Men's & Women's Houses of Crucial Christian Living
Located in the pastoral recesses of a working farm, our Houses of Crucial Christian Living—one each for men and women—offer a unique ascetic, scholastic, and psychomoralitic program of study, formation, and discernment. Together with Crucial Christian mentors, young men and women learn about and travel the journey of Christian manhood and womanhood and deepen their commitment to Christ by living, working, and studying together within a program of Christian cultural, academic, vocational, and spiritual formation.
This program welcomes young men and women of all backgrounds and is tailored to a student's specific needs. Some participants are matriculating college freshmen taking a gap year, while others are current college students looking for summer learning opporunities or time off from school. Some have already finished collegiate or professional studies, while others have yet to choose a profession."
The House of Crucial Christian Living 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 Crucial Christian journey each young person 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 these natural vocations, each young person is further encouraged to embrace his essential Christian call to holiness and subsequent specific call to the lay, religious, or priestly state.
Psychomoralitics is fully integrated into the Crucial Christian 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. Psychomoralitics 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 person decreases so that Christ may increase. The integral sum of this psychomoralitic and sanctifying Crucial Christian journey is living the truth in a coherently and uncompromisingly Christian life. The Crucial Christian 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.
The Blessed Virgin Mary is the pristine prototype of this feminine charism. Because many women today have had the blossoming of the feminine heart hampered psychomorally due to the familial and/or sociological improprieties, classes aim at a deeper understanding of the feminine charism on the natural and supernatural level. As the woman's role is essential to the domestic church, subjects studied include the emotional, moral, and relational dynamics of personhood in light of faith and reason. As grace builds upon nature, both the vocation of holy matrimony and the consecrated life is studied as a fruition of womanliness.
An entrepreneurial vision via the Crucial Christian journey 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.
Both mentees and mentors are engaged upon the Crucial Christian journey. 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 Crucialism.
House of Crucial Christian Living cohorts are 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 Crucial Christian journey. The House of Crucial Christian Living further inculcates the Crucial Christian journey 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 House of Crucial Christian Living 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 enroll in online Catholic college classes as well.
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 Crucial Christian House of Studies either via vidcon or by visiting in person.
This program welcomes young men and women of all backgrounds and is tailored to a student's specific needs. Some participants are matriculating college freshmen taking a gap year, while others are current college students looking for summer learning opporunities or time off from school. Some have already finished collegiate or professional studies, while others have yet to choose a profession."
The House of Crucial Christian Living 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 Crucial Christian journey each young person 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 these natural vocations, each young person is further encouraged to embrace his essential Christian call to holiness and subsequent specific call to the lay, religious, or priestly state.
Psychomoralitics is fully integrated into the Crucial Christian 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. Psychomoralitics 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 person decreases so that Christ may increase. The integral sum of this psychomoralitic and sanctifying Crucial Christian journey is living the truth in a coherently and uncompromisingly Christian life. The Crucial Christian 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.
The Blessed Virgin Mary is the pristine prototype of this feminine charism. Because many women today have had the blossoming of the feminine heart hampered psychomorally due to the familial and/or sociological improprieties, classes aim at a deeper understanding of the feminine charism on the natural and supernatural level. As the woman's role is essential to the domestic church, subjects studied include the emotional, moral, and relational dynamics of personhood in light of faith and reason. As grace builds upon nature, both the vocation of holy matrimony and the consecrated life is studied as a fruition of womanliness.
An entrepreneurial vision via the Crucial Christian journey 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.
Both mentees and mentors are engaged upon the Crucial Christian journey. 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 Crucialism.
House of Crucial Christian Living cohorts are 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 Crucial Christian journey. The House of Crucial Christian Living further inculcates the Crucial Christian journey 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 House of Crucial Christian Living 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 enroll in online Catholic college classes as well.
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 Crucial Christian House of Studies either via vidcon or by visiting in person.