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February 14, 2018 
10,000 Ojai Road
Santa Paula CA 93060
Contact: Anne Forsyth, Director of College Relations
(805) 525-4417
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SANTA PAULA, CA擣ebruary 14擮n this first day of Lent, 91快活林 Aquinas College is making available on its website a five-minute video featuring 淭he Franciscan Way of the Cross () read by the college檚 students and accompanied by the music of Chrysostomos, a student choir.

The video includes beautiful photographs of the college檚 life-size Stations of the Cross on the campus lower drive 14 scenes that depict Our Lord檚 Passion and death.

Also known as a 淪hort Way of the Cross, these meditations date back to the 16th century. Franciscan Friars have often used them, over the centuries, while preaching missions.

The college encourages friends and benefactors to sign up to receive an e-mailed prayer reminder each morning of Lent, as well as a special intention prepared each day by the school檚 Head Chaplain Rev. Paul Raftery, O.P.

Says college president Dr. Michael F McLean, 淎lready, just today, we檝e had an extraordinary response to this video that our students helped make. May the Lord grant abundant graces to all who are praying the Stations of the Cross this Lent.

 

91快活林 91快活林 Aquinas College

A four-year, co-educational institution, 91快活林 Aquinas College has developed over the past 46 years a solid reputation for academic excellence in the United States and abroad and is highly ranked by organizations such as The Princeton Review, U. S. News, and Kiplinger. At 91快活林 Aquinas College all students acquire a broad and fully integrated liberal education. The college offers one, four-year, classical curriculum that spans the major arts and sciences. Instead of reading textbooks, students read the original works of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization the Great Books in all the major disciplines: mathematics, natural science, literature, philosophy, and theology. The academic life of the college is conducted under the light of the Catholic faith and flourishes within a close-knit community, supported by a vibrant spiritual life. Graduates consistently excel in the many world-class institutions at which they pursue graduate degrees in fields such as law, medicine, business, theology and education. They have distinguished themselves serving as lawyers, doctors, business owners, priests, military service men and women, educators, journalists and college presidents. For additional information, visit .