A Different Kind of Fast – Ash Wednesday Blessings & Lenten Resources
Dearest monks and artists, I wanted to share with you some reflections as we begin the holy season of Lent as well as some resources to support your journey. This week we enter the long desert of the Lenten season. If you participate in a liturgical service, most likely you will be marked with the […]
Give Me a Word 2017 Drawing Winners!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2017 Give Me a Word invitation! We had almost 1000 participants take the online retreat to help a word choose you. Above is a word cloud made from all the words submitted by January 6th. Please note some appear larger when they were submitted more frequently. Some […]
Feast of Epiphany – Follow the Star
The Feast of Epiphany is celebrated today. It is one of my favorite scripture stories as it offers us a series of powerful invitations. The last few lines of the gospel text, offer us a template for an archetypal journey, that is, one we are all invited to make. We can find ourselves in the […]
Give Me a Word 2017: 8th Annual Giveaway
SHARE YOUR WORD FOR 2017 In ancient times, wise men and women fled out into the desert to find a place where they could be fully present to God and to their own inner struggles at work within them. The desert became a place to enter into the refiner’s fire and be stripped down to […]
Dreaming of the Sea: A Women’s Discernment Journey through the Story of the Selkie
January 9-April 11, 2017 (with group spiritual direction on Thursdays) with Christine Valters Paintner, PhD (limited to 12 participants) Stories offer us a map of transformation. We step inside their dream space. We are invited to release our thinking and striving minds, to surrender to a wisdom that is far deeper and more expansive. They […]
Dancing Monk Icon Cards – SOLD OUT
**ICON CARD SETS ARE SOLD OUT.** Watch this space in the future for the next time we reprint another batch. We are delighted to offer for sale a limited number of sets of the dancing monk icon cards. All 18 designs included – the original 12 dancing monks plus an additional 6 we added from the […]
Dr. Jamie Marich joins the Abbey Wisdom Council!
Abbey of the Arts is delighted to have a Wisdom Council with 12 wise members who enthusiastically support what we do, offer their gifts in service to this community, and provide a sounding board for discernment over future directions. We welcome Dr. Jamie Marich to our council. She is the creator of Dancing Mindfulness, a […]