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The video above comes from this year’s Easter Vigil Mass, offered by His Holiness Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica. Chanting the Exsultet is a graduate of the ������ý, Frater Jacob, O.Praem. (Joseph Hsieh ’06).

Rev. Christian Felkner, O.S.B. (’01) made a homecoming visit to his alma mater this week, and this morning he offered Mass in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel. Photos from this morning’s Mass are available in the slideshow below:

Not that he was thinking of Descartes back when, as a high school senior, he decided to come to Thomas Aquinas ������ý. “I did not go to the ������ý for the intellectual life,” Fr. Busch admits. The second of three sons, he grew up attending public schools in Tallahassee, where Catholics make up just 4 percent of the population. He spent much of his teenage years debating religion with his non-Catholic friends, defending the existence of God and the divinity of Christ, and disputing charges about the Crusades and the Inquisition. (“I was usually on the defensive,” he remembers.)