Are you interested in refreshing or growing your day-to-day spirituality? 

You’re invited to join us for this one-time session on Evelyn Underhill’s Everyday Mysticism.

Evelyn Underhill was an Anglican laywoman and pioneer in the 20th century study of mysticism and spirituality.

She was the first woman to give a series of lectures on theology at Oxford University and was the author of over thirty books, including Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People.

In our time together, we will consider several of Underhill’s approaches to instill meaning and coherence into the personal and practical stuff of everyday existence…what she referred to as “our scattered lives.”

Our activities will include presentation by the leader, group discussion, and individual reflection.

Paula Hart, Abbey Council member, will lead this session. Paula first learned about Evelyn Underhill while studying spiritual direction at Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality in St. Paul, Minnesota.

9 – 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 13th

Price: $20 per participant (refreshments and coffee included)       

Christian Themes Fiction by Southern Authors:

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss, joins Abbey Council member, dual seminary degreed & entrepreneur, JT McPherson, in a four-week online series exploring Christian themes in Southern writers --- from To Kill a Mockingbird to Flannery O’Connor.

Join us for this four-week ONLINE offering. Bring a reading buddy along and save…

Beginning Monday March 4th (6:30-8:00 p.m.) for four weeks ONLINE (ONLY).

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or click below to register.

Cost: $30 or $45 for two.

Do you want a daily practice for Lent but with group accountability? The Abbey on Lovers Lane has just the thing for you.

We are gathering a group to meet online on Monday mornings between 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Together, we will use the devotional Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms by Elizabeth F. Caldwell that has just been published.

We will begin meeting the week after Ash Wednesday on Mon. Feb. 19th and continue until Monday in Holy Week, March 25th.

Pause with the Psalms - Shawn Ashmore, Spiritual Director will be our online facilitator.

Cost: $25 for all six meetings (Online)

If you are interested, go ahead and order the book and click below for more information and to register.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Christian Themes Fiction by Southern Authors:

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss, joins Abbey Council member, dual seminary degreed & entrepreneur, JT McPherson, in a four-week online series exploring Christian themes in Southern writers --- from To Kill a Mockingbird to Flannery O’Connor.

Join us for this four-week ONLINE offering. Bring a reading buddy along and save…

Beginning Monday March 4th (6:30-8:00 p.m.) for four weeks ONLINE (ONLY).

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or click below to register.

Cost: $30 or $45 for two.

Do you want a daily practice for Lent but with group accountability? The Abbey on Lovers Lane has just the thing for you.

We are gathering a group to meet online on Monday mornings between 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Together, we will use the devotional Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms by Elizabeth F. Caldwell that has just been published.

We will begin meeting the week after Ash Wednesday on Mon. Feb. 19th and continue until Monday in Holy Week, March 25th.

Pause with the Psalms - Shawn Ashmore, Spiritual Director will be our online facilitator.

Cost: $25 for all six meetings (Online)

If you are interested, go ahead and order the book and click below for more information and to register.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Christian Themes Fiction by Southern Authors:

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss, joins Abbey Council member, dual seminary degreed & entrepreneur, JT McPherson, in a four-week online series exploring Christian themes in Southern writers --- from To Kill a Mockingbird to Flannery O’Connor.

Join us for this four-week ONLINE offering. Bring a reading buddy along and save…

Beginning Monday March 4th (6:30-8:00 p.m.) for four weeks ONLINE (ONLY).

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or click below to register.

Cost: $30 or $45 for two.

Do you desire a closer relationship with God? Seek to find peace in silence? Looking to try a new Lenten discipline?

Join us Monday afternoons beginning February 19th for a four week “taster” in Centering Prayer. Pat Mackey Stone is a Benedictine Oblate who teaches centering prayer and Lectio Divina at Church of the Incarnation.

Whatever your level of experience, Pat will lead us as we together we grow in the discipline of centering prayer. Pat is a spiritual Director and is recently completed a Master’s of Theological Studies. .

Cost for all four meetings: $40.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Do you want a daily practice for Lent but with group accountability? The Abbey on Lovers Lane has just the thing for you.

We are gathering a group to meet online on Monday mornings between 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Together, we will use the devotional Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms by Elizabeth F. Caldwell that has just been published.

