St. Gertrude’s Abbey - an at-home monastic practice
@athomeabbey.bsky.social
A secular abbey as your space for self-care and sanity in a world that has lost its mind. We welcome people of all religions, no religions and those recovering from religion.
Buying a Condo in the Valley of the Shadow of Death
By Sister Organza Pettingfield As humans living in the modern world, we are almost always unaware that we live our entire lives in the shadow of death. We are…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/12/27/buying-a-condo-in-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death/
By Sister Organza Pettingfield As humans living in the modern world, we are almost always unaware that we live our entire lives in the shadow of death. We are…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/12/27/buying-a-condo-in-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death/
December 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Buying a Condo in the Valley of the Shadow of Death
By Sister Organza Pettingfield As humans living in the modern world, we are almost always unaware that we live our entire lives in the shadow of death. We are…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/12/27/buying-a-condo-in-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death/
By Sister Organza Pettingfield As humans living in the modern world, we are almost always unaware that we live our entire lives in the shadow of death. We are…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/12/27/buying-a-condo-in-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death/
Reclaiming Christianity
By The Abbott Christians and Christianity have gotten a bad reputation in the last several…thousand years. And with good reason! From the frightening Crusades of the Middle Ages that brought with them pestilence…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/08/23/reclaiming-christianity/
By The Abbott Christians and Christianity have gotten a bad reputation in the last several…thousand years. And with good reason! From the frightening Crusades of the Middle Ages that brought with them pestilence…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/08/23/reclaiming-christianity/
August 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Reclaiming Christianity
By The Abbott Christians and Christianity have gotten a bad reputation in the last several…thousand years. And with good reason! From the frightening Crusades of the Middle Ages that brought with them pestilence…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/08/23/reclaiming-christianity/
By The Abbott Christians and Christianity have gotten a bad reputation in the last several…thousand years. And with good reason! From the frightening Crusades of the Middle Ages that brought with them pestilence…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/08/23/reclaiming-christianity/
Sr. FBI
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ I am not known to be a nosy nun. I may have a pocketbook-sized telescope, a pair of listening devices that fit into a hollowed-out Bible and I once correctly guessed Pam Bondi’s Ulta Beauty account login. (It was…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/08/11/sr-fbi/
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ I am not known to be a nosy nun. I may have a pocketbook-sized telescope, a pair of listening devices that fit into a hollowed-out Bible and I once correctly guessed Pam Bondi’s Ulta Beauty account login. (It was…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/08/11/sr-fbi/
August 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sr. FBI
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ I am not known to be a nosy nun. I may have a pocketbook-sized telescope, a pair of listening devices that fit into a hollowed-out Bible and I once correctly guessed Pam Bondi’s Ulta Beauty account login. (It was…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/08/11/sr-fbi/
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ I am not known to be a nosy nun. I may have a pocketbook-sized telescope, a pair of listening devices that fit into a hollowed-out Bible and I once correctly guessed Pam Bondi’s Ulta Beauty account login. (It was…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/08/11/sr-fbi/
Blackbird Pie
by Sr. Organza, OLBQ She only had her Kenneth Cole leatherette attaché for a shield. She was deep in conversation on her phone oblivious to the world. I could have mooned her and she wouldn't have flinched. She was one of those smart women you see so often lampooned. Hair pulled back…
by Sr. Organza, OLBQ She only had her Kenneth Cole leatherette attaché for a shield. She was deep in conversation on her phone oblivious to the world. I could have mooned her and she wouldn't have flinched. She was one of those smart women you see so often lampooned. Hair pulled back…
Blackbird Pie
by Sr. Organza, OLBQ She only had her Kenneth Cole leatherette attaché for a shield. She was deep in conversation on her phone oblivious to the world. I could have mooned her and she wouldn't have flinched. She was one of those smart women you see so often lampooned. Hair pulled back in a tight bun. Makeup flawlessly applied. A dark suit of some sort with pearl buttons and a silk scarf hanging daintily from her neck.
