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Blog 1/31/19 By Alec Cassel, DSW Service Year Volunteer 2018- 19 Everyone has or will experience some type of suffering in their lives. This could be from losing a loved one, a mental illness, [...]

By Brendan McCann ’17-’18 Service Year April 2018 An unfortunate reality of life is that pain is inevitable. Pain by itself is not necessarily a bad thing. Most of the time pain is [...]

By Andrea Miller ’17-’18 Service Year April 2018 Recently, I had the pleasure to volunteer as a staff member on a teen retreat at the Marianist Family Retreat Center in Cape May [...]

By Brendan McCann ’17-’18 Service Year March 2018 Since it’s Holy Week I wanted to take some time and talk about Lent and what it has meant for me this year. Lent is a time to prepare [...]

By Andrea Miller ’17-’18 Service Year March 2018 One of my favorite classes in college that I took my senior year was my Environmental Ethics class. We discussed environmental goods [...]

By Janelle Lord ’17-’18 Service Year February 2018 Community // com·mu·ni·ty // (n) a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; a [...]

By Brendan McCann ’17-’18 Service Year February 2018 We live in a society that really stresses the practicality of life decisions. This isn’t a bad thing because it is important to [...]

By Andrea Miller ’17-’18 Service Year February 2018 If there is one value I have learned to embrace above all others in my service year, it would have to be intentionality. I’ve had [...]

By Janelle Lord ’17-’18 Service Year January 2018 // grad·iᐧtude // (n) the quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful. If I had to sum up these last five months of living in [...]

By Brendan McCann ’17-’18 Service Year January 2018 I don’t think a lot of people involved in service have encountered a person who does not want to be helped. After all if you are [...]