Welcome to Rivendell! Whether you’re a casual visitor or
an old friend, we’re happy to extend the hospitality of
Rivendell to you, and invite you to look around. Let us
introduce ourselves...
• providing well-educated and holy priestly ministry for
smaller, less affluent churches;
• creating and serving houses of prayer and hospitality,
and of ministries of social justice;
• supporting its members, lay and clergy, in their various
ministries by offering spiritual and intellectual
nourishment through prayer, companionship, retreat, and
Sabbath time practices.
Rivendell is a Christian Community for people who want
lives that matter: lives of prayer and hospitality, lives of
radical faithfulness to the Gospel, lives available for the
purposes of God in the world and the Church. Members
and Associates include women and men; celibate and
married; lay, ordained, and aspirants for holy orders.
The work of Rivendell
Rivendell is a Eucharistic community working and
praying to renew the vision of the Church as a holy
priesthood, in and on behalf of the world. The
Community's goals include:
