AMU FAITH HOUSEHOLDS

Christ-Centered Friendship

Household life at Ave Maria University is a vital part of campus culture. Other universities have sororities and fraternities. At AMU, we have holy households!

Households are created when a single-gender group of five or more students come together, inspired by God’s Holy Spirit, and create a covenant for how they plan to live out their years at AMU. These written covenants include the group’s commitment to weekly prayer, adherence to growing in selected virtues, and efforts to emulate their household’s patrons.

Since 2005 with our first female group, Rosa Mystica, households have shaped our students into holy disciples of the Lord. Students grow in faith through community prayer, events, sports, and volunteer work. A new household has been created almost every year since Ave Maria’s inception, now numbering 17 households:

Women

The bonds formed among these young men and women are often as tight as you’d find in the holiest Catholic families. Students find lifelong friends in their household brothers and sisters. We’re excited to watch as authentic Catholic culture continues to be nurtured through these faith communities!

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