Practicing Resurrection (a love note from your online Abbess)
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am still traveling and teaching, so this week I offer you a reprise of another article I wrote for Patheos last year on Practicing Resurrection this Easter season: Lent is a powerful season of transformation. Forty days in the desert, stripped of our comforts, and buoyed by our commitment […]
Easter Blessings! (a love note from your online Abbess)
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Joyous blessings on this celebration of Easter and the season of resurrection stretching out before us! I am in the midst of some travels in the U.S. for about a month which began with a lovely visit to my sister-in-law in South Carolina, and now I am heading to Santa […]
“Soul Awakes and Sings” (a love note from your online Abbess)
“Even under its burden / the soul awakes and sings” —Trish Bruxvoort Colligan, from her song “Soul Awakes and Sings” off her just about to be released album Wild Acre) We must risk delight. . . We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure […]
Gifts of Slowness (a love note from your online Abbess)
To receive this love note straight to your in-box, subscribe here (and also receive a gift!) “The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself […]
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 […]