Members of the academic community at Aquinas Institute of Theology gathered for the opening Convocation and Mass for the 2024-25 academic year at the Institute in St. Louis Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. More about the Convocation and the Institute can be found at this link: https://www.ai.edu/fs/comms-manager/view/bb499a80-60ab-461b-b13a-c1850a9f6b3f

Graduating students from the Aquinas Institute of Theology gathered for Baccalaureate at St. Pius V Catholic Church in St. Louis Friday, May 10, 2024 as part of their Commencement celebration. More about the service can be found on the Aquinas Institute website: https://www.ai.edu/fs/comms-manager/view/a5e52e21-b8d1-4a9e-8084-b522591c2853

Members of the Class of 2024 at Aquinas Institute of Theology gathered with family, friends, faculty and staff for Commencement at St. Pius V Catholic Church in St. Louis Friday, May 10, 2024. Dr. Rafael Luciani, STD, of the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College, was presented a Doctor Honoris Causa and delivered the Commencement Address. More about the Commencement can be found on the Aquinas Institute website: https://www.ai.edu/fs/comms-manager/view/a5e52e21-b8d1-4a9e-8084-b522591c2853

Members of the Concordia Seminary community gathered for the Office of Vespers with the Assignment of Calls at The Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus on the seminary campus in Clayton, Mo.,Tuesday April 23, 2024. More about the service can be found on the Concordia Seminary website: https://www.csl.edu/2024/04/call-day-2024-seminarians-sent-to-serve-in-christs-name/

Members of the Class of 2024 at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis gathered with family, friends, faculty and staff for Commencement in the seminary’s Main Quadrangle in Clayton, Mo., Friday, May 17, 2024. Graduates received Master of Arts, Master of Divinity, Master of Sacred Theology, Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Philosophy degrees and Alternative Route Certificates. The Rev. Dr. Joel Lehenbauer, M.Div., S.T.M., PhD, delivered the Commencement Address.

Members of the Class of 2024 at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis gathered with family, friends, faculty and staff for the Office of Morning Prayer with the Conferring of Theological Diplomas at the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus in Clayton, Mo., Friday, May 17, 2024. The Rev, W. Max Mons, Chairman of the Board of Regents and pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Chapel in Iowa City, Iowa, delivered the sermon.

Students in inaugural cohort of the New Frontiers in Preaching Academy at Aquinas Institute of Theology received their certificates and were named Master Preachers during a Mass and Graduation at the Academy in St. Louis Sunday, July 21, 2024. More about the program can be found on the Aquinas Institute of Theology website: https://www.ai.edu/continuing-education/preaching-academy/black-catholic

Aquinas Institute of Theology hosted New Student Orientation on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 at the Institute’s facility in St. Louis. The morning included Mass and discussions of policies, classes and procedures. More about new student orientation at Aquinas can be found on this link: https://www.ai.edu/fs/comms-manager/view/3e81e4d6-97c0-4b02-a58b-752856b9dad7

Parishioners from the Sacred Heart Syro-Malabar Catholic Mission St. Louis celebrate the Sacred Heart Thirunal with a Qurbana (Mass), Pradakshinam (procession) and food trucks with Indian food at St. Martin de Porres Church in Hazelwood, Mo., Saturday, June 8, 2024. More about the festival can be found on the St. Louis Review website: https://www.archstl.org/syromalabar-eastern-catholic-church-finds-new-home-at-st-martin-de-porres-in-hazelwood-9701

Worshipers gather for the 76th annual Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, hosted by the Discalced Carmelites of St. Joseph at the Carmelite Monastery (Carmel of St. Joseph) in Ladue, Mo., Friday, July 19, 2024. The evening included Rosary and Benediction in the chapel, followed by Mass on the monastery’s grounds. More about summer Novena traditions in the Archdiocese of St. Louis can be found on the St. Louis Review's website: https://www.stlouisreview.com/story/summer-novena-traditions-bring-catholics-together-to-pray-for-intentions-intercession/

Members of the La Sociedad de Adoración Nocturna (Nocturnal Adoration Society) participate in Eucharistic Adoration at Our Lady of Guadeloupe near Ferguson, Mo., Saturday Feb. 3, 2024. Men, women and youth members take shifts throughout the night, concluding in a Mass at 6 am the following morning. An archconfraternity founded in Rome in 1810 with chapters worldwide, in the US Hispanic Catholics are the group’s primary members. More about the Society can be found on the St. Louis Review website: https://www.archstl.org/the-nocturnal-adoration-society-offers-a-bridge-of-prayers-in-their-latenight-eucharistic-adoration-9375

Worshipers gather for the St. Anne Novena hosted by St. Josephine Bakhita Parish at the St. Nicholas Campus in the Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis Friday, July 19, 2024. More about summer Novena traditions in the Archdiocese of St. Louis can be found on the St. Louis Review's website: https://www.stlouisreview.com/story/summer-novena-traditions-bring-catholics-together-to-pray-for-intentions-intercession/

Members of the St. Louis community gathered at Washington University in St. Louis for “STL Churches and Repair,” a presentation and roundtable organized by the WashU & Slavery Project and sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2). The Rev. Peter Jarrett-Schell, of Calvary Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, presented and led a roundtable with Dr. Kelly Schmidt, PhD, associate director of the WashU & Slavery Project, at the Catholic Student Center Saturday, May 18, 2024.