Winter is a quieter time in both the monastery of the wild and for our Wild Monastery. See below for our endings & new beginnings, as 2023 draws to a close and 2024 approaches…
Update: since this post was written much has changed… again! As I write now, just over a year later, our hopes for a Scilly Wild Monastery have been let go. The property on St Agnes turned out to have significant… Continue Reading …
In our Community of Sophia & Mary gathering today we returned to our matrons, with a focus on Sophia. Sometimes it can be hard to connect with Her. Many of us have grown up not really knowing well the Biblical… Continue Reading …
Wild Monastery and River Dart Wild Church have some good harvests to celebrate this autumn, in the form of an ever growing collection of offerings, gatherings and collaborations. See below for a cornucopia of this term’s dates, all gathered together… Continue Reading …
I concluded my ‘forty days in the wilderness’ during the second week of Eastertide. On Monday I left Edinburgh for Cumbria and then concluded my ‘monastery crawl’ in a Franciscan house (above) near Worcester, before arriving back in rural Devon… Continue Reading …
On Easter Monday I left the monastery on Unst and began my slow return journey to Devon. This would take me most of a fortnight, so I will divide it between two journal entries here. I also returned to posting… Continue Reading …
Following Palm Sunday I went into retreat for Holy Week, first on the remote Shetland Isle of Fetlar and then on the ‘most northerly’ monastery back on Unst. Below is a little a taste of this time, which lay at… Continue Reading …
Wild Holy Week Retreat
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Since returning from my ‘wild monastery pilgrimage’ in late April, I’ve been back at work and also taking time for some deep discernment into what the Holy One – Blessed be She – is calling me into for this next… Continue Reading …