Paul Prins
@paul.urbanmonastic.org
An @UrbanMonastic.org founder and Monastic · Author · Preacher · Liturgist · Linguist · Mystic · Pacifist · Artist · Egg Photographer · In Paris · From MPLS · All are Welcome
About Me: https://paulprins.net/profile
About Me: https://paulprins.net/profile
It’s now the first week of advent in Paris! The beacon has been lit! Blessings to you and all whom you love. Love is coming and love will reign with peace and justice.
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It’s now the first week of advent in Paris! The beacon has been lit! Blessings to you and all whom you love. Love is coming and love will reign with peace and justice.
I took the photo for this week nearly 20 years ago in London on December 20, 2025. I did desaturate the neon blue christmas lights to appear more white. Those early lights were aggressive. Miss the charm of the old buses.
November 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I took the photo for this week nearly 20 years ago in London on December 20, 2025. I did desaturate the neon blue christmas lights to appear more white. Those early lights were aggressive. Miss the charm of the old buses.
One of the most difficult regular parts of my Christian faith is this: God is just as in love with me as God is with everyone else - including those I'm told to hate.
God is love, and love drives out hatred. There is no - and cannot be hatred in God. There is none in the Father, Son or Holy Spirit.
God is love, and love drives out hatred. There is no - and cannot be hatred in God. There is none in the Father, Son or Holy Spirit.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
One of the most difficult regular parts of my Christian faith is this: God is just as in love with me as God is with everyone else - including those I'm told to hate.
God is love, and love drives out hatred. There is no - and cannot be hatred in God. There is none in the Father, Son or Holy Spirit.
God is love, and love drives out hatred. There is no - and cannot be hatred in God. There is none in the Father, Son or Holy Spirit.
👋 Hey there #SBL folks from #AARSBL25. There is a feed for Critical Bible Study here on Bluesky that you might enjoy sharing to & engaging with.
It's has a double opt in (say you'd like to join + you tag posts - 📜, 🪔, #CriticalBible, etc -to be added).
Hope to see ya! bsky.app/profile/paul...
It's has a double opt in (say you'd like to join + you tag posts - 📜, 🪔, #CriticalBible, etc -to be added).
Hope to see ya! bsky.app/profile/paul...
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
👋 Hey there #SBL folks from #AARSBL25. There is a feed for Critical Bible Study here on Bluesky that you might enjoy sharing to & engaging with.
It's has a double opt in (say you'd like to join + you tag posts - 📜, 🪔, #CriticalBible, etc -to be added).
Hope to see ya! bsky.app/profile/paul...
It's has a double opt in (say you'd like to join + you tag posts - 📜, 🪔, #CriticalBible, etc -to be added).
Hope to see ya! bsky.app/profile/paul...
It's such a blessing to return to these at Advent! May they bless you and encourage your faith.
A Meditation for the First week of Advent: Proclaiming the Christ
It is love. Love that is unyielding, and unending. This love rests in the divine center of the Prophets. In the heart of John the Baptist, guided by the Holy Spirit....
Keep reading or listen along 👇
It is love. Love that is unyielding, and unending. This love rests in the divine center of the Prophets. In the heart of John the Baptist, guided by the Holy Spirit....
Keep reading or listen along 👇
Proclaiming the Christ - Urban Monastic
The life and words of John the Baptist proclaimed the coming of the Christ. Proclaimed the Kingdom of Heaven. He was sustained by the deep and expansive love of God - through the Holy Spirit. May the ...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It's such a blessing to return to these at Advent! May they bless you and encourage your faith.
The maga mind cannot comprehend the future being created in the rest of the world.
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The maga mind cannot comprehend the future being created in the rest of the world.
Introduce yourself with five concerts:
Meute
Woodkid
Reel Big Fish & Goldfinger
Live
Everclear
Meute
Woodkid
Reel Big Fish & Goldfinger
Live
Everclear
Introduce yourself with five concerts:
James Brown
The Clash
Springsteen
The Specials
BB King
James Brown
The Clash
Springsteen
The Specials
BB King
Introduce yourself with five concerts:
Violent Femmes
The Magnetic Fields
Nina Simone
Leonard Cohen
Iris Dement
Violent Femmes
The Magnetic Fields
Nina Simone
Leonard Cohen
Iris Dement
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts:
Meute
Woodkid
Reel Big Fish & Goldfinger
Live
Everclear
Meute
Woodkid
Reel Big Fish & Goldfinger
Live
Everclear
Sure you've heard of fried turkey, but what about friar turkey?
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Sure you've heard of fried turkey, but what about friar turkey?
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Why are purple candles so hard to find in France? So now we have blue advent candles and that’s perfectly fine, but I’m trying to not start making my own pillar candles.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Why are purple candles so hard to find in France? So now we have blue advent candles and that’s perfectly fine, but I’m trying to not start making my own pillar candles.
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With Advent approaching, there is something Meister Eckhart would like you to know.
(taken from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart')
(taken from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart')
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
With Advent approaching, there is something Meister Eckhart would like you to know.
