Fr. José Granados (Superior General, DCJM)
Why Navigare?
Or better yet, what is Navigare for? In our lives, the whys and the what fors are difficult to answer. Looking back, it can be difficult to recognize the motives and connections that have led to a particular choice. The key question is always the question of destiny: What is Navigare for?
What are we looking for? Where do our desires point to? What hope illuminates our life? The famous story of Pompey is where this program takes its name from. He understood very well that "to live was not necessary" but that "to sail was necessary" (navigare necesse est). He understood that before the greatness of the mission he had, before the challenge of feeding the entire Roman population, it was undoubtedly worth risking his life. He understood that there are things worth dying for. Precisely because thanks to those things, life is worth living. The Navigare program takes its name from this same Pompeian impulse:
Understanding what makes life great and beautiful.
For this reason, Navigare offers young men, with help from the Disciples of the Heart of Jesus and Mary, an opportunity to broaden the horizons of their life: to leave their own culture and learn another language, to travel and have a rich cultural encounter. It opens them up to a plan of leadership, to take on the challenge of confronting one's vocation, and to engage in the study of humanities.
Navigare is for those young men who do not want to reduce their life to the small space of the known; who dare to rise to the cultural, human, and spiritual challenge of asking themselves about their vocation, facing themselves, while living with the Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Spain to confront life's great questions.
-Fr. Carlos Granados, DCJM
Or better yet, what is Navigare for? In our lives, the whys and the what fors are difficult to answer. Looking back, it can be difficult to recognize the motives and connections that have led to a particular choice. The key question is always the question of destiny: What is Navigare for?
What are we looking for? Where do our desires point to? What hope illuminates our life? The famous story of Pompey is where this program takes its name from. He understood very well that "to live was not necessary" but that "to sail was necessary" (navigare necesse est). He understood that before the greatness of the mission he had, before the challenge of feeding the entire Roman population, it was undoubtedly worth risking his life. He understood that there are things worth dying for. Precisely because thanks to those things, life is worth living. The Navigare program takes its name from this same Pompeian impulse:
Understanding what makes life great and beautiful.
For this reason, Navigare offers young men, with help from the Disciples of the Heart of Jesus and Mary, an opportunity to broaden the horizons of their life: to leave their own culture and learn another language, to travel and have a rich cultural encounter. It opens them up to a plan of leadership, to take on the challenge of confronting one's vocation, and to engage in the study of humanities.
Navigare is for those young men who do not want to reduce their life to the small space of the known; who dare to rise to the cultural, human, and spiritual challenge of asking themselves about their vocation, facing themselves, while living with the Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Spain to confront life's great questions.
-Fr. Carlos Granados, DCJM
