native of Gdansk, Po-

land. He is a Dominican and there-

fore of the same family as St. Tho-

mas himself. Since Fr. Paul Raftery,

OP, left us a year ago, we have

longed to have another confrere of St. Thomas at our College. Fr.

Michael has his Master’s Degree from the John Paul II University

in Cracow and his doctorate in Fundamental Theology from the

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's University in Warsaw. He likes

cycling (both pedal bikes and motor-assisted versions), flying RC

aircraft, and reading history.

We welcome Fr. Michal to our campus!

Saturday (Aug 24): 7:15am, 9:30am, 7pm (Traveler’s Mass)

Sunday (Aug 25): 7:15am, 9:00am, 11:30am, 7pm (Traveler’s Mass)

Monday (Aug 26): Convocation Mass with Bishop Vann, 8:30am

Welcome Most Rev. Kevin Vann, Bishop of Orange!

Orate Fratres, Returning Students Over the summer we have made a slight change in our posture

for the Offertory part of the Mass. While in the past TAC

congregations (uniquely) waited to rise until the Preface

(“Dominus Vobiscum”), now we have come into conformity

with the rubrics and stand at the “Orate Fratres” (students who

worked the summer at the College are already doing this).

Stations of the Cross

At your next plunge in the ponds,

you will notice a new set of the

Via Crucis. These Stations were

donated by one benefactor and

chosen for their exceptional pu-

rity and beauty. Please pray for

our benefactor and make good

devotional use of this luminous

addition to our campus.

Prolife Rosary marking Kent Moore’s anniversary TAC students are

encouraged to

focus on their

intellectual forma-

tion on campus, but

one off-campus

activity which

everyone seems to

agree on is prolife

work. Over the

summer at least three of our students (Sarah Dufresne, Sophia

Macik, and Hannah DeRocher) spent many weeks in fulltime

prolife work. Those on campus prayed three rosaries and a

Chaplet at the Ventura abortion clinic, marking one year since

TAC student Kent Moore died on his prolife walk across

America. Ongoing prolife activities will be posted on the

Commons Board, as well as in this newsletter.

Normally, we have a Crossword Puzzle

in this spot, but Puzzlemistress

Joan Short was in well-deserved

hiatus.

O Good St. Patrick, wherefore art thou?

You may have noticed the absence of an old

friend, the last of the modular (“trailer”) class-

room buildings. He was hauled off over the

summer, and construction goes on apace for

the new St. Gladys’ Hall, which building will

replace St. Patrick’s. We will miss the Irish

saint, but actually he was English, and St.

Gladys was Welsh: all from “the islands.”

Summer Servants

Many thanks to the students who kept our

campus in tip top shape over summer break.

Their job was doubly vital considering the

construction projects underway this year.

Summer Hoops with Fr. Sebastian

Fr. Sebastian prays with his team during the Summer Program.

They beat the High Schoolers by a slim margin.