Invitation to Dance: Return to Me with Your Whole Heart
We continue our theme this month of “Return to me with your whole heart” through the practice of dance (please visit our Community Lectio Divina practice, Invitation to Photography, and Invitation to Poetry which all explored this theme for March). I invite you into a movement practice. Allow yourself just 5-10 minutes this day to […]
Monk in the World guest post: Asther Bascuna-Creo
This week in our Monk in the World guest post series we have two beautiful poems from fellow monk and artist Asther Bascuna-Creo who lives in Australia. Read on for her wisdom about silence and the contemplative path: Silence And in her middle years she discovers silence. Not the kind you find In a remote abbey […]
Monk in the World guest post: Hana Truscott
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Hana Truscott’s wisdom about showing up in the world and where it has taken her: REFLECTION “Ten thousand hours felt like ten thousand hands. Ten thousand hands, they carry me.” My monk in the world mantra is […]
Dancing St. Brendan (a love note from your online Abbess)
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Today is the Feast of St. Patrick, a national holiday here in Ireland, and quite a time of celebration. I admit that I have some mixed feelings about Patrick, in part because the celebrating is often an excuse to drink heavily, and because there are so many amazing Irish Saints, […]
Invitation to Poetry: Return to me with your whole heart
Welcome to Poetry Party #76! I select an image (*photo above by PhotoJoy Photography) 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 […]
Monk in the World guest post: Kevin Peterson
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Kevin Peterson’s wisdom about practicing the presence of God in the tasks of daily life: Being a monk in the world…what does that mean to me? When Christine asked me to consider writing about being “a monk […]
Heart-Centered Practice (a love note from your online Abbess)
To receive this love note straight to your in-box, subscribe here (and also receive a gift!) Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, “Return to me with your whole heart.” This is the image and invitation with which we are resting for Lent at the Abbey (see our community lectio divina and this week’s invitation to photography). Lent is an invitation […]