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Contemplative Prayer Service: Kinship with Creation

Jan 6, 2025 @ 5:00 pm GMT – 6:00 pm GMT –

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and guest musician Deirdre Ní Chinnéide

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will lead music and Christine Valters Paintner will lead reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month’s theme is Kinship with Creation.

Contemplative Prayer Service: Community

Dec 9, 2024 @ 5:00 pm GMT – 6:00 pm GMT –

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and guest musician Te Martin

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will be leading music and Christine Valters Paintner will be leading reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month’s theme is Community.

Contemplative Prayer Service: Hospitality

Nov 4, 2024 @ 5:00 pm GMT – 6:00 pm GMT –

with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, and guest musician Dena Jennings

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will be leading music and Christine Valters Paintner will be leading reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month’s theme is Hospitality.

Contemplative Prayer Service: Silence and Solitude

Oct 7, 2024 @ 5:00 pm IST – 6:00 pm IST –

with Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil

Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will be leading music and Christine Valters Paintner will be leading reflection and lectio divina or other meditative practice. Each month we will explore a principle of the Monk Manifesto. This month’s theme is Silence and Solitude.

Writing as a Spiritual Practice: A 28-Day Creative Journey

Aug 21, 2024 @ 4:00 pm IST – 6:00 pm IST –

with Christine Valters Paintner

This 28 day program begins with a 2-hour online retreat led by Christine who will guide you through different exercises to help you yield to the process of writing as a journey of discovery, rather than holding too tightly to the end product. Following the opening live retreat there will be 27 days of writing prompts designed to take about 15 minutes a day to cultivate a writing practice. This is a generative program, we are not here to edit our work, but to show up for the Creative Source when we slow down and listen to what is erupting in the silence.

The Love of Thousands

A 14 week companion retreat to the book The Love of Thousands exploring angels, saints, and ancestors. This retreat is led by Christine Valters Paintner and guest teachers.