About Little Portion Hermitage

Inspired by the witness of Saints Francis and Clare of Assisi, Little Portion Hermitage is a place of Christ- centered solitude, sacred silence, prayer and penance.

I endeavor to live a life of contemplation of the Holy Trinity, in evangelical poverty, chaste celibacy and obedience to ecclesiastical authority.

The wellspring of my vocation is God’s unmerited and amazing grace, by which I seek to love God with my whole heart and mind. In the very act of seeking to love God above all else, I serve my neighbor.

The foundations of my vocation are the Eucharist, Sacred Scripture, study, prayer and penance. In the silence of solitude, my day-to-day life in the hermitage is the primary location for an encounter with God as and when God chooses to reveal Himself.

The fruits of this encounter are offered back to God and to others for the glory of God, the good of the Church and the salvation of souls.

In persevering prayer and penance, in humble labor, study and service, a hermit proclaims to the world: In God alone do we find hope and joy, fulfillment and peace.  ~Brother Rex

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From the 1983 Code of Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church

603.1 – In addition to institutes of consecrated life, the Church recognizes the eremitic or anchoritic life by which the Christian faithful devote their life to the praise of God and the salvation of the world through a stricter withdrawal from the world, the silence of solitude, and assiduous prayer and penance.

603.2 – A hermit is recognized by law as one dedicated to God in consecrated life if he or she publicly professes the three evangelical counsels, confirmed by a vow or other sacred bond, and observes a proper program of living under his direction.

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“Men and women hermits, belonging to ancient Orders or new Institutes, or being directly dependent on the Bishop, bear witness to the passing nature of the present age by their inward and outward separation from the world. By fasting and penance, they show that man does not live by bread alone but by the word of God (cf. Mt 4:4). Such a life ‘in the desert’ is an invitation to their contemporaries and to the Church itself never to lose sight of the supreme vocation, which is to be always with the Lord.”

Saint Pope John Paul II
Vita Consecrata #7

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Prayer requests can be sent directly to the hermitage at [email protected].