Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims,
We celebrate our 20th anniversary tomorrow!
In honor of this celebration we thought we’d revisit the ways you can connect with our community.
Have you had a chance yet to engage with our Monk in the World” 8-Day Online Retreat. It’s our gift to you. You’ll receive a daily email to help you integrate the Abbey’s rhythms into your everyday life.
Have you read and signed the Monk Manifesto? By adding your name, you join a global community committed to silence, slow living, and creative expression.
And finally, there are many ways to join the ongoing dance of what we offer here.
You can connect to our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks on Facebook to meet kindred spirits.
You can find other monks near you on the Dancing Monks Map. This is a way to connect locally and gather together for kinship and community.
You can make a commitment to pray with us daily through our Prayer Cycles of morning and evening prayers (if you subscribe to our daily newsletter you get a link to the specific day we are praying with as a community) and join us for Sanctuary, our midday prayers for peace and justice.
All of the above resources are available as our gift to you. They are funded by the donations of dancing monks who are able to offer this kind of support. This support also goes to support our generous scholarship programs and keep our fees low.
We warmly welcome you to the prayer services and retreats we offer on our Calendar. (And our programs for 2026-2027 will be available soon!) And get in touch with us if the sliding scale we offer is unaffordable for you, we make financial access a priority.
Retreats still coming before this program year ends include my Wisdom of Wild Grace 4-Week Writing Retreat, a mini-retreat from beloved Wisdom Council member Richard Bruxvoort Colligan on the psalms, and a mini-retreat from Irish friend Brother Richard Hendrick, OFM, Cap on presence in prayer, along with our May and June prayer services.
Please join us tomorrow to help us celebrate 20 years! If you are able to make a financial contribution to help sustain our programs we are most grateful. If a donation is beyond your means, we are always grateful when you help to spread the word about the work we do.
With great and growing love,
Christine
Christine Valters Paintner, OblSB, PhD, REACE
