Contemplative Prayer Service: June 2026
with Christine Valters Paintner and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Monday, June 1, 2026
5-6pm Ireland
12-1pm Eastern
9-10am Pacific
Program Description
Join us on the first Monday of every month for an online contemplative prayer service. Come be with community in real time. Richard Bruxvoort Colligan will lead music and Christine Valters Paintner will lead reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.
We will turn on closed captioning during the live Zoom session (which you are able to turn off in your settings if you find distracting) as well as provide a video recording after the event with closed captioning available and a text transcript of the session.
The program will be recorded for those who pre-register but are unable to attend at the scheduled time or who want to view again. You will be sent a notification when this is ready to view.
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Your Guides for the Journey
Christine Valters Paintner
Christine Valters Paintner, OblSB, PhD, REACE is the online Abbess for Abbey of the Arts, a virtual monastery and global community integrating contemplative practice and creative expression. Her programs draw on the wisdom of the desert, Celtic, and Benedictine spiritual traditions as well as the joy of the expressive arts, embodied practice, and Earth-cherishing wisdom. Christine is the author of numerous books on spirituality and creativity, including three collections of poetry. She lives on the west coast of Ireland with her husband John and dog Sourney. Find out more about her here.
Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Dr. Richard Bruxvoort Colligan is a spiritual director, musician, and lover of laughter. To this retreat, he brings his passion for lifelong spiritual formation and the arts, along with enthralled curiosity for the Great Mystery we are in together. His ongoing project is composing congregational songs at PsalmImmersion.com. His book, Dangerous Songs: The Psalms and a Gloriously Disrupted Life, will be published in April 2026 by Broadleaf Books. Richard serves as Director of Spiritual Formation at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Rochester, MN and lives in Strawberry Point, Iowa USA with his wife Trish and dogs Winifred and Jack. Visit Richard online at Worldmaking.net and Patreon.com/RichardBC
Registration
$6
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- Includes partial scholarship
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