Miles Jesu: Sons and Daughters of the Immaculate of Heart of Our Lady of the Epiphany, An Ecclesial Family of Consecrated Life in the Catholic Church

Domus Membership

“Domus” is the Latin word for home. Miles Jesu domus members take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and live in community with other domus member.

	In the Heart of the Church In the city of Rome I found the heart of the Church. As I stood in St. Peter’s Basilica, and later saw the Pope at his summer residence, I could almost experience the life of the Church being pumped out to countries around the world. It was fitting, then, that Miles Jesu’s month-long formation program took place in this city – for Miles Jesu has always wanted to be close to the heart of the Church.
	When in Rome The entire month was imbued with a strong family spirit. With around forty members, there were five birthdays (plus five cakes and five servings of gelato—well, perhaps more than five servings of gelato because Italy’s ice cream is addictive).
	Coming of Age with Pope John Paul II the Great Pope John Paul II’s 27-year pontificate spanned two full generations of young Catholics. Anyone born from the mid 1950’s up through the end of the twentieth century got at least some of their Catholic formation during the watch of Pope John Paul II, who certainly made every effort to evangelize the young. This month in honor of Pope John Paul’s beatification, Miles Jesu domus and vinculum members of different ages and varying cultures share their testimonies about the influence the “Man from a Far Country” had on their lives.
	The Power of Truth God calls each one of us to holiness. But it seems that some of us may take a little longer than others to hear the call. In 1990, curiosity led me into a Catholic bookstore near my home in Denver, Colorado...
	Noah and a Flood of Grace After playing basketball for most of one’s life, a person starts to see sports analogies almost everywhere—one’s own life being no exception. The story of the underdog is a big favorite—the smaller, weaker player coming through when nobody expected it or thought it was possible. Though sports analogies can be overused, one place where they’re especially appropriate is the spiritual life...
	One Step Ahead After struggling with cancer for two and a half years, Fr. Paul Vota, MJ, passed away November 26th, 2009. Fr. Vota helped many people in their journey toward Christ. During his last few weeks before his death, Fr. Vota repeatedly expressed his desire to see God. Among many other accomplishments, Fr. Vota co-authored the Litany for Unity, a communal prayer asking God the Father to grant the whole Church that unity which his Son implored for us at the last supper...

A New Form of Consecrated Life — Read a series of articles on the Miles Jesu Domus way of life

In Mission With Christ
In the past several articles on the consecrated life, we have looked at the specific aspect of mission, one of the three dimensions of the consecrated life covered in Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata, the other two being consecration and communion. ...

Living the Gospel in the World
In the last article in this series, the aspect of mission within the consecrated life in Miles Jesu was shown to be closely linked to the authentic secular dimension of the Church and to the mission of the laity within the Church...

Being an Epiphany for Others
In the last article in this series we looked at the third dimension of the consecrated life covered in John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata, the dimension of mission...

Bringing the Gospel to the Nations
So far in these articles we have looked at two of the three dimension of the consecrated life that are outlined in Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata...

A Divine Institution
In the previous article in this series, the consecrated life was considered from the standpoint of the sacrament of baptism. It was Perfectae Caritatis from Vatican II which defined, for the first time, the consecrated life as a fuller expression of baptism. Baptism configures a person to Christ...

A Fullness of Trinitarian Life
Within the context of the Magisterium of the Church, Pope John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation, Vita Consecrata, can be considered the Magna Carta on consecrated life, written after 2000 years of history and at the dawn of the third millennium...

Called and Known by Christ
The human person is an amazing combination of elements: body, emotions, mind, spirit. The unifying element holding all this together is the human soul, the life force of our body and the source of the deep recesses of the human hear...