Monastic Living @ The Northumbria Community
Welcome to our School for Monastic Living: 'Those who entered the desert entered a kind of school, a school in which loving as God loves was the primary and foundational lesson.' – Mary C. Earle
In this leadership reflection, Catherine Askew reflects on a key teaching: ‘Alone Together’.
This talk was originally recorded for the 2020 European New Monastic Roundtable. https://www.newmonasticroundtable.com/info The talk begins with an introduction to the Northumbria Community.
A related resource is an ‘Alone Together’ core teaching booklet, available from our Community Shop HERE
Irish monks used boats called coracles to travel on the ocean in search of a ‘desert place’ in which they found God in a new way. One of the most famous of these monks is Brendan, who set out from the West coast of Ireland out into the vast wilderness of the ocean with a small boat and a simple prayer, ‘Christ of the Mysteries, can I trust you on the sea?’ During this retreat, we’ll explore something of what it is means to journey beyond the familiar and embrace a call to risky living, which will resonate for many of us in the world we are inhabiting now. Part of this exploration will include a creative activity that will help us consider what it is to journey with God beyond the comfortable and familiar into the unknown and unchartered.