Reflections on Monastic Orders
I am sitting in Tom and Christine Sine's living room in a meeting with people discussing monastic orders and their rules. Next to me is Eliacin from Puerto Rico who lives with his wife and child at the Mustard Seed House and whose blog Kingdom Praxis is quite well known. Others are here also and reporting on communities such as Lindisfarne, Simply Way, 3rd Order of Franciscans, Innerchange, Iona, etc. I was asked about the Order of the Mustard Seed with 24-7 Prayer and so i told them of my night of terror when i took the vow with them. I also mentioned Church Mission Society which is becoming a mission order. And of course what is emerging in our home town. It might just be a coincidence but this is also the topic of the conference this week with Allelon. Looking forward to it.
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Andrew, thanks for the links. I was not familiar with "Order of the Mustard Seed." No doubt there is much talk about missional orders of late on many fronts. Look forward to what comes out of the Allelon conversation this week.
Posted by: brad brisco | October 15, 2007 at 09:36 PM
Do you know we (Connect) are planning to take the vow?
Posted by: Gabi | October 16, 2007 at 09:25 PM
Hi Andrew. About 6 months ago I took permanent vows in the order of mission, a similar thing that has grown out of St Tom's in Sheffield.
http://www.missionorder.org
So exciting that God seems to be stirring the same things in different places.
Posted by: Ben | October 17, 2007 at 01:40 PM