We will begin meeting the week after Ash Wednesday on Mon. Feb. 19th and continue until Monday in Holy Week, March 25th.

Pause with the Psalms - Shawn Ashmore, Spiritual Director will be our online facilitator.

Cost: $25 for all six meetings (Online)

If you are interested, go ahead and order the book and click below for more information and to register.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Christian Themes Fiction by Southern Authors:

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss, joins Abbey Council member, dual seminary degreed & entrepreneur, JT McPherson, in a four-week online series exploring Christian themes in Southern writers --- from To Kill a Mockingbird to Flannery O’Connor.

Join us for this four-week ONLINE offering. Bring a reading buddy along and save…

Beginning Monday March 4th (6:30-8:00 p.m.) for four weeks ONLINE (ONLY).

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or click below to register.

Cost: $30 or $45 for two.

Do you desire a closer relationship with God? Seek to find peace in silence? Looking to try a new Lenten discipline?

Join us Monday afternoons beginning February 19th for a four week “taster” in Centering Prayer. Pat Mackey Stone is a Benedictine Oblate who teaches centering prayer and Lectio Divina at Church of the Incarnation.

Whatever your level of experience, Pat will lead us as we together we grow in the discipline of centering prayer. Pat is a spiritual Director and is recently completed a Master’s of Theological Studies. .

Cost for all four meetings: $40.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Do you want a daily practice for Lent but with group accountability? The Abbey on Lovers Lane has just the thing for you.

We are gathering a group to meet online on Monday mornings between 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Together, we will use the devotional Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms by Elizabeth F. Caldwell that has just been published.

We will begin meeting the week after Ash Wednesday on Mon. Feb. 19th and continue until Monday in Holy Week, March 25th.

Pause with the Psalms - Shawn Ashmore, Spiritual Director will be our online facilitator.

Cost: $25 for all six meetings (Online)

If you are interested, go ahead and order the book and click below for more information and to register.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Praying with a Pen: Writing practices for spiritual connection is a three week offering with Shawn Ashmore hosted at the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

It is designed for doodlers, journalers, list makers, poets, scribblers, writers, and beginners —- an opportunity for three weeks of spiritual journaling practice.

Shawn is a spiritual director and a member of the faculty of HeartPaths DFW. Earlier this year he led a three week introduction to Lectio Divina at the Abbey.

Praying with a Pen meets on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. - February 13, 20 & 27, 2024.

Cost: $35

Join Shawn at the Abbey and write on…develop a deeper conversation with God.

Blessings on the way.

Click below to register.   

Do you desire a closer relationship with God? Seek to find peace in silence? Looking to try a new Lenten discipline?

Join us Monday afternoons beginning February 19th for a four week “taster” in Centering Prayer. Pat Mackey Stone is a Benedictine Oblate who teaches centering prayer and Lectio Divina at Church of the Incarnation.

Whatever your level of experience, Pat will lead us as we together we grow in the discipline of centering prayer. Pat is a spiritual Director and is recently completed a Master’s of Theological Studies. .

Cost for all four meetings: $40.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Do you want a daily practice for Lent but with group accountability? The Abbey on Lovers Lane has just the thing for you.

We are gathering a group to meet online on Monday mornings between 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Together, we will use the devotional Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms by Elizabeth F. Caldwell that has just been published.

We will begin meeting the week after Ash Wednesday on Mon. Feb. 19th and continue until Monday in Holy Week, March 25th.

Pause with the Psalms - Shawn Ashmore, Spiritual Director will be our online facilitator.

Cost: $25 for all six meetings (Online)

If you are interested, go ahead and order the book and click below for more information and to register.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Praying with a Pen: Writing practices for spiritual connection is a three week offering with Shawn Ashmore hosted at the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

It is designed for doodlers, journalers, list makers, poets, scribblers, writers, and beginners —- an opportunity for three weeks of spiritual journaling practice.

Shawn is a spiritual director and a member of the faculty of HeartPaths DFW. Earlier this year he led a three week introduction to Lectio Divina at the Abbey.

Praying with a Pen meets on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. - February 13, 20 & 27, 2024.

Cost: $35

Join Shawn at the Abbey and write on…develop a deeper conversation with God.

Blessings on the way.

Click below to register.   

Do you desire a closer relationship with God? Seek to find peace in silence? Looking to try a new Lenten discipline?

