Monk in the World Guest Post: Monette Chilson
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Monette Chilson’s reflection “Monk in the Darkness.” It is hard to be a monk in the dark. Our old ways don’t work. We bump, flail and wail in our blindness. We can easily get stuck […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Sibyl Reynolds
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Sibyl Reynolds’ reflection Gifts from Mary and Martha: Sacred Practices for a Recollected Life. Many people today are experiencing a call to live a contemplative life. The human spirit longs for peace, serenity, connection with the […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Anne Buck
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Anne Buck’s reflection on “In Between Light and Dark.” It was the middle of the night and I was asleep. But maybe, just possibly I was awake. Maybe it was the pain medication or the muscle relaxant. […]
Feast of Pentecost and Embracing Holy Surprise ~ A love note from your online abbess
Dearest monks and artists, “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 of His creation, and if we could […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Lacy Clark Ellman
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Lacy Clark Ellman’s reflection on pilgrimage. I first learned about Iona while in graduate school. Even though I’d spent six months studying abroad in the UK in college, I never made it up to Scotland. Instead […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Richard Bruxvoort Colligan’s reflection on a St. Francis Life. Lord, Make Me… You Franciscans out there will likely complete that sentence “…an instrument (or a channel) of your peace.” If you’re hungry, you might finish the sentence […]
Do you have the soul of a pilgrim? ~ A love note from your online abbess
Dearest monks and artists, Two years ago I published my book The Soul of a Pilgrim which developed out of my own lifelong love of journeying. My father worked for the United Nations when I was a child and we had the privilege of traveling back to Austria where he was from, as well as other […]