#monasticism — Public Fediverse posts

Notes from underground: Father Seraphim Rose and 20th-Century Orthodoxy
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2026/05/father-seraphim-rose-and-20th-century.html

#Orthodox #theology #SeraphimRose #monasticism

Notes from underground: Father Seraphim Rose and 20th-Century Orthodoxy
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2026/05/father-seraphim-rose-and-20th-century.html

#Orthodox #theology #SeraphimRose #monasticism

Notes from underground: Father Seraphim Rose and 20th-Century Orthodoxy
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2026/05/father-seraphim-rose-and-20th-century.html

#Orthodox #theology #SeraphimRose #monasticism

I have started publishing a #Substack called Passages, where I document some of this pilgrimage I am on to find a suitable place for monastic ordination:

https://passagepassage.substack.com/

I would love to know what you think by reading your comments here or on the newsletter.

Everything on there is free to read, or you can subscribe for a donation to support my work and journey.

#substack #newsletter #blogging #memoir #Buddhism #monasticism #ordination

One of the world's most sacred places is being turned into a luxury mega-resort

https://bbc.com/news/articles/c707kx2nk7go
#Egypt #Greece #Orthodox #monasticism

Egypt Closes St. Catherine’s Monastery: Confiscates Its Property and Evicts the Monks

https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/05/29/egypt-closes-st-catherines-monastery-confiscates-its-property-and-evicts-the-monks/
#Christianity #Egypt #monks #monasticism

Today's blog post is on medieval prayer gestures in mostly Dominican circles

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

#prayer #Monasticism #Gesture #AcademicChatter #Medieval #blog #Research

New Medieval Books: The Romance of Mont St. Michel, translated by Thomas E. Vesce https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/new-medieval-books-the-romance-of-mont-st-michel/ #medievalbooks #monasticism #MontStMichel

New Medieval Books: The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History, by Andrew Jotischky https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/new-medieval-books-the-monastic-world/ #monasticism #books #Christianity

Been genuinely wondering how far #monasticism could #scale up, to the size of an entire town, city, country, etc.

I love the [idea of a] #contemplative life, and am curious to know how #sustainable it could be, eg. combined with growing #organic food locally, doing our own making and mending, and not having to stink up the atmosphere with cars commuting to distant bullshit jobs any more.

CHICAGO AREA FRIENDS:

I'm speaking at #Northwestern tomorrow (Thurs 10/24/24) on "What the Nuns Heard:
The Politics of Sound in the Observant Reform of Kirchheim unter Teck"

It's at 4p in the Bienen School of Music

#Nuntastic #Soundscape #Music #Medieval
#Histodons #Monasticism #Dominicans #ObservantReforms #15thc #CountsBehavingBadly #AmWriting

Comics for Monks has updated! https://monks.bone.blue

#polytheism #paganism #pagan #monasticism #NewMonasticism #minimalism #VoluntarySimplicity #NoPoo #GreenLiving #ZeroWaste

Interests
#ContemplativePrayer #Monasticism #Theology #Bible #Trees #Walking #Poetry #Reading #Writing #Making #OffbeatMaths #Deutsch #Cymraeg #Alto

Home
#Exeter #Devon #UK #Europe

Work
#Director #TeaLady #CodeMonkey @WebsitesAhoy

Misspent adult years
#Maths #EnvironmentalScience #EnergyPolicy #Economics #WeatherAndHealth #EcoConsultancy

I've been here 10 months, so it was time I pinned an introduction!

Hello brave new mastodony world! I guess I'll introduce myself for posterity:

I'm a #polytheist #pagan and practicing #zen #buddhist #mexicayotl (a revived #religion based on the traditions of my ancestors in #mexico). I mostly talk about #theology, #history, #meditation, #art and #arttheory, #antihumanism and #posthumanism, #decolonialism, #transrights, #ancestorwork, and #monasticism among other things.

Hoping to get to know some folks here, as well as lure more people away from Twatter 👀

#introduction!

I am a professor of #medieval #history at #standrews.

My research interests are #monasticism and #nuns and I particularly love to combine textual sources and #archaeology.

