Restoring The Contemplative Soul & Cultivating Catholic Land
OUR PURPOSE
Catholic
Men & Women
Who Live The Gospel
In an ever-changing world, we remain true to Jesus Christ and the perennial teachings of the Catholic Church. We expand Catholic Land, develop rural life for Catholic families, and spread High Catholic Culture through the witness of our lives.
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Verax Patria An Affiliate Organization of Catholic Land Movement
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western pennsylvania
Catholic Community being built 40 min from Pittsburgh, 30 mins from Steubenville, OH. Building a Demonstration Farm in Western Pennsylvania.
Verax Patria Farm & Homestead.
Affordable land and homes. Contact Andrew Ewell for more details.
southwest ohio
South West Ohio Farm Succession Planning. As a beneficiary of impact investments, we are restoring a Catholic Rural Community.
We are currently raising impact investment funds which will foster both the social impact detailed within The Catholic Agrarian Institute and create a return on investment through a lease to purchase land/home model.
northeast ohio
Arx Veritatis is a 700 acre Artisan & Liberal Arts School currently expanding within the region of North East Ohio. There is currently 40 acres of pasture that operates as a third-generation beef, chicken, and egg farm.
We are currently helping fill multiple paid positions for this initiative:
1. Timber Framer (immediately available)
2. Butcher (immediately available)
4. Beer Brewer / Distiller
3. Leather Worker
4. Blacksmith
Kentucky
A 30 acre property is being built by a young Catholic Family. They are planning to build out this land and intentionally invite family and friends to join them in their new settlement.
Contact us for more details to introduce you this this KY Catholic Family. The owner is a veteran.
East-Central Missouri
Near Institute of Christ the King Parish.
Oblates from Clear Creek Monastery in MO are building something beautiful. Domestic Monastery being built via a Catholic family of six. Friends of The Benedictines of Mary in Gower, MO.
30 min from St Louis - multigenerational family homestead, Catholics who can teach agrarian skills. Troops of St George and Young Ladies Guild.
ville platte, louisiana
In the town of Ville Platte, Louisiana, there is an opportunity for a family to move onto land and join a thriving Catholic Community. Tenant Farmer Opportunity. Use of tools, home to live in temporarily, learn agrarian skills from a sixth-generation Catholic farmer from Ville Platte (animal husbandry, butchery, building, growing crops, gardening, and more).
There are currently 10 acres available. Water and electricity are on the land. Development is currently underway, fencing is being built. A remodeled house in a country town is available for a family to use as this land is developed. Land is available for a family to get themselves established in their agrarian life, training is available. They can build their herds and grow food and prepare the future as this community develops. We can connect a family with this development opportunity. If folks are looking for a work in progress and a chance to build something beautiful, this is their chance.
Apply For A Legacy Land Loan
Email a project summary to:
Project Summary Requirement:
Documenting Key Details for Loan Consideration
As part of the loan application process, Verax Patria requires applicants to provide a detailed project summary in the form of a Word document. This summary will help us evaluate their alignment with our mission, the feasibility of the loan, and the potential for successful homestead development.
In the project summary, the following information is included:
1. Family Introduction
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Introduce yourself and your family members.
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Share a brief background about your family.
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How long you have been Catholic, the parish you attend, and who the Pastor of your parish is.
2. Homesteading or Farming Experience
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Describe any prior experience you or your family have with homesteading or farming activities.
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Provide information about your current employment, including job titles, employers, and monthly income amounts.
3. Current Home
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Specify whether your family currently owns a home or is renting.
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Include relevant details about your current living situation and how it influences your desire to transition to rural living.
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If you currently own a home, specify the current estimated value of the home and the amount of equity you have in it.
4. Collaborative Purchase Plan
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Indicate the number of families involved in the proposed land purchase.
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Share brief information about these families, their roles in the community, and your shared vision for the project.
5. Property Details
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Provide the address of the home or land you plan to purchase.
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Include details about the property’s size, features, and suitability for homesteading or farming.
6. Loan Request Information
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Specify the amount of the loan you are requesting from Verax Patria.
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Explain how the loan will be used, and provide a breakdown of costs if possible.
7. Current Debt Obligations
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List any outstanding debts you currently have, including credit cards, car loans, student loans, or other liabilities.
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Include the total amounts owed and your monthly payment obligations to provide a full financial picture.
8. Vision for the Land Project
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Share your overall vision for your future land project.
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Highlight how you plan to incorporate Catholic values and community engagement into your homestead.
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Describe any potential contributions you envision making to the broader Catholic community, such as hosting liturgies, developing agrarian resources, or fostering cultural and spiritual growth.
This document will serve as the foundation for evaluating your application and advancing to the next stages of the loan approval and development process.
WHO WE ARE
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 support and offer 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
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Inquiries
To apply for a loan please fill out the questions provided above and email us. For any inquiries, questions or commendations, please call or fill out the following form:
Head Office
Verax Patria Farm & Homestead
Hookstown, PA 15050
landdevelopment@veraxpatria.com
Cell: (609) 315-1857
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Employment
To apply for a job with Verax Patria, please send a cover letter together with your C.V. to: landdevelopment@veraxpatria.com