If you head over to Listening Point today, you can see a photo I took in Ireland in a wonderful forest near the ruins of Cong Abbey accompanied by one of my all-time favorite poems (which I posted here about a year ago, but it seemed time to bring it out again). And while you’re over there, bookmark the site and keep going back to it. Always good stuff posted there on the contemplative life and they are also looking for more regular contributors.
-Christine Valters Paintner@ Abbey of the Arts
A Christmas Blessing This blessing dances at the doorwayof light and dark, knows both as sacred:fertile womb space, miracle of blooming.This blessing breathesthrough those moments of laborwhen you too birth the holyinto this fragile, luminous, hurting worldas Mary did two thousand years ago,eyes wide, hands
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Tina Thompson’s reflection on the path to Roman Catholic Women Priesthood. Have you heard of the international movement, Roman Catholic Women Priests
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, This Friday, December 19th we are delighted to offer the Deep Rest Winter Solstice mini-retreat to help you slow down and savor the gifts of this time of year as we wait for the tipping point of darkness to light in the
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Welcome Timothy, glad you found your way here. No, I definitely don’t believe God wants to make us rich (at least financially speaking) or sends us to “hell.” I think of my writing more as an invitation to consider possibilities for cultivating interior freedom and growth in love and compassion.
Hi Christine,
I like your site. Lovely pictures and thoughtful, relevant comments. It’s nice to read commentary from a devout religious person that is not about how God will make you rich or how anyone who doesn’t agree with your faith is going to hell or is some kind of pervert. Very refreshing. I look forward to visiting often.
Timothy