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Christine and John Valters Paintner, Sybil MacBeth, and guest teachers

This Advent, join us for a retreat in which we cultivate a spirituality of blessing. Together we will nurture gratitude, joy, hope, and delight in the beauty of our lives in the midst of a hurting world. We won’t be denying or bypassing that woundedness but resourcing ourselves with a sense of abundance at the heart of things. We will resist a culture that strives to wear us down and leave us feeling hopeless.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and guest musician Te Martin

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will be leading music and Christine Valters Paintner will be leading reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month’s theme is Community.

with Therese Taylor-Stinson

Centering Prayer is a method of Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence or stillness. Our time together will include checking in, teaching on a theme to inspire contemplation drawn from a wide variety of sources, time in silence together, and reflection.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Deirdre Ní Chinnéide

Join us on the Winter Solstice to celebrate this threshold moment when the sun stands still and the earth tilts from growing darkness to growing light again. Through ritual, song, teaching, meditation, and sharing we will create a holy pause in the rush toward the holidays when we can listen deeply to the voice of the Holy One whispering within us.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and guest musician Deirdre Ní Chinnéide

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will lead music and Christine Valters Paintner will lead reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month’s theme is Kinship with Creation.

with Therese Taylor-Stinson

Centering Prayer is a method of Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence or stillness. Our time together will include checking in, teaching on a theme to inspire contemplation drawn from a wide variety of sources, time in silence together, and reflection.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Aisling Richmond, Jamie Marich, Simon de Voil, and guest teachers

Our western culture denies the reality of difficult feelings, demonizes the experience of darkness, and rejects the invitation of winter to move into a place of unknowing and mystery. Through live sessions, somatic exploration, mindful movement, written reflections, and creative practice we will cultivate an ability to be with life’s questions.

Simon de Voil

Join us on January 31st, the eve of the Celtic feast of Imbolc which celebrates the quickening of the year and a subtle shift into the promise of a still-distant spring. February 1st is also the feast of St. Brigid, one of the most beloved of the Celtic saints and goddesses. Through teaching, song, and meditation we will bring compassion to help us hold these paradoxes and heal the rifts around us.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and guest musician Jamie Marich

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will lead music and Christine Valters Paintner will lead reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month’s theme is Work.

with Melinda Thomas

Drawing on the wisdom of yoga and the Christian mystical tradition, we will cultivate our capacity for devotion through gentle yoga postures, creative writing exercises, and contemplative practice.

with Therese Taylor-Stinson

Centering Prayer is a method of Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence or stillness. Our time together will include checking in, teaching on a theme to inspire contemplation drawn from a wide variety of sources, time in silence together, and reflection.

with Christine Valters Paintner and guest teachers

Join us for the sacred season of Lent when we dive into the wisdom of seven medieval women mystics: Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Hildegard of Bingen, Clare of Assisi, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Angela of Foligno, and Margery Kempe.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil and guest musician Will Boesl

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will lead music and Christine Valters Paintner will lead reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month's theme is Sabbath.

with Therese Taylor-Stinson

Centering Prayer is a method of Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence or stillness. Our time together will include checking in, teaching on a theme to inspire contemplation drawn from a wide variety of sources, time in silence together, and reflection.

with Cassidhe Hart and Grant Showalter-Swanson

Earth Psalter is an opportunity to explore traditions of psalm composition, experience re-writing a psalm from the perspective of your ecosystem, and reflect together on how the practice of psalm writing might nourish us for the work of ecological justice.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and guest musician Richard Bruxvoort Colligan

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will lead music and Christine Valters Paintner will lead reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month's theme is Conversion.

with Therese Taylor-Stinson

Centering Prayer is a method of Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence or stillness. Our time together will include checking in, teaching on a theme to inspire contemplation drawn from a wide variety of sources, time in silence together, and reflection.

with Melissa Layer

Calling upon the gifts of poetry, journaling, and visio divina reflections we will break open death and resurrection as invitations to personal meaning-making and transformation in our eldering journeys.

with Christine Valters Paintner and guest writers and musicians

Join Abbey of the Arts for this free event as we celebrate the start of our 20th year of supporting monks and artists in transformative living! We will also be launching our brand new prayer cycle of morning and evening prayer on the theme of Cultivating Seeds of Liberation.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will lead music and Christine Valters Paintner will lead reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month’s theme is Creative Joy.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, Nóirín Ní Riain, Deirdre Ní Chinnéide, and guest artists

Join us for a 5-day virtual journey that is part writing retreat and part inner pilgrimage. We will be exploring St. Brendan's story as a map for our own creative process. Each day we will consider an aspect of how the story invites us into our creative practice and we will engage in various writing explorations together.

with Therese Taylor-Stinson

Centering Prayer is a method of Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence or stillness. Our time together will include checking in, teaching on a theme to inspire contemplation drawn from a wide variety of sources, time in silence together, and reflection.

with Te Martin

Join us for a springtime community singing mini-retreat. We'll ask ourselves and each other, "What are the places, people, or activities in my life that give me strength?" Singers of all levels are welcome -- experienced, new, or anywhere in-between!

with Carmen Acevedo Butcher

Love, as Brother Lawrence discovered, comes from an everyday friendship with God. Recognizing that so many of the issues of Brother Lawrence’s time mirror our own, we will discuss how the friar’s work helps us live in touch with Love’s wisdom, moment-by-moment, cultivating self-compassion, compassion for others, and peace within ourselves during the very real stresses of our world.