Dancing St. Brendan (a love note from your online Abbess)
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Today is the Feast of St. Patrick, a national holiday here in Ireland, and quite a time of celebration. I admit that I have some mixed feelings about Patrick, in part because the celebrating is often an excuse to drink heavily, and because there are so many amazing Irish Saints, […]
Invitation to Poetry: Return to me with your whole heart
Welcome to Poetry Party #76! I select an image (*photo above by PhotoJoy Photography) and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below or join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group and post there. Feel free to take your poem […]
Heart-Centered Practice (a love note from your online Abbess)
To receive this love note straight to your in-box, subscribe here (and also receive a gift!) Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, “Return to me with your whole heart.” This is the image and invitation with which we are resting for Lent at the Abbey (see our community lectio divina and this week’s invitation to photography). Lent is an invitation […]
Abbey Bookshelf: ‘The Wisdom Way of Knowing’ by Cynthia Bourgeault
There are so many rich resources on the contemplative life available to us. Here at the Abbey we are going to start offering an occasional review of books we think are especially worth exploring, starting with The Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart* by Cynthia Bourgeault. This review is […]
In Praise of Circles (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!) In Praise of Circles “I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world.” – Rainer Maria Rilke Friends around the dinner table their mouths making “o”s of delight and laughter, plates piled with new […]
Creative Joy (a love note from your online Abbess)
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, The 8th principle of the Monk Manifesto reads: I commit to being a dancing monk, cultivating creative joy and letting my body and “heart overflow with the inexpressible delights of love.” I share some of the reflection here this week as a reminder for each of us to practice gratitude, contentment, […]
“Please can I have a God” (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!) Please can I have a God (after Selima Hill) not fossilized, hardened, stiff, unshaken, not contained in creeds and testimonies, judgments and stone tablets, but in the wound breaking open. Please can I have a God who asks me […]