Prayer Cycles
We are delighted to share with you six weeks of 7-day Prayer Cycle (with morning and evening prayers) as a gift to our Abbey of the Arts community to support you in your daily contemplative practice. The first cycle is on the theme of Earth, Our Original Monastery, the second cycle is on becoming a […]
Visual Art Collaborations
Visual Art Collaborations Dancing Monks by Marcy Hall Mary Block Prints by Kreg Yingst Monk in the World by Quynh Nguyen Sacred Time by Alexi Francis Saints & Animals by David Hollington
Renewing a Love for Earth in Challenging Times ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dear monks, artists, and pilgrims, This week’s love note is an excerpt from a written interview that Bearings, the journal of the Collegeville Institute, posted with me this week about my newest book Earth, Our Original Monastery. _____ In the book’s introduction you identify your vocation as contemplative. How do you engage with the existential […]
Easter Blessings from Abbey of the Arts ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
How to Be a Pilgrim – Poem Video from Christine Valters Paintner on Vimeo. Dear monks, artists and pilgrims, Lent is a powerful season of transformation. Forty days in the desert, stripped of our comforts, and buoyed by our commitment to daily practice so that we might arrive at the celebration of Easter deepened and […]
Let art, poetry, and music hold you in the paradox of these times ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
In a Dark Time Do not rush to make meaning. When you smile and say what purpose this all serves, you deny grief a room inside you, you turn from thousands who cross into the Great Night alone, from mourners aching to press one last time against the warm flesh of their beloved, from the […]
Love Note, Novena, and Praise Song for the Pandemic ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, This is a special love note because these are special times. During this Jubilee year we have been sharing our Monk in the World retreat content in this space and you will find this week’s below. But I felt moved to write to you directly. The global disruption happening demands […]
Introduction to the Earth Monastery Prayer Cycle
Prayer Cycle / Earth Monastery / Introduction Table of Contents Prayer Cycle Leader Resources Buy Earth Monastery book Journey with the Companion Retreat Introduction to the Prayer Cycle Abbey of the Arts is a virtual monastery and global community of monks, artists, and pilgrims dispersed all over this beautiful globe. The Abbey was founded by […]