Episode 1 - Introduction to Verax Patria

In Latin Verax Patria means "True Fatherland". With our eyes and hearts fixed on Heaven, the true fatherland, we work to mirror on earth what we behold in Heaven through the virtue of Faith. Thus we strive to live the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. ​ ​Our organization contributes to the restoration of the contemplative soul through Moral Formation and the cultivation of Catholic Land. We are co-workers with God, praying and working to see that souls, beginning with our own, in the words of the Seraphic Doctor St. Bonaventure, reflect more noticeably the celestial hierarchy (The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost). As a grassroots Catholic movement, we advance Faith, family, and Tradition through our paterfamilias network, strategically building new Christian societies two families at a time. ​ Through the ownership and development of Catholic Land, our fraternal consortium is restoring and continuing multigenerational Catholic legacies within the context of domestically productive households (homesteads). We expand and develop raw land. Verax Patria supports and offers contemplative solitudes for Priests, Religious, and families within Catholic Agrarian Life- a place to encounter the Living God, repent, believe in the Gospel, and joyfully embrace a life of true penance. Our Family Partners have the ability to host young couples or families who are interested in strengthening or beginning a Multigenerational Catholic Legacy within the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. ​ ​Through advocating and fostering total consecration to Jesus through the Immaculate, we actively advance the Kingdom of God on earth, participating in the growth and expansion of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church. ​ ​​In sum, our restoration efforts are focused on: ​ 1. The Moral Formation prerequisite to infused contemplation. In the words of St. Bonaventure, the hierarchizing of the contemplative soul (anima contemplativa) unto a reflection of the New Jerusalem. ​ ​​2. Promoting, supporting, and encouraging authentic and traditional Religious and Priestly vocations. ​ 3. Preparing men and women to receive the Sacrament of Matrimony through the tradition of the Church (i.e. Spiritual Friendship/Courtship/Rite of Betrothal) who desire to build a multi-generational Catholic Homestead. ​ ​​4. Connecting two Catholic families at a time within the same geographic location who desire to begin and live within an agrarian Catholic Community. Training & Developing Artisans through The Catholic Agrarian Institute. ​ Our Catholic Family Partners are vetted via Verax Patria to ensure the purity of Catholic Faith & Morals are being upheld, lived, and embraced within their marriage. We are bound to bear witness to one another the glory of a life well lived because through Baptism we are bound to Christ Jesus who bore witness to the Father.   Please contact us to learn more about the criterion we use to vet our Family Partners. If you would like to apply, please contact us to join our consortium network. ​ ​​We hope you will benefit from the grace which God is providing us, and become inspired through our purpose, mission, and impact. ​ ​"Nolite Timere!" ​ In Cordibus Jesu et Mariae + ​ Andrew Ewell