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Thomas Aquinas College Newsletter Commencement 2014 quinas A C s o a l Thomas Aquinas College Newsletter m l e o g h e T Commencement 2014 C 1 al 7 if 19 Volume 42, Issue 3 ornia - “Be Witnesses to the Truth” Cardinal O’Brien Salutes College’s 40th Graduating Class hen members of the Thomas Aquinas College us, as He has all His saints throughout the ages, ” she said. WClass of 2014 gathered for their Commencement “It takes true love of neighbor, true love of Truth, to bring ceremony on May 17, they heard a powerful message a stranger into our world, to show him the Truth, to help from His Eminence Edwin Cardinal O’Brien, Grand him desire that goodness and order.” (See page 4.) Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre Following Miss Seeley’s address, the College awarded of Jerusalem. “Be witnesses to truth,” he declared. “Help Cardinal O’Brien its highest honor, the Saint Thomas give the West a new birth of freedom: freedom tethered Aquinas Medallion. (See story, below.) Then, amid the to truth and ordered to goodness; freedom lived beauti- customary cheers and jubilation, the graduates each fully, as you have been taught to live here in this beautiful approached the dais to receive their bachelor hoods and and noble place.” diplomas, the culmination of four years’ diligent effort. Having served as a chaplain in the United States Remembering Kent Army, the rector of two seminaries, and the Archbishop For all the joy and celebration, however, there was an of the Military Services, U.S.A., Cardinal O’Brien was undertone of sorrow. One member of the Class of 2014, uniquely suited to deliver this bold charge. “We find our- Andrew “Kent” Moore, was not on hand to receive a selves today in a postmodern world that can no longer diploma. Two years ago, while walking across the coun- affirm ‘the truth,’ only ‘your truth’ and ‘my truth,’” His try in support of the unborn, Kent died after being struck Eminence told the 82 members of the College’s 40th by an oncoming vehicle. Yet his spirit was palpable at the graduating class. “It will be the task of your generation,” Commencement ceremony, which his classmates dedi- he added, “to remind the West that reason is part of our cated to Kent. They also chose his namesake, St. Ken- civilizational heritage, and that the Catholic Church is tigern, for their Class Patron. the great institutional safe-deposit box of reason in the “What a blessing has been yours these last four years, “Surely he is here with us in the Communion of 21st century.” (See page 3.) Class of 2014, to have been formed here, at this college, Saints,” said Cardinal O’Brien at the Baccalaureate Mass. Truth and Joy in an atmosphere of deep Christian joy,” observed Car- “We remember his family as well as the pro-life cause The day began with the Baccalaureate Mass in Our dinal O’Brien in his homily. “May that joy overflow, like which he so heroically championed, and which Thomas Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel, for which Cardi- living water, for a world so very athirst for the living God.” Aquinas College has so unfailingly and successfully pro- nal O’Brien served as the principal celebrant and hom- Shortly after the Mass, the congregation reconvened moted.” In his remarks at the Commencement exercises, ilist. As the Thomas Aquinas College Choir sangVeni, on the academic quadrangle for the Commencement President Michael F. McLean asked those present to Sancte Spiritus from the Chapel’s choir loft, members of ceremony. Continuing the day’s theme of intellectual “please join us in praying for the repose of Kent’s soul, for the Class of 2014, the faculty, the Board of Governors, evangelization, Class Speaker Felicity Seeley (’14) spoke the consolation of his parents and siblings, who are with and the clergy processed into the building. Vested in red, of the graduates’ duty to pursue the truth, to embrace it, us today, and that his example might always be an inspira- the College’s four chaplains and several visiting priests and to share it. “The power of Truth is to change us from tion for these graduates.” joined His Eminence at the altar to concelebrate the the inside out; to liberate us from sin and error; to free us Called to be witnesses to the truth, the Class of 2014 Mass of the Holy Spirit. from fear and lead us to eternal happiness; to transform has one of its own members for a model and guide. The Saint Thomas Aquinas Medallion College Awards Cardinal O’Brien its Highest Honor he Saint Thomas Aquinas Medal- at Fort Bragg in North Carolina before Archdiocese for the Military Services, Tlion is the highest honor conferred heading to Vietnam in 1971, where he U.S.A., the spiritual shepherd for Catholic by Thomas Aquinas College, and eligi- traveled the country by helicopter to min- members of the American Armed Forces bility for it rests upon a single criterion: ister to soldiers in the field. After the war and their families around the world. Arch- fidelity. Neither fame, titles, nor offices he became a chaplain at Fort Gordon in bishop O’Brien continued in that role for are sufficient qualifications; the honor Augusta, Georgia. 