Welcoming Advent: Hospitality for the Season.

Join Shawn Ashmore and friends online for the four Mondays in Advent (December 2nd through December 23rd).

The format includes a devotional, reflections, and discussion. This group meets online got an hour once a week from 8-9 a.m.

The four Mondays starting December 2nd ONLINE through December 23rd

Mondays - 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. CT.

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

Cost: $25. Special “Friends and Family discount” Any two participants registered together - $40 - Code:

WELADVFF

Abbey Autumn Book Club - Popular Stories & Poems of the Advent and Christmas Season: Selected readings by various authors.

Join Tom Hotchkiss, Co-founder of the Abbey and a special guest as they lead each week through some of the most popular stories and poems for the Advent and Christmas seasons.

The four Thursdays starting November 14th (excluding Thanksgiving week) ONLINE through December 12th

Thursdays - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

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

Cost: $30. Special “Friends and Family discount” Any two participants registered together - $40 - Code: BOOKFFAbbey

Welcoming Advent: Hospitality for the Season.

Join Shawn Ashmore and friends online for the four Mondays in Advent (December 2nd through December 23rd).

The format includes a devotional, reflections, and discussion. This group meets online got an hour once a week from 8-9 a.m.

The four Mondays starting December 2nd ONLINE through December 23rd

Mondays - 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. CT.

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

Cost: $25. Special “Friends and Family discount” Any two participants registered together - $40 - Code:

WELADVFF

Advent One Day Retreat: Do you hear what I hear?

Join us for the Saturday Advent Retreat at the Abbey. Come and listen in expectation for the good news of great joy in the Advent season.

Led by Marcia and Tom Hotchkiss, Co-founders of the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

Saturday December 7th (9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.).

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

Cost: $35 Limit 20 participants. Special “Friends and Family discount” Two participants registered together - $60 - Code: ADVFFAbbey

Abbey Autumn Book Club - Popular Stories & Poems of the Advent and Christmas Season: Selected readings by various authors.

Join Tom Hotchkiss, Co-founder of the Abbey and a special guest as they lead each week through some of the most popular stories and poems for the Advent and Christmas seasons.

The four Thursdays starting November 14th (excluding Thanksgiving week) ONLINE through December 12th

Thursdays - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

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

Cost: $30. Special “Friends and Family discount” Any two participants registered together - $40 - Code: BOOKFFAbbey

Welcoming Advent: Hospitality for the Season.

Join Shawn Ashmore and friends online for the four Mondays in Advent (December 2nd through December 23rd).

The format includes a devotional, reflections, and discussion. This group meets online got an hour once a week from 8-9 a.m.

The four Mondays starting December 2nd ONLINE through December 23rd

Mondays - 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. CT.

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

Cost: $25. Special “Friends and Family discount” Any two participants registered together - $40 - Code:

WELADVFF

Grief & Loss in Contemplative Practice

Everyone has experienced loss, either through death, relationships ending, or the loss of a job or home. Come join us as we take a look at the ‘holy’ in the midst of grief and loss through some creative meditation and discussion. Finding our way back to peace is possible.

Lunch is provided.

Saturday, November 23rd 10 AM - 2:30 PM at the Abbey.

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

Cost: $35

NEW DATE: Saturday November 23rd.

Abbey Autumn Book Club - Popular Stories & Poems of the Advent and Christmas Season: Selected readings by various authors.

Join Tom Hotchkiss, Co-founder of the Abbey and a special guest, as they lead each week through some of the most popular stories and poems for the Advent and Christmas seasons.

The four Thursdays starting November 14th (excluding Thanksgiving week) ONLINE through December 12th

Thursdays - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

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

Cost: $30. Special “Friends and Family discount” Any two participants registered together - $40 - Code: BOOKFFAbbey

Abbey Autumn Book Club - Popular Stories & Poems of the Advent and Christmas Season: Selected readings by various authors.

Join Tom Hotchkiss, Co-founder of the Abbey and a special guest, as they lead each week through some of the most popular stories and poems for the Advent and Christmas seasons.

The four Thursdays starting November 14th (excluding Thanksgiving week) ONLINE through December 12th

Thursdays - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

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

Cost: $30. Special “Friends and Family discount” Any two participants registered together - $40 - Code: BOOKFFAbbey

Rekindling Your Faith

Rekindling Your Faith - is for people who have struggled with their faith or found their faith changing or evolving. This is a contemplative, non-judgmental method to help us hold on to faith that works in a changing and sometimes confusing world.

Led by Shawn Ashmore, Retreat leader & Spiritual Director and Marcia Hotchkiss, Spiritual Director and Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers.

Beginning Wednesday October 2nd (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for five weeks.

