MHFM is a traditional Catholic Benedictine monastery dedicated first and foremost to Jesus Christ, our Savior, and the worship of the Most Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Ghost)– the One True God – and the profession of the Catholic faith whole and inviolate.
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Most Holy Family Monastery was founded in the 1960s by Brother Joseph Natale in New Jersey. In 1994, the community was given a piece of land in rural New York. After Bro. Joseph died, Bro. Michael Dimond, O.S.B. was elected superior of the community and moved the community and its belongings from New Jersey to New York.
Bro. Michael Dimond, O.S.B.
Raised in a family with no religion, Bro. Michael Dimond converted to Catholicism at the age of 15. Brother Michael Dimond entered Most Holy Family Monastery in 1992 at the age of 19, a short time after graduating from high school. Brother Michael Dimond’s father graduated from Princeton University in New Jersey and his mother graduated from Stanford University in California. Brother Michael Dimond was elected superior of Most Holy Family Monastery in late 1995. Bro. Dimond took his final vows before a validly ordained priest.
Our Community
As is obvious from our website vaticancatholic.com, our community is heavily involved with educating people about what they must know and do in order to save their souls, which is the most important work of charity with which anyone could be involved. “Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Heb. 11:6). And without the Catholic faith it is impossible to be saved. Therefore, our work as Catholic Benedictine monks – especially in this time of the great apostasy – necessarily involves educating Catholics about the true dogmas of the Church and condemning the heresies that are rampant today.
We also work and pray for the salvation of all non-Catholics, producing and distributing mass quantities of information with the goal of converting them to the one true faith, outside of which no one can be saved. We have distributed over one million copies of our videos, audios, DVDs and books. The material that we have distributed and continued to distribute covers a wide variety of topics that are essential.
Our YouTube channels in 10 different languages have over 370,000 subscribers and over 111 million video views. Our English website alone has received over 15 million unique visits since 2012. A large amount of the information we have produced over the decades covers Catholic and biblical prophecy.
Our Community is dedicated first and foremost to Jesus Christ, our Savior, and the worship of the Most Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Ghost)– the One True God – and the profession of the Catholic faith whole and inviolate. Secondly, our Community is deeply dedicated to the promotion of the Holy Rosary as the primary private devotion for a Catholic. Just as without the faith it is impossible to please God, so it is true that without a strong prayer life it is impossible to be saved. We especially promote the 15 decade Rosary, which the members of our Community recite each day. We believe that the salvation of millions of souls hinges upon the practice of a true devotion to the Mother of God and the necessary foundation of a pure profession of the true Catholic faith.
Sincerely,
Brother Michael Dimond, O.S.B.
Superior of Most Holy Family Monastery