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August 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Blackbird Pie
by Sr. Organza, OLBQ She only had her Kenneth Cole leatherette attaché for a shield. She was deep in conversation on her phone oblivious to the world. I could have mooned her and she wouldn't have flinched. She was one of those smart women you see so often lampooned. Hair pulled back…
by Sr. Organza, OLBQ She only had her Kenneth Cole leatherette attaché for a shield. She was deep in conversation on her phone oblivious to the world. I could have mooned her and she wouldn't have flinched. She was one of those smart women you see so often lampooned. Hair pulled back…
Kill Big Bird
by The Abbot My mother used to joke with others that my first word was “agua.” It wasn’t that I was obsessed with water or that I grew up in a Hispanic or Spanish-speaking household. We were a poor white family living in a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/26/kill-big-bird/
by The Abbot My mother used to joke with others that my first word was “agua.” It wasn’t that I was obsessed with water or that I grew up in a Hispanic or Spanish-speaking household. We were a poor white family living in a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/26/kill-big-bird/
July 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Kill Big Bird
by The Abbot My mother used to joke with others that my first word was “agua.” It wasn’t that I was obsessed with water or that I grew up in a Hispanic or Spanish-speaking household. We were a poor white family living in a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/26/kill-big-bird/
by The Abbot My mother used to joke with others that my first word was “agua.” It wasn’t that I was obsessed with water or that I grew up in a Hispanic or Spanish-speaking household. We were a poor white family living in a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/26/kill-big-bird/
God’s Will
by Sr. Organza You hear it often from some on the right – it’s God’s will. The right like to use the term like an old kitchen chair. Today it’s a seat – tomorrow a ladder. They invoked God’s will when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/20/gods-will/
by Sr. Organza You hear it often from some on the right – it’s God’s will. The right like to use the term like an old kitchen chair. Today it’s a seat – tomorrow a ladder. They invoked God’s will when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/20/gods-will/
July 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
God’s Will
by Sr. Organza You hear it often from some on the right – it’s God’s will. The right like to use the term like an old kitchen chair. Today it’s a seat – tomorrow a ladder. They invoked God’s will when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/20/gods-will/
by Sr. Organza You hear it often from some on the right – it’s God’s will. The right like to use the term like an old kitchen chair. Today it’s a seat – tomorrow a ladder. They invoked God’s will when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/20/gods-will/
Finding Comfort in a Collapsing Country
by Sr. Organza Americans are collectively idiotic. We have elected a man and a Congress bent on ending the United States and replacing it with something more like a collection of…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/10/finding-comfort-in-a-collapsing-country/
by Sr. Organza Americans are collectively idiotic. We have elected a man and a Congress bent on ending the United States and replacing it with something more like a collection of…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/10/finding-comfort-in-a-collapsing-country/
July 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Finding Comfort in a Collapsing Country
by Sr. Organza Americans are collectively idiotic. We have elected a man and a Congress bent on ending the United States and replacing it with something more like a collection of…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/10/finding-comfort-in-a-collapsing-country/
by Sr. Organza Americans are collectively idiotic. We have elected a man and a Congress bent on ending the United States and replacing it with something more like a collection of…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/10/finding-comfort-in-a-collapsing-country/
Make America Beautiful Again
By The Abbot We have upon us a new American Crisis; larger in scale than our war of independence and greater in scope than the Second World War. Has the American promise of democracy and liberty been a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/04/make-america-beautiful-again/
By The Abbot We have upon us a new American Crisis; larger in scale than our war of independence and greater in scope than the Second World War. Has the American promise of democracy and liberty been a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/04/make-america-beautiful-again/
July 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Make America Beautiful Again
By The Abbot We have upon us a new American Crisis; larger in scale than our war of independence and greater in scope than the Second World War. Has the American promise of democracy and liberty been a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/04/make-america-beautiful-again/
By The Abbot We have upon us a new American Crisis; larger in scale than our war of independence and greater in scope than the Second World War. Has the American promise of democracy and liberty been a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/07/04/make-america-beautiful-again/
Pride 2025 Is Weird
By The Abbot “My god! You’re like models! Gorgeous men! So much beauty for one girl.” she said. The flamboyance of gays I was with gave her the obligatory patronizing smiles and “Yas Queens” one is expected to give a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/28/pride-2025-is-weird/
By The Abbot “My god! You’re like models! Gorgeous men! So much beauty for one girl.” she said. The flamboyance of gays I was with gave her the obligatory patronizing smiles and “Yas Queens” one is expected to give a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/28/pride-2025-is-weird/
June 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Pride 2025 Is Weird
By The Abbot “My god! You’re like models! Gorgeous men! So much beauty for one girl.” she said. The flamboyance of gays I was with gave her the obligatory patronizing smiles and “Yas Queens” one is expected to give a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/28/pride-2025-is-weird/
By The Abbot “My god! You’re like models! Gorgeous men! So much beauty for one girl.” she said. The flamboyance of gays I was with gave her the obligatory patronizing smiles and “Yas Queens” one is expected to give a…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/28/pride-2025-is-weird/
Religious Liberty: Corrupted
by The Abbot Shortly after the 2024 election, I found myself in Midway Airport in Chicago. I noticed something unusual, particularly for the liberal bubble that is Chicago. Milling about were a number of…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/20/religious-liberty-corrupted/
by The Abbot Shortly after the 2024 election, I found myself in Midway Airport in Chicago. I noticed something unusual, particularly for the liberal bubble that is Chicago. Milling about were a number of…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/20/religious-liberty-corrupted/
