THE CAMPUS EXPERIENCE

University Ministry

Consider how God is present in the world and active in your life. Connect your faith, spirituality, and values with social justice, solidarity with the poor, and care for the earth. Whatever your religion, belief, and identity, you are welcome.

Explore Our Offerings

All of our programs are open to USF community members of all faiths, beliefs, and identities.

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Social Justice & Outreach

Fashion a more humane and just world. Participate in community-based learning in the Jesuit tradition.

Service and Volunteer Opportunities

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Retreats & Reflection

Year-round retreats create sacred spaces and opportunities for you to become reflective, spiritually attentive, engaged, rejuvenated, and active.

Retreats

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Liturgies & Faith Life

Explore your spiritual potential. Meet with a spiritual director, reflect in the meditation room, and explore new faith traditions around campus and in the local community.

Liturgy

Religious Diversity & Interfaith Programming

Campus-wide interfaith programs provide opportunities for collaboration and conversation among people of all religions, beliefs, and identities.

Faith & Culture Communities

Faculty & Staff Spirituality

Programs for faculty and staff explore the Jesuit mission, deepen spiritual practices, and enrich professional vocations.

Faculty & Staff

Resident Ministry

Resident ministers live in residence halls and connect you to UM retreats, immersion trips, community action opportunities, student liturgies, and multi-faith events.

Resident Ministers

Multi-Faith Meditation Room

Retreat for prayer, meditation, and spiritual activities in a space that welcomes people of all faiths and religious traditions.

Meditation Room

USF provides a space for a lot of types of groups, religious being part of it. If you want to, you can go to church and go on a retreat, but it’s never pushed.”

Amanda Hernandez ’26

Join St. Ignatius Institute

University Ministry partners with the St. Ignatius Institute — the oldest living-learning community on campus where you can study in small core curriculum classes that study the perennial questions of humanity.

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My Cousin*, The Pope

Just hours after Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago) made history as the first head of the Catholic Church from the United States, my aunt sent a Facebook post to our family group chat.

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