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Abbey of the Arts 20th Anniversary Celebration!

Apr 27, 2026 @ 4:30 pm IST – 6:00 pm IST –

with Christine Valters Paintner and our Wisdom Council

Come help us celebrate 20 wonderful years of contemplative practice and creative expression with kindred spirits! It is worth a holy pause to reflect on the journey thus far.

Monk in the World Guest Post: Liz Coffman

I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Liz Coffman’s poems on being present. The poems I offer are a reflection of my experience as a “Monk in the World” navigating the daily challenges of being present and being conscious […]

Earth, Our Original Monastery Lent Retreat ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess

To Hear Our Calling Through Creation* Holy One,bless us with the wisdomto live fully as the people you created us to be,with no doubt or hesitation.Help us to become people who know our sacred purpose like an oak tree possesses majesty,an owl owns the night, a stream quietly sings,and marigolds lift their faces with joy. […]

Kinship with Creation ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess

For Kinship with Creation*God of lavish fecundity,you overflow into nature in every moment,offering your gifts of beauty and nourishment.Nurture me with sacred rhythms of light and dark,rising and falling, fullness and emptiness,as the pulse of your loving presence animates every living thing.Help me to remember my own wildnessso that I come to knowevery bird, fish, […]

Monk in the World Guest Post: Jo-ed Tome

I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Wisdom Council member Jo-ed Tome’s reflection Slower. Softer. Simpler. I did not exactly set out to become a monk. If someone had told my younger self that “monk” would one day be […]

Imbolc and the Feast of St. Brigid ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess

On Imbolc and the Feast of St. Brigid* Spirit of Rebirth,your new life pulses below the rumbling ground.Attune our earsto the renewal taking formbeneath the winter earth,snowdrops and crocusesin white and purple-petaled wonder,hedgehogs and bearsbeginning to stir from sleep. Let Brigid be our guideas we navigate the wayfrom rest to slow emergence;support us in nourishingthe […]