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Less Than One Week Until the 31st Annual Great Preacher Award

NOVEMBER 13, 2025, 6 p.m.
HILTON ST. LOUIS FRONTENAC

The days are getting shorter and cooler, and that definitely signals Great Preacher Award time!

Get your tickets for the 31st Annual Great Preacher Award, this year honoring:

Emil Frei & Associates, a liturgical design studio renowned for work in extraordinary stained glass and mosaic work, and Fr. Paul Murray, OP, a prolific Dominican writer and poet well known for his work on mysticism.

Aquinas Students Lead Pilgrimage to the Border

Grant Hartley, the Coordinator of Student Life at Aquinas Institute, and three Aquinas students--Emily Alvarado, Andre Plackis, and Aubri Cherub (joined by Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso)--recently led eight high school students on the annual Pilgrimage to the Border, sponsored by the Archdiocese of St. Louis' Office of Peace and Justice.

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Doctor of Ministry in Preaching Lecture Series

November 20 at 7 p.m. CST

Join us for a 40-minute presentation from DMin alumna and past president of the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics (CATH) Dr. Karla Bellinger entitled "Who Says? Why Research Matters in the Field of Homiletics." There will be a 15-minute Q&A following the presentation. 

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Generous Scholarships Available

The rigorous study at Aquinas can be hard. Paying for it shouldn't be. That is why Aquinas Institute makes available a variety of generous scholarships to lay students studying in our core programs: the Master of Arts in Theology, the Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies, and the Master of Divinity.

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Advent Vespers and President's Holiday Reception

December 14 at 4 p.m.

You are cordially invited to solemn vespers beginning at 4 p.m., with cocktails and conversation to follow at the President's Holiday Reception.

RSVP BY DECEMBER 4

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 St. 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

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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.

$4 million

Received in Grant Money

Aquinas Institute has launched the Center for Continuing Education, the New Frontiers in Preaching program, and the Aquinas Children's Worship Partnership 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.

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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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