Paul Covino

Paul Covino is associate chaplain and director of liturgy at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. A frequent speaker and workshop leader, he has served various national and regional conferences as liturgy director and master of ceremonies.

Paul coordinates the faculty team for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM) Pastoral Liturgy Institute and is a member of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative Committee.

He has published numerous articles and writes the weekly ritual suggestions column for Today's Liturgy magazine and Liturgy.com. Paul is the editor of the Pastoral Press book Celebrating Marriage.

He previously served as the liturgy coordinator for parishes in Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts, and for the summer session of the Boston College Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry.

For eight years, he was associate director of the Georgetown Center for Liturgy, where he remains a member of the adjunct faculty. He holds a master's in liturgy from the University of Notre Dame.

Paul is married and has four sons.