Urban Monastic

11/09/2026

From the Penguin Classics book "The Desert Fathers" translated by the wonderful Benedicta Ward.

06/09/2026

Our Sunday Vespers is ready for you to pray. This is the evening hour of the Divine Office. The text comes from the Ecumenical Breviary of Urban Monastics we continue to work on every month.

May it bless you and help you be present with God.

Glory to the Father, to the Son, *     and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning, is now, *     and will be forever. Amen. Alleluia

06/09/2026

An Urban Monastic blessing, collect, and calendar for our twenty-third week of Ordinary Time.



📷 Paul Prins on 25 July 2026
📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands

02/09/2026

"I love the idea that my life and what I do can bring creation closer to God. It feels like a big responsibility. It feels like a grand calling. Looking back at the work I’ve been involved in, there are common threads tying it all together."

A Meditation on Chapter 10 of our Way of Life by Jordan Prins

I love the idea that my life and what I do can bring creation closer to God. It feels like a big responsibility. It feels like a grand calling. Looking back at the work I've been involved in, there are common threads tying it all together.

30/08/2026

"It was Peter that flat-out rejected what must come. Imagine pulling Jesus aside to rebuke Him shortly after you proclaimed Him to be the Christ and Messiah. God had allowed Peter the faith to see Jesus as the Christ and the Son of Man. Peter could not yet see beyond the horizons of his world."

A Lectionary Meditation for our 22nd Week of Ordinary Time by Paul the Monastic. Read the full meditation 🔗

It was Peter that flat-out rejected what must come. Imagine pulling Jesus aside to rebuke Him shortly after you proclaimed Him to be the Christ and Messiah. God had allowed Peter the faith to see Jesus as the Christ and the Son of Man. Peter could not yet see beyond the horizons of his world.

29/08/2026

An Urban Monastic blessing, collect, and calendar for our twenty-second week of Ordinary Time.



📷 Paul Prins on 22 April 2024
📍 Paris

28/08/2026

We have begun a new phase of establishing Urban Monastics as a community and within the Church. To help us do this work, our leadership team has voted and named Paul and Jordan as our Establishing Abbots.

Learn more about their work to help us get established.

Our God continues to make a way forward for Urban Monasticism. The time has come for us, as an organization, to appoint our two Establishing Abbots who will help us

24/08/2026

"The ways Simon Peter’s senses were experiencing Jesus in the moment of his Christological confession were not different from weeks or years earlier. He still saw the same person. The voice of Jesus still sounded the same. The way that Peter was experiencing the world had not changed, but our God had done something within him."

Our Lectionary Meditation for the 21st Week of Ordinary Time by Paul the Monastic 🔗

The ways Simon Peter's senses were experiencing Jesus in the moment of his Christological confession were not different from weeks or years earlier. He still saw the same person. The voice of Jesus still sounded the same. The way that Peter was experiencing the world had not changed, but our God had...

22/08/2026

21/08/2026

"One of the things I hope for is to experience the Fruit of the Spirit naturally flowing out of me, into the depths of the world. To embody parts of who Jesus is at his core, and to share those things with those around me."

Read the complete Meditation on Chapter 15 of our Way of Life by Jordan Prins at the link

One of the things I hope for is to experience the Fruit of the Spirit naturally flowing out of me, into the depths of the world. To embody parts of who Jesus is at his core, and to share those things with those around me. It’s something I know I will forever fall short in. But that can’t let me ...