Spiritual Support and Services

Spiritual Support and Services

Building Leaders of Character Through Spiritual Support

West Point offers a variety of resources to help cadets and others at the United States Military Academy receive spiritual support. Faith-based communities at West Point are warm, friendly, and ready to serve you. We encourage you to become involved in the religious group of your choice.

Cadet Prayer

O God, our Father, Thou Searcher of Human hearts, help us to draw near to Thee in sincerity and truth. May our religion be filled with gladness and may our worship of Thee be natural.

Strengthen and increase our admiration for honest dealing and clean thinking, and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretense ever to diminish. Encourage us in our endeavor to live above the common level of life. Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half truth when the whole can be won.

Endow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear when truth and right are in jeopardy.

Guard us against flippancy and irreverence in the sacred things of life. Grant us new ties of friendship and new opportunities of service. Kindle our hearts in fellowship with those of a cheerful countenance, and soften our hearts with sympathy for those who sorrow and suffer.

Help us to maintain the honor of the Corps untarnished and unsullied and to show forth in our lives the ideals of West Point in doing our duty to Thee and to our Country.

All of which we ask in the name of the Great Friend and Master of all. Amen.

- by Colonel Clayton Wheat
USMA Chaplain, 1920

Spiritual Support Facilities

USMA Religious Services Schedule

Service/LocationDayTime
Cadet ChapelSunday10:30 a.m.
Sunday Night Service (Cadet Chapel)Sunday5:00 p.m. *
Post ChapelSunday10:30 a.m.
Gospel (Mahan Hall)Sunday9:30 a.m.*

* Service conducted only during the Academic Year, August—May

ServiceLocationDayTime
Eastern OrthodoxSt. Martins Chapel (722)Sunday9:00 a.m.*
LutheranOld Cadet ChapelSunday10:30 a.m.
Church of ChristWorld Religions Worship CenterSunday10:30 a.m.
AnglicanPost ChapelSunday4:00 p.m.

* Service conducted only during the Academic Year, August—May

ServiceDayTime
ConfessionsSunday9 - 10 a.m.
ConfessionsSunday4-5 p.m.*
ConfessionsWednesday5-6 p.m.
MassSunday8 a.m.*
MassSunday10 a.m.
MassSunday5 p.m.*
Catholic MassMon - Fri12 p.m.**

* Service conducted only during the Academic Year, August—May

**Excluding Federal holidays

LocationDayTime
Jewish ChapelFriday7 p.m.*

* Service conducted only during the Academic Year, August—May

LocationDayTime
World Religions Worship CenterFriday12 p.m. *

* Service conducted only during the Academic Year, August—May

LocationDayTime
World Religions Worship CenterSunday12:30 p.m.*

* Service conducted only during the Academic Year, August—May

LocationDayTime
Mahan Hall (Arnold Auditorium)Sunday3:30 p.m.*

* Service conducted only during the Academic Year, August—May

LocationDayTime
Fort Montgomery MethodistSunday9 a.m.
Holy Innocents EpiscopalSunday10 a.m.
Latter Day SaintsSunday9 a.m.
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WHAT MATTERS MOST? "The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end..."

- Gen George Marshall Nobel Peace Prize Award speech 1953
Spiritual Support Organizations

Various groups across the USMA campus offer cadets, faculty, and staff spiritual support and camaraderie. For more information, email the organization.

  • Baptist Campus Ministry
  • Cadet Catechists
  • Canterbury Club
  • Catholic Cadet Choir
  • Catholic Cadet Club
  • Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship
  • Commission for Christ
  • Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS)
  • Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA)
  • Hillel
  • Jewish Cadet Club
  • Jewish Cadet Choir
  • Knights of Columbus
  • Latter-Day Saints Student Association (LDSSA)
  • Muslim Cadet Association
  • Navigators
  • Officers' Christian Fellowship (OCF)
  • Order of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA)
  • Protestant Cadet Chapel Choir
  • Sunday School & Children’s Church Teachers
  • Thomistic Institute
  • West Point Church of Christ
  • West Point Gospel Choir
  • Women’s E-Circle

 

Religious Eduation

Sunday School (all ages)*

  • Thayer Hall @ 9 a.m.

AWANAS *

  • Youth Center @ 4 p.m.

Club Beyond 

  • Middle School @ 7 p.m. (Mon)
  • High School @ 7 p.m. (Fri)

* Service conducted only during the Academic Year, August—May

Community Care

Current Cadets

To schedule an appointment with a chaplain, click the following link or call the USCC Chaplains Office at 845-938-3412. 

  • Walk-ins are welcome.
  • We are located on the first floor of Washington Hall and our office door is accessible through the sallyport between Eisenhower Barracks and Washington Hall.
  • PLEASE NOTE: Your appointment is not confirmed UNTIL you hear back from the chaplain via email.