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Burn the Mortgage!

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Our monastery needs help to pay down our mortgage debt. We are appealing to all our friends and benefactors to help make this a reality. We need to reduce our debt so that we can completely concentrate on our three-fold ministry of prayer, hospitality and adult religious formation. In 1994 three Australians came over to be trained in monasticism and return in three years to begin a new monastery there.

God had a different opinion on how—and where—we should begin our monastery!

For many years we lived on a property in the Mojave Desert. That location was a good one to get started. But we realized that it was not really suited for receiving new vocations or running it as a retreat center.

Eventually we realized we needed to look for a new site for the monastery. In 2011 that search ended when Fr Moses and Fr Maximos first set foot on this property in St. Nazianz Wisconsin. It really seemed then—and still does today—to be the place where we belong.



Money has always been in very short supply. In our earliest period Fr Nicholas and I counted our money and found we had barely $10 between us. Then the miracles began. God’s people began to give us what we needed to keep going. There were gifts of cash, but also of icons and other religious items necessary to celebrate the services of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church. We had furniture given us, utility bills sometimes paid and so on. From $10 and a suitcase, we found in just a few years just how generous our donors can be.

We found our new property and were able to negotiate two loans to get us into that property. The smaller loan from Bank First National will be paid off in full by October of this year (2016). The larger loan (a Land Contract with the sellers of the property must be refinanced by October.


We have always relied very heavily on the generosity of God’s children. Some of them have signed up for our $3 a month plan through our PayPal account. This has been a fantastic gift to us and has for the last three years helped us pay interest on our debts.

We’d love not just to service our debt, but to pay down the principle and burn the mortgage. The video will give you insight into why and how the monastery needs your help!

Your donations will help secure for us this house in which we’re living and praying.

We have six men discerning their vocation to monastic life. We should be able to assure them that they can rely on us to provide them with a home.


All donations given for this new campaign will go to paying down the principal of our mortgage loan.

An important note! If you signed up for a monthly payment through Go Fund Me, You will need to cancel that payment. If you would like to continue to give on a regular basis to our new campaign you will need to set up a new payment plan.

Again, blessings on you all. You are in our prayers!

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FrMaximos Davies
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Holy Resurection Monastery
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