The River of Grief and the Well of Love (a love note)
To receive this love note from your online Abbess direct to your email in-box each week subscribe here: “So don’t be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that […]
Orchard and Forest (a love note)
Dearest monks and artists, This is proving to be a powerful Advent season for me. My husband and I have made the discernment to move to the west coast of Ireland at the end of December and so this threshold time left here in Vienna has become a profound opportunity for retreat, turning inward, savoring […]
Abbey Bookshelf: Season of Mystery by Paula Huston
I adore Paula Huston’s work and wise spirit. She is a fellow monastic oblate and writer of several books on spiritual practice, including one of my favorites The Holy Way: Practices for a Simple Life. I had the gift of participating in a writing workshop with her several years ago in New Mexico. Her new […]
December: A CinemaDivina Prayer Offering
Abbey of the Arts is thrilled to offer another beautiful CinemaDivina meditation for this month of December. Marilyn Freeman is a fellow pilgrim on the Benedictine path and she offers this videos as a way of inviting us to pray visually through the medium of film. (You can read her description of it here). Give […]
Following the Thread
There is a thread I have been following these last few months while living in Vienna which I haven’t yet shared with you, mostly because of my own amazement and wanting to respect the call without putting too many words and explanations to it. It began in late summer when two different online monk friends […]
The “great hands of your heart”
Excerpt I am praying again, Awesome One. You hear me again, as words from the depths of me rush toward you in the wind. . . It’s here in all the pieces of my shame that now I find myself again. I yearn to belong to something, to be contained in an all-embracing mind that […]
Silence as a Door to Reverence:
A CinemaDivina Prayer Offering
The theme for September here at the Abbey is silence based on the first principle of the Monk Manifesto: “I commit to finding moments each day for silence and solitude, to make space for another voice to be heard, and to resist a culture of noise and constant stimulation.” (Please consider stopping by to sign the […]