*JUST ADDED: A NEW E-COURSE for LENT* Join me for a transformative journey through the ancient contemplative practices of lectio divina, centering prayer, and praying the hours. This Lenten season, create a supported retreat for yourself. Click the image below for more details. I have taught several different versions of this Benedictine spirituality course with [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Abbey Online Classes – Update
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**Click here for an Advent and Winter Solstice Visual Meditation** ***** Click link above for more details The WINTER & SPRING SESSIONS for * Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist* are now both FULL Space is Available for the SUMMER SESSION – * July 19-August 29, 2010 * Click link above for more [...]
A Great Shout of Joy
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Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born. Even with the summer so far off I feel it grown in me now and ready to arrive in the world. -David Whyte (excerpted from "Winter of Listening") Thank you to everyone who participated in this week's Poetry Party on the theme of [...]
Winter Solstice Meditation: Each of Us is the Midwife of God
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If You Want If you want, the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy, and say… “I need shelter for the night, please take me inside your heart, My time is so close.” Then, under the roof of your soul, you will witness the sublime intimacy, the divine, the Christ taking [...]
Invitation to Poetry: Sharing Our Deepest Joy
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Welcome to our Poetry Party #42! I am posting this week's Poetry Party since the third week of Advent begins today! I select an image and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your poems or other reflections. Add them in the comments section and a link to your blog (if you have one). Make sure to [...]
Crossing the Threshold: New Year, New Beginnings
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The following reflection is excerpted from my latest Reflective Art Journal – Crossing the Threshold: New Year, New Beginnings – visit the Abbey Shop to order your copy today filled with reflections and suggestions for a creating a meaningful ritual for entering into the New Year ahead. ______________ I am fascinated by the human desire [...]
Advent Evening of Prayer and Solstice SoulCollage (Seattle)
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TWO INVITATIONS for my Seattle-area friends facilitated by two of my favorite people who I am blessed to work with – Betsey Beckman and Kayce Hughlett. I am planning to attend both and hope to see you there as well! *~*~*~*~*~*~* Advent Evening of Prayer The Word Becomes Flesh: Longing for the New Creation Thursday, [...]
Advent: The Road is Made by Walking
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Gospel According to Saint Luke (3:1-6) John went throughout the whole region of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah: A voice of one crying out in the desert: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make [...]
When I began to wake
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*The invitation of the first week of Advent is to awaken (click the link to read last Sunday's reflection)* © Christine Valters Paintner at Abbey of the Arts: Transformative Living through Contemplative & Expressive Arts
