1000 Day Nazareth
Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have mercy on me, a sinner.
The following is an overview of The Nazareth House curriculum.
THE THOUSAND DAY NAZARETH ©
(2 Peter 3:8)
1. The Three Ideals: Obedience, Conversion of Manners and Stability.
2. The Three Paths to God: Prayer, Work and Study.
3. The Seven Precepts
1. I relinquish doubt and embrace faith
2. I relinquish certitude and embrace paradox.
3. I relinquish apathy and embrace fidelity
4. I relinquish power and embrace vulnerability
5. I relinquish prestige and embrace humility
6. I relinquish possessions and embrace poverty
7. I relinquish the old self and embrace the new self
4. The Four Tenets:
1. In a savorless world may I be salt.
2. In a darkened world may I be light.
3. In a flattened world may I be leaven.
4. In a barren world may I be branch.
5. Substitutionary Suffering: (Col.1:24; 1 Cor. 12:26; Heb. 11:25; 13:3)
6. A People of Three Beads.
7. A Geography of Presence.
© 2006 Nazareth House Apostolate
(The above can be summed up in the statement called “The Poorer Means”, see following)
“The Poorer Means”
“Go, sell, give and so become poor. Take up your cross and follow Him into the moment…as leaven into the dough of humanity that it may rise to become bread of Eucharist for the hungry…As leaven, invisible that He might be visible…being flung out to the furthest places by His centrifugal love and at the same time being pulled paradoxically into the centre by His centripetal love…as salt, light, leaven and branch to the edges and to the centre of a savorless, dark, flat and barren world… Establish Houses of Nazareth, reveal Jesus, follow Jesus revealed…poor, as Jesus was poor…Pray always.” Fr. Seraphim OJN
© 2003 Poorer Means, Nazareth House Apostolate