Inner
Divinity
You already carry what you are looking for.
“The Hermitage is a quiet space within each human being. Meditation is a means by which a person can discover and use it to achieve a full life.”
Friar Justin
Five lights hold this place up
Inner
Experience
over Doctrine
Nothing here asks for belief. Everything invites practice.
Radical
Acceptance
There is beauty in everyone and everything. Come as you are.
Conscious
Creation
Thought, intention and action shape a life. We practice shaping it well.
Unity &
Connection
All life is held together by love. None of us seeks alone.
From this room, three hallways
Meditation is the practice. Spiritual transformation is the journey. Cherished belonging is the community. Everyone arrives differently, so each hallway starts somewhere real, and each one turns.
A rotating class exploring meditation through modern science and ancient contemplative wisdom. No experience needed; no tradition required.
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Friar Justin's flagship program joins practical tools for managing a life with meditation and direct spirituality. Around it: silent sits, discussion circles, retreats, and visiting teachers.
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The founder's voice, kept working: some twenty-five hours of homilies and teachings, and the meditations he always gave freely.
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Calendar
The week keeps a rhythm,
All gatherings
The week keeps a rhythm,
Join it from anywhere.
Tuesday
Join on Zoom
Worldwide Energy Circle
Every Tuesday, Indianapolis to Australia, the community holds silence together on Zoom.
Sundays
Sit with us
Contemplative Unity
The Sunday hour of silence, held together in the Hermitage's new home at the Indiana Interchurch Center.
Everything is free, and everything is optional. Come once, or come every week.
Founded on a Friar’s conviction that peace is learnable.
Justin Belitz was a Franciscan friar who taught meditation across the United States, Europe, and Australia for four decades, and believed every person could awaken to the divine energy within. This is not a memorial to him. It is his work, continuing.
The Hermitage was never the building.
For forty years, a house in Indianapolis held this community. What Friar Justin actually built keeps going: people in the United States, Australia, and Europe who found the quiet space within, and found each other.
The mission of Hermitage World
“The Hermitage exists to help every person awaken to the divine energy within, so that through meditation, simplicity, and community, we may each live with greater love, peace, and purpose.”