Recalling your conversion
Maybe you are at a crossroads, discerning which direction, what commitment to make in Christ’s Church; how to enter more deeply into the Kingdom of Heaven. Perhaps you recall your profound discovery that God was real. You saw that your Heavenly Father loves you ardently and has a beautiful plan for you. In showing Himself, He changed you. Before, your priority may have been pleasing yourself and the vanities of living for the esteem of others, wealth, power, ego trips, maybe even ridiculing His Church. Your decisions were centered on yourself instead of on the Lord, His glory, and bringing others to esteem Him.
Then, suddenly, you took seriously His commands and following His Son, Jesus. It dawned on you that the excessive pleasures of this world weakened and emptied you. Like Augustine, you thirsted for a life truly strong and free. You too longed to be a person of character, living by faith and reason, free always to do what is right, regardless of the costs.
Christ became your ideal: “be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Mt. 5:48 Like Jesus, the Perfect God and perfect man, living out the Father’s will, was the goal. You began your adventure to become a genuine Christian, a saint.
“Therefore in the Church, everyone whether belonging to the hierarchy, or being cared for by it, is called to holiness, according to the saying of the Apostle: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification”. Lumen Gentium 39
Growing in holiness
So you want to be holy! You discovered what helps: spending time with Jesus in prayer, realizing His love for you. Now you can see each person – and the whole of creation – in a different light. People are no longer to be used, but are God’s important children to serve. They have needs you can answer, even helping them get to heaven. A new life in Christ blossomed in prayer, study and service. Now it’s easier for you to know Him and His Will more deeply, daily discerning how you can fulfill His plan in your circumstances.
Finding God so deeply, you may have wanted to serve Him with a full and undivided heart. God alone! With a generous heart, you are prepared to bravely witness to God’s love, and to face the challenge of seeking the Kingdom of God above all. You know that God alone can save humanity from misery, injustice and war.
Eager to do what you can, committed fully to a demanding evangelization, you welcome the sanctity that God wills for you. You want to join 2000 years of grace and cross which transformed the world. But where?
On the cutting edge of the new evangelization, Miles Jesu lay apostles are answering the call to “seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and by ordering them according to the plan of God.” Through a life lived in community, both poor and chaste, that radiates with joy sprung from deep prayer, members strive, through these most efficacious means, to “work for the sanctification of the world from within as a leaven.”
Single men and women 18-35 years of age seeking to discern Domus Membership should use the form below to schedule your ‘come and see’ visit today.
