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Invitation to Photography: Hospitality

Welcome to the Abbey Photo Party!

I select a theme and invite you to respond with images.

Our theme here at Abbey of the Arts for October is hospitality, so I invite you to reflect visually on what either inner or outer hospitality – that radical act of welcoming in what feels most strange as the face of the holy – looks like for you.  You can share images you already have, but I encourage you also to go for a walk with the theme in mind and see what you discover.

How to participate:

1. Go to the Flickr Group I have created (when you go to the link it will ask you to join the group first before posting).  Share as many as five of your images in response to the theme.

2. Leave a comment below to let us know you have joined the party and what your Flickr profile name is (this is essential to be entered into the prize drawing).

3. Please post the invitation on your blog or Facebook page and encourage others to come join the party!

On Friday, October 5th – I will draw a name at random from those who participate and the winner will receive a space in my upcoming online retreat – Honoring Saints and Ancestors: Peering through the Veil.

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24 Responses

  1. Hi, I am ‘JacquiandTeddy’ on Flickr. Thank you for this invitation to reflect and share photos. I haven’t had time, this time, to go out and take fresh photos and so have reflected on some I already had and have shared them in the Flickr group.

  2. Hi Christine,

    I posted too, under TerryD444….wildlife, so precious …

    Can we post small video?

  3. I added a photo under lunechat99. It is the altar from our Academy for Spiritual Leadership. We had communion then sang and danced our way out the door!

  4. Christine, I posted a striking photo that came during my walk this morning–more of a “non-hospitality” image than a hospitality image. Under drlauragfes.