Update: Inter-spirituality Center

We are currently working extremely hard to bring to you the long-awaited establishment of the physical monastery, retreat and inter-spirituality center. This complex will be a religious foundation promoting the contemplative life for people of all classifications and religions. All will be welcome. While it will be operated by the Christian monks of the Nicholean Catholic and Russian Orthodox traditions, dogmatism will not be permitted on its grounds. In many ways, our hope for this center is that it will become the new "Library of Alexandria". We envision a place where various and diversified philosophies, religions, traditions, spiritual practices, and world-views will come together to share wisdom, teach, learn, practice and grow.

The initial emphasis will be on monastic, liturgical, and esoteric Christianity, as well as Buddhism, but we hope to one day support an infrastructure for Sufism, Hinduism, Shamanism, Kabbalah, as well as many other venerable spiritual explorations.

We need your help in these final stages to make this a complete reality! If you would like to join us in this effort or would like to offer us your generous donation in support of this work, please contact us at office@nicholean.org or leave us a voice message at 207-370-9077.

The world needs your participation. Peace is not an automatic process. It requires tremendous efforts and it is remarkably expensive to produce lasting results. Resources are always limited, but this work must succeed regardless. Please remember us in your charitable efforts. Please help us to make a difference.

Monastery Status Update

Dear Friends,

For those of you who are interested and have been following the progress of our efforts to establish the physical monastery, I have both good and bad news to report.

First, the bad news...

After meticulously preparing the extensive paperwork required to apply for the church loan, we finally submitted our request for a relatively large amount of start-up capital. This initial funding would be used to A) establish the physical monastery in the United States and B) also establish an esoteric research center on the island of Curaçao through which the Holy Imperial Russian Orthodox Church and Holy Monastic Order En Deus could operate from on an international level. Unfortunately, the request appeared to be too high for the current real estate market. The lender was just too uncomfortable and declined.

Now, the good news...

We have resubmitted the request asking for less funding. If this new amount is approved, it will at least provide us with the means to establish the physical monastery here in the United States. We can then work on other phases of the project at a later date. Please pray that we will soon see an end to our waiting. There is so much work to be done and a physical location is essential to the success of this work.

All my blessings,

Patriarch Nicholas III
Holy Imperial Russian Orthodox Church
Holy Nicholean Catholic Church

Abbot
Holy Monastic Order En Deus

Working on the Monastery

Greetings and blessings!

My apologies for the recent lack of new content. We've been very busy working on all matters relating to purchasing monastery property out of state. I will be sure to keep you all informed of any progress we make in this regard. In the meantime, I will be sure to publish a new video very soon.

May the Peace of Christ be with all of you.

Fr. Bryan