The Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) is a missionary and Marian Catholic religious order founded by Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela, IVE on March 25th, 1984. Along with the Institute Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará (SSVM) and the IVE Third Order it forms the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word. The Institute’s charism and spirituality is rooted in the mystery of Christ’s Incarnation. Not only is this divine mystery essential to the Redeemer’s work of salvation, but it is also an essential aspect of true devotion to Mary as taught by St. Louis Grignion de Montfort. The members of the IVE make their own Montfort’s Marian spirituality by professing a fourth vow of consecration to Mary, committing themselves to be all for Jesus in Mary.
Authors
Fr. Christopher Etheridge, IVE
is a native of Alabama and missionary in Italy. He holds a Masters in Theology from Catholic Distance University and is currently enrolled at the John Paul II Institute of Culture (Angelicum) in Rome.
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE
A priest of the Institute of the Incarnate Word, Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer is originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan, and studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After graduated, he entered the seminary and was ordained in 2015 after finishing his philosophical and theological studies and obtaining a licentiate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America. Currently, he resides in Fossanova, Italy, at the Cistercian abbey where Saint Thomas Aquinas died, is a doctoral student in philosophy at Regina Apostolorum in Rome, and works as parochial vicar at the con-cathedral of Santa Maria in Sezze, Italy.
Fr. Christopher Etheridge, IVE
is a native of Alabama and missionary in Italy. He holds a Masters in Theology from Catholic Distance University and is currently enrolled at the John Paul II Institute of Culture (Angelicum) in Rome.
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE
A priest of the Institute of the Incarnate Word, Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer is originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan, and studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After graduated, he entered the seminary and was ordained in 2015 after finishing his philosophical and theological studies and obtaining a licentiate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America. Currently, he resides in Fossanova, Italy, at the Cistercian abbey where Saint Thomas Aquinas died, is a doctoral student in philosophy at Regina Apostolorum in Rome, and works as parochial vicar at the con-cathedral of Santa Maria in Sezze, Italy.
