Applications for new liturgical ministers are accepted at the beginning of the Spring semester of each academic year. Training for new ministers occurs over several sessions in the Spring semester and new minister are commissioned and begin serving in the latter half of that semester.

Applications are accepted in the Spring so as to allow new students an opportunity to become full, active, and conscious participants in the ministry of the assembly in the Sunday evening worshipping community. The ministry of the assembly is the primary ministry of the liturgy. This ministry calls each person at Mass to fully celebrate the liturgy, with the gathered community, through prayer and song.

New ministers are selected based on two main criteria:

1. Opportunity to serve at Villanova in the future
2. Strength of articulation of motivation to serve as a liturgical minister as presented in the application

Accordingly, students closer to graduation are given a degree of preference. Due to an overwhelming interest in the liturgical ministry program, Campus Ministry cannot accommodate the volume of students who apply to serve as lectors, Eucharistic ministers, and ministers of hospitality. If all students who applied where scheduled to serve at the Sunday Masses, student ministers would serve so infrequently that the meaning of the ministry would be significantly diminished. Because of this, some students who apply to serve are deferred for one year and then welcomed into the program the following spring semester.

Applications

Applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 school year. Thank you for your interest!

1. 2011-2012 Application for New Villanova Liturgical Ministers
2. Pastoral Musicians Sign-up Form
3. 2011-2012 Re-application for Returning Villanova Liturgical Ministers