“Devotion is not a sort of finish given to the sciences... I want the intellectual layman to be religious, and the devout ecclesiastic to be intellectual.”

On Saturday May 6, 2023, forty-seven Augustine Institute graduates gathered at St. Thomas More Parish in Centennial, Colorado for the annual Commencement exercises.

In Matthew 13, after teaching in parables, Jesus asks the disciples: “Have you understood all these things?” (Matt 13:51). When they answer in the affirmative, we are told that Jesus replied, “For this reason, every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who brings out of his treasure both the new and the old” (Matt 13:52).