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Welcome to the Lindisfarne Community
The Lindisfarne Community is a network of folk committed to the "new monasticism." A friend of the community described us as "A religious order with apostolic succession." Our mother house, the home of our abbess and abbot, is in Ithaca, NY. We have professed members from a number of nations: the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Germany, and South Africa.
Our spirituality is a balanced life of prayer, study, service and rest . . . . a new form of monasticism. We are relational, egalitarian, contemplative, sacramental and inclusive. We are part of the "emerging church" exploring new ways of being Christian in the twenty-first century.
We have annual retreats in the USA and UK.
We are deeply rooted in historical Christianity, and are open to insights from other traditions in the belief that "all truth is God's truth." Our prayer is "to be as Christ to those we meet, to find Christ within them."
We have embraced emphases from, among others, the Celtic Christian communities of the fourth to ninth centuries in Northern Britain and Ireland; the desert fathers and mothers and the early monastic movement; the Christian mystics; the radicals of the sixteenth century; the charismatic, Christian feminist and home church movements of the twentieth.
If you are encouraged by what you read on this site write to us icm@icmi.org.
May the blessing of the Three who are One be yours,
