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The solitary guides and written well-springs from all ages and traditions inspire the Hermits of Peace. As Christian solitaries we look first to the Desert Fathers and Mothers of the early Christian Church, St. Isaac the Syrian, and the Hesychast tradition of stillness, to mention a few.

Br. David Steindl-Rast, Fathers Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths, and Henri Le Saux (Abhishiktananda) guide and inspire our exploration of the monastic and eremitic charism and integration of the wisdom from the East in the form of Christian Sannyasa.

We seek to know God through silence and stillness, and to open ourselves to the fulness of Truth and Life. Since this Divine Presence pervades all existence, we, though alone, are ever in this Presence, thus gratitude and reverence are cultivated at all times.

In the Church our life is hidden but we hope, in the words of Psalm 19 that though: "No speech, no word, no voice is heard yet their message goes out to all the earth." Jesus promises that He is with us always and his desire for unity underlies our efforts to understand other spiritual traditions.

"In the last analysis truth is not a thing we possess, but a person by whom we must allow ourselves to be possessed."

Vatican Document-Dialoque and Proclamation  June 1991

Newsletters:

Raven's Bread
18065 Hwy. 209
Hot Springs, NC 28743

The Golden String
New Camaldoli Hermitage
Big Sur, CA 93920

Magazines

• The Desert Call
  
• Spirituality and Health

• Gratefulness.org—Light a Candle, send a card, pray the Hours, walk the Labyrinth, access works of light around the globe and meet people and discover ways to live gratefully.
   
• Pray the News—With the Carmelites of Indianapolis

 

• Raven's Bread— A Newsletter for Hermits

 

• Sacred Space — Daily Prayer by Irish Jesuits

 

• Practice Devotion---Spirituality and Health

• One Thousand Acts of Peace is a great blog and encourages a simple practice to incorporate peace into your day

Books  

A listing of some of our favorite books. A good resource for Orthodox books on Monasticism and the Hesycast life is at Skete.com

A portion of each purchase will be donated to Sky Farm Hermitage.

Books by Bede Griffiths

Books by or on Abhishiktananda

Books by Br. David Steindl-Rast

Books by Thomas Merton

Favorites by other authors

The Desert Fathers and Mothers

The Philokalia and Hesychast Writings

Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian

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