Father Aaron
Arce, O.P. passed into eternal life on October 9, 2012 in St. Louis, Missouri
after battling cancer. He was 68 years
old. Father Aaron served as one of the
spiritual directors at Holy Trinity Seminary between 2005 and 2007. Besides his work at Holy Trinity Seminary,
Father Aaron also served as the Prior of St. Albert the Great Priory and as a
chaplain at UT Southwestern University Hospitals---St. Paul and Zale-Lipshy.
Father Aaron
Arce was born in 1944 in Kingsville, Texas (located in the Diocese of Corpus
Christi). He was the oldest of five
boys. His father worked in the U.S.
Postal Service and his mother worked as a homemaker. He met the Dominican order through their work
in campus ministry at the University of Houston while he was a doctoral student
there in the field of education. He soon
entered the Dominicans and was ordained a priest on November 1, 1980 at St.
Rose of Lima Priory in Dubuque, Iowa.
Father Aaron was
remembered fondly by several of his former directees as a good listener who
offered prudent direction in the development of the spiritual life. Monsignor Olson, Rector of Holy Trinity
Seminary, stated, “While Father Aaron’s time at Holy Trinity Seminary preceded
mine by several years, I had the pleasure of working with him on several
projects in the area of Health Care Ethics.
He was happy in his Dominican vocation as a priest and as a religious. I am grateful for his past ministry at Holy
Trinity Seminary.” Please remember to
pray for the repose of the soul of Father Aaron Arce and for the consolation of
his family and religious community.
