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We welcome you to spend time here as a guest or a pilgrim! Come join us for:

  • Daily prayers with the nuns 
  • Reflection and time in nature
  • Zoar Farms animals and wool crafts
  • Indoor and outdoor projects
  • Community meals and conversation
  • Divine Liturgy and fellowship lunch on feast days

Daily throughout the year, the monastery chapel is open for monastic services and quiet prayer. Guests & pilgrims welcome.  Please email or call ahead to confirm service times.

Our guest room and guest house are open for individuals, families and small groups. Please contact us to schedule your visit. We may be able to arrange pickup from the nearest bus station (Oneonta, NY).

Experience Daily Life at the Monastery

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  • 7:00 a.m. First Hour
  • Quiet time, personal chores, breakfast, etc.
  • 9:00 a.m. Matins and/or Third Hour
  • House meeting and work time
  • 12 Noon Sixth Hour
  • Lunch, work and an hour of personal time
  • 3:00 p.m. Ninth Hour
  • Work time
  • 5:00 p.m. Vespers
  • Supper
  • Barn chores
Meal with the nuns of holy myrrhbearers monastery

The schedule changes as needed and for Sundays and Great Feasts. On Saturdays and feasts when we celebrate a vespers and matins, we eat supper at 5:00 pm and vigil begins at 6:00.

Guests are welcome to services and supper!
Note: Please call ahead (607) 432-3179 if you plan to join us for a service or supper.

Before 9AM is quiet time. Sisters each get their own breakfast and often do spiritual reading individually over breakfast.

Lunch is eaten individually according to each person's schedule.

Supper is the community eating all together with spiritual reading out loud and conversation.

Visitors to the monastery often discover that there are many other places of interest in central New York State. History and genealogy bring many people here. Families with young children can also visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame as well as a number of other museums, colleges, libraries, and places of natural beauty such as Gilbert Lake, and a bit farther away, Howe's Caverns and Watkins Glen.

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Directions to Our Monastery

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Contact Us

144 Bert Washburn Rd
Otego, NY
13825-226

sisters
@hmbmonastery.org

(607) 432-3179