As announced in the March issue of JuliaNews, the Order of Julian has decided to expand Julian House Monastery in order to provide safe, intelligently designed space for our older and less able Members and to provide room for our growth and the life-long formation of all the brothers and sisters at Julian House Monastery, the Mother House of the Order. So urgent is our need for this space, for the safe housing of older members and so that we can receive new aspirants into our community, that we plan to begin construction in June of 2008. Click here to go to the JuliaNews article.

As of this writing (June 22nd), we have received final approval from the City for our plans and we are working with the architects to finish the last details of the constructions drawings before putting the project out to bid.  Our fundraising for this project has gotten off to a great start, with $195,000 of the  necessary $300,000 necessary to complete this project already raised. This is very encouraging, yet the Order will need your help to finish this project, especially as the city has mandated the installation of a new water main across the front of our property, at a cost of $50,000. If you would like to help in any way with the fundraising, please contact the Guardian of the Order, Fr. Gregory Fruehwirth OJN, directly at guardian@orderofjulian.org.

Click here to download a PDF version of our Expansion Fund Brochure.pdf

One of our most recent joys was to discover that we will be able to afford to ‘go solar’ with this expansion, adding a large enough solar-voltic systems to provide for 80% of our electric needs.

As you can see from the rough plan below, our aim is to connect our farmhouse residence (beige) to our chapel and garage space (blue) with a walkway, paired rooms, and a central meeting place (green). Groth Design Group of Cedarburg, Wisconsin are the architects for this project, and are doing an amazing job

Help us to grow!