After completing their hours of service, candidates are required to reflect on a take away from their service experience in a paragraph.  How will their service experience impact their choices after they are confirmed and what types of service would they feel they would continue when there was not service requirement built into their education?  

SERVICE TO THE PARISH: Examples of parish service include for example working with the summer SUMP program, working at the Parish Picnic or helping with the Appreciation Dinner, or helping with the May Procession, hospitality service. 

SERVICE TO COMMUNITY: This will include all Public and government facilities such as parks, community recreation centers, animal shelters, libraries, etc. This is work that may or may not have direct contact with those that it benefits, and may include physical labor to build or repair facilities or land.

SERVICE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: In issues of Social Justice, our faith calls us to measure the world around us, not by what it produces, but by how it touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person. This category involves direct contact with individuals that the service goes to. The service is intended to protect and improve that Human Dignity of those that are typically economically or physically challenged. For example, participation in Habitat for Humanity, working at Feed My People, helping with the clothing drives, having a mini-food drive in your neighborhood and delivering the donations to the North Reading food pantry, serving Thanksgiving dinner to people who are homeless, helping out  at a soup kitchen, organizing a recycling effort or another means to express your commitment to cleaning up the environment, etc…