Our Hermitage

The essence of Orthodox Christianity is to Love God and neighbor with our whole being (Luke 10:27), to love our enemies as our neighbors (Matt. 5:44) and to be perfect as our Heavenly Father (Matt.5:48). The very real; other-worldly Mystical Body of Christ we call the Church is an environment and opportunity for healing of soul, mind and body. All healing comes from a synergetic effort of the Divine Healer and the one suffering. Monasticism has always been contrary to worldliness and a means to intensely seek such healing through asceticism, unceasing prayer and a practice of virtues in cooperation with the Holy Spirit in the Life of Christ.

The Sacred Orthodox Hermitage of Saint Prochoros is therefore dedicated to daily ascetic prayer, silence, meditation, periods of solitude complimented by hospitality in all our interpersonal encounters with a healthy interior detachment from the things of this world. We are keenly aware that to Love more purely we must be “washed whiter than snow”.

This cleansing, through the ongoing life and grace of One Baptism, frequent Repentance and supported by Eucharistic empowerment, is the daily dying to self, the destruction of ego and the growth and maturity of the true self in Christ. In imitation of our Lord this is the kenotic life of true desert spirituality. It is in keeping with the Holy Rule of St Benedict in both the Romualdian tradition and hermitic  spirituality.

We have as our examples and teachers such saints as Augustine of Hippo, Maximos the Confessor, John Climacus, Symeon the New Theologian, Herman of Alaska, Silouan the Athonite, the Beloved John the Apostle and his apostolic lineage, and our founders Benedict of Nursia and Romuald of Ravenna amongst others.

Metropolia
of T.O.C.
in Western World

Canadian Exarchate

Our Motherhouse

Unity of Churches
of T.O.C.

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