Monk in the World guest post: Judy Smoot
I’ve known Judy Smoot for several years now, first connecting through Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist, then several other online classes, and finally the pleasure of spending time with Judy in person at our Awakening the Creative Spirit intensive. Judy is a fellow Benedictine oblate, a spiritual director, a lover of the […]
Invitation to Photography: Holy Waiting
Welcome to this month’s Abbey Photo Party! I select a theme and invite you to respond with images. We began this month with a Community Lectio (Visio) Divina practice (stop by to pray with this beautiful image from Mary Southard). As I prayed with Mary’s art I felt held in this womb of waiting and watchfulness, attentiveness and presence, […]
Community Lectio (Visio) Divina: Art by Mary Southard
Artwork: “In the Shelter of Your Wings” © Mary Southard, CSJ Used with permission courtesy of www.marysouthardart.org With December comes a new invitation for contemplation. This month I invite you into a visio divina practice, which is an adaptation of lectio divina. In visio divina we are invited to see with the eyes of our heart, much […]
Monk in the World guest post: Edward Sellner
I am delighted to bring you another fabulous monk in the world guest post in our series. I first discovered Edward Sellner’s work several years ago through his wonderful book Finding the Monk Within: Great Monastic Values for Today (which I recommend often as a great grounding in monasticism) and I am currently reading Wisdom […]
Monk Medicine (a love note from your online Abbess)
To receive this love note straight to your in-box, subscribe here (and also receive a free gift!) Dearest monks and artists, The poem above has been shimmering for me, and at first I hesitated to share it here because we are entering the depths of winter in the northern hemisphere. But then I remembered my […]
Invitation to Photography: The Call to Our True Selves
Welcome to this month’s Abbey Photo Party! I select a theme and invite you to respond with images. We began this month with a Community Lectio Divina practice (stop by to read the beautiful responses). As I prayed with the reading from Thomas Merton, this image of what it means to become a saint kept shimmering […]
The Call to be a Saint (a love note from your online Abbess)
Dearest monks and artists, November is the month of remembrance of all the many saints of our lives. It is a thin time in the Celtic imagination, when heaven and earth draw closer together. I spent the feasts of All Saints and All Souls at a small gathering at the monastery of Clonmacnoise, once a […]
