Echo is a two-year graduate service program whose participants engage in full-time service to the Church, earn a tuition-free M.A. in theology, and participate in integrative formation. Echo participants spend two summers at Notre Dame, and two academic years (August through May) providing direct service to either Catholic parishes and ​diocesan offices​ (through a variety of catechetical ministries, such as RCIA and Youth Ministry) or to Catholic middle and high schools (as theology teachers and campus ministers​), all while living in intentional faith communities with other Echo participants.