New Lay Monasticism

Communities just like us! I can hardly believe it!

Christianity Today The New Monasticism

Davis Stendal Rast OSB On Lay Monasticism

Houston Catholic The New Lay Monasticism!

The New Lay Monasticism

Beatitudes Community

http://www.beatitudes.us/

Our Benedictine Family

Our new friends, Transfiguration Monastery, home of the Emmaus Benedicitine Sisters, have a lovely site.

Gurus and Guides

People who have influenced us most deeply...
Chris:
Abhishiktananda: Pioneer of a spiritual dialogue between Hinduism and Christianity
Bede Griffiths: Continuing the Dialogue between Christianity and Other Religions
Henri Nouwen: The writer and wounded healer.
Anthony De Mello: Story Teller

Other Religious Communities

These are various communties around the world which seem to be doing interesting things...
Community of Sant'Egidio
The Grandchamps Community
Jesus Caritas: The spiritual communities based on the work of Charles de Foucauld
Chemin Neuf Community: A roman catholic community with oecumenical purposes
Brothers and Sisters of Saint John.
L'arche Community: bringing together people with a learning disabilty and those who choose to share their lives by living in the same home, and sharing the same work-place.
Taize: the source!

Benedictine Links

Some of the excellent Benedictine Sites areound the World and In Australia:
(Click on the link and it will take you there)

World Sites
Benedictine World Site
The Spirit of the Benedicitine Life
The Thomas Merton Society: Great resource pages with loads of links.

Australian Sites
Holy Trinity Abbey, New Norcia
Jamberoo Abbey, New South Wales
St Benedicts Monastery, Arcadia, New South Wales
St Marks Priory, Camperdown, Victoria (Anglican)

Fraternités Monastiques de Jérusalem

A major influence on Chris, Fraternités Monastiques de Jérusalem ( or Jerusalem Communities) offer a contemplative life, living in rented accomodation in busy european cities. Incredible.
Fraternités Monastiques de Jérusalem: Their Site in French. Link is to the English Page.
http://jerusalem.cef.fr/NOUVEAU/LdV/Accueil_EN.php
KTO Catholic Television: Live recordings of the Fraternités Monastiques de Jérusalem at Morning Prayer (Lauds), Evening Prayer (Vespers) and the Eucharist (Messe). Stunning.
http://www.ktotv.com/offices.php3

Daily Prayer Sites

Sacred Space: http://www.sacredspace.ie/
Daily Prayer: http://www.pray.com.au

Liturgy Links

These are Pages which we use to create our Wednesday night prayer
Unversalis -Daily Prayer on line: http://www.universalis.com
Liturgy of the Hours: http://www.liturgyhours.org
Blue Cloud Abbey Psalm and Liturgy Page: http://www.bluecloud.org/psalms.html
Grail Inclusive Psalm Translations: http://www.churchofthesojourners.org/ScndryPgs/Psalms/IndexPsalms.html