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Click below to get more information about The Incarnate Word, the IVE's new quarterly journal of Biblical exegesis and Thomistic philosophy.
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We currently have nearly 60 men in formation in this province, and with the blessing of all these vocations comes the expense of providing for them all. Although we beg much of our food, there are some items that we must purchase, and we also have the high costs associated with providing them basic health care. In addition to the cost of living, there are the expenses related to our seminarians' studies. Fortunately, nearly all the professors at our seminary are IVE priests (and friends of our Institute) who either live at our house of formation or volunteer their time and expertise—often at great sacrifice—in order to teach our seminarians. However, we do have to pay the travel expenses of those visiting professors and priests, who sometimes come from across the country and even from Rome to teach our seminarians. All of this is a heavy burden for a young (and poor) congregation such as ours.
In addition to these more general costs, there are three additional projects for which we are in urgent need of assistance:
1. Expanding our major seminary: Although (with the very generous help of a donor) we have have been able to expand our seminary enough to ensure space for all our seminarians for the current academic year, we still have significant concerns for the longer-term. Our novitiate class is the largest we have ever had in this province, and in a year we will need to have space for them in the seminary. Most of our seminarians are currently living in a single barracks-style room attached to a rectory originally built to house just 3 priests. We will need to continue expanding our seminary either by constructing a new building or buying a house next to our current seminary. We are urgently seeking benefactors who are willing to assist us in the continued expansion of our seminary, which—God willing—will be growing at an ever increasing rate.
2. Graduate studies for our seminarians and priests:We currently have five men (four seminarians and one priest) studying at Catholic University of America's Graduate School of Philosophy. CUA has a fine, Thomistic School of Philosophy and is accredited by the Holy See to give pontifically recognized licentiate and doctorate degrees. We want to have as many of our men as possible study for graduate degrees so that they are able, when necessary, to teach in our seminaries and also in the diocesan seminaries (mostly in mission areas--Peru, Pakistan, Ukraine, etc.) where we serve. However, the tuition costs for CUA are great, and our greatest limitation to the number of men we can send is this cost.
3. Founding a monastery: Our Institute depends on the prayer of our contemplative branch, and we are currently without this vital foundation for our apostolic work in this province, not for the lack of monks or for lack of monastic vocations, but rather for the lack of funds in order to establish a monastery. This absence of a monastery is also problematic for us because usually seminarians who feel that their vocation is to the contemplative life request entry into the monastery after their third year of formation. Currently, we are unable to send these men to further discern the contemplative life for the simple reason that we don’t have a monastery to which we can send them!
If you are able to make a contribution for the support of our houses of formation, or for any of these particular projects, we would be enormously grateful—indeed, all our donors are remembered daily in our community prayer and in particular masses.
DONATION METHOD: If you are making a donation, please select whether you would like to pay by check or online using a credit/debit card (from the "Donations" menu on the top-left).
Created on 09/29/2007 08:16 AM by ive2007
Updated on 11/29/2009 11:42 AM by Admin
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Have you ever considered spending time as a lay foreign missionary? You can join do it on your own or with friends for as little as two weeks or as long as two years! Click on the picture to find out more information and to see an on-line presentation about our lay mission trips.
Christ calls us to evangelize all peoples! |
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Click here to register at IVEAmerica & listen to (or download) a couple of online albums recorded by "Las Voces de Chañaral"—a group of IVE priests and seminarians. |
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In this book, Fulton Sheen addresses what G. K. Chesterton called “the most tremendous question in the world; perhaps the only question in the world:” how man, through the power of reason, can know the nature of God. Tracing the course of philosophy from the Middle Ages to modern times, he shows Thomistic realism to be an adequate response to modern ideals. Emphasizing reason as a way of attaining knowledge of God, Bishop Sheen identifies the current age of agnosticism with its simultaneous distrust of reason. In a lucid tone, he analyzes the modern attack on intelligence, while presenting Scholastic philosophy as the solution to modern problems. Bishop Sheen succeeds in actualizing St. Thomas to such a degree that he ends up proving that Scholastic philosophy speaks to the world today as freshly as it did to the world of the 13th century.
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This is one of the most enduring works by Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen—one of the great Catholic writers, apologists and prelates of the 20th Century. It is being published again by the IVE Press to re-awaken the Catholic understanding of the Holy Mass as the Sacrifice of Calvary renewed, re-enacted, re-presented for our salvation. Calvary is one with the Mass, and the Mass is one with Calvary.
* IVE Press is a new English and Spanish language publishing house founded by the IVE in the U.S. |
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