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The 30th Annual Great Preacher Award Breaks Records!

We had a phenomenal 30th Annual Great Preacher Award celebration on November 14, with record attendance and totals! Our heartfelt thanks to all of sponsors, guests, and the Great Preacher honorees Fr. Chris Martin, VE, DMin, and the St. Margaret of Scotland Parish's Music Ministry for their participation! Here's a peek from the rehearsal of the St. Margaret choir and musicians. Keep your eyes peeled as we share more of this jubilant event in the coming days.

Vespers and President's Holiday Reception

Join us on December 8, 2024, at 5 p.m., as we celebrate the holiday season with Vespers, followed by the annual holiday reception hosted by Aquinas Institute President Fr. Mark Wedig, OP.

All are welcome!

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Continuing Education

The Center for Continuing Education at Aquinas Institute is excited that the first Continuing Education offering Through Brokenness: Trauma Healing and Pastoral Care with Dr. Hsin-Hsin Huang, has had such an enthusiastic response. The four week course continues through December 2 on Zoom 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

St. Louis Review Story

Thank you to the St. Louis Review for its cover story on Great Preacher Award recipient, St. Margaret of Scotland Parish's Music Ministry! Aquinas is delighted to see such a worthy ministry front and center!

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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

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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.

$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.

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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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