Welcome to the very first Abbey Photo Party! This is a new experiment and sort of a twist on the regular Poetry Parties. Instead of my selecting a theme and image and inviting you to respond with words, I will select a theme and poem and invite you to respond with images. Since you can't post images directly in the [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Blessings
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I am co-facilitating my last session of a pastoral ministry supervision group this morning with an amazing group of women and then this afternoon will be boarding a train for Oregon where I will attend the second part of my supervision training which began last summer. I am excited for five leisurely hours on the [...]
Liturgy as a Feast for the Senses
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I will be writing a regular weekly article for Patheos on Art & Spirit in the Church. Click the link for this week's feature, see the links below for previous articles. It is for the Catholic Gateway, but much of what I write is accessible to an ecumenical audience. Liturgy as a Feast for the Senses The [...]
For the Artist at the Start of Day
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May morning be astir with the harvest of night; Your mind quickening to the eros of a new question, Your eyes seduced by some unintended glimpse That cut right through the surface to a source. May this be a morning of innocent beginning, When the gift within you slips clear Of the sticky web of [...]
Swimming with Otter
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I am watching otter, how he plays in the water, how he displays brave underside to the wave-washings, how he breathes in descent trailing sudden sudden strings of pearls that tell almost, but never quite, where he is apt to rise –how he is gone, gone, so long I despair of him, then he trims, [...]
Are you listening?
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Growing up in New York City, my favorite place was The Cloisters (a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with art from medieval European monasteries). I had fallen in love with the aesthetic dimension of monastic tradition long before I understood what that way of life really meant. The art, architecture, music, and illuminated manuscripts all [...]
this week's winner
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The Poetry Party this week was sublime as usual, such an incredible group of poets who gather in this space. It is truly my privilege to host this party for you. Such illuminating words on Light & Shadow. This week's winner of a signed copy of my book Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening & Awareness is Beth Patterson [...]
Beauty and Spirituality
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Have you checked out Patheos yet? (the great new site exploring different religious traditions) I will be contributing to them regularly on the topic of art and spirituality and my latest article is here – Beauty and Spirituality — so pour yourself a cup of tea and contemplate the role of beauty in your own spiritual [...]
Abbess Update
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Thank you again to everyone for your prayers for sweet Petunia. She had her surgery last week and is recovering well. We received some remarkable news — despite the initial needle aspirate test showing signs of cancer cells, in the actual biopsy they can't find any signs at all of cancer. Seems it was a [...]
Moon Jellies Halleluiah
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Halleluiah Everyone should be born into this world happy and loving everything. But in truth it rarely works that way. For myself, I have spent my life clamoring toward it. Halleluiah, anyway I’m not where I started! And have you too been trudging like that, sometimes almost forgetting how wondrous the world is and how [...]
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