A Spirituality of Blessing
A live-from-Ireland online program
With Christine Valters Paintner
Friday, September 25, 2026, 10 -11:30 a.m. U.S./Eastern
$45 includes a program recording
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About this offering
During this online program, we will nurture gratitude, joy, hope, and delight in the beauty of our lives in the midst of a hurting world. We won’t be denying or bypassing that woundedness, but resourcing ourselves with a sense of abundance at the heart of things. We will resist a culture that strives to wear us down and leave us feeling hopeless.
Blessings sustain us in bringing reverence to all of life from the most ordinary of tasks to the great thresholds of our lives. They immerse us in the holy rhythms of the sacred which are not of our making. In a world obsessed with the scarcity of time, blessings help us to expand each moment like a flower opening her petals on a sunny day. They invite us to breathe more deeply, enlarge our vision, and give honor to our experiences. Blessings help us to touch eternity here and now.
We will explore these themes through teaching, meditation, poetry, music and reflection.
Christine has recently published “A Book of Everyday Blessings: 100 Prayers for Dancing Monks, Artists, and Pilgrims” with Ave Maria Press.
About the presenter
Christine Valters Paintner, Ph.D, REACE is a Benedictine oblate and the online Abbess of Abbey of the Arts, a virtual monastery and global community of dancing monks and mystics. She is a cherished Mercy by the Sea facilitator who leads retreats on contemplative practice and creative expression and is the author of over 25 books including four collections of poetry. She has lived on the wild edges of Ireland since 2012 with her husband John and dog Sourney. To learn more about Christine, visit abbeyofthearts.com.