Samhain Retreat + Love of Thousands Video Prayer Cycle Day 3 ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Blessing of the Saints* May the communion of saintsshower you with blessings,may you seek their guidancein moments of illness, confusion, gratitude.We remember their own struggles,living their humanity, enfleshed and tender.We ask those across the threshold to pray for usknowing what it is to be wounded.Call on the canonized saints,Benedict, Francis, Ignatius, Hildegard,Thea Bowman, Oscar Romero,and […]
Love of Thousands Video Prayer Cycle Day 1 ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, We have two free gifts for you today! It is with great joy that we start to release the video podcasts of our Love of Thousands Prayer Cycle this week. The theme for our Day 1 morning prayer is the archangels and for evening is the guardian angels. Here one of […]
Francis and Clare and the Sacred Art of Friendship ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
A Blessing for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi*Wild and dancing God, you gave us the example of Francisto show us what it means to embody love on Earth.He danced in celebration of everything that you created:the sun, moon, stars, water, wind, earth, and fire,he called them each brother or sister,he cherished the birds, […]
Creating New Beginnings in Times of Unravelling ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
A Blessing for Hope*Dreamkeeper,bless me with vision to see the possibilities for this hurting and broken world. Help me to remember that hope is not a thingbut an action, I cannot know that what I do is of any consequence, but I must do something. I must walk in trustthat I plant seeds for others,that […]
A Midwinter God is Published! ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
God is not simply in the light, in the intelligible world, in the rational order. God is in the darkness, in the womb, in the Mother, in the chaos from which order comes . . . darkness is the womb of life. —Dom Bede Griffiths Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am thrilled to […]
St Francis and the Holy Fool
A Fool’s Blessing*God of upturned expectations,bless us with holy foolishness.Help us take ourselves less seriouslyand believe in what we did not think could be done: impossible situations,limited resources, injustices demanding rectification,traumas needing healing. Grant us a restless heart when we witness oppressionand exploitation, hunger and war,poverty and destruction. Kindle in us a need to extend […]
Writing on the Wild Edges: St. Brendan’s Voyage as Creative Guide
May 12, 2025 – May 13, 2025 @ 4:00 pm IST – 5:30 pm IST –
with Christine Valters Paintner, Simon de Voil, Nóirín Ní Riain, Deirdre Ní Chinnéide, and guest artists
Join us for a 5-day virtual journey that is part writing retreat and part inner pilgrimage. We will be exploring St. Brendan’s story as a map for our own creative process. Each day we will consider an aspect of how the story invites us into our creative practice and we will engage in various writing explorations together.