Society of Urban Monks
We all know not only the spiritual power but the social power of someone like Mother Theresa or Martin Luther King, Jr. or even Jesus Christ himself. They were deeply connected to God and to the suffering people around them--and they helped change the world. We may long for even a little portion of that kind of ability to be rooted in God and use the energy from that rootedness to do good in this world. But how do we get there? How can we see that dream come to life?
The Society of Urban Monks is a place to learn and share practices to incorporate faith into effective and sustained service and change.
"The Society of Urban Monks offers an inspiring communal venue to help facilitate the integration of one’s private and public relationship with God through ongoing cultivation of spiritual practices that can impact social transformation."
— Wil Hernandez, PhD, Obl. OSB, spiritual director, retreat leader, and author of a trilogy on Henri Nouwen
The Society of Urban Monks provides inspiring peer to peer guidance to help regular people become spiritually rooted social reformers.
Here is our most recent guidance posted to the Society of Urban Monks site:
Society of Urban Monks
- Praying the Christmas Prayers of the Mystics
- Christmas Carols that Integrate the Spirit of Solving Social Struggles
- The Work of Christmas Begins
- Flooding every heart with lightA prayer that we be mindful of what God may be doing in the world, and that we may be open to participating in it. “Let our hearts be open like a cradle so that Christ can be born in each soul tonight and from there flood every heart with light.” — Oscar Romero
- I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.Because the spirit of Christmas is to be expressed after Christmas. “I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year,” Charles Dickens
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