Come to me  
all who are heavy burdened and I will give you rest, take up my yoke and learn from me
for I am meek and humble of heart-
              Ma maison sera une maison de priere
                                   Ne rien préférer à l'amour du Christ!
    UPCOMING EVENTS
I.   Coming in 2020-21: construction of Stella Maris Abbey Hermitage: join in prayerful solidarity as we joyfully establish our permanent home in the USA. Inquiries about phase I information, progress and prayer requests please contact: opcrucis@gmail.com
II.  Coming in Fall 2020: short story mystical allegory books written and illustrated at the new St. Dafydd Scriptorium: contact the Hermitage for reading events and future purchase information.
III. Discernment Program for Autumn 2020
Vocational Inquiry Week Alongside Program for single women ages 18-25, practicing catholic, never married, enthusiastic about their vocation and fervent in their desire to pursue religious contemplative life
   Be strong and let your heart take courage- He is our treasure!
  In poverty of spirit, we open our hearts to follow Him, our Way, our Truth, and our ever brilliant Light!
  Embraced in His Merciful Compassion and in its thunderous silence, we sense an inner fire set alight by His Living Flame of Love.
  There we encounter in Accompanied Solitude the purest joy,
the most intense tranquility, hope that knows no limits! 
  Our spiritual frontier unfolds before our very eyes, like a brilliant dawn horizon:
​  what colors the future paints for those who trust  in our Divine Creator! 
​  Notre vie monastique est une vie de priere, d'humilite, de
       solitude, de silence et de dilection fraternelle, 
             une vie entierement tournee vers Notre-Seigneur.

 Stella Maris Abbey is a ​Sui Juris Roman Catholic monastery faithful to Church teachings, the Holy Father and the Magisterium
Contact for Vocational Inquiries:
Rev Mother Abbess: opcrucis@gmail.com

Please remember our dear departed nuns of our Monastery of Madrid, Spain

+Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Requiescant in pace.
​Mother Sofia, CP          Mother Nieves, CP 
Sr. Severina, CP           Sr. Eufrausina, CP
Sr. Paula, CP                Sr. Dolores, CP
Sr. Paloma, CP             Sr. Isabel, CP
Sr. Consolacion, CP     Sr. Carmen, CP 
Sr. Emmanuela, CP      Sr. Asumpta, CP

​and our  deceased benefactors whose support enabled the 1991 establishment of our Order in Europe amid the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism and the re-emergence of the roman Catholic church in the former Eastern Bloc nations.
​Padre Feliciano, CP (Spain)
Padre Santos, CP  (Spain)
​Fr. Baginskas, Marist  (Latvia)
Padre Urquiri (Spain)
​Card. Giovanni Coppa, Nuncio (Czech R)
​Card. Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger (France)
Card. Carlo Maria Martini, SJ (Italy)
ABP Josef Stimpfle (Germany)
​Cardinal Miroslav Vlk (Czech Republic)    
BP Skarvada (Czech Republic)
Card Jan Chryzostom Korec, SJ (Slovakia)
Card. Karel Otcenasek (Czech Republic)
Pope St. Jan Pawel II (Poland)        
Sr. Mary Lucy, OCD (Little Italy, Mo  USA)