All 12 Dancing Monk Icons now available as prints!
I am so delighted to announce that Marcy Hall of Rabbit Room Arts has made all 12 of the dancing monk icons available to order as prints. The prints are 5.5 x 10 inches and the mat is 11×14. The dancing monk series includes: Benedict of Nursia, Hildegard of Bingen, Brigid of Kildare, Brendan the […]
Invitation to Community Lectio Divina: Luke 18:22-23
With October we offer a new invitation for contemplation. Our focus for this month is letting go. In the northern hemisphere it is the season of fall when nature begins to release what is not necessary. What are you called to shed in your own spiritual garden? I invite you into a lectio divina practice with some words from the Gospel […]
Monk in the World guest post: Marcia Chadly
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Marcia Chadly’s wisdom on the gifts of contemplative drawing for becoming a monk in the world: And it was Good Contemplative drawing is one of my favorite practices as a Monk in […]
Invitation to Dance: Harvesting the Inner Garden
We continue our theme this month of “Harvesting the Inner Garden” which arose from our Community Lectio Divina practice with the parable from the Gospel of Mark and continued with this month’s Photo Party and Poetry Party. I invite you into a movement practice. Allow yourself just 5 minutes this day to pause and listen and savor what arises. Begin with a full […]
The Soul’s Migration: Where Will You Fly? (latest Patheos column)
Fin and feather, flesh, blood and bone: the earth calls its creatures to leave the familiar, turn again into the unknown; to move steadily and continuously and at great risk toward an invisible goal, expending great energy with the possibility of failure… —Marianne Worcester I write these words from the shores of Cape May, NJ […]
Monk in the World guest post: Patricia Kowal
This week in our Monk in the World guest post series we have a beautiful poem from fellow monk Patricia Kowal who lives in Spokane, WA. Read on for her wisdom: Mystic Within Compassion, Compass, Passion Contained in the Mystic-Within Connected to Love, guided with Love, directed in Love Flowing through one to another. The mystic—once hidden […]
Invitation to Poetry: Harvesting the Inner Garden
Welcome to Poetry Party #79! I select an image (the photo above is by Christine Valters Paintner) and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below or join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group and post there. Feel free to take your poem in […]