The great question

 The great question of the year is: What will make my life beautiful and great? The answer will come little by little while journeying together in friendship, exploring the beauty of European Catholic culture and following in the Master’s footprints. We hope to be “surprised by an encounter with Christ”; to experience that “there is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him” (Benedict XVI); and to learn that only when we encounter Jesus Christ, do we become fully alive: our life receives “a new horizon and a decisive direction”.​ 

Fr. José Granados

Superior General, DCJM

"We need leaders, because it is only possible to live Christianity when there is a community where this faith can be lived out. Leaders are those who generate in others the passion for greatness for the gifts that God has given us. If you want to get this passion, to generate in others the wonder for the greatness of the gifts of God, then Navigare is for you."

Pillars of the Program

Cultivating Human Excellence, Friendship, and Leadership
The greatness to which Navigare calls a young man is reached by creating practices that instill in him the virtues of excellence, friendship, and leadership. Through movie-forums and books-forums he is able to open his mind up to the richness of great authors and directors. He will open his ears to the beauty of the world through concerts and stretch his heart and learn to self give by leading an apostolate.
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A Path of Vocational Verification
Who am I called to be? This great question is present in the heart of every man. The year of Navigare through living with the Disciples in their House of Formation and following their same pace and rule of life allows the young men to answer this question. By entering into the practices of the community (discussions, celebrations, adoration, movies, pilgrimages, spiritual exercises) the young men are able to understand the greatness to which God is calling them to live.
Growth in the Life of Piety (True Devotion)
Navigare will allow young me to grow in their friendship with Christ with a tailored and solid rule of life. The young men  will learn to embrace their faith with iniciative and ownership learning to overcome peer pressure. By deepening in their faith, they will then be able to teach their faith to others. They will also have a Disciple priest as a Spiritual Father to help guide them on their path of friendship with Christ.

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Gaining a Deep Knowledge of the Spanish and European Culture
The opportunity to be completely immersed in a different culture is something that opens the minds of young men and broadens the horizens of their lives in ways they never knew were possible. Every young man in Navigare finishes the year being bilingual. They will also deepen their knowledge of Spanish and European culture by visiting historical sites, cities, mountains, movies, arts, and traditions.

Become a leader

As a School of Leadership, Navigare challenges its students with the following five goals, aimed at forming great leaders who:

Seek the truth

Plan and lead three discussions of Big Questions

Persevere in the good

Prepare, train and run a 5k, 10k, Half-Marathon, Marathon, or similar

Embrace the catholic european cuture

Pass a Spanish official test at the end of the year​

Imagine a future for others

Plan a trip to Europe and lead a tour in Spain​

Evangelize and model

Leadership in an Apostolate
Leadership at a Stella Maris school

Navigare Necesse Est
​Vivere Necesse non est

​“Having thus been set over the administration and management of the grain trade, Pompey sent out his agents and friends in various directions, while he himself sailed to Sicily, Sardinia and Africa, and collected grain. When he was about to set sail with it, there was a violent storm at sea, and the ship-captains hesitated to put out; but he led the way on board and ordered them to weigh anchor, crying with a loud voice: “Navigare necesse est; vivere necesse non est”: To sail is necessary; to live is not. By this exercise of zeal and courage attended by good fortune, he filled the sea with ships and the markets with grain, so that the excess of what he had provided sufficed also for foreign peoples, and there was an abundant overflow, as from a spring, for all.”

​(Plutarch, The Parallel Lives: The Life of Pompei, 50)