Mass Schedule

(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);

9:30 (OF, Hacienda Chapel); 11:30 (OF)

Sunday Masses:7:15 Missa Cantata (EF)

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

8:00am Morning Prayer, Commons

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.

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Feast Days

Feb 8 St. Josephine Bakhita

Feb 10 St. Scholastica

Feb 11 Our Lady of Lourdes

Feb 14 SS. Cyril and Methodius,

[St. Valentine on EF calendar]

Jan 22 Chair of St. Peter

A Weekly Bulletin of Events and Commentary from your Chaplains

Thomas Aquinas College

A Call to the Oratory I have known San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone for

some years. A few months ago, in response to our inquiries, he

invited another priest and me to establish an Oratory of St. Philip

Neri in San Francisco. The “Oratory” consists of secular priests

and brothers living in a community of prayer and apostolic work;

the most famous Oratorian priest, after St. Philip Neri, is Bl. John

Henry Newman, who established the Oratory in England in 1847.

With mixed emotions, I announce that I will be leaving Thomas

Aquinas College to establish an Oratory in San Francisco, either

this summer or next, depending on the Oratory’s establishment.

The Archbishop will give us a city parish and assign apostolates,

primarily the evangelical outreach to young urban professionals. I

announce this now because we must begin making arrangements

and I wanted TAC to know before it becomes known to the public.

Although I am called to the work of a diocesan priest, I have al-

ways been drawn to community life. The Oratory provides secular

priests with a common rule of life and prayer. I am devoted to

TAC: her students, faculty, and staff; her history, structure and

mission; her chapel, and not least the mountains and ocean that

surround her. I am deeply grateful to Drs. McLean and Kelly for

welcoming me and will treasure my remaining time at the College.

It is with some trepidation that I leave this Catholic Shangri-La for

the culture wars in San Francisco, but also look forward to the

apostolic work and life of the Oratorian fathers. Fr. Joseph Illo

Events

Feb 8 The Merchant of Venice, 7:30pm

Feb 11 Rosary Procession, Commons, 6pm

Feb 12 Tutor talk on neuroscience, Dr. No

Feb 15 Fr. Leo on Mother Teresa, 3pm

Feb 14 All College Seminar on St Thomas

Feb 21 Presidents’ Day lecture, Dr. Munoz

Feb 26 Father Kolbe Missionaries, 7pm

Consecration to Our Lady From February 21-March 25, you are

invited to prepare for total consecration to the

Blessed Mother, using the book 33 Days to Morning Glory. Each day there will be a few

pages of reading, from one saint each week.

Week 1 from St. Louis de Montfort; Week 2 from

St. Maximilian Kolbe; Week 3 from Bl. John

Paul II; Week 4 from Bl. Teresa of Calcutta.

Every Wednesday at 7pm in that period you are invited to Room 6

to discuss the saints’ writings for that week, led by one of the

chaplains. Finally, on March 25, those who wish to consecrate

themselves, or renew their consecration, to the Blessed Mother

will do so at the 11:30 Mass. You will need the book 33 Days, which we can order for you. Please sign up on the sheet on the

Commons board if you wish us to order a book for you.

Walk for Life West Coast Mother Teresa

at TAC Msgr. Leo Maasburg

(Archdiocese of Vienna),

author of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2011), will be

on campus to speak of her

life. Fr. Leo worked many

years as Mother’s “driver”

and chaplain, opening

(among others) the first MC house in Russia. He will speak in Room 106 on Feb 15 at 3pm.

The Legion of Mary Ora + Labora

Mondays at 3:45 PM in Room 9. Our apostolates include:

Rosary and Eucharistic processions on campus

Visits to nursing homes in Santa Paula and Oxnard

Promotion of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

On January 28 we had the joy of seeing our

beloved faculty process into a Solemn Mass for

St. Thomas in academic regalia. If you didn’t get

a chance to attend Mass on Jan 28, you get a sec-

ond chance on March 7 (St. Thomas’ Day on the

old calendar): Sung Mass at 7am.

We chaplains encourage students to attend daily Mass as often as you can. Four daily Masses are

our great treasure here at TAC!

Across

1. Milk___ (pansy)

4. He advised invading Canaan

7. Patron saint of T-rexes?

9. Age

10. Go at _ ____ (jog)

13. Cure for homesickness in the Odyssey (2 wds)

15. _on __bis, Domine

16. Incandescent alternative

17. Said after “flectamus genua”

19. Both water and air are this

21. What the Iliad is about

22. Part of a series

24. “Cum Patre et Filio _____ adoratur”

25. What this newsletter does not have

by Puzzlemistress Joan Short Down

1. Smell’s object

2. Rower’s need

3. Magic word

5. Piece of some perfect passive

Latin verbs

6. Patron saint of smokers?

7. Schwann’s opposite to

physical: _____logical

8. Jon Daly’s gifts

11. Ready to go, for a golf ball

(2 wds)

12. Piggy who had roast beef

13. One gift to a beggar?

14. Last syllable of a word

18. Some stringed instruments

20. ___noza

(a theologico-politician)

23. Byproduct of washing up

Thanks to all who took part in our biggest ever effort (three

buses and loads of cars). Our love and gratitude go to Zach,

Kristin, Sarah, Sarah, Rebecca, Connor, and Suzie!

It’s a good idea to do a Eucharistic Holy Hour once a week.

Saturdays from 10:30-11:30 and Sundays from 12:30-2pm,

the Eucharist is exposed for adoration—a good idea!

Father Kolbe Missionaries Jillian Cook, a professed member of this

secular institute and TAC grad (2007), will

speak to interested students about the “FKM”

vocation in Room 106 at 7pm on February 26.

Rosary Procession

for Our Lady of Lourdes:

Feb 11, Commons, 6pm