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 […]
Homecoming (a love note from your online Abbess)
My final question, ‘How will I know when I have reached the destination?’ brings me full circle, and I face the Mystery again. Perhaps the truth is that we never arrive, not because the journey is too long and too difficult but because we have been there all along. I am coming to believe that […]
Orchard and Forest (a love note)
Dearest monks and artists, This is proving to be a powerful Advent season for me. My husband and I have made the discernment to move to the west coast of Ireland at the end of December and so this threshold time left here in Vienna has become a profound opportunity for retreat, turning inward, savoring […]
Life Impulse and Death Impulse
To receive this love note from your online Abbess direct to your in-box, click here: “And how would God be known as the Eternal One if brilliance did not emerge from God? For there is no creature without some kind of radiance–whether it be greenness, seeds, buds, or another kind of beauty.” —St. Hildegard of […]