IMAGO DEI HOUSE
Living the truth!
Located in the pastoral recesses of a working farm, Imago Dei House is a place where young men (primarily ages 18-30) enter upon a unique ascetic, scholastic, and psychomoralitic program of study and formation. Together with Imago Dei mentors these young men learn about and journey upon the Imago Dei Way of Christian manhood, and deepen their commitment to Christ by living, working, and studying together within a program of Christian cultural, academic, vocational, and spiritual formation. Some have already finished collegiate or professional studies, while others have yet to choose a profession.
Imago Dei House is a response to today's unprecedented dysfunction and destruction of the family and the corollary absence of authentic Catholic milieus and cultures. Where sin abounds grace abounds more, and the promulgation of error is answered by the more definitive promulgation of truth. As such, today's call is for the definitive restoration and renewal of that which is the specific product of the family and a wholesome culture. These products are maturation, moral development,and the distinct charisms of gender.
In the Imago Dei Way each young man is encouraged to first embrace his crucial human vocations as a psychomoral being created in God's image and called to be a seeker of truth, as an incarnate being called to manhood, and as a social being called to familial and societal relationships and duties. Upon theses natural vocations the young man is further encouraged to embrace his essential Christian call to holiness and his subsequent specific call to the lay, religious, or priestly state.
Psychomoralitics is fully integrated into the Imago Dei milieu and spirituality. Psychomoralitics utilizes Thomistic anthropology, natural law, ancient wisdom, and cutting edge science to restore and actualize essential inner well-being, deep characterological, moral, and spiritual transformation. Psychomoralitic's facilitates a soul-deep openness to reality, a cognitive education in and assent to truth, and a volitional choosing of the good. Upon this psychomoralitic process builds the Faith, where the young man decreases so that Christ may increase. The integral sum of this psychomoralitic and sanctifying Imago Dei Way process is living the truth in a coherently and uncompromisingly Christian life. The Imago Dei formation is not just intellectual, but also spiritual, cultural, and psychomoral as the students learn to live in the grace God in every aspect of their lives.
Both mentees and mentors are engaged upon the Imago Dei Way. Members may represent a spectrum of psychomoral, and spiritual conditions: from those struggling with issues of inner mal-being to those desiring the inculcation of Catholic manhood, to those who seek to plummet the depths of the spiritual life. Remarkably, it is often from both ends of the inner well-being spectrum—from the turmoil of mal-being to the piercing peace of mature well-being—that are found those most open to the Imago Dei Way.
The IDH cohort is formed cyclically throughout the year. However, admissions are limited due to the great care taken to have the proper admixture of members to best facilitate the conversional and/or psychomoralitic dynamics entailed in progressing upon the Imago Dei Way. Imago Dei House further inculcates the Imago Dei Way by maintaining a traditional Benedictine monastic milieu and drawing on the spirituality and pastoral theology of the Holy Doctors of the Church.
Psychomoral, philosophical, and catechectical classes comprise the Imago Dei House academic curriculum. Spiritual exercises (e.g., Mass, Rosary), manual work (e.g. gardening, husbandry) and recreation (e.g., hikes, sports afield) are extracurricular. Students may as well enroll in online Catholic college classes.
An entrepreneurial vision via the Imago Dei Way and Psychomoralitics is facilitated so as to inculcate in members the courage to work, live, and love fully. In practical terms this means the courage of an entrepreneurial spirit, the daring to venture forth outside the power curve, the creativity to think outside the box of the status quo, and the zeal to blaze trails and implement a God-given vision. As part of this entrepreneurial vision vocational training and employment endeavors are also facilitated. In addition to homestead agricultural pursuits, opportunities for in-house artistry and craftsmanship, the publishing of original works (including musical and mass-media productions), and high-technological pursuits are encouraged and facilitated. Specific entrepreneurial missions may be formed corporately as per the interest and talent of subsections of men, both those in residence and those in association but distant.
All prospective members are required to have at least an interview session via vidcon and parents, especially fathers, are highly encouraged to participate in the Imago Dei House of Studies either via vidcon or by visiting in person.
Imago Dei House is a response to today's unprecedented dysfunction and destruction of the family and the corollary absence of authentic Catholic milieus and cultures. Where sin abounds grace abounds more, and the promulgation of error is answered by the more definitive promulgation of truth. As such, today's call is for the definitive restoration and renewal of that which is the specific product of the family and a wholesome culture. These products are maturation, moral development,and the distinct charisms of gender.
In the Imago Dei Way each young man is encouraged to first embrace his crucial human vocations as a psychomoral being created in God's image and called to be a seeker of truth, as an incarnate being called to manhood, and as a social being called to familial and societal relationships and duties. Upon theses natural vocations the young man is further encouraged to embrace his essential Christian call to holiness and his subsequent specific call to the lay, religious, or priestly state.
Psychomoralitics is fully integrated into the Imago Dei milieu and spirituality. Psychomoralitics utilizes Thomistic anthropology, natural law, ancient wisdom, and cutting edge science to restore and actualize essential inner well-being, deep characterological, moral, and spiritual transformation. Psychomoralitic's facilitates a soul-deep openness to reality, a cognitive education in and assent to truth, and a volitional choosing of the good. Upon this psychomoralitic process builds the Faith, where the young man decreases so that Christ may increase. The integral sum of this psychomoralitic and sanctifying Imago Dei Way process is living the truth in a coherently and uncompromisingly Christian life. The Imago Dei formation is not just intellectual, but also spiritual, cultural, and psychomoral as the students learn to live in the grace God in every aspect of their lives.
Both mentees and mentors are engaged upon the Imago Dei Way. Members may represent a spectrum of psychomoral, and spiritual conditions: from those struggling with issues of inner mal-being to those desiring the inculcation of Catholic manhood, to those who seek to plummet the depths of the spiritual life. Remarkably, it is often from both ends of the inner well-being spectrum—from the turmoil of mal-being to the piercing peace of mature well-being—that are found those most open to the Imago Dei Way.
The IDH cohort is formed cyclically throughout the year. However, admissions are limited due to the great care taken to have the proper admixture of members to best facilitate the conversional and/or psychomoralitic dynamics entailed in progressing upon the Imago Dei Way. Imago Dei House further inculcates the Imago Dei Way by maintaining a traditional Benedictine monastic milieu and drawing on the spirituality and pastoral theology of the Holy Doctors of the Church.
Psychomoral, philosophical, and catechectical classes comprise the Imago Dei House academic curriculum. Spiritual exercises (e.g., Mass, Rosary), manual work (e.g. gardening, husbandry) and recreation (e.g., hikes, sports afield) are extracurricular. Students may as well enroll in online Catholic college classes.
An entrepreneurial vision via the Imago Dei Way and Psychomoralitics is facilitated so as to inculcate in members the courage to work, live, and love fully. In practical terms this means the courage of an entrepreneurial spirit, the daring to venture forth outside the power curve, the creativity to think outside the box of the status quo, and the zeal to blaze trails and implement a God-given vision. As part of this entrepreneurial vision vocational training and employment endeavors are also facilitated. In addition to homestead agricultural pursuits, opportunities for in-house artistry and craftsmanship, the publishing of original works (including musical and mass-media productions), and high-technological pursuits are encouraged and facilitated. Specific entrepreneurial missions may be formed corporately as per the interest and talent of subsections of men, both those in residence and those in association but distant.
All prospective members are required to have at least an interview session via vidcon and parents, especially fathers, are highly encouraged to participate in the Imago Dei House of Studies either via vidcon or by visiting in person.