Discernment and discovery phase – 2020 During this phase, we will study the experience of other intentional communities, seek like-minded people who may wish to be part of the Community of the Holy Cross, and prayerfully develop ideas about what our common life may be like. 

Planning and gathering phase – 2021 During this phase, we will begin to gather as a community living near each other. We will begin a life of common prayer and begin working on ways to cooperate in catechesis and in the works of corporal and spiritual mercy. 

Non-residential phase – 2022-2023 At some point during this period, we should be fully functioning as a community, with a regular life of daily community prayer, cooperation in ongoing catechesis, and cooperation in specific ways of performing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. It is anticipated that at this point, there will be no physical community but that the members will live in sufficient proximity to each other to facilitate our common life. 

Potential residential phase – 2022 or afterward We leave open for later consideration the possibility that at some point in the future some or all of the members of the community may wish to create an actual physical community, living together on a large parcel of land. In such an arrangement, individual members would continue to own their own homes, with common areas being owned jointly by the Community.