The Cloud of Unknowing and the Greening Power of Contemplation ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Last spring I received an email from my editor at Broadleaf Books to connect me with Carmen Acevedo Butcher who had a new translation of Brother Lawrence’s writings out. That connection was such a gift as I have been a fan of Carmen’s work for years, having especially loved her […]
Love Holds You Poetry and WritingMini-Retreat ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Whatever I Find hidden among the stones piled by lake’s edge — a beetle, a coin, a candy wrapper — let it be a portent, a cypher. Let me seek a new direction among what is hidden, lost, discarded, rather than always grasping at some bright, invisible future. —Christine Valters Paintner, Love Holds You: Poems […]
Transfiguration and Program Updates
A Blessing for Transfiguration Radiant God, open our eyes to all the ways the sacred shimmers before us, how gold pours forth from the robin’s throat, how sunlight returns each morning, how the moon glitters across still water, how laughter around the table kindles joy, how kindness can change lives. Free us from our need […]
A Different Kind of Fast: Lent Retreat 2024 ~ An Online Companion Retreat to the Book
Feb 14, 2024 – Feb 15, 2024 @ 4:00 pm GMT – 5:00 pm GMT –
with Christine & John Valters Paintner, Amanda Dillon, and Jamie Marich
These are fasts from certain ways of being in the world which can deplete us and increase our anxiety and suffering. We don’t just abstain from them, but also embrace their antidote which lead us to identify our true hungers. This Lent we will live more fully into a vibrant state of being so that we are resourced to bring our unique creative gifts into the world.
The Love of Thousands: Honoring Angels, Saints, and Ancestors ~ An Online Companion Retreat to the Book
Jan 15, 2024 – Jan 16, 2024 @ 3:00 pm GMT – 4:00 pm GMT –
with Christine & John Valters Paintner, Betsey Beckman, and guest teachers
We will be standing on the threshold between worlds, courting connection with all those well and wise ones who dwell beneath the surface of everyday awareness.
Day 7 Mary Prayer Cycle + Summer Sabbatical ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, This week we are pleased release the final video podcast for the Birthing the Holy Prayer Cycle. Day 7 Morning and Evening Prayer honor Madonna Protectress and Mirror of Justice. Here is an excerpt from Day 7 Evening: Opening Prayer Mirror of Justice, you lift up all those on the margins; reflect […]
Entering a Relationship with Radiance + Day 6 Mary Prayer Cycle
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, We have three treats for you this week! The next installment of our Mary Prayer Cycle video podcasts is now available. Last Spring we created a prayer cycle and audio podcast series to accompany my book Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal. Today we continue our release of […]