Apr 5, 2013 ... flesh, or the devil, subdue the Paschal Fire ... A Weekly Bulletin of Events and
Commentary from your Chaplains. Thomas ... He raised $100 million over his
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Thomas Aquinas College
Chaplains’ Newsletter A Weekly Bulletin of Events and Commentary from your Chaplains
April 5, 2013 Events April 7 Concert at Libbey Bowl, Ojai, 4-7pm (featuring TAC choirs) April 12 Spring Concert April 15 Anniversary of the death of Dr. Thomas Dillon (2009) April 17 Groundbreaking for St. Gladys Hall, Mass at 11:15am
Feast Days April 7 Divine Mercy Sunday. We will pray the Chaplet after the 9am Mass, and have a procession after the 11:30 Mass April 8 Solemnity of the Annunciation. Consecration to the Blessed Mother after the 11:30 Mass
A Blaze of Glory I was worried that the TAC paschal fire would not blaze brightly enough. But our normally staid acolytes ignited a blaze of wood and kerosene that lit up our night, all the way until dawn at the Painter’s Shack. In Catholic iconography, St. Thomas radiates a blazing sun from his heart. All Christians bear the burning radiance of Christ Risen. Let no darkness, neither from the world, the flesh, or the devil, subdue the Paschal Fire within us!
Dr. Thomas Dillon
Dr. Tom Dillon came to TAC in 1972, the College’s second year of existence. He brought a Ph.D. in philosophy from Notre Dame, and an acute perception of the Col(Monday-Friday) lege’s potential. He served as College 7:00am Mass, Extraordinary Form President for 18 years, doubling the 11:30am Mass, Ordinary Form school’s enrollment and faculty, erecting 5pm Mass, Ordinary Form nine of our buildings, including the library, 10pm Mass, Ordinary Form St. Thomas Hall, and of course our stun3:45pm Divine Mercy Chaplet, chapel ning Chapel of Our Lady of the Most Holy 5:30-6:30pm Adoration & Benediction Trinity. He raised $100 million over his 6:40pm Vespers, chapel choir loft tenure, making possible a TAC education 9:15pm Community Rosary, chapel for thousands, and a flagship Catholic College for our nation. 9:35pm Compline (Latin), chapel On April 15, 2009, Dr. Dillon was driving to a Catholic educaConfessions before and after every Mass tion conference in Ireland with his wife Terri. The car went off the road and our President perished in the accident. Dr. Dillon “left a Your Chaplains noble legacy of faith and learning, which will continue to enrich Fr. Cornelius Michel Buckley, SJ minds and hearts for years to come," in the words of the Papal Head Chaplain Nuncio. His was the first funeral in the chapel he designed. Let us Fr. Hildebrand Garceau, O. Praem. pray for Dr. Dillon, his wife Terri, and their four children on the Fr. Joseph Illo fourth anniversary of his death, next Monday, April 15.
Regular Masses and Devotions
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Seniors at our Masses and daily rosaries
Friday, April 5, 7pm, Loyola Hall. Food.
March Madness v. Good Friday Joseph Lozano was in a quandary. The NCAA Sweet Sixteen games were playing at the same time as the Holy Thursday and Good Friday liturgies. He wondered how he could sneak past Fr. Illo to watch the games at Loyola during the Triduum services. So he asked Fr. Buckley for advice. “Not a problem,” said Fr. Buckley: “That’s what video Dancing the night away before their defense recorders are for.” Joseph was surprised. "You mean I can tape Good Friday?” Fr. Illo will be giving a retreat to the Missionaries of Charity in Peru, April 10-20. He begs your prayers, and will ask the Sisters to pray for you.
Welcome the Church, Abi Retallick! If the Supreme Court overturns California’s Constitutional
Amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman (Prop 8), we will have crossed a line, as did Roe v. Wade forty years ago. But Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, in a recent interview with USA Today, says the truth cannot be suppressed by a court decision: “The natural law has a power written on the human heart that doesn't go away….After the Roe decision, it was commonly thought that our society would soon easily accept the legitimacy of abortion. But the pro-life movement is stronger now than it ever has been. This is because of the truth: Abortion is the killing of an innocent human life.... The same principle applies with marriage: It is simply a natural fact that Abi and an unidentified admirer (he shaved) you need a man and a woman to make a marriage….Even if the Supreme Court rules Crossword Puzzle against this truth, the 1 2 3 4 controversy will not die by Puzzlemaster Joan Short out.” Carpe Veritatem! 5 Across Down 1. Future first 1. Rose Sunday 6 7 5. Prized for its fur 2. What Miss Reyes is no 6. St. Teresia longer (acro) 8 9 Benedicta 3. Raincoat 8. Part of a hot cereal 4. Leash 9. Half a Latin dance 10 11 5. Keeps clothes pleated 10. British parenthesis 6. Reaction to ice-cream 12. He says, "Hear ye, served in Lent 12 hear ye." 7. Sean Schmidgall is identi13. See: fied by this 13 Look:: ____ : Listen 11. Spies' boss (acro.)