Join us Monday afternoons beginning February 19th for a four week “taster” in Centering Prayer. Pat Mackey Stone is a Benedictine Oblate who teaches centering prayer and Lectio Divina at Church of the Incarnation.

Whatever your level of experience, Pat will lead us as we together we grow in the discipline of centering prayer. Pat is a spiritual Director and is recently completed a Master’s of Theological Studies. .

Cost for all four meetings: $40.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Do you want a daily practice for Lent but with group accountability? The Abbey on Lovers Lane has just the thing for you.

We are gathering a group to meet online on Monday mornings between 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Together, we will use the devotional Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms by Elizabeth F. Caldwell that has just been published.

We will begin meeting the week after Ash Wednesday on Mon. Feb. 19th and continue until Monday in Holy Week, March 25th.

Pause with the Psalms - Shawn Ashmore, Spiritual Director will be our online facilitator.

Cost: $25 for all six meetings (Online)

If you are interested, go ahead and order the book and click below for more information and to register.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or to register.

Birds of a Feather is a new offering at the Abbey on Lovers Lane and we we are very excited…

It is a workshop retreat for moms who are empty nesters or those anticipating being empty nesters in the near future.

Jenny Watson, a friend of the Abbey will be the leader on Friday February 16th and Saturday February 17th. Read more details and register below.

Birds of a Feather Weekend Workshop Retreat

Friday February 16, 2024 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Saturday February 17, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Jenny Watson, retreat leader, will be coming to us from Nashville just for this event. Jenny served as Women’s Ministries Coordinator at Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, for several years. She is an author and ministers to empty nesters, and with her husband Steve, leads marriage classes.

Cost: $60 (includes dinner Friday and lunch Saturday)

Register below or go to abbeyonlovers.org      

Birds of a Feather is a new offering at the Abbey on Lovers Lane and we we are very excited…

It is a workshop retreat for moms who are empty nesters or those anticipating being empty nesters in the near future.

Jenny Watson, a friend of the Abbey will be the leader on Friday February 16th and Saturday February 17th. Read more details and register below.

Birds of a Feather Weekend Workshop Retreat

Friday February 16, 2024 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Saturday February 17, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Jenny Watson, retreat leader, will be coming to us from Nashville just for this event. Jenny served as Women’s Ministries Coordinator at Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, for several years. She is an author and ministers to empty nesters, and with her husband Steve, leads marriage classes.

Cost: $60 (includes dinner Friday and lunch Saturday)

Register below or go to abbeyonlovers.org      

Praying with a Pen: Writing practices for spiritual connection is a three week offering with Shawn Ashmore hosted at the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

It is designed for doodlers, journalers, list makers, poets, scribblers, writers, and beginners —- an opportunity for three weeks of spiritual journaling practice.

Shawn is a spiritual director and a member of the faculty of HeartPaths DFW. Earlier this year he led a three week introduction to Lectio Divina at the Abbey.

Praying with a Pen meets on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. - February 13, 20 & 27, 2024.

Cost: $35

Join Shawn at the Abbey and write on…develop a deeper conversation with God.

Blessings on the way.

Click below to register.   

Informational meeting for all interested in Walking the Pilgrim's Way

If you are considering joining a group to walk part of the Camino, co-founder of the Abbey Tom Hotchkiss is leading a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in June 2024.

Tom will have a Zoom meeting for people who want to find out more information on Tuesday, February 6 at 7pm. There is no cost to attend the meeting, but please register to receive the Zoom link. Camino Info Meeting.

Men and women are welcome. Hotel accommodations.
No previous hiking experience required. 

Questions, please contact tom@abbeyonlovers.org.

Click below to register for the meeting and to receive a link to the online meeting.   

As 2024 begins, give up half-hearted resolutions about going to the gym and spending less time on your cellphone. Instead, reflect and refocus and start the year out with an authentic spiritual “center.” This Friday to Saturday retreat uses the wider lens of the Ignatian Examen to guide you on the path to the good and beautiful you that you were created to be.

Time keeps moving and soon we will be swept into 2024 – ready or not!

Why not reflect and refocus and start the year out with an authentic spiritual center?

This retreat is designed to use a wider lens of the Ignatian Examen to enable you to live life as the true self God created you to be.

