about us  

Welcome to the Official Website of The M,ariamite Orthodox Fathers Community of Mary, we are a monastic community of priests and brothers that focuses on Eastern Orthodox Church Tradition, Evangelization, and Social Justice, with a strong emphasis on Mary as a model. Our model in life is following the Theotokos example of Purity, Faith, and Service.

Our members live a simple lifestyle in the community, serve the poor, and resist social injustice. We are grounded in the Gospel, prayer, and the Christian faith.

The Mariamite Orthodox Fathers, is a self-governing autocephalous (or self-headed)  Society headed by an Archbishop who is its Primate.

We consider ourselves united and unified with our other sisters  Eastern Orthodox Churches through; Scripture, Doctrine, Holy Tradition, the Seven Ecumenical Councils, Seven Sacraments and the teaching of the Church Fathers.

Our Eastern Orthodox Tradition places us within the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of God. Our theology is based on the Nicene Creed, the Seven Sacraments, Holy Tradition and the Teaching of the Church Fathers.

We draw on the rich Eastern Orthodox Tradition of the Holy Church spirituality to help ourselves and others to discern God’s presence in our lives. As contemplatives in action, we bring this spirituality into the wider human context as we strive for social justice, charity work, peace, education, dialogue and Church unity.

Seeking to respond to the needs of the times and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit as well as by human insight, the goal of its members is to embrace a way of life which, by Profession of the Evangelical Counsels, follows Christ and becomes an outstanding sign of the Heavenly Kingdom.

We are dedicated to Christian evangelism. Our mission  is to bring together all faithful into a unified and coordinated effort, to spread the truth of the faith in our modern time, in other words; Christianity in the 21st Century. We live in the world and pray for the world; we don’t leave it.

Many Christians think that monastics are just those folks who leave the world and withdraw into their monasteries. People are under the notion that monastics are not aware of what happens in the world. This is a wrong notion.

We all agree that the most important job of a monk is to pray, both privately and communally by reading the holy Hours, participating in frequent Liturgy, and observing all the other services and feasts in the cycle of the Church. We also go to Church several times a day, every day! We pray for all, we pray in our place when we are doing something which keeps us from saying our own prayers, we pray by asking God to grant salvation and health to every Christian. This is our first responsibilities, to pray for the world, for her salvation, your salvation and our salvation.

Our second responsibilities as a monastic community are to teach the True Faith, Holy Tradition, and a Christian lifestyle to all, we do that in both ways; formally (in sermons, lectures, or writings) and informally, by example. To do so, the community must be very much present in the world. We work hard to follow the example that Christ taught us, lived and expects us to follow. We do so by working in different societies and cultures. We serve all who Christ brings to our doors or who He takes us to on the streets. All set at Christ's table, Christians and others, we serve all. All are welcome.