Julian of Norwich in Her Sick Bed ~ A Love Note and Poem Video from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am delighted to share I have a third poetry collection being published on May 9th from Paraclete Press titled Love Holds You: Poems and Devotions for Times of Uncertainty. I have long loved the wisdom of Julian but like many, when the pandemic arrived, she became my patron saint of lockdown […]
Visionary, Healer, Warrior, Sage ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dear monks, artists, and pilgrims, One of my favorite ways to do inner work is through the archetypes which are patterns or energies we find inside ourselves and appear across the globe in different traditions. They come to us as dreams, longings, synchronicities. I’ve written about them more extensively in Illuminating the Way where I connect archetypes […]
The Spiral Year and the Celtic Seasons ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Join Simon de Voil and me for an online retreat next Sunday April 23rd hosted by OneSpirit Seminary where we will be exploring the Spiral Year and the Celtic seasons. This is an excerpt from my book The Soul’s Slow Ripening: 12 Celtic Practices for Seeking the Sacred: Sacred Rhythms of the Earth The […]
Origins + Mourning Pages ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am delighted to share I have a third poetry collection being published on May 9th from Paraclete Press titled Love Holds You: Poems and Devotions for Times of Uncertainty. This poem is a series of questions that emerged from a moment of reverie and wondering for me. The whole collection is […]
The Meaning of Manna ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, We are delighted to welcome poet and author Nikki Grimes for a poetry reading tomorrow from her new collection Glory in the Margins. For today’s love note we are sharing one of her poems below from this collection. It is a poem about what we need to be truly nourished and how so […]
Hildy Tail: The Weary Prophet (1 Kings 19:1-10)
This week we are featuring one of our Hildy Tails. This series of essays were composed last year for our Sustainers Circle. They were dictated to John by the Abbey’s mascot, Hildy the Monk-ey. Hildy is a bit of a free spirit who likes to entertain and doesn’t normally feel constrained by conventional story structure […]
The Inexpressible Delight of Love: St. Benedict of Nursia ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Next Saturday I am delighted to be leading a retreat on one of my favorite monks and mystics, St. Benedict. This reflection is excerpted from my book Illuminating the Way: Embracing the Wisdom of Monks and Mystics: But as we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on […]