Each year Christendom College offers many summer programs for students of all levels. Read on for more information about our various summer offerings.

Experience Christendom Summer Program for Rising High School Juniors and Seniors
Education should lead the mind to its ultimate purpose: to know and appreciate the truth. The Liberal Arts serve in cultivating the intellect, which is necessary in the search for truth. In the courses on Theology, Philosophy, History, and Literature, students will strive to answer key questions in those disciplines. more info...

Latin Immersion Program for Rising High School Juniors and Seniors
Christendom College offers two one-week, intensive, active-Latin immersion courses for rising juniors and seniors designed to introduce aspiring Latinists to the beauty and power of the ancient language of the Church. All classes are conducted wholly in Latin, and students should expect to make substantial progress in active Latin, even in one week. more info...

Christendom in Ireland
Join Dr. and Mrs. Timothy O’Donnell & Dr. Patrick Keats as they lead this once-in-a-lifetime trip! Take two 3-credit courses (The Catholic Culture of Ireland and Irish Literature). Travel to Killarney, Bunratty Castle, Adare, The Ring of Kerry, Torc Waterfall, Muckross Abbey, Rock of Cashel, Holy Cross Abbey, Galway, Clonmacnoise, Knock, Croagh Patrick, Donegal, Doon Well & Rock, Mount Erigal, Dublin, Trinity College, Drogheda, Wicklow Mountains, and more.. more info...

Summer Institute
Each year, Christendom hosts its Annual Summer Institute. Generally, topics of an educational and catechetical nature are addressed by such Catholic luminaries as Scott Hahn, Fr. Benedict Groeschel, Timothy O'Donnell, Tim Staples, and many more. The Institute typically takes place on a weekend during the month of June or July. more info...

NDGS Residential Summer School
Christendom College offers a Graduate Summer Program for those students who wish to pursue graduate Theological studies during the summer. Both the Master of Arts in Theological Studies degree and the Apostolic Catechetical Diploma may be earned at the Summer Program, over the course of at least four summers. It is a residential program, held at the main Christendom College campus just outside of Front Royal, Virginia, enabling people from all over the United Sates and abroad to attend the Christendom Graduate School. This program is popular with students who are not able to move to the Northern Virginia area for the regular (fall/spring) graduate program, and with teachers and others who have summers off. Of course many of the fall/spring graduate students also attend the summer program, accelerating their studies by going year-round. more info...

Vita Consecrata Institute
The Vita Consecrata Institue (VCI), co-sponsored by the Institute on Religious Life, is held every summer in conjunction with the NDGS Summer Program. The VCI is an intense summer program of theological studies and spiritual renewal for religious, priests, seminarians, and other consecrated persons. The VCI focuses on the theology of the consecrated life as reflected in the mission and life of the Church. Students penetrate the mystery of the consecrated life by investigating magisterial documents (especially those of Vatican II and Pope John Paul II), by examining the rich historic tradition of the Catholic Church, and by prayerfully reflecting on this wondrous gift. The institute is structured in such a way as to assure religious men and women the full living of their consecrated life in a context of prayer, silence, study, and community. Students may earn graduate credit towards the degree of Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Christendom College, or they may attend for personal renewal, auditing courses and participating in the liturgical life of a community enriched by the religious of various congregations. more info...