10 years until Pope Emeritus Benedict is reserved for those who have demon- In 1973 Fr. O’Brien took what would XVI named him the Archbishop of Balti- strated extraordinary dedication to God become a 24-year break from his chap- more in 2007. and His Church, as well as leadership in laincy duties and departed for Rome, In 2012 Pope Benedict elevated advancing the teachings of the Church. where he earned a Doctorate in Sacred Archbishop O’Brien to cardinal, then “Nearly every year since our first Theology at the Pontifical University of named him the Grand Master of the Cardinal O’Brien’s onetime superior, the Commencement in 1975, we have taken St. Thomas Aquinas. Upon his return Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre late John Cardinal O’Connor, Archbishop a moment to pay tribute to the year’s stateside in 1976, he served as the vice- of Jerusalem. The Order claims 23,000 of New York. While presenting the honor, Medallion recipients,” said President chancellor of the Archdiocese of New clerical, religious, and lay members world- Board of Governors Chairman R. Scott Michael F. McLean during this year’s York and associate pastor at St. Patrick’s wide. It is responsible for promoting Turicchi praised the Cardinal for a life of Commencement ceremony. “This is a Cathedral. Between 1983 and 1985 he and defending Christianity in the Holy “exemplary loyalty and devotion to the fitting time to do so, for we hope that as was the priest-secretary to two Archbish- Land, through both prayer and financial Holy Father and the magisterium of the our graduates go forth from the College, ops of New York, Cardinals Cook and assistance. Church.” they will emulate our honorees in their O’Connor. Over the next dozen years, he “From his chaplaincy in the jungles of own lives.” At Commencement 2014, Dr. A Soldier’s Priest served as rector at the North American Vietnam,” said President McLean, “to his McLean continued, the College awarded After his ordination to the priest- College in Rome and St. Joseph’s Semi- care of our nation’s 1.5 million Catholic the Medallion to “a faithful soldier for hood for the Archdiocese of New York in nary in New York, where among his stu- military men and women, to his stew- Christ,” His Eminence Edwin Cardinal 1965, young Fr. O’Brien became a civil- dents was the College’s head chaplain, ardship of the Church’s work in the Holy O’Brien, Grand Master of the Equestrian ian chaplain at the United States Military Rev. Joseph Illo. Land, Cardinal O’Brien has exhibited Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Academy at West Point. Five years later, St. John Paul II appointed Fr. O’Brien the qualities of a knight in service to his In receiving the Medallion, Cardinal he shed his civilian status, undertaking to the episcopacy in 1996 as the Auxiliary Lord, Jesus Christ: steadfastness in ser- O’Brien is in good company. Past recipi- flight and parachute training to earn the Bishop of New York. Only one year later, vice, courage in teaching and defending ents include Bl. Mother Teresa, M.C.; Ser- rank of captain and become a chaplain in however, the new bishop left his home the truths of our faith, and selflessness in vant of God Rev. John Hardon, S.J.; and the United States Army. He briefly served state to become the Archbishop of the shepherding the souls in his care.” From the Desk of the President: “Martha’s Plight” Dr. McLean’s Remarks to the Class of 2014 at the President’s Dinner t can be humbling for those of us important and, I would say, eminently It is better, then, to have taken the logic Iengaged in the active life, and perhaps practical things you have learned in your class that we hope improved your thinking as well for you, most of whom are about time here. From Socrates, that honest and and reasoning skills and the seminar that to embark on an active life, to consider St. heartfelt conversation about serious and we hope improved your writing and read- Thomas’s many reasons for saying that the fundamental things is an integral part of ing skills. For these, along with the con- contemplative life is more excellent than the “examined life.” From Aristotle, that versational and analytical skills you have the active life.
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