Service Hours

What is Service and WHY is it important?

"Our Catholic tradition, with its both/and approach, encourages us to embrace service as prayer and action. We look to scripture and tradition, faith and works, charity and justice. As humans created in God’s image, we have inherent rights to dignity and mandatory responsibilities for one another ... Service in its highest forms germinates in the heart and blooms forth through our hands and feet in concrete ways that build the beloved community here on earth."

(uscatholic.org/articles/202302/what-does-service-mean-to-you/ )

5 Service Hours per month are required. Student can do more out of their generosity and desire to serve the Lord, BUT only 5 will be counted per month. (Exception will be made ONLY for the Fiesta 2024 Service where parents and students served.)

Service hours are counted in the months of October, November, December, January, February, March, and April.

APOSTOLIC ACTIVITIES of where to serve:

Sunday Mass: Focuses on offering service at the Sunday Mass (choose a mass to serve in.)
RES – Catechist Aide: Focuses on spreading the Gospel to children with one’s life and words. Meets on Saturday – 8:30am-10am or 10:30am-12noon. Please see DRE for available spaces. Place: RES office.
Salesian Cooperators Aide: Salesian Cooperators are men and women who dedicate themselves to the welfare of young people and are guided by Don Bosco’s Salesian Way of Living. The cooperators can be found in the mission with Salesian schools, parishes, youth centers, and basically, wherever the youth are found, in order to spread the love of God and His eternal words of life. Meets once a month on a Sunday – 9am-11am. Please see DRE for available service.
Oratory: Focuses on leading children in safe fun, activities and Gospel living. Meets on Saturday 12pm-4pm. Place: Youth Center
ADMAy: Focuses on igniting Marian devotion with fun interactive activities & more.
Youth Ministry: Focuses on leadership formation with emphasis on life values and spiritual matters. Meets on Tuesday 7pm-9pm. Place: Youth Center
Eucharistic Adoration: Focuses on spending time with Our Lord in the chapel for an hour a week. Open Monday-Friday 3pm-9pm. Scan code that inside the room before the chapel as you begin and exit Adoration. Place: Adoration Chapel Must be accompanied by an adult.
Particular Apostolic Activity: For students who give services in other parishes. This needs the approval of the DRE, and agreement between parishes.

***Random checks will be done with supervisor of service hours. Make sure the place of service, supervisor name, and contact information is logged.***