Price: $60 per participant (dinner and lunch included)

***Some low-cost housing is available for out-of-towners       

As 2024 begins, give up half-hearted resolutions about going to the gym and spending less time on your cellphone. Instead, reflect and refocus and start the year out with an authentic spiritual “center.” This Friday to Saturday retreat uses the wider lens of the Ignatian Examen to guide you on the path to the good and beautiful you that you were created to be.

Time keeps moving and soon we will be swept into 2024 – ready or not!

Why not reflect and refocus and start the year out with an authentic spiritual center?

This retreat is designed to use a wider lens of the Ignatian Examen to enable you to live life as the true self God created you to be.

Price: $60 per participant (dinner and lunch included)

***Some low-cost housing is available for out-of-towners       

“Three Invitations of the Season” is the Advent Retreat offered by the Abbey on Lovers Lane in 2023.

Give yourself the gift of returning to a spiritual anticipation of great joy! Come and be rejuvenated and refreshed as we consider three invitations of the Advent season.

Wondering how the holiday season got so chaotic and unmanageable? Longing for a meaningful celebration?

Start the season off learning to wait in anticipation of great joy! 

Slow down - it’s Advent!

Cost: $40 - Three Mondays

(Discount available if you register two together - email marcia@abbeyonlovers.org for details)    

It’s not just Elvis who feels blue at Christmas. Many people struggle with sad feelings during “the most wonderful time of the year.” Whether you have any church or religious affiliation or not, feel free to join us at the Abbey on Lovers Lane for our Blue Christmas Gathering.

• Hear from an expert about navigating the season.

• Be led in a spiritual practice.

• Enjoy fellowship & special refreshments.

When: Sunday Dec. 17th from 2:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Cost: $25 - including refreshments

“Three Invitations of the Season” is the Advent Retreat offered by the Abbey on Lovers Lane in 2023.

Give yourself the gift of returning to a spiritual anticipation of great joy! Come and be rejuvenated and refreshed as we consider three invitations of the Advent season.

Wondering how the holiday season got so chaotic and unmanageable? Longing for a meaningful celebration?

Start the season off learning to wait in anticipation of great joy! 

Slow down - it’s Advent!

Cost: $40 - Three Mondays

(Discount available if you register two together - email marcia@abbeyonlovers.org for details)    

“Three Invitations of the Season” is the Advent Retreat offered by the Abbey on Lovers Lane in 2023.

Give yourself the gift of returning to a spiritual anticipation of great joy! Come and be rejuvenated and refreshed as we consider three invitations of the Advent season.

Wondering how the holiday season got so chaotic and unmanageable? Longing for a meaningful celebration?

Start the season off learning to wait in anticipation of great joy! 

Slow down - it’s Advent!

Cost: $50 - All day Saturday - including lunch  (Discount if you register two together - email for details)    

“Three Invitations of the Season” is the Advent Retreat offered by the Abbey on Lovers Lane in 2023.

Give yourself the gift of returning to a spiritual anticipation of great joy! Come and be rejuvenated and refreshed as we consider three invitations of the Advent season.

Wondering how the holiday season got so chaotic and unmanageable? Longing for a meaningful celebration?

Start the season off learning to wait in anticipation of great joy! 

Slow down - it’s Advent!

Cost: $40 - Three Mondays

(Discount available if you register two together - email marcia@abbeyonlovers.org for details)    

Abbey Book Club - Favorite Christmas Stories & Poems: A taster of favorite Christmas stories and poems by famous authors.

Join friend of the Abbey and veteran teacher, David Pyke along with Co-founder of the Abbey, Tom Hotchkiss, as they lead each week through some of the most famous stories and poems by favorite authors written for the holy season of Christmastide.

The four Tuesdays in November - Nov 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in person at the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

Beginning Tuesday Nov. 7th (6:30-8:00 p.m.).

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or click below to register.

Cost: $35

Abbey Book Club - Favorite Christmas Stories & Poems: A taster of favorite Christmas stories and poems by famous authors.

Join friend of the Abbey and veteran teacher, David Pyke along with Co-founder of the Abbey, Tom Hotchkiss, as they lead each week through some of the most famous stories and poems by favorite authors written for the holy season of Christmastide.

The four Tuesdays in November - Nov 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in person at the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

Beginning Tuesday Nov. 7th (6:30-8:00 p.m.).

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions or click below to register.

Cost: $35