God did not simply dwell among us; He chose to be born, to live as an infant, through His childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. He knew even before His Divine Conception, even before the dawn of man, that He would be rejected by humanity; ridiculed, tortured, and put to death by His people who He most cherished, and He still chose to walk among us. Though He knew how much He would suffer at the hands of man, He knew also that without His Word, we could never hope to be free from the plot of the devil. Christ knew His Passion intimately before it occurred and knew already exactly the immense pain He would have to endure during the last days of His physical human life, but it did not deter Him from creating Heaven for us and showing us that despite the fact that we were the ones who nailed Him to that Cross, if we remained firm in our Faith and Hope in Our Lord, He would still, in spite of our rejection of Him, save us from the fires of hell. He did this out of pure Love for each of us, and in His time living out the life of a human, He came to understand us internally. Our Father, who art in Heaven, could have easily slew all of humanity to start again as He did with the Deluge. Yet it was God, through the Son, who chose instead to be borne as one of us so that He may know us intimately. In His life, He was born into poverty, alone and rejected in the cold manger, and He lived in the same labor and toil we do. The Son of God, Prince of Heaven, Inheritor of Heaven and Earth, labored as a carpenter, in the kitchen, and in the fields just as we do. He humiliated Himself from His birth to teach us the gifts of Knowledge and the danger of temptation, and in this He too learned what it was like to suffer as tainted humans locked in a battle against the evil one. He experienced temptation of sin, the attacks of the devil, and the evil of those so gone in sin they lost their humanity. He healed us, exorcised us, prophecized to us, baptized us, and inspired us, all knowing too that He would die for us. His Passion did not deter Him from having faith in us, faith that through His teachings we may rid ourselves of the chains of sin and the savage ways of the devil. He knew that His scorging, His ridicule, His torture and demise were all as a result of the devil's grasp on humanity. Christ suffered at the hands of man, but it was the devil that turned those hands against Him. He allowed Himself to be as a Sacrificial Lamb for the sins of the world so that He would inspire us to reach for Heaven and never give into the devil's attacks. In choosing to die for us, He promised eternal life for us free from the shackles of hell. There is simply no greater Love than that.

We are a small but devoted Passionist Hermitage located in Tennessee dedicated to bringing the Word of the Passion to the Southeast USA. Our oblates include both professed laity who longed to but were unable to enter traditional religious life due to poor health and those who are pursuing seminary education seeking to become active Passionist priests fulfilling their calling throughout all of North America, united by a common mission: to be made into worthy humble servants for Our Lord through a life of contemplation, prayer, penance, and humble service of the Crucified of today's world. Our Charism is based on the teachings of the founder of the Passionists and Mystic of the Church, Saint Paul of the Cross, who saw Christ's Crucifixion as the most intense, purest form of selfless Divine Love.

We draw inspiration from the Holy Family’s example of purity and love, striving to emulate their virtues and those of the Passionist Saints in Heaven. We believe that through the lives, sorrows, and sufferings of the Holy Family, God has come to witness and understand our human struggles and the sins we are tempted with by the enemy, and that it is through an obedient life of Biblically-based virtues, spiritual openness to the wonders and miracles of the Heavenly beyond our realm of human understanding, and the honoring and remembrance of the Holy Family's pain and sufferings that we may truly become one in Flesh and Blood through Communion with the Angels, Saints, and the Most Holy Trinity.



Our Hermitage is consecrated to the Holy Family, Terror of all Demons, and their Divine Hearts, with a special devotion to our Most Adorable Infant Jesus, Divine Child, Light of the World, Prince of Peace, whom we vow to honor and protect alongside all the world’s children. We are guided by Our Lady of Sorrows, Star of the Sea, Mystical Rose, Gate of Heaven, Queen of Angels, who has requested of our labor to focus on the conversion of sinners; Blessed Patriarch Joseph, Light of Patriarchs, Guardian of the Virgin, Pillar of Faith, our protector and source of great comfort; and the Archangels, who have been a constant presence in the lives of our mystic Sister Marie Rose since her early years and our spiritual warrior Brother Charmichael who was assisted directly by Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Gabriel the Archangel in his own battle with demonic interference and exorcism. Our Master, Our Crucified Lord Christ, Alpha and Omega, Lamb of God, Bread of Life, has stressed the importance to our Hermitage of praying for the freedom of Poor Souls in Purgatory, for which we spend time each day in deep contemplative prayer along with filling our Holy Mother’s request of praying endlessly for the conversion of sinners.

Each day, we engage in deep contemplative prayer, committed to our spiritual mission and the service of others. We implore all devoted souls with hearts burning with Passion to aid those living in the grueling cycle of sin and disbelief to reach out to us for donation opportunities, volunteer programs, and vocational inquiries. You may also use the navigation bar at the top of this page to see our horarium so that you can pray along with us, send in prayer requests for you and your loved ones, find all of the prayers written by our oblates at the Hermitage, and see all of our shop items made with love here at the Hermitage! If your heart burns too with the Passion of Christ and you feel so obliged to aid us in our mission, we ask that you please consider making a selfless donation to support the medical care, daily needs, and seminary education of our Brothers.

May God watch over all His children in most need of deliverance from evil so that they may be brought into the Light of His Love!