St. Tikhon's Monastery Home Page has been and will continue to be updated as of January 2009. We hope and pray for your continued support as we at St. Tikhon's Monastery are working to build up the monastery and community here for the Orthodox Church in America. We desire to build a new facility in the near future where visitors can come to find spiritual and physical refreshment. However, the monastery is and always will be open to the general public and desires to extend a friendly invitation to all to visit, to pray, and to help us in a new beginning as we start to renew America's oldest Orthodox Monastery. Also, we are currently accepting new vocations.
Click here to read an article about the ancient and contemporary value of Monasticism. Further, we are also currently visiting parishes and giving retreats and talks through America. To have us come to your parish, please contact the Monastery at 570-937-4067.
Throught the history of Christ's Church, monasteries have served as centers of spiritual enlightment, strongholds of Orthodox truth and piety, havens for those seeking salvation through ascetic struggle, prayer, and humility, and places of pilgrimage for those desirous of inner renewal, reflection, and spiritual guidance.
This has been the mission of the Monastery of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk for over one hundred years, since its establishment in 1905 as the first Orthodox monastery in North America. With God's help, the monastery has steadfastly sought to fulfill this holy purppose, and by doing so, has proven indispendable to the life and groth of the Orthodox Church on this continent.
It is our hope that this website will serve not only as introduction to the monastery for those unfamiliar with its rich history and significant impact on the Church in America, but also as means for the futher glorification of God and His Saints who have walkd these hallowed grounds.
All those who are interested in Orthodox monastic life are welcome to contact the Monastery's Superior Fr. Sergius at monksergius@gmail.com. The Monastery has a new guest house and hopefully, God willing, we will in the future build a new complex for monks and visitors. May God bless you and be assured of your continued prayers for you and for all Orthodox Christians alive and asleep in the Lord here in America and throughout the world.