June 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Religious Liberty: Corrupted
by The Abbot Shortly after the 2024 election, I found myself in Midway Airport in Chicago. I noticed something unusual, particularly for the liberal bubble that is Chicago. Milling about were a number of…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/20/religious-liberty-corrupted/
by The Abbot Shortly after the 2024 election, I found myself in Midway Airport in Chicago. I noticed something unusual, particularly for the liberal bubble that is Chicago. Milling about were a number of…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/20/religious-liberty-corrupted/
No Kings
by the Abbot We have this weekend in our nation’s capital a military parade to mark the birthday of the current President of the United States. A man who believes himself not only above the law but the sole maker of it. Many in this country do…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/13/no-kings/
by the Abbot We have this weekend in our nation’s capital a military parade to mark the birthday of the current President of the United States. A man who believes himself not only above the law but the sole maker of it. Many in this country do…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/13/no-kings/
June 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
No Kings
by the Abbot We have this weekend in our nation’s capital a military parade to mark the birthday of the current President of the United States. A man who believes himself not only above the law but the sole maker of it. Many in this country do…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/13/no-kings/
by the Abbot We have this weekend in our nation’s capital a military parade to mark the birthday of the current President of the United States. A man who believes himself not only above the law but the sole maker of it. Many in this country do…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/13/no-kings/
Conservative Christians are Idiots
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield As a woman of the cloth, I am well aware that the title seems provocative. Why do I think that Conservative Christians are idiots? Let’s start with the impossibly…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/10/conservative-christians-are-idiots/
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield As a woman of the cloth, I am well aware that the title seems provocative. Why do I think that Conservative Christians are idiots? Let’s start with the impossibly…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/10/conservative-christians-are-idiots/
June 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Conservative Christians are Idiots
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield As a woman of the cloth, I am well aware that the title seems provocative. Why do I think that Conservative Christians are idiots? Let’s start with the impossibly…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/10/conservative-christians-are-idiots/
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield As a woman of the cloth, I am well aware that the title seems provocative. Why do I think that Conservative Christians are idiots? Let’s start with the impossibly…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/10/conservative-christians-are-idiots/
Sunday Sermon – An American Identity Crisis
by The Abbot The United States has long prided itself as a great moral force. We like being “the good guys.” During the last several decades, both during WWII and immediately…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/08/sunday-sermon-an-american-identity-crisis/
by The Abbot The United States has long prided itself as a great moral force. We like being “the good guys.” During the last several decades, both during WWII and immediately…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/08/sunday-sermon-an-american-identity-crisis/
June 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Sunday Sermon – An American Identity Crisis
by The Abbot The United States has long prided itself as a great moral force. We like being “the good guys.” During the last several decades, both during WWII and immediately…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/08/sunday-sermon-an-american-identity-crisis/
by The Abbot The United States has long prided itself as a great moral force. We like being “the good guys.” During the last several decades, both during WWII and immediately…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/08/sunday-sermon-an-american-identity-crisis/
The Feud: She’s a Fugly Slut
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ I am not much one for politics. But have you seen the shitshow in Washington? Donald Trump’s big beautiful buxom bill, which not only increases spending in areas that are…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/06/the-feud-shes-a-fugly-slut/
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ I am not much one for politics. But have you seen the shitshow in Washington? Donald Trump’s big beautiful buxom bill, which not only increases spending in areas that are…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/06/the-feud-shes-a-fugly-slut/
June 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Feud: She’s a Fugly Slut
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ I am not much one for politics. But have you seen the shitshow in Washington? Donald Trump’s big beautiful buxom bill, which not only increases spending in areas that are…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/06/the-feud-shes-a-fugly-slut/
by Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ I am not much one for politics. But have you seen the shitshow in Washington? Donald Trump’s big beautiful buxom bill, which not only increases spending in areas that are…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/06/the-feud-shes-a-fugly-slut/
How Does a Man-Baby Lead?
by The Abbot Lately, the concept of leadership has begun to look unrecognizable. Some modern leaders have confused blind encouragement or empty reassurances for real leadership. These are the self-called leaders…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/06/how-does-a-man-baby-lead/
by The Abbot Lately, the concept of leadership has begun to look unrecognizable. Some modern leaders have confused blind encouragement or empty reassurances for real leadership. These are the self-called leaders…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/06/how-does-a-man-baby-lead/
June 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
How Does a Man-Baby Lead?
by The Abbot Lately, the concept of leadership has begun to look unrecognizable. Some modern leaders have confused blind encouragement or empty reassurances for real leadership. These are the self-called leaders…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/06/how-does-a-man-baby-lead/
by The Abbot Lately, the concept of leadership has begun to look unrecognizable. Some modern leaders have confused blind encouragement or empty reassurances for real leadership. These are the self-called leaders…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/06/how-does-a-man-baby-lead/
Shut the F*ck up and Go Do Something!
