<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Christine Valters Paintner]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Christine Valters Paintner]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/pima/rss/search?query=Christine%20Valters%20Paintner&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing Monk Feast Days: Reflections, Creative Invitations, and Prayers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dancing with holy people throughout the year.
	
	Immerse yourself in a vibrant journey of faith and creativity in this essential resource from Abbey of the Arts. Featuring 52 colorful, playful icons of saints and mystics. Each icon offers reflections, creative invitations, and prayers that explore the depth of contemplative living. Organized around the rhythm of the feast days, this book invites you to engage in prayer and reflection throughout the year, making each moment a celebration of creative joy alongside your contemplative practice.]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19759959</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19759959</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Valters Paintner, Melinda Emily Thomas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19759959981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781068393631&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give Me a Word]]></title><description><![CDATA["An excellent book for readers interested in finding a new meditation technique or nonsectarian spiritual practice or who simply want to slow down and give more depth to their lives." --Library Journal

	Your word is waiting, hovering just beneath the surface. All you need is the quiet courage to listen and receive it.

	Beginning in around the third century CE, a group of monastics known as the desert mothers and fathers retreated to the deserts of northern Egypt, Syria, and Palestine to pursue lives of silence and prayer. A key phrase, repeated often among the sayings of the desert mothers and fathers, is "Give me a word." This tradition of asking for a word was a way of seeking something on which to ponder for many days, weeks, months--sometimes a whole lifetime.

	Fast-forward many centuries to the present day, and we find the practice of seeking a word being reclaimed by the spiritually minded in new ways. For nearly two decades, Abbey of the Arts has posted an online invitation to its virtual community before Christmas, inviting people to listen for a word to guide them in the year ahead. Hundreds of participants look forward to the practice each year.

	In Give Me a Word, spiritual director and poet Christine Valters Paintner offers thirty contemplative and creative practices inviting you to slow down and listen for a word to guide you through the year ahead. Instead of chasing after resolutions, Paintner encourages a more mindful approach--letting go of expectations and becoming open to wisdom from unexpected places.

	Give Me a Word will gently lead you through the process of receiving your word, testing its resonance, and embracing its meaning. As you reflect on and live by this word, you'll find it offering insight, clarity, and purpose throughout the year. Give Me a Word invites you to enter a season of deep listening, inner growth, and spiritual discovery. Slow down and listen for the word that is waiting for you, and prepare your heart to wrestle with your word in the season to come.]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C20092899</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C20092899</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Valters Paintner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/20092899981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>The Promise of an Ancient Practice to Guide Your Year</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9798889831273&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Different Kind of Fast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clarify your true hungers--and nourish your soul.
	Fasting is not just the physical practice of giving up food. Fasting can also be a way to combat our culture of endless distractions and busyness. Fasting is an act of letting go, of making more internal space to listen to the sacred whispers of our lives. Join Christine Valters Paintner, online abbess of Abbey of the Arts, on a spiritual journey through seven different kinds of fasts, including fasting from control, from our attachments, from our grasping, and more. When we practice these fasts, we can discover unexpected spiritual gifts, as well as answers to deeper questions, leading us to ask: "What is my true hunger?"
	Perfect for Lent, or any period when a deeper intention to clarify your true hunger is needed, A Different Kind of Fast helps us enter our hearts, stripping away old patterns and habits. Featuring striking woodcuts from artist Kreg Yingst, the book draws on the wisdom of the desert elders, Paintner offers practical contemplative practices like lectio divina, breath prayer, visio divina, meditation with desert wisdom, contemplative walks, and creative rituals. As we fast from rushing, planning, being strong, holding it all together, seeking certainty, and control, we can softly reorient ourselves toward that which nourishes and fulfills us, for the reflective Lenten season and beyond.]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C20093072</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C20093072</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Valters Paintner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/20093072981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Feeding Our True Hungers in Lent</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781506492124&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love Holds You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Love Holds You is a collection of poetry and devotions from beloved author Christine Valters Paintner. 

Amid the daily grind, the pain and loss, the fears and doubts, you can lose sight of the firm bedrock of love beneath your feet. Christine weaves together reflections from her own life with her signature poems, encouraging you to find your own new path forward as you start to see the beauty and wonder all around you. 

