+  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.  Moving to our permanent Diocese and building our new monastery soon
-contact via telephone or email for updated information, to make donations, to arrange visits and for prayer requests
II.  Discernment Program for Autumn 2020
- Vocational Inquiry Week Alongside Program for single women
- ages 18-25, practicing catholic, never married, happy souls
- participate in the mysterious calling of a cloistered contemplative
Be strong and let your heart take courage- He is our treasure!
  while its true that worldly clamor lures with shiny, noisy attractions and though many are called, some can't hear and wander away from His whisper:  only a special  few souls are actually chosen, but even some of these many barter for prestige and position, not embracing the cross of Christ whose magnanimous love means personal sacrifice and faith filled hope amid adversity
-- only those special few who are truly chosen and sense the inspiration of the Holy Spirit pray to be found worthy to enter.
-- in humble poverty of spirit, they open their hearts to follow His lead and with excited haste, run ahead to embrace, be enveloped by His Merciful Compassion and in this thunderous silence, they encounter freedom and His abiding Love in Accompanied Solitude where their heart is light and content
​III.  Holy Endeavour Art Studio
-New Paintings ​and Holy Cards now available
Contact Rev Mother Abbess for donative sales: ​
opcnuns@gmail.com or via telephone 740-281-3024
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 Hermitage  is a
​Sui Juris Roman Catholic monastery faithful to Church teachings and the Magisterium

Please remember our dear nuns of Madrid, Spain who have died ​in the recent past two decades
and our  deceased benefactors from Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and Latvia 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.

​+Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Requiescant in pace.
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​Madre Sofia, CP           Madre Nieves, CP 
Sor Severina, CP          Sor Eufrausina, CP
Sor Paula, CP               Sor Dolores, CP
Sor Paloma, CP            Madre Isabel, CP
Madre Carmen, CP      
Madre Consolacion, CP     
Madre Asumpta, CP
Madre Emmanuela, CP
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​Padre Feliciano, CP
Padre Santos, CP 
​Fr. Baginskas, Marist     
Padre Urquiri
​Cardinal Giovanni Coppa, Nuncio
​Cardinal Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, SJ
ABP Josef Stimpfle
​Cardinal Miroslav Vlk     
BP Skarvada
Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec, SJ
Cardinal Karel Otcenasek 
St. Jan Pawel II           
Sr. Mary Lucy, OCD