Academic Calendar
FALL/ADVENT TERMS 2025
August 18: Propaedeutic Students Arrive
August 20: MATS Wednesday Night Classes Begin
August 22 – 24: MATS Weekend Classes Begin
August 28: Configuration & Discipleship Students Arrive
August 29: Add/Drop Period ends MATS Program
September 1: Labor Day: Administrative Offices Closed
September 3: Returning Second Configuration Seminarians Arrive
September 6: All Other Returning Seminarians Arrive
September 8: Propaedeutic Classes Begin
September 15: Fall Term Classes Begin - MDiv/MAPS - Opening Academic Exercises
September 19 – 21: MATS Weekend
September 26: Add/Drop Period Ends - MDiv/MAPS
September 27 – 28: Family Weekend/Candidacy/Lector & Acolyte Installation
October 3 – 5: MATS Weekend
October 11 –14: Quarter Break
October 13: Columbus Day: Administrative Offices Closed
October 15: Classes Resume
October 17: Board of Trustees: No Classes, Study Day
October 31 – November 2: MATS Weekend
November 10 – 14: Course Evaluations – MDiv/MAPS
November 12 – 15: Pastoral Year Workshop
November 13: Thanksgiving Lunch - Full Community
November 14: Last Day of Fall Term - MDiv/MAPS
November 16 - 22: Seminarian Retreats
November 23 – December 1: Thanksgiving Break
November 26 – 28: Administrative Offices Closed
December 2: Advent Term Begins – MDiv
December 3 – 10: Discipleship Mission Trip
December 5 – 7: MATS Weekend
December 10: Last MATS Wednesday Class
December 12: Advent Term Ends - MDiv - Christmas Vespers and Dinner – Full Community
December 13 – 19: Course Evaluations – MDiv (Advent Term) - Propaedeutic/MATS
December 13 – January 2: Christmas Break
December 22 – January 1: Administrative Offices Closed
WINTER/SPRING TERMS 2026
January 3: Seminarians Return
January 5: Winter Term Begins - MDiv/MAPS - Propaedeutic Poverty Immersion Begins
January 7: MATS Wednesday Night Classes Begin
January 9 – 11: MATS Weekend
January 16: Add/Drop Period Ends - MDiv/MAPS/MATS
January 19: Martin Luther King Day - Multicultural Workshop Administrative, Offices Closed
January 21: Monday Class Schedule - MDiv/MAPS
January 23: Inter-Seminary Day at SVDP
January 28: Propaedeutic Seminarians Return
February 2: Propaedeutic Classes Begin
February 6 – 8: MATS Weekend
February 16: Presidents Day: Administrative Offices - Closed, No Classes
February 20: Board of Trustees: No Classes, Study Day
February 21: MATS Comprehensive Exam
March 2 – 6: Course Evaluations - MDiv/MAPS
March 6: Last Day of Winter Term - MDiv/MAPS
March 7 – 12: Spring Break – No Classes
March 11: Pastoral Care Exam
March 16: Spring Term Begins
March 20 – 22: MATS Weekend
March 28 – April 7: Holy Week/Easter Break
April 2 – 3: Holy Thursday/Good Friday: Administrative Offices Closed
April 8: Classes Resume
April 10 – 12: MATS Weekend
April 18: Diaconate Ordination
April 23 – 29: Pastoral Year Workshop
May 6: Last MATS Wednesday Night Classes
May 13: Last day of classes for Vocational Synthesis
May 18 – 22: Course Evaluations - MDiv/MAPS/MATS/Propaedeutic
May 20: Thursday Class Schedule - MDiv/MAPS - Last Day of Spring Term
May 21: Commencement Exercises
