Day 1: Love
Prayer Cycle / Cultivating Seeds of Liberation / Day 1 Video, Audio and Written Guides for Morning and Evening Prayer Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Make A Donation Purchase the companion album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and Joy Morning Prayer Video podcast coming in 2026 OPENING PRAYER Mother/Father of Life, Maker of all […]
Introduction to Cultivating Seeds of Liberation Prayer Cycle
Prayer Cycle / Cultivating Seeds of Liberation / Introduction Table of Contents Introduction to the Prayer Cycle Abbey of the Arts is a virtual monastery and global community of monks, artists, and pilgrims dispersed all over this beautiful globe. The Abbey was founded by Christine Valters Paintner in 2006 with a vision of supporting people […]
Conversion, Wonder, and Being Surprised by God ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Tomorrow, April 7th, Simon and I will be joined by guest musician Richard Bruxvoort Colligan for our monthly Contemplative Prayer Service. Our theme this month is the 7th principle of the Monk Manifesto, Conversion. Here is an excerpt from our Monk in the World self-study retreat. Principle 7: I commit to a lifetime of ongoing conversion and transformation, recognizing […]
Holiness of Work ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Tomorrow Simon and I will be joined by guest musician and Wisdom Council member Jamie Marich for our monthly Contemplative Prayer Service. Our theme this month is the 5th principle of the Monk Manifesto. Here is an excerpt from our Monk in the World self-study retreat. Principle 5: I commit to bringing myself fully present to […]
Community + Give Me a Word ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
A Blessing for Friendship and Community*God of friendshipI come to know your love and carethrough the embodied presence of others.Weave me together with kindred spirits,knit me more closely with friends of the soul,cultivate in me a kinship with humanityso that I recognize my struggles and joys in others.In my loneliness reveal to me this communionand […]
Hospitality + The Love of Thousands Video Prayer Cycle Day 4 ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Hospitality* Holy Presence of God,you shimmer in every stranger I encounterwhether in the world or in my heart.When you came in human formyou sat at table with all those who walked the edgesof life and knew their presence as sacred.Create in me a space to welcome inall that is hard and disorienting,those moments when I […]
To Be is a Blessing: An Online Retreat for Advent
Dec 1, 2024 – Dec 2, 2024 @ 4:00 pm GMT – 6:00 pm GMT –
Christine and John Valters Paintner, Sybil MacBeth, and guest teachers
This Advent, join us for a retreat in which we cultivate a spirituality of blessing. Together we will nurture gratitude, joy, hope, and delight in the beauty of our lives in the midst of a hurting world. We won’t be denying or bypassing that woundedness but resourcing ourselves with a sense of abundance at the heart of things. We will resist a culture that strives to wear us down and leave us feeling hopeless.