Way of Life

These agreements of life, traditionally known in monasticism as a Rule of Life, is in living discernment and will evolve as we grow.

The Way of Life, in summary:

Work with the renewed vows as meditative work, and relationship with the beings who stand behind them, is taken up three times a day, early morning, midday and evening.
A commitment to individual daily study of spiritual texts is undertaken. This is found to be very productive in the morning but can be at any time of day, preferably around the same time, so that it becomes, like the vows, a deep rhythm.
Members of the order participate in partial fasts during the Advent and Passiontide seasons each year to prepare for the Christmas and Easter festivals.
A practice of yearly religious festival life is undertaken.
Commitment to participation in accompaniment (sharing, support, fellowship) for these practices, either in groups or individually, at an agreed upon schedule.
Members of the order, as they deepen into the individual transformations of this work, are open to tasks of service that speak to them in their own lives.

The invitation is open to join a group of founding and new members who have taken up the meditative and study rhythms. This invitation includes participating with the founder and other members in individual sharing conversations and/or groups.

Monastic community members will largely remain in the tapestry of our own lives, committed to becoming ever deeper vessels of illumination and presence of Christ in the world, in whatever tasks and service this brings. Some will also be called to live communally in the monastic center once it incarnates, tending more full time to the gardens, hospitality, community life, spiritual life, etc of the order. The picture we hold is that members will be warmly invited and welcome to come to the monastic center for short or long periods of sabbatical, rest, renewal, for deep prayer and study and accompaniment towards living in the world in accordance with the renewed vows.