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The 30th Annual Great Preacher Award

Last year, we were pleased to be able to honor St. Louis Archbishop Rozanski with a Great Preacher Award. (pictured: Archbishop Rozanski with last year's Aquinas Scholars)

This year, we bestow the distinguished honor upon the Very Reverend Chris Martin, VE, DMin, Vicar for Parish Mission and Vitality for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, and St. Margaret of Scotland Parish's Music Ministry. This will be the first time in the 30 year history of the Great Preacher Award that a group is being honored. We look forward to great preaching and great music this year!

Learn more about the event, purchase tickets, become a sponsor, and more by clicking below!

The 30th Annual Great Preacher Award

Health Care Mission Information Session

Miss the October info session?

There's still time to learn more about taking the next steps to advance your healthcare career!

Register now to learn more about the updated Health Care Mission program through the Ashley-O'Rourke Center at Aquinas Institute of Theology.

Next Online Info Session:

Monday, November 11, 2024 at 12: 00 p.m.

REGISTER NOW

 

Continuing Education

The Center for Continuing Education at Aquinas Institute is pleased to announce a comprehensive variety of programming, which will be offered in four distinct formats: Mini-Courses, Lunch and Learns, one-time Events, and Preaching Formation.

First up in this year long line-up is a Mini-Course: Through Brokenness: Trauma Healing and Pastoral Care with Dr. Hsin-Hsin Huang, available on Zoom. The four week course starts November 11 and runs from 6:30-8 p.m. each week.

Check out The Center's new website, with its entire 2024-2025 schedule of offerings, register, and pay online (another new benefit this year)!

CONTINUING EDUCATION OFFERINGS

Aquinas in the St. Louis Review!

The St. Louis Review recently featured Aquinas Institute's New Frontiers in Preaching Academy. The article provided a comprehensive look at the program, its genesis, and its mission of training master preachers to serve the Black and Hispanic communities.

Read the Article

Learn more about the New Frontiers in Preaching Academy

THE AQUINAS WAY

Part of the world-wide Order of Preachers and following in the footsteps of Saint Dominic, we are a Catholic, Dominican, graduate school of theology in Saint Louis Missouri. We send out graduates, lay and religious, grounded in the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, to preach the gospel in word and deed. 

By The Numbers

5:1

Student-to-Teacher Ratio

Aquinas Institute believes in a small community where teachers, laypersons and friars can learn side-by-side, using discussion and collaboration as tools to best find the truth.

$2.75 million

Received in Grant Money

Aquinas Institute has launched the Center for Community Engagement and Evangelization as well as the New Frontiers in Preaching program with grant money provided by Lilly Endowment, Inc. These programs allow Aquinas to not only teach graduate students, but to provide lifelong learning opportunities as well.

2,000

Nearly 2,000 Alumni Around the World

Aquinas alumni have served as hospital chaplains, non-profit executives, youth ministers, theology teachers, academic administrators, college professors, social justice advocates, and more.

1925

Year Aquinas Institute of Theology was founded

Aquinas Institute of Theology has been educating graduate students in the discipline of theology for almost 100 years.

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Academic programs offered, from degree programs to graduate certificate options

Graduate degree programs at Aquinas include a Master of Arts in Theology, Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies, and a Master of Divinity, the country's only Doctor of Ministry in Preaching, and the only Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd degree of its kind.

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Fully Funded Aquinas Scholarships

Available for full-time students in any of the "Core Three" programs: MA in Theology, MA in Pastoral Studies, or Master of Divinity.

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Dominican Provinces served

Aquinas Institute is designated as the Center for Institutional Studies by the Order of Preachers and is sponsored by the Dominican Central Province of St. Albert the Great in partnership with Dominican Southern Province of St. Martin de Porres.

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