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"This is the House of God and the Gate of Heaven."  ~ Genesis 28:17

​LINK TO our most recent 
MONASTERY NEWSLETTER
Distributed on December 21, 2022

 
HOLY CROSS monastery
will not be havIng any public services
this coming Christmas weekend
or for the FORESEEABLE future
until we resolve some issues
with Alameda County
 

The services that were previously announced
will not be open to the public
and we are not receiving visitors

our gates will be closed
So please do not plan to attend
any of our services that were previously announced

Click the link to our latest newsletter above
for links to some nearby Orthodox churches
where you can attend services

also cancelled are the luncheons
on Christmas Day and New Year's Day
that were previously announced


OUR MONASTERY IS NOT OPEN TO VISITORS
for the foreseeable future

IF you would like to visit us as friends
the way friends visit our neighbors, you may do so.

but you will have to visit us
as an individual or as an individual family.
We are currently not having gatherings here

PLEASE CONTACT US IN ADVANCE 
TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS before visiting

​click here to view Videos
OF OUR Past Liturgical SERVICES AND SERMONS


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WHO WE ARE

We are a monastery affiliated with the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), tending a spiritual garden on the frontiers of paradise for the glory of God. Our monastery serves Orthodox Christians and others of all ethnic backgrounds and cultural traditions.

We do not currently accept overnight visitors, unless they are young men aspiring to become novices in order to to discern their possible monastic vocation.
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Before Your Cross we bow down in worship, O Master, and Your holy Resurrection we glorify!

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