The Abbesses
Co-Abbess
Rev. Mo. Alaina Alexander
Alaina has been called to a life of poetry, beauty, and intimate ministry that has pulled her inexorably toward the work of justice and liberation.
As a Co-Abbess of Earthfire Abbey she lives in common and community, seeking to embody daily the radical hospitality of her faith.
She is a mystic of interior spaces, finding divinity in humanity, the struggles of ongoing resistance, and the works of the earth.
Heavy with stories, she is a reluctant oracle, ardent poet, obligate author, haunt of God, prophet of the margins, and conjurer of cream soups.
All in all, Alaina spends her time living gratuitously and unapologetically.
Co-Abbess
Rev. Jeannie
Alexander
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Abba Lot visited Abba Joseph and said to him, “Abba, to the best of my ability I do a little fasting, praying, and meditating. I maintain stillness and purge my thoughts to the best of my ability. What else should I be doing?”
Standing up, the elder stretched out his hands to heaven, and his fingers became like ten lamps of fire; and he said
to him, “If you are willing, become utterly changed into fire."
Saint Joseph of Panephō