By The Abbot The mega power that is Meta has essentially controlled the public sphere for more than a decade. Facebook and then Instagram, initially mechanisms meant to connect people, has…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/04/shut-the-fck-up-and-go-do-something/
By The Abbot The mega power that is Meta has essentially controlled the public sphere for more than a decade. Facebook and then Instagram, initially mechanisms meant to connect people, has…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/04/shut-the-fck-up-and-go-do-something/
June 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Shut the F*ck up and Go Do Something!
By The Abbot The mega power that is Meta has essentially controlled the public sphere for more than a decade. Facebook and then Instagram, initially mechanisms meant to connect people, has…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/04/shut-the-fck-up-and-go-do-something/
By The Abbot The mega power that is Meta has essentially controlled the public sphere for more than a decade. Facebook and then Instagram, initially mechanisms meant to connect people, has…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/04/shut-the-fck-up-and-go-do-something/
For Pride – A New Hymn to Love
By Sr. Organza Pettingfield Christians and the non-denominational crowd absolutely go ga-ga over St. Paul’s first reading to the Corinthians. It’s often called his Hymn to Love. Everyone knows it. Love…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/02/for-pride-a-new-hymn-to-love/
By Sr. Organza Pettingfield Christians and the non-denominational crowd absolutely go ga-ga over St. Paul’s first reading to the Corinthians. It’s often called his Hymn to Love. Everyone knows it. Love…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/02/for-pride-a-new-hymn-to-love/
June 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
For Pride – A New Hymn to Love
By Sr. Organza Pettingfield Christians and the non-denominational crowd absolutely go ga-ga over St. Paul’s first reading to the Corinthians. It’s often called his Hymn to Love. Everyone knows it. Love…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/02/for-pride-a-new-hymn-to-love/
By Sr. Organza Pettingfield Christians and the non-denominational crowd absolutely go ga-ga over St. Paul’s first reading to the Corinthians. It’s often called his Hymn to Love. Everyone knows it. Love…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/06/02/for-pride-a-new-hymn-to-love/
A Nun
By Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ Blanche Devereaux once said that the name says it all – nun. Girl. There’s more to life than sex. Although nowadays I rather wish I hadn’t vowed to avoid all that. I wonder if making out counts? I digress. Thank god…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/05/31/a-nun/
By Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ Blanche Devereaux once said that the name says it all – nun. Girl. There’s more to life than sex. Although nowadays I rather wish I hadn’t vowed to avoid all that. I wonder if making out counts? I digress. Thank god…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/05/31/a-nun/
May 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A Nun
By Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ Blanche Devereaux once said that the name says it all – nun. Girl. There’s more to life than sex. Although nowadays I rather wish I hadn’t vowed to avoid all that. I wonder if making out counts? I digress. Thank god…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/05/31/a-nun/
By Sr. Organza Pettingfield, OLBQ Blanche Devereaux once said that the name says it all – nun. Girl. There’s more to life than sex. Although nowadays I rather wish I hadn’t vowed to avoid all that. I wonder if making out counts? I digress. Thank god…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/05/31/a-nun/
A Monk
A Monk “The monk is someone who takes up a critical attitude toward the contemporary world and its structures.” – Thomas Merton Agnostics, atheists and “spiritual but not religious” are the largest growing areas of identified faith in the world.…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/05/31/a-monk/
A Monk “The monk is someone who takes up a critical attitude toward the contemporary world and its structures.” – Thomas Merton Agnostics, atheists and “spiritual but not religious” are the largest growing areas of identified faith in the world.…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/05/31/a-monk/
May 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A Monk
A Monk “The monk is someone who takes up a critical attitude toward the contemporary world and its structures.” – Thomas Merton Agnostics, atheists and “spiritual but not religious” are the largest growing areas of identified faith in the world.…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/05/31/a-monk/
A Monk “The monk is someone who takes up a critical attitude toward the contemporary world and its structures.” – Thomas Merton Agnostics, atheists and “spiritual but not religious” are the largest growing areas of identified faith in the world.…
http://athomeabbey.com/2025/05/31/a-monk/