The Monastic Marketplace

Inner Light Productions has received several letters from monasteries and friends of monasteries about products offered for sale as a means of supporting the monastic life in various communities. To help support these communities, we are setting up this Monastic Marketplace where goods and services produced and offered for sale by monks and monasteries will be listed. Inner Light Productions makes no money from this service, but we offer it as a free service to our monastic brothers and sisters. Please support the life and work of the monasteries by purchasing their products whenever possible; most importantly, though, remember them in your prayers.

  • The Hermitage of the Holy Cross, recently relocated to West Virginia from House Springs, Missouri, makes incense and sells other liturgical items. Their web site is also very interesting to visit as you can see how these monks are establishing their new monastery in the forested Appalachian mountains! There are many photos of the kellia (cells) under construction, the church, and the fathers themselves. They also produce and sell wonderful incense which is great to have in your "home church." Please check them out at 

  • "Our Lady of Vladimir Bookstore" is run by a small skete in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fr. Barsanuphius and the monks there maintain a small bookstore and "serve the homeless and the hopeless." You can e-mail them through their site. 

  • The Monastery of St. Anthony the Great in Phoenix, Arizona, produces and sells pure beeswax candles and honey, along with assorted publications. You can e-mail them or write to Saint Anthony the Great Orthodox Monastery, 3044 North 27th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85016-7926. 

  • The Monks of Vashon Island sell excellent coffee and tea directly on-line.  Having ordered and prepared some of their excellent coffee ourselves, we can attest to its high quality and excellent taste!  The "Byzantium Roast" is especially good.  :) 

  • The Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Boston has an excellent on-line catalogue of books, some of which are not available elsewhere. 

  • Finally, an Anglican monk, Brother Alex in Seattle, offers prayer beads which he makes by hand through the monastery's web site.

To add listings to this page, please e-mail us so we can check out the site and then add it as appropriate. Thanks!


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