September 2020 Dear Fellow STA Parishioners, A year ago, the STA Parish Council assigned the Race and Culture Committee the task of increasing racial awareness within the parish. In the first part of the year, members of the committee worked to implement Part 1, Racial Awareness and Appreciation. Activities that supported this theme included three [...]
Race -- its origins, uses and evolution -- highlighted discussion at STA's first Diversity Dinner on Saturday, June 15. About 40 parishioners attended the pitch-in dinner hosted by the Race and Culture Committee. They based the event on a National Geographic article titled "There's No Scientific Basis for Race -- It's a Made-Up Label," which [...]
St. Thomas Aquinas Welcomes Fr. Varghese DEADLINE EXTENDED to AUG. 14 FOR WELCOME VIDEOS! Keep those videos for Fr. Varghese coming! We are assembling 15-second videos of parishioners introducing themselves and their families via an easy-to-use app called FlipGrid. Given COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings, these recordings will help Fr. Varghese start to get acquainted with [...]
STA HAITI FUND JULY 1, 2019 - JUNE 30, 2020 Pere Jean Philippe St. Aubin, the pastor of St. Jean Marie Vianney Catholic Church in Belle-Rivière, Haiti, constantly expresses his and the people's gratitude for the generosity shown by the parishioners of St. Thomas Aquinas parish. 2019-2020 has been a year unlike any other year [...]
Summer Camp 2020 Update Greetings Camp Family,We write this with the heaviest of hearts. We will not be holding summer camp for the month of June. The Archdiocese Office of Catholic Education gave us the directive to not open camp in June as a result of The Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction mandate of schools [...]
