Amber Andreasen! Amber, let me know your choice of self-study/on-demand classes for your prize (which you can also give as a gift).
Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Poetry Party celebrating summer. Pour yourself a cup of tea (maybe iced!) and go linger for a while with the words offered there.
Abbey Poetry Parties will be on a break for July but will return again as a monthly feature in August.
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Alexia Jons’ reflection Living the Sacred in Ordinary Time: How Creativity Becomes a Form of Contemplative Prayer. For a long time, I
St Francis and the Wolf*The city trembled at the wolfoutside its gates, fangs fierce, howling with hunger, fur thick with blood.Francis approaches softly, palms open. When the wolf lunges his breath stays slow and steady,looks with eyes of love,smiles and bowsand the beast whimpers,licks the
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Christine Davis’s reflection and poem Life to Life. In recent years, after deaths and losses, changes and griefs, I’ve moved farther and