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Spirituality

The apostolic objective of the Voluntas Dei Institute is “to create peace and brotherhood in Jesus Christ.”

Members share in Christ's mission and are attuned to the needs of the world. We are called to very concrete action for bringing forgiveness, reconciliation, unity, fraternal communion, and harmonious relationships. To this end, members grow towards an intimate union with Christ and his mission.

We are called to an authentic fraternal life and to solidarity with everyone, especially with those who suffer most and are in need. A missionary spirit must animate members wherever they witness.

     

The spirituality of the Institute is none other than that of the baptized in the Church: a life of communion with the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit. The Institute places a special emphasis on seeking and living God's will or desire for us, speaking our "Yes" each day as Mary did to bring Christ's love into the world. The scriptures are our road map for doing this, especially Jesus' teachings about being compassionate and passionate in bringing about God's kingdom of peace, love, and justice in our everyday lives. 

The ideal of life which the Institute proposes to its members is to do in all things the will of the Father, like Christ and the Virgin Mary.

To achieve this ideal of life, the Institute proposes the Spirituality of the Three Fives which integrate prayer, attitude, and acts of charity.

The First Five: members of the Institute develop a life of intimacy with the Lord through daily prayer, and especially through the following spiritual exercises.

  1. Prayer and Meditation

  2. Scripture and Spiritual Reading

  3. Eucharist

  4. Visits to the Blessed Sacrament

  5. Devotion to Mary

The Second Five: members develop in a special way a spirit of recollection, humility, and fraternal charity through acquiring the following attitudes.

  1. Presence of God
    “To live in the presence of God is to be recollected, to pay heed to the Lord living within me. It is to listen to him speaking in me through my conscience, my aspirations, through persons and events. It is to recognize that we participate in the very life of God, that we belong to him.”  [In the Footsteps of Jesus by Fr. Parent]

  2. Absence of Destructive Criticism
    “Absence of criticism fortifies the presence of God, educates us to patience, augments the spiritual forces within us, permits us to welcome our neighbor with simplicity, stimulates our heart, weans our imagination, pacifies our passions, calms our emotions, suffocates our instincts for revenge, liberates us from selfishness and pettiness and preserves intimacy with God.”  [In the Footsteps of Jesus by Fr. Parent]

  3. Absence of Destructive Complaint
    “Absence of complaint manifests the spiritual maturity of a person, it expresses the basic quality of a personality which tends toward self-control. Absence of complaint indicates a beautiful personality, one who has taken charge of his life, who has a sense of responsibility.” [In the Footsteps of Jesus by Fr. Parent]

  4. Being of Service
    “Being of service reveals the distinctive quality that characterizes the members of the Institute as people who have attained a certain maturity, who have a sense of responsibility, the desire to seek the will of God and the assurance that, as servants of the Church and respectful collaborators of legitimate ecclesiastical and civil authority, they stand with God.” [In the Footsteps of Jesus by Fr. Parent]

  5. Peacemaking
    “Peace is the most tangible manifestation of the active presence of God, of submission to a Supreme Being, of the heart’s being possessed by the one whom we consider a marvelous, attentive and gracious Father. We witness to this peace by developing our capacity to love, to be attentive, to show our magnanimity, and to have confidence in others.” [In the Footsteps of Jesus by Fr. Parent]

The Third Five: Exercise five occasions of charity each day to develop positive contacts with others in the manner of Christ.