Northern Valley Catholic Academies

Senior Spotlight: Eva Flynn As graduation nears, students begin solidifying plans for the next steps of their academic careers. For 100% of our 2020 seniors, t...his means choosing their college or university. We are filled with pride by the hard work of our students, and would like to shine a light on their prospects for next year. Congratulations, Eva, on your college acceptances. We can't wait to hear of your accomplishments! See more

Praying for all. Join us for Masses this weekend on our website: www.sjbchico.org

Mass will be live-streamed on Facebook on Sunday at 11:00 AM from St. Joseph Church in Redding. If you haven’t, you’ll need to like the St. Joseph Parish/ St. Michael Mission page to be able to see it. God Bless you during these trying times!

Today, March 17, 2020, Bishop Jaime Soto shares a pastoral message and issues a new decree. Read them both here: https://www.scd.org//march-17-2020-pastoral-message-and-de

Today is the Feast Day of Spiritual Warrior Saint Thomas Aquinas Feast Days January 28 (New) and March 7 (Traditional) Pray for us By universal consent, Th...omas Aquinas is the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine revelation. He is one of the great teachers of the Catholic Church, honored with the titles Doctor of the Church and Angelic Doctor. At five years of age, he was given to the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino in his parents’ hopes that he would choose that way of life and eventually became abbot. When he was 14, he was sent to Naples to complete his studies. It was here that he was first attracted to Aristotle’s philosophy. But a few years later, Thomas abandoned his family’s plans for him and joined the Dominicans, much to his mother’s dismay. On her order, Thomas was captured by his brother and kept at home for over a year. Once free, he went to Paris and then to Cologne, where he finished his studies with Albert the Great. He held two professorships at Paris, lived at the court of Pope Urban IV, directed the Dominican schools at Rome and Viterbo, combated adversaries of the mendicants, as well as the Averroists, and argued with some Franciscans about Aristotelianism. His greatest contribution to the Catholic Church is his writings. The unity, harmony, and continuity of faith and reason, of revealed and natural human knowledge, pervades his writings. One might expect Thomas, as a man of the gospel, to be an ardent defender of revealed truth. But he was broad enough, deep enough, to see the whole natural order as coming from God the Creator, and to see reason as a divine gift to be highly cherished. We can look to Thomas Aquinas as a towering example of Catholicism in the sense of broadness, universality, and inclusiveness. We should be determined to exercise the divine gift of reason in us, our power to know, learn, and understand. At the same time we should thank God for the gift of his revelation, especially in Jesus Christ.

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