Concept
The goal of IME is to lay a solid fundament for one’s entire life and to transmit a comprehensive spiritual and human formation. This goal is realised with the help of four pillars, on which everyday life in the IME is based.
Teaching
Priests, professors, artists and other lecturers come to teach us the fundamentals of the following subjects:
- Dogmatic teachings
- Introduction to the bible (Old and New Testament)
- Spirituality
- Liturgy
- Bioethics
- Moral theology
- Philosophy
- Sociological teaching of the church
- Ecumenism
- Other religions
- Ecclesiastical history
Spiritual life
The fundament of living together and of all activities is a well-founded spiritual life. That's why everyday life in the academy is framed within a religious supporting program.
- Daily praise
- Daily holy mess
- Gospel reading
- To draw from the Sacraments
- Retreat
- Pilgrimage to Paray le Monial and Rome
- To live by the church calendar
Communal life
For nine months IME students together live an intensive communal life. Each student has its own room, but students spend a lot of time together during: the teachings, the meals, the music practices, whilst cleaning the house, doing the dishes, or doing the laundry. Together they organize there life at Josefsburg. They live like brothers and sisters, together, and every day again learn what “charity” practically means.
- Internationality
- Charity
- To assume responsibility
- Ability to work in a team
Evangelisation
The students learn and experience modern practices of the evangelisation. In bigger and smaller mission projects they give testimony to God’s love and invite sceptical or church-distant people but also Christians to discover God. Whether at school, on the town’s market in front of the church, or in Josefsburg itself, whether through conversation, sketches or music – the students pass on what they have learned.
- Missions in parishes and schools
- Catholic youth day
- Musical performance
- Service arrangement
