About
Hazelnut Catholic Ministries
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide peaceful, educational, and personal experiences that enable you to grow your faith and strengthen your relationships with God, self, and others in safety, joy, and love.
We meet you where you are and inspire you to become the imago dei God made YOU to be.
In Communion
We are Catholics in communion with the Universal Church and faithful to the magisterium who embrace the both/and. Hazelnut Catholic’s founders are committed to the Pope’s call to disengage from and reject the cultural, political, and liturgical “wars” that plague our universal church. We desire that all Catholics find their diverse expressions of the faith welcome and open to deepening exploration and transcendent growth in Christ’s Love.
Our Inspiration
St. Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 - 1416) was an English anchoress and mystic of the late Middle Ages. Her Revelations of Divine Love record her visions and contemplations, and they are the only surviving written works in English by an anchoress.
One of Julian’s most famous mystical visions recounts a moment which inspires our work at Hazelnut Catholic and guides our mission:
“And in this vision he showed me a little thing, the size of a hazel-nut, lying in the palm of my hand, and to my mind's eye it was as round as any ball. I looked at it and thought, ‘what can this be?’ And the answer came to me, ‘it is all that is made.’
I wondered how it could last, for it was so small I thought it might suddenly disappear. And the answer in my mind was ‘it lasts and will last forever because God loves it; and in the same way everything exists through the love of God.’
In this little thing I saw three attributes: the first is that God made it, the second is that he loves it, the third is that God cares for it. But what does that mean to me? Truly, the maker, the lover, the carer; for until I become one substance with him, I can never have love, rest or true bliss; that is to say, until I am so bound to him that there may no created thing between my God and me.”