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Nazareth Home
Why the Nazareth Home?
Our community is dedicated to the home where Jesus spent most of his life. For thirty years, Christ lived and grew in his home at Nazareth. There, He lived authentic humanity - doing the ordinary, daily activities of life, eating dinners, playing with friends, spending time with his parents, socializing with other families, laughing, and relaxing. We aim to live life authentically embracing all moments of ordinary blessings.
After Christ ascended into heaven, the apostles ended a three year encounter with the most intriguing man they had ever met. At Pentecost, the apostles were inflamed with the mission to preach and teach the word of Jesus Christ. Even in the face of hardship, the Holy Spirit strengthened them to live their faith as witnesses.
To spread the word of God, the apostles lived in simple communities and lived the beauty of each day together. They were so dedicated to the mission of the Church that sacrifices, time, and resources were no obstacles. They loved Christ and found it “impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20). They learned what it meant to live fully alive!
How Do We do All This?
We fall in love with Christ.
Easier said than done. Relationships take work, but we know that this one is more essential to our existence than the very air we breathe.
We grow to know Christ in prayer and service. We spend time with people in fellowship, at socials, and in the simplest places - in our home, in coffee shops, on campus, at the dinner table, in the workplace, and in our community. We live as joyful witnesses to Christ in our daily activities, chores, interactions, phone conversations, jobs, errands, schooling, and family.
We radiate Christ because we are centered on the Eucharist - our source, our summit, our everything.
Who Lives in the House?
The house welcomes college age and young adult single women. Each woman has her own bedroom and shares more than 4 living rooms, the chapel, kitchen, dining room, and all other communal areas. Women living in the house are also encouraged to make use of the guest suite for her visiting family or friends.
Women bring beauty to the world, and because of this, we aim to radiate beauty in the way we live and the women we are.
"What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation – if not beauty?"
- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
What value does the house serve?
The house exists to build a loving and compassionate community. The Nazareth house is not only for those living within it, but for those outside of its walls. It is a place for fellowship and a place to grow in authentic relationships. We aim to live and grow together in community, strengthen one another, and radiate joy and hope in our jobs, schooling, and activities. By living together, we encourage one another and in turn, are better students, workers, sisters, daughters, and friends to those around us.
Beauty will change the world
"One of the central purposes of mission is to bring people together in hearing the Gospel, in fraternal communion, in prayer and in the Eucharist. To live in "fraternal communion" (koinonia) means to be "of one heart and soul" (Acts 4:32), establishing fellowship from every point of view: human, spiritual and material.
Indeed, a true Christian community is also committed to distributing earthly goods, so that no one is in want, and all can receive such goods "as they need" (cf. Acts 2:45; 4:35). The first communities, made up of "glad and generous hearts" (Acts 2:46), were open and missionary: they enjoyed "favor with all the people" (Acts 2:47).
Even before activity, mission means witness and a way of life that shines out to others."
- Blessed Pope John Paul II, Redemptoris Missio
