Earth Your Dancing Place (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!) Earth Your Dancing Place (excerpt) Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place —May Swenson, Nature: Poems Old and New Dearest Monks […]
Virtual Book Tour: Review At Sense of the Faithful
Next stop on the Virtual Book Tour is a review by Peg Conway at Sense of the Faithful: An inspiring new book by Christine Valters Paintner called Eyes of the Heart: Photography as a Christian Contemplative Practice provides a transformative path for the digital age. Christine is the founder and abbess of the virtual Abbey […]
Virtual Book Tour: Interview at A Year of Rejoicing
Yesterday’s stop on the Virtual Book Tour was at Louise Gallgher’s blog A Year of Rejoicing. Louise participated in my Lenten retreat last year and I was blessed by her joyful spirit. We talked about a number of things, including what it means to be a monk in the world, how I discovered my own inner […]
Landscape Mysticism (a love note from your online Abbess)
Dearest monks and artists, I have been back from Vienna for a week now, enjoying settling back into my life in Galway, and listening for how this time away has shaped me. Pilgrimage always changes us because it always brings us to an encounter with the Holy. As I return to Ireland, I find myself […]
A New Name (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!) Dearest monks and artists, I am back in Galway after two magical weeks in Vienna. This past week, Kayce Hughlett and I were leading our first ever retreat in Vienna, exploring the beauty of the city through the […]
“Don’t go by the numbers” (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!) Things to Think Think in ways you’ve never thought before. If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message Larger than anything you’ve ever heard, Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats. Think that someone may […]
The Greening Path (a love note from your online Abbess)
Given, VI We travelers, walking to the sun, can’t see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing brightly lit, keep going toward That blessed light that yet to us is […]