Monk in the World Guest Post: Michelle Estep
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Michelle Estep’s reflection Your Soul is a Garden. The garden sanctuary often speaks to the contemplative – the birthplace of Creation with its ancient calling towards beauty, rejuvenation and abundance. Eden becomes […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read of for Abbey friend and guest teacher Mícheál ‘Moley’ Ó Súilleabháin’s reflection and poem on Inis Cealtra/Holy Island. Looking out over the majesty of the lake from the Graves of the Leinstermen, I see […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Michael Moore
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Wisdom Council member Michael Moore’s reflection on sanctuary and safe spaces. When I first became acquainted with the Abbey and Christine’s writing; I was a newly retired Air Force Chaplain living in […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Christina Lelache
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Christina Lelache’s visual art reflection on creating your own prayer book. In her book, In the Sanctuary of Women, Jan Richardson tells about the discovery of prayer books that belonged to a convent […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Shirin McArthur
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Shirin McArthur’s reflection on liturgical dance and Embodied Prayer. Words are my stock in trade. They are a necessary and integral part of how I make my living as a writer and […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Jessica Barrett
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Jessica Barrett ‘s reflection “How I Bring Contemplative Presence to My Life and Family.” I didn’t used to be this slow. I used to rush through my mornings with a to-do list etched […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Krissy Kludt
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Krissy Kludt’s reflection and poem Of Dust and Water. Several years ago, I texted my father from a snowbound house in Tahoe, where I was spending a weekend away from my Bay […]