 
As Christine reflects on the moments and events that shaped her, she invites you to: 

- Recognize the tangible expressions of love that can be found even in the midst of grief 
- Reclaim hope and healing after times of turmoil 
- Discover the strength that God gives you through the beauty of creation 
- Nurture your inner poet, artist, and spiritual pilgrim 


A compassionate and experienced retreat leader, Christine has cultivated a following of artists, poets, and spiritual seekers through her Abbey of the Arts, a virtual monastery and global community based in Ireland. Love Holds You is an excellent gift for friends during times of loss, life transition, or uncertainty, or simply a gift for yourself. 
Watch the Book Trailer HERE!]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19247225</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19247225</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Valters Paintner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19247225981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Poems and Devotions for Times of Uncertainty</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781640607330&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breath Prayer]]></title><description><![CDATA["Breath Prayer is an insightful guide to reclaiming this practice of the heart--harmonizing the sacred rhythm of the body with words that sing to the soul--in every moment of the day." --Carl McColman, author of The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism and Eternal Heart
	Whether reciting the gathas in Buddhist practice, the Shema in Judaism, or the Jesus Prayer in Christianity, for centuries the practice of breath prayer has helped center people from a variety of faith traditions on the sacred in everyday life. Through brief words of prayer or petition said silently to the rhythm of one's breath, this simple, meditative act combines praise for the divine with focused intention, creating a profound spiritual connection in the quiet, and even mundane, moments of the day .
	In Breath Prayer, Christine Valters Paintner, online abbess of Abbey of the Arts, introduces us to this spiritual practice and offers beautiful poem-prayers for walking, working, dressing, cleaning, sitting in silence, doing the dishes, living in community--breathing the divine into our daily lives. Over time these recitations become as natural as breathing. We don't so much recite the prayers as the prayers recite us, guide us, and open our hearts to the everyday sacred.
	With each of the forty prayers, Paintner includes reflections on life's ordinary beauty and heartfelt advice for discovering the sacred all around. Breath Prayer concludes with guidance for creating your own breath prayers to deepen your practice.]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C20093714</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C20093714</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Valters Paintner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/20093714981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>An Ancient Practice for the Everyday Sacred</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781506470689&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wisdom of Wild Grace]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the core of this collection are 30 poems inspired by the stories of kinship between saints and animals. They come mostly from the early Christian desert and Celtic traditions, but also feature later medieval saints like St. Francis of Assisi and St. Julian of Norwich. These stories point to a reverence for a different way of knowing and being in the world, one our world is hungry for. Each poem in this collection is meant to be a doorway to intimacy with our inner wilderness, a call to sit and be present to what we discover beyond the borders of our neatly controlled worlds.]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19250723</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19250723</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Valters Paintner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19250723981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781640605596&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming of Stones]]></title><description><![CDATA[The poems in Dreaming of Stones are about what endures: hope and desire, changing seasons, wild places, love, and the wisdom of mystics. Inspired by the poet's time living in Ireland these readings invite you into deeper ways of seeing the world. They have an incantational quality. Drawing on her commitment as a Benedictine oblate, the poems arise out of a practice of sitting in silence and lectio divina, in which life becomes the holy text.


 


No stranger to poetry, Paintner's bestselling spirituality titles have often included poems. In this first exclusively poetic collection, she writes with a contemplative heart about kinship with nature, ancestral connections, intimacy, the landscape, the unfolding nature of time, and Christian mystics. It can be read for reflection to spark the heart and to offer solace and inspiration in difficult times. 

Breath

This


breathing


in is a miracle,


this breathing out, release,


this breathing in a welcome to


the unseen gifts which sustain me each


moment, this breathing out a sweet sigh,


a bow to my mortality, this breathing in


a holy yes to life, this breathing out


a sacred no to all that causes


me to clench and grasp,


this breathing in is a


revelation, this


breathing out,


freedom.]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19250538</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19250538</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Valters Paintner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19250538981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781640602359&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desert Fathers and Mothers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Timeless and contemplative sayings from the earliest Christian sages of desert spirituality can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.
The desert fathers and mothers were ordinary Christians living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Arabia who chose to renounce the world in order to deliberately and individually follow God's call. They embraced lives of celibacy, labor, fasting, prayer and poverty, believing that denouncing material goods and practicing stoic self-discipline would lead to unity with the Divine. Their spiritual practice formed the basis of Western monasticism and greatly influenced both Western and Eastern Christianity.
Their writings, first recorded in the fourth century, consist of spiritual advice, parables and anecdotes emphasizing the primacy of love and the purity of heart. Focusing on key themes of charity, fortitude, lust, patience, prayer and self-control, the Sayings influenced the rule of St. Benedict and have inspired centuries of opera, poetry and art.
This probing and personal SkyLight Illuminations edition opens up their wisdom for readers with no previous knowledge of Western monasticism and early Christianity. It provides insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that describes historical background, explains the practice of asceticism and illustrates how you can use their wisdom to energize your spiritual quest.]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13574025</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13574025</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Valters Paintner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13574025981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Early Christian Wisdom Sayings-Annotated &amp; Explained</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781594734700&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item></channel></rss>