Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, This Friday, June 12th, we are delighted to welcome Brother Richard Hendrick, OFM Cap. for a retreat on moving From Intention to Attention: Becoming Really Present in Prayer. We will encounter this flow through the lens of the Christian contemplative tradition, looking at the Desert Fathers and Mothers, the Franciscan masters, the teachers of the practice of the presence of God, and the sacrament of the present moment up to our own day to garner tools that will help us in our own personal meditative life and practice today. This poem is from Brother Richard’s Facebook post on March 22nd:

Click CC to turn closed captions on or off. On Pentecost*Spirit of courage,we stand huddled too,like the disciples in the upper room,wondering what is real and true anymore.Reveal to us the pulse of your firein each of our heartsand send us with bread and rosesout into a worldhungry for nourishment.Bless us with visions of peace;carry it across every skyon wings of a dove.Help us understand one anotherso that we might knowour common purpose in love.Let the winds of changerush in and upend all our fears.Empower us for a morejust and loving futurewhere we dance with your wild grace. Dearest dancing

Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, This Friday, May 22nd we welcome Wisdom Council member, spiritual director, and musician Dr. Richard Bruxvoort Colligan for a retreat on The Psalms and a Gloriously Disrupted Life. During the retreat Richard will guide us in an immersion of his favorite part of the Hebrew scriptures.  Here is an excerpt from Richard’s new book on the psalms: The psalms of the Hebrew Bible sing of a rich, complicated life. The psalmists– the people who wrote the psalms—were creative, open-hearted musicians who composed and sang with their community. From their lyrics, we can see that they clearly struggled with