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Check out the Women’s Field Hockey Team. Visit the Shrine while you’re there too. Don’t forget about the Priz (sp?)!

OMG! The LOC! The sacredness of the space. The mustiness as you sit in the rotunda waiting for book to come down the conveyor belt. sigh Can you handle so much ectasy? The first thing I did when I got to DC (besides dropping my bags off at the hotel) was to race over to LOC to get a researcher’s card. The most prized card in my wallet. The first thing I looked at? A manuscript from the First Vatican Council from Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick in Latin published in Milan. Beautiful!

An absolute must see!!!

The Rep’s commitment to its community of theatre professionals and patrons, and to its educational mandate among all ages, remains while it responds with reliable consistency to new needs and fresh challenges. The Rep grows, as all living things must, and it changes, but its mature face still reflects the features and the promise of its infancy.

Although many stars that have appeared on stage at The Muny one essential truth has remained about the nation’s oldest and largest outdoor theatre; its story is the story of St. Louis – and of St. Louisans. It is about the countless individuals who have contributed their time, money, or talent that have made this magical place a truly unique American experience.

“No longer need residents of St. Louis look beyond their own city for the finest entertainment.” This statement was coined by the William Fox Circuit of Theatres in 1929 for the opening of their newest, most exotic temple of amusement, and it still holds true!

The Fabulous Fox offers a dazzling array of talent and entertainment twelve months a year.

The Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879 and was then called the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within Washington University. The Museum was originally located in downtown St. Louis but relocated to our current home in Forest Park following the 1904 World’s Fair. Designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert, the Museum’s Beaux-Arts style building bears the inscription Dedicated to Art and Free to All. The Museum’s long-standing commitment to free admission makes it possible for everyone to have the opportunity to visit our galleries as often as they like throughout the year. Through generations of public support and private benefaction, the Museum has assembled one of the finest comprehensive art collections in the country. With a per-capita attendance that is consistently among the highest of our nation’s art museums, we are a national leader in making our collections and programs available to a broad public audience.

Mission Statement
Impelled by the Catholic faith and in the Dominican spirit,
Aquinas Institute educates men and women to preach,
to teach, to minister and to lead.

Who We Are
Aquinas Institute of Theology is a Roman Catholic graduate school of theology on the campus of Saint Louis University. We are a Dominican-sponsored school occupying a building on a Jesuit-sponsored university. It’s a cozy relationship and great for students, who enjoy a close-knit community of about 200 women and men with the benefits of a big university in our backyard. Aquinas Institute gives students intimate liturgies and the occasional potluck lunch. Saint Louis University offers a fitness center, student center, university library and the opportunity to cross register for classes.

Our students are seminarians, recent university graduates, retirees, accountants and soccer moms. Most students are Catholic, although several come from other faith traditions. Their presence enriches the conversation.

Aquinas Institute is a place where students know faculty members by their first names. Mixed into their graduate-level theological studies are midday prayer services and a weekly Mass during which faculty members preach, or sing in the choir, or listen to student reflections. Groups gather in the lounge for lunch, where conversation bounces from movies to the magisterium.

What We Do
We offer a doctoral degree, master degrees and certificates that prepare students to preach, to teach, to minister, and to lead. We also edify those who seek a greater understanding of themselves or their faith tradition. Our graduates become prison ministers, priests, parish life coordinators, hospital chaplains, theology teachers, canon lawyers and directors of Catholic agencies.

While we are loyal to Church teachings, we are not satisfied with the short answers. We strive to grasp the deeper meanings of our rich faith tradition and apply them to 21st-century questions.

Why We Do It
The Catholic Church is changing. As fewer vowed religious are able to sustain health care and education ministries, we must acknowledge their successors will be different, and we must educate those successors so they understand the breadth and depth of the ministries they assume.

As fewer priests are able to meet needs of their parish communities, we must work to prepare and train the lay ministers who will counsel the grieving, minister to the sick, and comfort the lonely. And we must do it in a model in which the ordained, the vowed and the laity work together to enhance one another’s gifts.

We do it because our students tell us that their studies here make their lives richer. We do it because our faith tradition calls us to be active participants in the life of the Church.

Where We Are
We are on the campus of Saint Louis University, which is in Midtown St. Louis. Students are within walking distance of the Fox Theater and a bike ride away from beautiful Forest Park or the trendy Central West End neighborhood.

Aquinas Institute of Theology
3642 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri
63108-3302

888.656.3646
314.977.3889
Fax: 314.977.7225
admissions@ai.edu

Mission

The St. Louis Public Library will provide learning resources and information services that support and improve individual, family, and community life.

To support this mission, the Library will organize and prudently manage its resources to:

• Ensure that the Library’s resources are available to all
• Promote use of the Library
• Assist children and adults with life-long learning
• Promote literacy for all ages
• Assist individuals in finding jobs and educational opportunities
• Assist businesses with their development and growth
• Provide current information
• Provide recreational reading resources, media materials, and programs
• Promote public use of modern information technology

Adopted by the Board of Directors: January 31, 1994.