Christine Valters Paintner is a Benedictine Oblate living in Galway, Ireland, and together with her husband, John, she leads online retreats at the “abbey.”
‘The Love of Thousands’ help connecting to our spiritual ancestors
Effie Caldarola: ‘A thin place’
The Irish spiritual writer John O’Donohue wrote movingly of thin places, those times or locations where our mind and heart seem to cross an invisible barrier, and we stand for a few moments in the presence of something ethereal, something transcendent.