Campus Ministry

Liturgy and Worship, to love them

Liturgy = participation of the people of God in the work of God (CCC 1069)

We give praise back to our redeemer and Savior through our worship in all of its forms

We are made from and by Love, and offer Love back to its source, who is God.

Saint Vincent Campus Ministry provides the following opportunities in Celebration of Mass, Confessions, Adoration, praise and worship opportunities, Retreats, and more. 

Formation and Study, to feed them

Encountering Love, we seek nourishment and sustained growth in our faith

Once we encounter the Lord, we desire Him more and more! Our curiosity grows as we seek and find answers slowly and steadily, we find our nourishment in Christ. In Campus Ministry we seek to help provide opportunities for that nourishment.

Saint Vincent Campus Ministry provides the following opportunities in Formation and Study: Bible studies, men’s and women’s ministry, men’s and women’s small groups, Theology on Tap, and more.

Evangelization and Outreach, to want them around

Encountering Christ in a real and intimate way, we soon realize the joy we have must be shared with others and brought forward. The call, the need, the necessity to evangelize and spread the good news flows from the Love and nourishment we have been enlivened by the faith.

We build up community, and realize that we who have been loved and nourished want to love and nourish others – we really do want you around and involved.

Saint Vincent Campus Ministry provides the following opportunities in Evangelization and Outreach: FOP, High School Retreats, Dorm Blessings, Sports Friendship Day, Service Projects, Pilgrimages, International Trips, and more. 

Service

Saint Vincent students embody Christian charity in their gifts of time and talents for those in need due to hunger, poverty, natural disasters or other personal challenges. Students annually organize Sports Friendship Day for individuals who are differently abled, visit nursing homes, conduct blood drives, feed the hungry, attend the March for Life, go on mission trips to Alaska, Brazil and Taiwan, as well as a local service project over fall break. Our students describe these opportunities as both beneficial to others as well as being personally rewarding.

Relationship Building

An integral part of every faith life is being part of the community of believers.  Campus Ministry understands this principle and so we provide our community many opportunities to create new relationships as well as strengthen toward a lifetime of communion those relationships well under way.  These include Men’s and Women’s Fellowship Groups, Retreats, Dinners, Informal Discussion, Halloween Pumpkin Carving, Christmas Caroling, Bonfires, Barbeques, and so much more.

Another opportunity for relationship building lies in our small groups. These groups dive into various aspects of one’s personality, experiences, spirituality, and character, relating each individual to one’s particular strengths, so as to obtain a stronger understanding of who one is and how exactly God is calling you to work in the world. Participates are challenged to be vulnerable and open to growth with one another, allowing for deep connections and friendships to form.

Spiritual Activities

Saint Vincent Campus Ministry understands the needs of the students, which is why we provide several Masses per week in the Mary, Mother of Wisdom Student Chapel twice a day (located in the Robert S. Carey Student Center) including two Masses on weekdays and three on Weekends with times accommodated to student life.  Weekly Adoration, Worship and Praise, and a monthly Festival of Praise are also available in the chapel. 

The Student Chapel is a quiet and holy place set aside from the normal busyness of college life where all students can pray, meditate, and seek solace in the presence of their Lord. Student participation during the Mass is also highly encouraged in Campus Ministry with opportunities to lector, cantor, become and extraordinary minister of the Eucharist, usher, and other ministries of hospitality.

For students who are not members of the Catholic faith, our campus ministers network with area churches of all denominations for students who wish to attend a service off campus. Let us know you would like to go off campus to church and we can help get to Church.

Benedictine Hallmarks

1. Love of God and Neighbor as Self – A Benedictine education aims at imparting “perfect love of God which casts out fear.”
2. Prayer – As St. Benedict reminds us, “every time you begin a good work, you must pray to God most earnestly to bring it to perfection.”
3. Stability – “A school for the Lord’s service” requires us to be committed members of the community.
4. Conversatio (Growth as a Disciple of Jesus Christ) – Latin for “way of life,” conversatio demands an openness to our education’s transformative power so that we might be equipped with the “tools for the cultivation of virtue.”
5. Obedience – To the Benedictine, obedience begins in listening carefully “with the ear of the heart” to God speaking to us in Sacred Scripture, Tradition, prayer, and worship.
6. Discipline – The Benedictine motto, Ora et Labora (pray and work), calls us to be “clothed with faith and the performance of good works.”
7. Humility – Contrary to the prideful ways of the world, we must remind ourselves daily that “we descend by exaltation and ascend by humility.”
8. Stewardship – The goods of the Earth are entrusted to us so that we may build up the community, and we should see those as wealthy who do not seek for more material possessions but instead can “thank God” for needing less than others.
9. Hospitality – Central to Benedictine spirituality is structuring the community so that “all guests who present themselves” can be “welcomed as Christ.”
10. Community – A Benedictine community is one in which we “prefer nothing whatever to Christ” and give to one another “the good zeal which leads to God and everlasting life.”

Staff

Rev. Maximilian Maxwell O.S.B.
Director, Campus Ministry
maximilian.maxwell@stvincent.edu 
724-805-2679
 
Ms. Bridget DiVittis
Assistant Director for Operations, Programming and Services
bridget.divittis@stvincent.edu
724-805-2098
 
Mr. Justin Massetto
Associate Director of Music and Liturgy - Campus Ministry 
justin.massetto@stvincent.edu 
724-805-2597
 
Ms. Dominique Tedrow
Coordinator for Formation Programs and Womens Fellowship
dominique.tedrow@stvincent.edu 
724-805-2292
 
Br. Francisco Whittaker O.S.B.
Assistant Director of Campus Ministry
francisco.whittaker@stvincent.edu 
 
Br. Jose Rosa O.S.B
Assistant to the Director
jose.rosa@stvincent.edu