(taken from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart')
(taken from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart')
Christmas is starting to ramp up before the first Sunday of Advent here in Paris. Decorations continue to go up and the trees are showing up at shops!
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Christmas is starting to ramp up before the first Sunday of Advent here in Paris. Decorations continue to go up and the trees are showing up at shops!
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Is this the persecution of the faithful I was warned about, growing up evangelical? My nationalist co-religionists are denying it now, but these are precisely the scenarios we were breathlessly schooled on, reading stories of saints and martyrs following Jesus at all costs.
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Is this the persecution of the faithful I was warned about, growing up evangelical? My nationalist co-religionists are denying it now, but these are precisely the scenarios we were breathlessly schooled on, reading stories of saints and martyrs following Jesus at all costs.
Remember to plug in your pets before you go to bed. That way they will be ready to play in the morning!
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Remember to plug in your pets before you go to bed. That way they will be ready to play in the morning!
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Co-signed
I wish so deeply that there were a way to get people to stop asking “Are you going home for Thanksgiving / Christmas?”
I am a middle aged adult. The home that I have is the one live in, and calling anything aside from that “home” makes a whole lot of presumptions.
I am a middle aged adult. The home that I have is the one live in, and calling anything aside from that “home” makes a whole lot of presumptions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Co-signed
Well the barber I've been going to for the last 8+ years seems to have just vanished within the last couple weeks. Website and socials are gone. Marked perminantly closed on Google.
I'm not looking forward to finding a new person that I like. I already miss not needing to explain the cut I want.
I'm not looking forward to finding a new person that I like. I already miss not needing to explain the cut I want.
Welp, I shouldn't have put off getting a haircut because it's now August in Paris.
See ya in September, Beret. I won't cheat on you with some lesser clipper jockey from the street. Enjoy your vacation.
It's taken years, but I only have to say "Comme d'hab" when I go in for a cut. Introverts dream!
See ya in September, Beret. I won't cheat on you with some lesser clipper jockey from the street. Enjoy your vacation.
It's taken years, but I only have to say "Comme d'hab" when I go in for a cut. Introverts dream!
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Well the barber I've been going to for the last 8+ years seems to have just vanished within the last couple weeks. Website and socials are gone. Marked perminantly closed on Google.
I'm not looking forward to finding a new person that I like. I already miss not needing to explain the cut I want.
I'm not looking forward to finding a new person that I like. I already miss not needing to explain the cut I want.
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👋 to everyone at #AAR and #SBL in Boston. This feed that aggregates all related hashtags into one easy to follow chronological feed. It ensures you don't miss something because it was tagged #AARSBL25 and you were looking at #SBLAAR25.
Pin it to make it easier to get to! bsky.app/profile/paul...
Pin it to make it easier to get to! bsky.app/profile/paul...
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
👋 to everyone at #AAR and #SBL in Boston. This feed that aggregates all related hashtags into one easy to follow chronological feed. It ensures you don't miss something because it was tagged #AARSBL25 and you were looking at #SBLAAR25.
Pin it to make it easier to get to! bsky.app/profile/paul...
Pin it to make it easier to get to! bsky.app/profile/paul...
This image has created an opportunity to practice and extend grace in my marriage. Wow. After nearly 19 years of wedded bliss, ya think you’d know a person. 😂
with charity and goodwill, i must here part ways with rolls.
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This image has created an opportunity to practice and extend grace in my marriage. Wow. After nearly 19 years of wedded bliss, ya think you’d know a person. 😂
Post a movie where you are from.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Post a movie where you are from.
Snow is starting to stick to some things! I’m going to bed now though.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Snow is starting to stick to some things! I’m going to bed now though.
It’s snowing tonight in Paris! The ground isn’t cool enough for the snow to stick yet. It’s still really pretty!
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It’s snowing tonight in Paris! The ground isn’t cool enough for the snow to stick yet. It’s still really pretty!
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Niebuhr Society #AARSBL2025 “Christendom has achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.“
- H. Richard Niebuhr
via Valerie Cooper
- H. Richard Niebuhr
via Valerie Cooper
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Niebuhr Society #AARSBL2025 “Christendom has achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.“
- H. Richard Niebuhr
via Valerie Cooper
- H. Richard Niebuhr
via Valerie Cooper
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Lord,
Bless our cities as they wake and sleep.
Bless our cities as they move and breathe.
Bless our cities with and through us.
Amen.
A blessing for our thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time.
Bless our cities as they wake and sleep.
Bless our cities as they move and breathe.
Bless our cities with and through us.
Amen.
A blessing for our thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time.
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Lord,
Bless our cities as they wake and sleep.
Bless our cities as they move and breathe.
Bless our cities with and through us.
Amen.
A blessing for our thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time.
Bless our cities as they wake and sleep.
Bless our cities as they move and breathe.
Bless our cities with and through us.
Amen.
A blessing for our thirty-fourth week of Ordinary Time.
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Let us pray.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-fourth week of Ordinary time.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-fourth week of Ordinary time.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Let us pray.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-fourth week of Ordinary time.
This is the Urban Monastic Collect for our thirty-fourth week of Ordinary time.