Contemplative Prayer Service
Apr 4, 2022 @ 7:00 pm IST – 8:00 pm IST – with Simon de Voil and Polly Paton-Brown Monday, April 4, 2022 – Holy Fool 7-8pm pm Ireland/UK time2-3pm Eastern time11-12pm Pacific time Register Now Program Description Join us on the first Monday of every month via Zoom for a contemplative prayer service. Simon de Voil will be leading music and Polly Paton-Brown will be leading […]
The Refreshment of Sabbath ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, When I moved to Seattle in 2003 one of the first people I met was Rabbi Zari Weiss through a mutual friend who introduced us. Zari quickly became a dear friend, especially when my mother died soon after moving, and she was one of the few people I knew at […]
Honoring the Equinox (Join us for Yoga & a Writing Retreat) ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, The autumn equinox falls officially on Wednesday in the northern hemisphere, a time when the sun rests above the equator, and day and night are divided equally. It heralds a season filled with change, celebrates the harvest, and ushers in the brilliant beauty of death. Autumn is a season of […]
Creative Flourishing with Hildegard of Bingen ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Fire of the Holy Spirit,life of the life of every creature,holy are you in giving life to forms.Rivers spring forth from the watersearth wears her green vigor. –Hildegard of Bingen Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am delighted to be offering a mini-retreat with Betsey Beckman celebrating St. Hildegard of Bingen on her feast day this […]
Joy Unspeakable ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, We have a new featured book for September in our Lift Every Voice Book Club – Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church by Dr. Barbara Holmes. You can listen to the conversation Claudia Love Mair and I had about the book at this link. (And you can join us for a community conversation on September […]
Queerness and Contemplative Living ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am currently reading Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith by Mihee Kim-Kort. In her introduction she describes queerness as three things: First, it is a posture which transgresses boundaries, specifically around gender and sexuality but also beyond these. Second, it is playfulness, it experiments, it recognizes “the Holy Spirit in […]
Contemplation and Justice ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, My word for this year is humility. It shimmered for me because I knew in the heart of these challenging times I have so much still to learn, much wisdom to glean and integrate. A commitment to always being on the journey is the heart of the monastic virtue of […]