Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Poetry Video~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved – Poem Video from Christine Valters Paintner on Vimeo. Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (after Nazim Hikmet) I never knew how much I loved heavy rain on a Sunday morning curled in bed with coffee a Morse code tapping the windows telling me I have no reason to […]
Nocturne (a new poetry video) ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Nocturne – Poem Video from Christine Valters Paintner on Vimeo. Nocturne Sometimes I awaken at night although still in a dream and the air around me is violet. Here in the heart of the forest I am elegance of swan, fierceness of bear, sweetness of squirrel, I am all these things under night’s generous embrace, […]
The Wisdom of Wild Grace: A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
The Wisdom of Wild Grace from Christine Valters Paintner on Vimeo. Dearest monks and artists, In these dark and difficult days the one thing that continues to offer me solace and strength is time spent in nature, in growing intimacy with Earth and her wisdom. We try to make time during our weekly Sabbath for […]
Earth Monastery Prayer Cycle ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks and artists, We are back after a monthlong break in our email newsletters. It is always good for us to have this sabbatical from our communications, to be able to turn inward a bit more and to give some time and energy to other projects. We are thrilled to be launching our newest […]
Day 7: Earth as the Original Liturgy
Prayer Cycle / Earth Monastery / Day 7 Video, Audio and Written Guides for Morning and Evening Prayer Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Make A Donation Buy Earth Monastery book Journey with the Companion Retreat Morning Prayer OPENING PRAYER We pray this morning, joining in with the great unfolding liturgy of praise already being sung all […]
Join us for a Summer Online Retreat! + Newsletter Sabbatical ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dancing Monks at Abbey of the Arts from Christine Valters Paintner on Vimeo. Dear monks, artists and pilgrims, We are so grateful to the 35 dancing monks who sent us videos telling us what they loved about Abbey of the Arts. We are even more thrilled to have representatives from the United States, Canada, Ireland, […]
Pentecost and Holy Surprise ~ A Love Note from your Online Abbess
Dearest monks and artists, Today’s Pentecost reflection comes from the Abbey Archives. “What is serious to men is often very trivial in the sight of God. What in God might appear to us as ‘play’ is perhaps what He Himself takes most seriously. At any rate the Lord plays and diverts Himself in the garden […]