The Secular
Institute Iesus Victima
The first inspiration and the first instant of life
of the Secular Institute Iesus Victima dates back to Summer 1958. It
has been conceived by the priest Nicola Giordano who, enlightened and
supported by Dom Domenico Turco, abbot of the Trappist Abbey of the
Tre Fontane, took inspiration from the Message addressed by the Pope
Pius XII to the Cloistered Nuns in the world, into which he declared
the existence of a special form of contemplative life in the world.
That was the inspiring idea the Secular Institute Iesus Victima, women’s
branch, grew out of. The founder has chosen and proposed as a specific
aim the mission of participating to the evangelizing function of the
Church through the promotion of Christian culture in every field and
sector of human living and in all the Countries of the World.
The Secular Institute Iesus Victima has always chosen a form of secular living lived following the Gospel-like humble and world- trusting lifestyle, adopting the method of spreading a message passing it “from brother to brother” to bring everyone to Christ.
The Institute has obtained the recognition as an Institute of Diocesan Law on 19 May 1991 and simultaneously with the International Symposium of 2007 the recognition by Pontifical Law.
It’s particularly spread in Italy and in many Countries of Central America and in Mexico.
In order to guarantee a successful apostolic evangelizing
action all over the world, it has created the Movement of Spirituality
“Vivere In”, approved by the Pontifical Council for the Laity
on 8 December 2001, as an International Association of Pontifical Law.
The Movement of Spirituality “Vivere In” sticks to the same
spirituality of the Insitute: a Trinitarian, Christocentric, Marian spirituality.
The Secular Institute Iesus Victima has also founded the Publishing House “Vivere In” to implement at best its apostolic action of cultural promotion in conformity with the doctrine of the Church.
The name “Vivere In” given to the Movement
and the Publishing House is the synthesis of the leading idea of the whole
evangelizing action connected with into the message by the Apostle Paul:
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the
image of his Son” (Rm 8, 29)