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by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2022 | Chris Collins, Discernment, Jesuit, Local News, News, Retire, retiree, Retirement, St. Thomas, The Next Chapter, University of St. Thomas | 0 |
The Next Chapter consists of readings and assessments coupled with sharing and time to reflect. The cohort met monthly on Saturday mornings at the Iversen Center for Faith on the St. Thomas campus and attended a weekend retreat; a second session with a new cohort begins this month.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Archbishop Ireland, Father Christopher Collins, Father Miscamble, Father Wilson Miscamble, Featured, Local News, Meaning of a Catholic University, Mother Seraphine Ireland, News, Owens Science Center, St. Catherine University, St. Thomas, The Meaning of a Catholic University Today, University of St. Thomas, UST | 0 |
In 1885, Archbishop John Ireland founded what would become the University of St. Thomas, an archdiocesan university in St. Paul. Twenty years later, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, then led by Archbishop Ireland’s sister, Mother Seraphine Ireland, established what today is St. Catherine University, just a mile south of St. Thomas.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 7, 2022 | Campus Ministry, Father Lawrence Blake, Local News, News, Ricky Pipala, Silent retreats, St. Thomas, St. Thomas retreats, Susan Stabile, University of St. Thomas, UST’s Campus Ministry | 0 |
University of St. Thomas junior Ricky Pipala’s smartphone is a source of both comfort and stress — so putting it and other distractions aside during his recent silent retreat with fellow students made it easier to listen for Christ’s voice.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Julie Sullivan, Local News, News, Santa Clara University, St. Thomas, University of St. Thomas | 0 |
In an email to the St. Thomas community, President Julie Sullivan said her decision to leave was “difficult” and “one which I have spent a long time discerning and praying about,” citing personal reasons that swayed the move. She noted that her husband, Bob, is in California, and she has adult children and four grandsons who live near Santa Clara.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2021 | American College Health Association, Catholic Universities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19, Featured, Johnson & Johnson, Local News, Minnesota Department of Health, Moderna, News, Pfizer, St. Catherine, St. Kate's, St. Thomas, Vaccine guidelines | 0 |
Students at the two Catholic universities based in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis need to add one more item to their to-do list: Get a COVID-19 vaccine. And soon.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 5, 2021 | Apostles, Best of Week, Doubting Thomas, Featured, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Thomas | 0 |
Modern readers tend to see the Gospel through a filter of tradition. We see individual characters as we have been trained to see them: as the sum of the sermons preached about them. The text may present them as complex, with a variety of competing virtues and failings, but our mental shorthand reduces them to […]
by bcadmin | May 21, 2021 | Academy of Holy Angels, Black Lives Matter, Blessed Trinity, blue lives matter, Holy Angels, Jazz Hampton, law, law enforcement, Local News, News, St. Thomas, Turn Signl | 0 |
Pulled over by police, nervous and unsure of what to do? There’s an app for that, thanks to the work of an Academy of Holy Angels alumnus and his partners.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Best of Week, doubt, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Padre Pio, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Thomas | 0 |
Faith isn’t just a feeling we have; it’s a decision we make. When we choose to believe in God, He will give us the means not only to persevere in our faith, but ultimately to make it deeper and stronger.
by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Doubting Thomas, Faith & Spirituality, Faith Under Fire, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts, St. Thomas | 0 |
Doubting Thomas & Our Lessons in Faith Poor St. Thomas! What he expected with trepidation on the journey to Jerusalem has come to pass. The Master has been killed, and he and the other disciples have retreated in fear for their own lives. For his part, Thomas withdraws also from the company of his fellow […]
by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2020 | Doubting Thomas, Featured, News, Saints, St. Thomas | 0 |
Poor St. Thomas the Apostle. For much of the history of Christianity, he has been affiliated with one word: doubt. A “doubting Thomas,” says Wikipedia, “is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Apostle Thomas.” Some Christians have even used the moniker to defend doubt as a kind of […]
by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2020 | apostle, Between the Sundays, doubt, Doubting Thomas, Faith, Featured, friendship with God, Living the Faith, Mercy, News, Prayer, profession of faith, Resurrection, Spiritual Life, St. Thomas, St. Thomas the Apostle | 0 |
“God is patient with our questions, our weakness, and our struggles, just as he was patient with Thomas.” It is tradition that St. Thomas was the only Apostle to leave the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel, traveling to Syria and Persia and then to Ind…
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