Urban Monastic

"A dinner at a friend’s place is tangible. I am able to go, accept their hospitality, thank them, and leave. Yet, how do I experience the grace and love of God when it often feels more abstract? That one is harder for me to answer. In my good moments I know to trust in God’s promises." Read more 🔗

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"To love our neighbors as ourselves, we must see ourselves woven into the same fabric of humanity. There can only be us. There can only be the all-encompassing family of God. Within this love, there is no use for the words others, them, strangers, & foreigners. We are all siblings." From Chapter 12

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, Open our hearts to Your generosity, the ways that You love us, and the life we live with You. Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time.

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Eighth Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, Everywhere I go Your grace meets me and follows me so I can grow in Your love. Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-Eighth Week of Ordinary Time.

IMPORTANT REVELATION MERE DAYS BEFORE THE FEAST OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI! ⚓

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for the Memorial of Francis of Assisi

Prions. Voici la Oraison Monastique Urbaine pour la Mémoire de François d'Assise

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, Greet me with open arms when I make time in my life to seek You within the silence. Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time.

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, In Your tenderness draw close to me as I seek to center my life on You. Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time.

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, Let each breath that fills my lungs be a reminder that Your love reaches to the depths of my being Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time.

'I saw the devil's snares set all over the earth, and I groaned and said, "What can pass through them?" I heard a voice saying, "Humility."' ~ Anthony the Great of Egypt

Our Sunday Vespers is ready for you to pray. This is the evening hour of the Divine Office. The text comes from the Ecumenical Breviary of Urban Monastics we continue to work on every month. May it bless you and help you be present with God. life.urbanmonastic.org/pray/vespers...

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, As we live with our neighbors continue to live with us and pour Your love upon us all. Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time.

"I love the idea that my life and what I do can bring creation closer to God. It feels like a big responsibility. It feels like a grand calling. Looking back at the work I’ve been involved in, there are common threads tying it all together." A Meditation on Chp 10 of our Way of Life by Jordan Prins

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time.

A Lectionary Meditation for our Week "It was Peter that flat-out rejected what must come. Imagine pulling Jesus aside to rebuke Him shortly after you proclaimed Him to be the Christ & Messiah. God had allowed Peter the faith to see Jesus as the Christ & the Son of Man. Peter could not yet see..."

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, Give us abundant joy and hope as we watch Your love move in harmony with our work. Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time.

A Meditation on Chapter 17 of our Way of Life. Jesus meets me with a gentle, gracious love every time I succeed & every time I fail. Yet I don’t always meet myself with that same gentle response. How wonderful would that be, where each time I failed, I gave myself the love & grace Jesus does? 🔗 👇

We have begun a new phase of establishing Urban Monastics as a community and within the Church. To help us do this work, our leadership team has voted and named @paul.urbanmonastic.org and @jordanprins.com as our Establishing Abbots. Learn more about their work to help us get established.

I really enjoyed writing this one. I hope it encourages you to invite God to see things in new ways.

"The ways Simon Peter’s senses were experiencing Jesus in the moment of his Christological confession were not different from weeks or years earlier... The way that Peter was experiencing the world had not changed, but our God had done something within him." Read Paul's weekly meditation 🔗

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time.

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, Beyond comprehension, You abound in generosity, mercy, and grace that sustains Your creation. Amen. A Blessing for our Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time.

Yesterday (August 21) the founders held a vote and chose Paul and Jordan to be our establishing Abbots. Pray for them! They will hold this role and title until such a time as a there are a sufficient number of professed Monastics to hold a vote for our first two General Abbots of Urban Monastics.

Nous ne pouvons découvrir Jésus Christ que dans l'amour et le respect

"One of the things I hope for is to experience the Fruit of the Spirit naturally flowing out of me, into the depths of the world. To embody parts of who Jesus is at his core, and to share those things with those around me." A Meditation on Chapter 15 of our Way of Life by Jordan Prins 👇

My meditation on this weeks Gospel reading from Matthew 15 - the Canaanite Woman of Faith. I know these 8 minutes reading it will bless you and encourage you for the week.

A Weekly Lectionary Meditation One thing about who the Canaanite woman was made her an outsider. Yet, Jesus saw through this & saw her when His world did not. He accepted her. Jesus saw me and accepted me. She knelt before Jesus and asked for mercy so that someone she loved would be healed.

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, From within our depths Your Spirit shines forth helping us to become like You. Amen. A blessing for our twentieth week of Ordinary Time.

"I want to be a strong tower whose faith doesn’t falter, but mine does. It falters a lot. It feels fickle because my faith in God is held in my hands. My faith is held by my weakness. So I cry out to the Lord to save me." Read @paul.urbanmonastic.org's Weekly Meditation 👇

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our Nineteenth Week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, Illuminate our hearts and lives every time we devote ourselves and set ourselves aside for You. Amen. A blessing for our nineteenth week of Ordinary Time.

Every year I continue to learn new ways of seeing His compassion at work in myself & in our world. Every year His compassion becomes more miraculous. There are even moments where I am invited to be a conduit for the compassion of Christ. A Lectionary Meditation for our 18th Week of Ordinary Time 👇

My weekly meditation is up. I love that the gospels tell us again and again that Jesus looked upon the crowds and felt compassion for them. That detail about Him has informed and defined so much of my approach to ministry. It is in this weeks gospel reading, and it made it into the title as well.

Every year I continue to learn new ways of seeing His compassion at work in myself & in our world. Every year His compassion becomes more miraculous. There are even moments where I am invited to be a conduit for the compassion of Christ. A Lectionary Meditation for our 18th Week of Ordinary Time 👇

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our eighteenth week of Ordinary Time.

Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our eighteenth week of Ordinary Time.

Lord, Let Your Love flow through us as we embody Your compassion for ourselves and our neighbors. Amen. A blessing for our eighteenth week of Ordinary Time.