#nuntastic #histodon #manuscripts #bioarchaeology

When I am not working I love #coastalrowing for #Crail

CHICAGO AREA FRIENDS:

I'm speaking at #Northwestern tomorrow (Thurs 10/24/24) on "What the Nuns Heard:
The Politics of Sound in the Observant Reform of Kirchheim unter Teck"

It's at 4p in the Bienen School of Music

#Nuntastic #Soundscape #Music #Medieval
#Histodons #Monasticism #Dominicans #ObservantReforms #15thc #CountsBehavingBadly #AmWriting

CHICAGO AREA FRIENDS:

I'm speaking at #Northwestern tomorrow (Thurs 10/24/24) on "What the Nuns Heard:
The Politics of Sound in the Observant Reform of Kirchheim unter Teck"

It's at 4p in the Bienen School of Music

#Nuntastic #Soundscape #Music #Medieval
#Histodons #Monasticism #Dominicans #ObservantReforms #15thc #CountsBehavingBadly #AmWriting

CHICAGO AREA FRIENDS:

I'm speaking at #Northwestern tomorrow (Thurs 10/24/24) on "What the Nuns Heard:
The Politics of Sound in the Observant Reform of Kirchheim unter Teck"

It's at 4p in the Bienen School of Music

#Nuntastic #Soundscape #Music #Medieval
#Histodons #Monasticism #Dominicans #ObservantReforms #15thc #CountsBehavingBadly #AmWriting

CHICAGO AREA FRIENDS:

I'm speaking at #Northwestern tomorrow (Thurs 10/24/24) on "What the Nuns Heard:
The Politics of Sound in the Observant Reform of Kirchheim unter Teck"

It's at 4p in the Bienen School of Music

#Nuntastic #Soundscape #Music #Medieval
#Histodons #Monasticism #Dominicans #ObservantReforms #15thc #CountsBehavingBadly #AmWriting

New Medieval Books: Hariulf’s History of St Riquier https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/new-medieval-books-hariulfs-history-of-st-riquier/ #books #medieval #monasticism

New Medieval Books: Monasticism in Ireland, by Edel Bhreathnach https://www.medievalists.net/2024/10/new-medieval-books-monasticism-in-ireland/ #Books #IrishHistory #Monasticism

A new blog post, this one on Political Scientist Sean Gray’s typology of political silences

#silence #PoliticalTheory #Monasticism #AmWriting #AcWri #AcademicChatter

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

I never did an #introduction post, so it looks like now is a good time.

Hi. I'm Rebecca.

I'm a #teacher, primarily high school English #literacy / #ELA with predominantly second-language speakers. #HabloEspañol. I work in #ChristianEd. I'm interested in everything #education and #pedagogy. Alumna of #ClearTheAir.

My formal training is in #linguistics. I know enough #ASL to get myself into trouble but not out of it. Sign name R-dimple in my local community.

I'm a misfit #Christian who grew up fundamentalist, went liberal Baptist for two years, became a classic case of Young, Restless, and #Reformed (but still Baptist), and am now learning to have no heroes but Jesus. The #Bible is good; #theology is not an intellectual exercise. Holding religious freedom and soul liberty together with a historically Christian sexual ethic. Miss the high church liturgy. #Monasticism-curious. Hate abuse, love survivors. #Missionary sent to the Dominican Republic.

I'm currently learning #photography and currently trying for a year of #WeeklyPhotoChallenge to practice my skills.

It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine. #GoBlue 〽️

(PS I manually approve follower requests for everybody's safety- it's a teacher thing - but the lock icon doesn't mean my account is private 😊)

Finished my longest water fast yet - due to bad math I thought it was going to be 36 hours, but turned out to be 40.

Vivid dreams returned last night and keto flu hit bad this morning, so I ended the fast with gentle protein. Was spiritually rewarding, fruitful, and challenging.

Yesterday the month of Toxcatl ended, and the confessionary is closed again for another year, which was the occasion for the fast.

#pagan #polytheist #mexicayotl #Aztec #Mexica #contemplation #monasticism

A recent #BookHaul:

- Listening Below the Silence by Anne D. LeClaire
- The Monk Withhin by Beverley Lanzetta
- Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye by Rudolf Arnheim
- The Shamanic Bones of Zen by Zenju EarthLink Manuel
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- A Feast of Prayers by Beverly Lanzetta
- The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution by Micah White

#bookstodon #art #zen #monasticism #contemplation #politics

“To be a monk meant to engage with texts, be it through writing, interpretation, or enacting in practice.”

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/monasticism-and-the-city-in-late-antiquity-and-the-early-middle-ages/38CBB3E9ED81B916BB54A6FF4037C778

#monasticism #histodons #historynerd

I teach book 8 of John Cassian's Institutes, "On The Spirit of Anger" in my Anger and Justice class. I've created a set of new core concept videos on that text. Here's the first one!

https://youtu.be/YiO_SLJ9dSo
#Anger #Video #Cassian #Philosophy #Monasticism #Emotion #Vice #Wrath

Gee, how is AI going to impact the world of #Buddhism? And #Buddhist #monasticism?

"AI is Evolving Faster Than You Think [GPT-4 and beyond]"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIU48QL5Cyk

What assurance is there that every click, every tap in Operating Systems like Windows, MacOS, iPadOS, iOS, Android, ChromeOS, etc. are *not* being sent back to the "motherships" for training all these AIs?

Many jobs are predicted to be impacted - and everyone may be blindly contributing to the training:

Comics for Monks updated! https://monks.bone.blue

#pagan #polytheist #monasticism #contemplation #fasting #spirituality #huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #chicano #ChicanoSpirituality

"11 June 1912
Talk at 309 West Seventy-eighth Street, New York
Notes by Emma C. Melick

"Man must be lofty in endeavor. He must seek to become heavenly and spiritual, to find the pathway to the threshold of God and become acceptable in the sight of God. This is eternal glory — to be near to God. This is eternal sovereignty — to be imbued with the virtues of the human world. This is boundless blessing — to be entirely sanctified and holy above every stain and dross.

"Consider the human world. See how nations have come and gone. They have been of all minds and purposes. Some were mere captives of self and desire, engulfed in the passions of the lower nature. They attained to wealth, to the comforts of life, to fame. And what was the final outcome? Utter evanescence and oblivion. Reflect upon this. Look upon it with the eye of admonition. No trace of them remains, no fruit, no result, no benefit; they have gone utterly — complete effacement.

"Souls have appeared in the world who were pure and undefiled, who have directed their attention toward God, seeking the reward of God, attaining nearness to the threshold of God, acceptable in the good pleasure of God. They have been the lights of guidance and stars of the Supreme Concourse. Consider these souls, shining like stars in the horizon of sanctity forevermore.

"It must not be implied that one should give up avocation and attainment to livelihood. On the contrary, in the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh monasticism and asceticism are not sanctioned. In this great Cause the light of guidance is shining and radiant. Bahá’u’lláh has even said that occupation and labor are devotion. All humanity must obtain a livelihood by sweat of the brow and bodily exertion, at the same time seeking to lift the burden of others, striving to be the source of comfort to souls and facilitating the means of living. This in itself is devotion to God. Bahá’u’lláh has thereby encouraged action and stimulated service. But the energies of the heart must not be attached to these things; the soul must not be completely occupied with them. Though the mind is busy, the heart must be attracted toward the Kingdom of God in order that the virtues of humanity may be attained from every direction and source.

"We have forsaken the path of God; we have given up attention to the divine Kingdom; we have not severed the heart from worldly attractions; we have become defiled with qualities which are not praiseworthy in the sight of God; we are so completely steeped in material issues and tendencies that we are not partakers of the virtues of humanity.

"Little reflection, little admonition is necessary for us to realize the purpose of our creation. What a heavenly potentiality God has deposited within us! What a power God has given our spirits! He has endowed us with a power to penetrate the realities of things; but we must be self-abnegating, we must have pure spirits, pure intentions, and strive with heart and soul while in the human world to attain everlasting glory.

"I have come for the purpose of admonition and voicing the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh. It is my hope that His will and guidance may influence your spirits, souls and hearts, causing them to become pure, holy, sanctified and illumined and making you lamps of heavenly illumination to the world. This is my desire; this is my hope through the assistance of God."

- The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by `Abdu'l-Bahá During His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912

https://www.bahai.org/r/802542636

#Religion #Bahai #Detachment #Monasticism #Service

Comics for Monks #2 is up! https://monks.bone.blue/

#pagan #polytheist #polytheism #animism #buddhism #philosophy #meaning #contemplation #monasticism #religious #spiritual #SpiritualArt

An #Introduction post:

I’m Pat. I work as an #EngineeringManager in #QualityEngineering. We are a #DevOps / #LeanStartup system.

I’m also an #Adjunct instructor in a masters program in #Seattle, teaching courses that touch on issues in #SpiritualFormation, #Spirituality, #CelticChristianity, #Pilgrimage, #DigitalPersonhood, #Contemplative, #Monasticism, #TransformationalLeadership, #ServantLeadership.

Hobbies: #MountainBiking, #mtb, #powerlifting, #urbansketching, #motorcycling, #overlanding.

"How can we speak of these things, Gerondissa?
You cannot understand. Our tongues cannot speak such things; we cannot describe it. It is something heavenly! Oh, what happens during the Divine Liturgy! Angels, archangels! The church fills with more angels than the number of our breaths."

- Geronda Gabriel of the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration in Flamourios

#quote #angels #christianity #OrthodoxChristianity #GreekOrthodox #monasticism #mysticism

Through the prayers of our holy desert mothers, especially saint Mary of Egypt who we faithful celebrate this time of year, Lord Jesus Christ our God have mercy on us and save us ✝️☦️✝️
Amen
#SaintMaryOfEgypt #MaryOfEgypt #DesertMother #Monasticism #Christianity #Catholic #Catholicism #OrthodoxChristianity

An #Introduction post:

I’m Pat. I work as an #EngineeringManager in #QualityEngineering. We are a #DevOps / #LeanStartup system.

I’m also an #Adjunct instructor in a masters program in #Seattle, teaching courses that touch on issues in #SpiritualFormation, #Spirituality, #CelticChristianity, #Pilgrimage, #DigitalPersonhood, #Contemplative, #Monasticism, #TransformationalLeadership, #ServantLeadership.

Hobbies: #MountainBiking, #mtb, #powerlifting, #urbansketching, #motorcycling, #overlanding.

An #Introduction post:

I’m Pat. I work as an #EngineeringManager in #QualityEngineering. We are a #DevOps / #LeanStartup system.

I’m also an #Adjunct instructor in a masters program in #Seattle, teaching courses that touch on issues in #SpiritualFormation, #Spirituality, #CelticChristianity, #Pilgrimage, #DigitalPersonhood, #Contemplative, #Monasticism, #TransformationalLeadership, #ServantLeadership.

Hobbies: #MountainBiking, #mtb, #powerlifting, #urbansketching, #motorcycling, #overlanding.

An #Introduction post:

I’m Pat. I work as an #EngineeringManager in #QualityEngineering. We are a #DevOps / #LeanStartup system.

I’m also an #Adjunct instructor in a masters program in #Seattle, teaching courses that touch on issues in #SpiritualFormation, #Spirituality, #CelticChristianity, #Pilgrimage, #DigitalPersonhood, #Contemplative, #Monasticism, #TransformationalLeadership, #ServantLeadership.

Hobbies: #MountainBiking, #mtb, #powerlifting, #urbansketching, #motorcycling, #overlanding.

An #Introduction post:

I’m Pat. I work as an #EngineeringManager in #QualityEngineering. We are a #DevOps / #LeanStartup system.

I’m also an #Adjunct instructor in a masters program in #Seattle, teaching courses that touch on issues in #SpiritualFormation, #Spirituality, #CelticChristianity, #Pilgrimage, #DigitalPersonhood, #Contemplative, #Monasticism, #TransformationalLeadership, #ServantLeadership.

Hobbies: #MountainBiking, #mtb, #powerlifting, #urbansketching, #motorcycling, #overlanding.

Interests
#ContemplativePrayer #Monasticism #Theology #Bible #Trees #Walking #Poetry #Reading #Writing #Making #OffbeatMaths #Deutsch #Cymraeg #Alto

Home
#Exeter #Devon #UK #Europe

Work
#Director #TeaLady #CodeMonkey @WebsitesAhoy

Misspent adult years
#Maths #EnvironmentalScience #EnergyPolicy #Economics #WeatherAndHealth #EcoConsultancy

I've been here 10 months, so it was time I pinned an introduction!

Interests
#ContemplativePrayer #Monasticism #Theology #Bible #Trees #Walking #Poetry #Reading #Writing #Making #OffbeatMaths #Deutsch #Cymraeg #Alto

Home
#Exeter #Devon #UK #Europe

Work
#Director #TeaLady #CodeMonkey @WebsitesAhoy

Misspent adult years
#Maths #EnvironmentalScience #EnergyPolicy #Economics #WeatherAndHealth #EcoConsultancy

I've been here 10 months, so it was time I pinned an introduction!

Interests
#ContemplativePrayer #Monasticism #Theology #Bible #Trees #Walking #Poetry #Reading #Writing #Making #OffbeatMaths #Deutsch #Cymraeg #Alto

Home
#Exeter #Devon #UK #Europe

Work
#Director #TeaLady #CodeMonkey @WebsitesAhoy

Misspent adult years
#Maths #EnvironmentalScience #EnergyPolicy #Economics #WeatherAndHealth #EcoConsultancy

I've been here 10 months, so it was time I pinned an introduction!

Interests
#ContemplativePrayer #Monasticism #Theology #Bible #Trees #Walking #Poetry #Reading #Writing #Making #OffbeatMaths #Deutsch #Cymraeg #Alto

Home
#Exeter #Devon #UK #Europe

Work
#Director #TeaLady #CodeMonkey @WebsitesAhoy

Misspent adult years
#Maths #EnvironmentalScience #EnergyPolicy #Economics #WeatherAndHealth #EcoConsultancy

I've been here 10 months, so it was time I pinned an introduction!

Through the prayers of our holy desert mothers, especially saint Mary of Egypt who we faithful celebrate this time of year, Lord Jesus Christ our God have mercy on us and save us ✝️☦️✝️
Amen
#SaintMaryOfEgypt #MaryOfEgypt #DesertMother #Monasticism #Christianity #Catholic #Catholicism #OrthodoxChristianity