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with Richard Bruxvoort Colligan

From ecstatic joy to heartbreaking lament, the Psalms affirm every aspect of human life. With teaching, singing, and meditation, long-time Abbey collaborator Richard Bruxvoort Colligan (he/him) will guide us in an immersion of his favorite part of the Hebrew scriptures. Participants will be invited to sketch, doodle, journal, and create psalm-inspired poetry.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Melissa Layer

This 4-week program is a writing retreat focused on cultivating our kinship to creation through stories of saints and animals. These stories immerse us in a worldview that sees a connection to animals as a sign of holiness. They help to kindle our wonder and nourish an earth-cherishing consciousness in us.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Brother Richard Hendrick OFM Cap.

This retreat will examine the place of Intention and Attention as energetic directions of the soul in meditative practice.

with Dena Jennings

Join us as we look a the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola and practice how to rest in the Word through Ignatian Contemplation— a lively way to experience a relevant meaning of the scriptures.

with Claudia Love Mair

Join us for a generative experience that offers guidance on how to express grief over the death of a loved one through writing.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Aisling Richmond, Jamie Marich, Kellie Kirksey, Polly Paton-Brown, and Te Martin

In this 7-week online retreat we will explore the fairy tale of The Handless Maiden, a story that has over a hundred versions worldwide. This story embodies the archetypal journey from wounding to wholeness, from oppression to empowerment, and ultimately how the union of feminine and masculine energies support our own creativity and healing.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil

Join us to celebrate the publication of Christine Valters Paintner’s newest collection of poetry, What Enters Through the Open Heart: Poems (Monkfish Publishing). During this free hour-long event, Christine will read some of her poems and Simon will offer the gift of music.

with Betsey Beckman, Kayce Stevens Hughlett, and Te Martin

Join us at the potent threshold of Samhain and the Feasts of All Saints and Souls for a playful and soul-filled journey through the expressive arts to explore how ancestors enhance our spiritual lives.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Deirdre Ní Chinnéide

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Fr. Adam Bucko

This online retreat is shaped around a simple but urgent question: How are we to be in a time like this? Join us in an interactive program to help us cultivate lives rooted in contemplation and attentiveness to the voice of the Spirit, and to discern how we might live as agents of compassion and justice in the world today.

with Christine & John Valters Paintner, Coke Tani, Felicia Murrell, Jo-ed Tome, and Te Martin

Join us for a transformative four-week Advent journey exploring how four wise mystics of the 20th century Howard Thurman, Simone Weil, Dorothy Day, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer speak their own words of holy resistance to our times.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Dena Jennings

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Aisling Richmond, Deirdre Ní Chinnéide, and Simon de Voil

Enjoy a holy pause and immerse yourself into the blessings of Winter that await you through meditation, movement, and music.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Cassidhe Hart, Polly Paton-Brown, and Simon de Voil

Step through the portals of song and story, poetry and prayer to meet with Brigid and welcome her to the Hearth of your own heart, as we gather together to remember old traditions and find new meaning for our time.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Jamie Marich

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Cynthia Winton-Henry

Contemplate your dance with Mother Earth and the Divine Feminine through lectio divina, expressive arts, movement, sacred rest, and prayer. No dance experience necessary. Modifications and adaptations for creative movement will be offered. All bodies welcome!

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Te Martin

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Te Martin

This 2-hr retreat is a gathering for those who are walking with death and loss – recently or distantly, literally or metaphorically. It’s an invitation to sit in the presence of what’s ending or has ended – to listen, sing, and let death be a teacher.

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Ally Markotich

This is a creative mini-retreat that will support you to slow down and creatively map a path that opens you to a fresh perspective for your daily path.

with Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil

Join us for an online contemplative prayer service. Deepen into this moment together through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.

with Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

Join us for an exploration of what it means to be a highly sensitive person and the ways in which your strengths and gifts can serve a world in need.