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The Desert Mother of repentance

Our featured Holy Hermit who inspired our name

Celebrated on the 3rd of June as one of Irelands early Hermits

'To be alone with God is not to be alone'

A Holy Hermit celebrated as the Father of Western Monasticism

A Holy Mother from the Desert tradition of community and contemplative living

“Our labour here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamour of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.”

“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”

Sergius’ Life  Sergius (baptised as Bartholomew) was born into a noble Russian family in Rostov in 1314....

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ”