Folks contact me regularly to ask what our wild monastery and wild church is about and what is on offer. Well, it keeps emerging and as a creative person that’s what I find life giving. We are not an institution… Continue Reading …
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…
Those who have been following our journey for a while, will know that a core group of contemplative companions have worked hard over the last few years to find a home base for Wild Monastery. In this process we have… 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 …
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 …
I am sorry that it has taken longer than I hoped to return to this pilgrimage journal, but here at last is a glimpse of the last fortnight and a few reflections on Palm Sunday for today. I fell asleep… Continue Reading …
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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 …