The Hermitage Within: an online community where your spirituality is invited to grow and thrive. We provide a faith blog, spirituality workshops, and more – resources that nourish you toward healing and wholeness, moving (if necessary!) from saints we ain’t to saints-in-training. Join us!
We have been online since 2023, accompanying faith journeys as we and our community journey in faith and reflect on God’s love for us. Ultimately, an experience of God’s love moves us to more fully take love into the world.
Spend time here at your place of rest (online sanctuary!). Reflect in a comfortable chair, nurture a vibrant and maturing faith journey. While you are here, sign up for The Hermitage Within’s faith blog. Join us – you are welcome here!
The love of the Trinity shines bright!
At The Hermitage Within, we take your faith journey seriously – a faith journey committed toward joy. We are based in the Catholic tradition and a contemplative perspective, engaging in such a way that saints-we-ain’t (yet!) [that’s many of us] engage in being – becoming – saints-in-training (we are all beloved children of God. All of us can move into the life God intends for us!). There is a joy wrought by a genuine relationship with God who is surrendered to and a faith that is nurtured. We blend the approaches of St. Augustine and Teresa of Avila (two Doctors of the Church): interiority, love for neighbor, and experiencing the fire of God’s love. A maturing faith requires commitment, effort, and a willingness to be challenged in order to grow.
How much has your faith matured? Have you navigated the teen and early adult stages of faith development? What do you know of the adult stages of faith development? Looking to navigate the deeper symbolism of faith traditions? Moved into new levels of responsibility for your faith journey? Seeking spiritual wellness? Welcome – we support your faith path. Read more about adult faith here.
FAITH EDUCATION
Exploring faith? We provide faith education: insightful blog reflections (subscribe here!), periodic Zoom education sessions, and reviews of faith books.
SPIRITUAL ACCOMPANIMENT (FAITH SUPPORT)
Spiritual exploration and faith development are personal and at the same time communal. Our faith grows within a faith community. Within various faith traditions, a community contributes to one’s faith maturation (even hermits often live within some kind of community, even if a small and dispersed one). Within that context, someone will emerge who provides you with spiritual accompaniment: pastors, staff within your community, accompanists, faith mentors, spiritual directors, soul friends, trusted friends, and the like.
Spiritual accompaniment is a relationship in which individual(s) help facilitate another’s exploration and continued growth (maturity) in your faith journey. Read more here and connect with our accompaniment resources.
Our leader is a trained faith educator. In addition to several years of employment at Catholic parishes (adult faith formation and liturgy), Kim Burkhardt has a a certificate in Pastoral Accompaniment from the Catechetical Institute at Franciscan University Steubenville. She is enrolled in a Master’s in Theological Studies (MTS) at Saint Martin’s University (2026-2027).
God is love. God loves you!
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