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

Cost: $35 Limit 12 participants. Special $5 discount for first five to register - Code: RYFAbbey

Rekindling Your Faith

Rekindling Your Faith - is for people who have struggled with their faith or found their faith changing or evolving. This is a contemplative, non-judgmental method to help us hold on to faith that works in a changing and sometimes confusing world.

Led by Shawn Ashmore, Retreat leader & Spiritual Director and Marcia Hotchkiss, Spiritual Director and Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers.

Beginning Wednesday October 2nd (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for five weeks.

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

Cost: $35 Limit 12 participants. Special $5 discount for first five to register - Code: RYFAbbey

Rekindling Your Faith

Rekindling Your Faith - is for people who have struggled with their faith or found their faith changing or evolving. This is a contemplative, non-judgmental method to help us hold on to faith that works in a changing and sometimes confusing world.

Led by Shawn Ashmore, Retreat leader & Spiritual Director and Marcia Hotchkiss, Spiritual Director and Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers.

Beginning Wednesday October 2nd (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for five weeks.

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

Cost: $35 Limit 12 participants. Special $5 discount for first five to register - Code: RYFAbbey

Rekindling Your Faith

Rekindling Your Faith - is for people who have struggled with their faith or found their faith changing or evolving. This is a contemplative, non-judgmental method to help us hold on to faith that works in a changing and sometimes confusing world.

Led by Shawn Ashmore, Retreat leader & Spiritual Director and Marcia Hotchkiss, Spiritual Director and Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers.

Beginning Wednesday October 2nd (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for five weeks.

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

Cost: $35 Limit 12 participants. Special $5 discount for first five to register - Code: RYFAbbey

Calling all Pickleball Enthusiasts!

Join the Abbey for the 2024 Abbey Pickleball Friendrasier Tournament, a fun-filled competition raising funds for The Abbey on Lovers Lane’s downtown ministry!

Dust off your paddles and play alongside fellow pickleball lovers!

Compete in your skill level: beginner, intermediate, advanced, or champion to vie for prizes, and support The Abbey’s ministry! (Charitable receipts available upon request.)

The Abbey's founders, Marcia and Rev. Tom Hotchkiss, will be your gracious hosts at Dallas Indoor Pickleball in Farmer's Branch. Food and beverages will be served.

Join us in this friendly and charitable competition!

Email marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with any questions.

Click below to register!

Cost: $100 per person (an investment in fun and a worthy cause!)

Registration is open NOW. Thank you for your patience.

Contemplative Prayer Practices

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Rev. Tom Hotchkiss and Council Chair Paula Hart will be a leading a class in the Christian contemplative prayer tradition and its practices. How to do we become more ‘beholden’ to God in our lives through prayer? How can we grow a sensitivity to God and foster our longing for spiritual peace and contemplation?

Join us for this offering. Further understand the role that habitual prayer plays in the Christian life and how we can grow our attention to God’s will and purpose.

Email Marcia@abbeyonlovers.org with questions.

Cost: $35

Faith Matters: Webinar on Civil Discourse in the Midst of the Toxic Norm

In times of division, how does faith play a role in having the hard conversations of 2024 and taking a stance on social, political, and national issues?

Join us for a conversation to be facilitated by Co-Founder of the Abbey Rev. Tom Hotchkiss between three influential minds. Our speakers will be Professor Emerita from Agnes Scott College, spiritual director and author Lerita Coleman Brown, a distinguished scholar on the life and work of the activist and Christian mystic Howard Thurman; Commentary editor for the Dallas Morning News Ryan Sander whose journalism monitors our national Christian faith and culture; and Episcopal priest and psychotherapist Eric Liles, currently serving at Good Shepherd Church and practicing in Dallas.

The webinar will be hosted on Thursday September 5th from 7 PM - 8:30 PM on Zoom.

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

Cost: $10

Registration is open. Thank you for your patience.

Saturday Saints: Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola was a 16th century Spanish Basque soldier who became a Catholic priest and theologian later in life. With a group of six friends, he famously established the Order of Jesus, the Jesuits, a Catholic order responsible for countless missions and has established schools around the world.

Ignatius was educated as a minister later in life after years of pilgrimage and renunciation. Today, he is known for his personal meditations which were codified in his work on spiritual direction and retreat The Spiritual Exercises, a work that continues to be used in the Catholic and Anglican tradition.

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

Jeff Bouis, Spiritual Director and Head Faculty of Spiritual Exercises at Heart Paths DFW, will lead this session. Jeff has studied Ignatius’ The Spiritual Exercises for many years and uses its methods in his own spiritual direction mentorship at Heart Paths.

9 – 11 AM on Saturday, July 27th

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

All Creatures Alleluia!

