​LINK TO our most recent 
MONASTERY NEWSLETTER
Distributed on April 22, 2024
 
HOLY CROSS monastery
will not be havIng any public services
this coming Holy Week or Pascha
or for the FORESEEABLE future
until we resolve some issues
with Alameda County
 
Our Daily Cycle of Monastic Liturgical services Continue here at our monastery, but they are conducted privately by our Monastery's Brotherhood.
They are not currently open to the public
and we are not HOSTING public gatherings or events.

our gates will be closed
So please do not plan to attend
any of our services for the foreseeable future

See our latest newsletter above
for links to some east bay Orthodox churches
where you can attend services

please do not plan to come here to celebrate the resurrection
on the night of Pascha (Orthodox Easter)
on Saturday, May 4, 2024
or during the day on Sunday, May 5, 2024

so please do not plan to celebrate the resurrection here
or sHARE A PICNIC LUNCH HERE on SUNDAY, May 5, 2024
Forgive us, but our gates will be closed

IF you would like to visit us at another time 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 Public 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 with us.

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Before Your Cross we bow down in worship, O Master, and Your holy Resurrection we glorify!

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