Embrace the Wisdom of the Sacred Feminine ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am back home in Ireland now after my six weeks away for surgery and recovery in Vienna. I am really grateful to be back with sweet Sourney and the quiet rhythms and comforts of home. My body still needs more healing time so I will keep going slowly in […]
Yoga with Melinda: Gather in Community
Jun 23, 2022 @ 3:00 pm IST – 4:00 pm IST – with Melinda Thomas Thursday, June 23, 20223-4 pm Ireland/UK time10-11am Eastern7-8am Pacific Register Now Program Overview In honor of International Yoga Day on June 21st, we will gather together and celebrate our yoga practice in community. Cultivating community is one of the principles of the Abbey’s Monk Manifesto. When we join together for asana we […]
Cause of Our Joy: She Who is the Source of Delight ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, On Monday, May 2nd we will be hosting a contemplative prayer service that will also serve as a launch of my new book, the companion album, and our wonderful new prayer cycle on Mary and the Wisdom of the Sacred Feminine. In celebration of these resources being birthed into the world, I offer you an excerpt […]
Easter and the Elements ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Happy Easter and Feast of the Resurrection! I am delighted to share that my assistant Melinda, whom you may know from our online programs and yoga practices, is leading a mini-retreat on Saturday, April 23rd themed around yoga and the elements. Read on for her reflection on Easter and the 5 great […]
The Space Between ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Today we enter Holy Week. This week ahead in the Christian scriptures invites us into a world full of betrayal, abandonment, mockery, violence, and ultimately death. The Triduum, those three sacred days which constitute one unfolding liturgy, call us to experience communion, loss, and the border spaces of unknowing. Holy Saturday […]
A Poetic and Mythic Approach to Mary ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am thrilled that my book Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal is being published this Friday, April 8th. (Also mark your calendars for our May 2nd contemplative prayer service where I will be joined by Simon de Voil, Soyinka Rahim, Betsey Beckman, and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan to launch my book, the album, […]
Lift Every Voice: Contemplative Writers of Color – April Video Discussion and Book Group Materials Now Available
Join Abbey of the Arts for a monthly conversation on how increasing our diversity of perspectives on contemplative practice can enrich our understanding and experience of the Christian mystical tradition. Christine Valters Paintner is joined by author Claudia Love Mair for a series of video conversations. Each month they take up a new book by or about a […]