Sisters of the Earth Community

Welcome to Green Mountain Monastery & Thomas Berry Sanctuary

• The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner. 

  Fr. Thomas Berry

• We can no longer hear the voice of the rivers, the mountains, or the sea. The trees and meadows are no longer intimate modes of spirit presence. The world about us has become an ‘it’ rather than a ‘thou'.

  Fr. Thomas Berry

• Every being has its own interior, its subjectivity, its mystery, its numinous aspect.   Becoming who we are is the immediate responsibility of every being. 

  Fr. Thomas Berry

• "To reduce any mode of being simply to that of a commodity within the community of existence is a betrayal."

  Fr. Thomas Berry