New Camaldoli Needs Your Support
Message from Fr.
Raniero Hoffman, Prior
Fr. Raniero
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In our first forty years, nearly 150,000 retreatants and a half
million visitors have shared our contemplative spirituality. For
many, New Camaldoli has become a spiritual oasis in their life
journey, a place they return to for spiritual nourishment. The
enthusiastic public response to our ministry has recently been
reported in the Chicago Tribune, US News and World Report,
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
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Economic self-sufficiency is the Camaldolese ideal and, although we
recommend that our guests contribute only $60 per day for food and lodging,
we are gratified that our labors generate enough revenue to meet our
daily needs.
Unfortunately, the costs of maintaining a spiritual facility on the
California coastline have escalated in recent years, in part due to
natural disasters of water and fire, in part due to the realities of
21st century economics. Facility renovation becomes more expensive.
Government regulations and licensing requirements require that work
formerly done by monks be carried out by outside contractors. Facilities
open to the public must meet strict federal and state standards.
For these reasons we have found that we must turn to philanthropic
sources to meet the needs of sustaining our ministry and to fulfill
our hopes and dreams for expanding it.
We invite you to come and spend a day or two with us. See for yourself
how our community serves the public. Spend some time, a few hours, even
a few minutes, listening to the silence ... listening to your heart.
We believe that any individual can learn much from the silence. Indeed,
one of our audio tapes available in the bookstore is entitled, "Finding
God In the Silence."
There are fewer and fewer opportunities for silence and reflective
solitude in modern American life. 'We feel that our ministry, though
quiet, is necessary and of great value to the spiritual development
of our retreatants and visitors.
We invite those who share our commitment to contemplative spirituality
to support our efforts to maintain this place of sanctuary and solitude.
(831) 667-2456. FAX (831) 667-0209 -
BIG SUR, CALIFORNIA 93920
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