St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish – Fayetteville issued the following announcement on Aug. 3.
How did your college experience benefit from the support and fellowship of St. Thomas?
- Anybody that knows me, knows I was always at St. Thomas. St. Thomas provided a
spiritual home for me to rest, study (sometimes), be formed, grow, and serve a
community that I knew was supporting me in everything. Through trial, hardship,
anxiety, and difficulties, I had the gift of leaning on the brothers and sisters in the
community.
Have you seen that benefit carry over into your life after college?
- Life after college is different. However, through my devotion to Christ in and through
the community at St. Thomas, I was able to cultivate habits of turning to the Father in
my day. I would say my situation is rather unique because I work in ministry full-time.
As a youth minister, I am blessed with the opportunity to walk to the tabernacle at
any point throughout my day, which is a habit I formed through years of doing the
same thing on campus. Seeking the Lord, trying to find a daily encounter with Him, is
something that now I can’t live without.
What was your experience like overall at St. Thomas and in college?
- Completely formative, not just spiritually, but socially, intellectually, and vocationally.
In many ways, I can point to many of my experiences at St. Thomas for the way I lead,
the way I engage my own ministry, where my strengths lie, how I explain matters of
the faith, how I work in teams, and how I personally operate within a parish. I look
back on my time at St. Thomas with lots of joy.
Did you create friendships in St. Thomas that have followed you into life after college?
- Of course. There are friends that I have continued to remain close with even after my
college experience. Recently, I was a groomsmen in a friend’s wedding who I met my
freshman year through St. Thomas!
Original source can be found here.
Source: St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish – Fayetteville
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