“Many are called, but few are chosen,” (Mt. 22:14). We live during a vocational crisis. Too many men fail to respond to the calling that God gives them because the noise of the world has made them deaf to His voice.
Still others are unable to respond when they hear the call owing to a variety of practical obstacles. Tired of seeing good vocations go unrealized, St. Thomas Aquinas House is dedicated to the support of men pursuing traditional religious and priestly vocations. We support the men who will pray to God for our needs, the men who will teach and edify us in the faith and the men who will someday bring us the Last Rites.
Since 2019, our public charity has provided financial support for housing and direct maintenance of a facility in Madison, IL leased by the Canons Regular of Saint Thomas Aquinas, a religious community of men endorsed by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield.
From 2013 to 2017, St. Thomas Aquinas House accomplished its mission primarily through the direct maintenance of a living facility for men in discernment located in Hazel Park, MI through a mutual arrangement with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. For more on this Catholic religious community of men: please read Our Stories.
St. Thomas Aquinas House public charity has been the chief financial support of a Catholic men’s community-in-formation called the ‘Canons Regular of St. Thomas Aquinas,’ which began its discernment in 2012 at the invitation of the Most Rev. Francis R. Reiss, and enjoyed the generous authorization and sponsorship of the Most Rev. Allen H. Vigneron from 2013 to 2017. In 2019, the community was invited into the Diocese of Springfield in IL by the Most Rev. Thomas J. Paprocki and has relocated to there.
St. Thomas Aquinas House remains committed to its support for this new religious community as they continue with their vowed life of common prayer seeking eventually to establish a permanent monastery. For more information please read from Our Stories.
St. Thomas Aquinas House has no legal affiliation with any denomination. It was founded in 2013 with the help of Most Rev. Francis R. Reiss, at the time, Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit (now retired).
From 2013 to 2017, it also enjoyed the generous endorsement of the Most Rev. Allen H. Vigneron, the Catholic Archbishop of Detroit, but always remained an independent public charity, which seeks to aid Catholic men in the difficult task of responding to God’s calling to a traditional vocation in the tumultuous and spiritually deafening age in which we live.
Most Rev. Francis R. Reiss