Spiritual Life & Service
Discover opportunities to serve others and grow your faith.
Spiritual life at Iona is as much about serving others as it is attending services. We aim to keep service, justice and spirituality conscious in the minds and hearts of our community.
Inspired by the Catholic tradition and the teachings of Blessed Edmund Rice, we seek to build a caring, service-oriented community that welcomes people of all faith traditions and backgrounds.
Our Office of Mission & Ministry sponsors a wide variety of mission-oriented activities: volunteer service, mission trips, music ministry and more. We also offer Catholic mass daily and invite you to join us in worship.
We are all called to be more like Christ. Through this mission, we were able to walk with the poor and be part of their community in Peru, which is really how Jesus lived, and that’s how I hope to embrace and carry service forward in my life.
- Ryan Murphy ’25, Media & Strategic Communication Major
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Iona in Mission
Engage in service with the poor and marginalized while being immersed in different cultures – domestic and abroad! Share in the experience to foster action and deepen relationships of solidarity.
Help Us Help Others
Volunteering is embedded in our campus culture and there are so many ways Iona students serve our community. You might help maintain a community garden, tutor local K-12 students or play games with nursing home residents. Current service projects feature outdoor and online opportunities, including:
- Community Gardens and Clean-ups
- Midnight Run
- Fuller Center for Housing
- Best Buddies
- Cerebral Palsy of Westchester
- Iona University Online Tutoring
- New Rochelle Cares
- Nursing Home Visits
