(photos of doors on St. Charles Ave and the Loyola Campus in New Orleans)
-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Jamie Alm’s reflection on contemplative presence and family life. How do I live as a monk in the world? How do I
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Tomorrow Simon de Voil and I are leading our final contemplative prayer service of the season before we take a break until the fall. Our theme is Creative Joy which is the 8th principle of our Monk Manifesto: I commit to
Note: Click CC to turn closed captions on or off. Thank you for celebrating the release of our sixth prayer cycle Cultivating Seeds of Liberation and the start of the Abbey’s 20th year! We had a beautiful time gathering in community for prayer, contemplation, story, and song.
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love the doors!!! (not to brag), but i told tess how new orleans made so much more sense to me now that i have seen paris. the influence is so strong there. i, too, was drawn to photograph doors…tess was drawn more so to balconies which i hope she will share soon!
Thanks for all of the very gracious words, these doors have been very meaningful to me as well!
thank you so much for these beautiful doors that invite Spirit.
Blessings!
These are beautiful as is the great old lady of NOLA.
Beautiful, stunning, mixed messages… thank you!
Such depth of contrast. Beautiful, thank you.
Christine. these are lovely. I a going to meditate on them awhile because I keep coming back to them. They seem to be tapping Spirit.
Thank you, once again, for such a special start to my day.