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Doing: Exploring and Serving

In Montserrat, students explore new environments and responsibilities that take them far beyond the classroom and residence hall. These are hands-on, experiential opportunities that are not only valuable in themselves, but may lead to internships or even career directions. In keeping with Jesuit values, Holy Cross students use their learning to be of service in the world. Montserrat encompasses programming, guided by the Chaplain’s Office, that encourages students to reflect on faith and participate in service and social justice projects.

Examples of activities and projects:

  • Helping a seminar professor organize a reception for a visiting lecturer
  • Participating in a First-Year Escape retreat program with chaplains and faculty
  • Tutoring students in the Worcester Public Schools
  • Simulating the experience of homelessness with a sleep-out on Hogan lawn
  • Developing a personal prayer life

Opportunities for specific clusters include:

  • Forming a committee to expand on-campus recycling (The Natural World)
  • Making an inventory of invasive plant species in a local park (The Natural World)
  • Visiting religious sites to attend such services as a Tridentine Rite Roman Catholic Mass or the Office of Vespers chanted in a monastery (The Divine)
  • Viewing the night sky in a remote locale without light pollution (The Divine)
  • Traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to see how the Romans expressed the self in art (The Self)
  • Conducting a memoir-writing workshop to help local high school students find their voices (The Self)
  • Interviewing Southeast Asian-Americans in Worcester about their life histories (Global Society)
  • Organizing a campus-wide Slow Food night to showcase traditional foodways (Global Society)
  • Getting special training from Worcester Art Museum curators to lead visitors through an exhibition about the way Italian painting envisioned hope and healing during the time of the plague (Core Human Questions)
  • Organizing a student panel discussion about racial and ethnic relations on college campuses (Core Human Questions)