The Call to Savor + Join us for Coming Home to Your Body ~ A love note from your online abbess
Dearest monks and artists, Our upcoming online retreat for women Coming Home to Your Body starts on Monday, September 21st. I have been offering you very brief excerpts to ponder your own ways of contemplative embodiment. Here is the last installment: Only by welcoming uncertainty from the get-go can we acclimate ourselves to the shattering […]
Celebrate the Feast of St. Hildegard! ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks and artists, September 17th will be the Feast of Holy Hildegard, one of the patron saints of our work here in Abbey because of her roots as a Benedictine monk and Abbess, and her incredible commitment to creative expression and nurturing aliveness. She is featured in our upcoming online retreat for women Coming Home […]
Giving Up a Too-Small God
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Another reflection from the Abbey archives for you on expanding our understanding of the divine: Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the […]
Grief as Sacred Journey (a love note)
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, Thank you for the very moving notes so many of you sent me from my reflection last week on chronic illness as pilgrimage experience. I am continuing to break my heart open to you here and offer another difficult journey, that of the grief of losing a loved one. I […]
Sing a Rededication of Your Life (a love note)
Now it is time to sit quiet alone with You and to Sing a re-dedication of my life in this Silent and overflowing joy. —Rabindranath Tagore, “A Moment’s Indulgence” Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I offer you this excerpt from my new book The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Inner Journey. These […]
The Sacred Art of Living (a love note from your online Abbess)
John and I are leading a pilgrimage in Ireland this week, so we offer another jewel for you from the Abbey Archives: Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I was sitting in St. Ephrem, a small Orthodox stone church near the Sorbonne in Paris, listening to the sublime solo suites for cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. […]
Hildegard of Bingen and the Greening Power of God:
A Pilgrimage in Germany
with Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, OblSB and Betsey Beckman, MM September 11-19, 2022 – ONE TWIN SPACE LEFT (Male) [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] 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 waters earth wears her green vigor. –Hildegard of Bingen. Description [siteorigin_widget […]