Do you find yourself a lover of all creatures, a modern day St. Francis?

In this class, friend of the Abbey, Shawn Ashmore will lead us in this special offering as we explore our connection with our animals and how they connect us with our Creator and His Creation.

Join us for this 4-week offering.

Beginning Thursday May 30th (10-11:30 a.m.) for four weeks in-person at the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

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

Cost: $40

Discovering Jesus: Seven Encounters in the Gospel of John

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss will facilitate a seven-week series on discovering Jesus. This small group will meet at the lunch hour (bring your own lunch if you choose), and we will explore seven encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John.

Join us for this offering. Discuss who God is, what did Jesus say or mean, and how do Jesus’ words from long ago matter to us today.

Beginning Wednesday May 8th (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for seven weeks.

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

Cost: $50

All Creatures Alleluia!

Do you find yourself a lover of all creatures, a modern day St. Francis?

In this class, friend of the Abbey, Shawn Ashmore will lead us in this special offering as we explore our connection with our animals and how they connect us with our Creator and His Creation.

Join us for this 4-week offering.

Beginning Thursday May 30th (10-11:30 a.m.) for four weeks in-person at the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

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

Cost: $40

Discovering Jesus: Seven Encounters in the Gospel of John

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss will facilitate a seven-week series on discovering Jesus. This small group will meet at the lunch hour (bring your own lunch if you choose), and we will explore seven encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John.

Join us for this offering. Discuss who God is, what did Jesus say or mean, and how do Jesus’ words from long ago matter to us today.

Beginning Wednesday May 8th (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for seven weeks.

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

Cost: $50

All Creatures Alleluia!

Do you find yourself a lover of all creatures, a modern day St. Francis?

In this class, friend of the Abbey, Shawn Ashmore will lead us in this special offering as we explore our connection with our animals and how they connect us with our Creator and His Creation.

Join us for this 4-week offering.

Beginning Thursday May 30th (10-11:30 a.m.) for four weeks in-person at the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

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

Cost: $40

Discovering Jesus: Seven Encounters in the Gospel of John

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss will facilitate a seven-week series on discovering Jesus. This small group will meet at the lunch hour (bring your own lunch if you choose), and we will explore seven encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John.

Join us for this offering. Discuss who God is, what did Jesus say or mean, and how do Jesus’ words from long ago matter to us today.

Beginning Wednesday May 8th (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for seven weeks.

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

Cost: $50

All Creatures Alleluia!

Do you find yourself a lover of all creatures, a modern day St. Francis?

In this class, friend of the Abbey, Shawn Ashmore will lead us in this special offering as we explore our connection with our animals and how they connect us with our Creator and His Creation.

Join us for this 4-week offering.

Beginning Thursday May 30th (10-11:30 a.m.) for four weeks in-person at the Abbey on Lovers Lane.

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

Cost: $40

Discovering Jesus: Seven Encounters in the Gospel of John

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss will facilitate a seven-week series on discovering Jesus. This small group will meet at the lunch hour (bring your own lunch if you choose), and we will explore seven encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John.

Join us for this offering. Discuss who God is, what did Jesus say or mean, and how do Jesus’ words from long ago matter to us today.

Beginning Wednesday May 8th (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for seven weeks.

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

Cost: $50

Discovering Jesus: Seven Encounters in the Gospel of John

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss will facilitate a seven-week series on discovering Jesus. This small group will meet at the lunch hour (bring your own lunch if you choose), and we will explore seven encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John.

Join us for this offering. Discuss who God is, what did Jesus say or mean, and how do Jesus’ words from long ago matter to us today.

Beginning Wednesday May 8th (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for seven weeks.

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

Cost: $50

Discovering Jesus: Seven Encounters in the Gospel of John

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss will facilitate a seven-week series on discovering Jesus. This small group will meet at the lunch hour (bring your own lunch if you choose), and we will explore seven encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John.

Join us for this offering. Discuss who God is, what did Jesus say or mean, and how do Jesus’ words from long ago matter to us today.

Beginning Wednesday May 8th (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for seven weeks.

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

Cost: $50

Discovering Jesus: Seven Encounters in the Gospel of John

Co-founder of the Abbey on Lovers, Marcia Hotchkiss will facilitate a seven-week series on discovering Jesus. This small group will meet at the lunch hour (bring your own lunch if you choose), and we will explore seven encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John.

Join us for this offering. Discuss who God is, what did Jesus say or mean, and how do Jesus’ words from long ago matter to us today.

Beginning Wednesday May 8th (11:45a.m. - 1:15p.m.) for seven weeks.

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

Cost: $50

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.