Category: Services

Summer Schedule

For the summer, we’re pausing our usual Sunday services and hosting midweek gatherings around the table in homes and at St. Benedict’s Monastery—warm, welcoming spaces where we can be present with God and one another. Anyone is free to join; in fact, we would love to have you visit and participate at any time!

Each gathering will be hospitable, participatory, and contemplative and includes:

  • Shared supper (pot-luck or delivered) and conversation
  • Listening to scripture
  • Prayer
  • Communion
  • Occasionally: singing, homilies, or teaching

Details

All gatherings are from 5:30pm – 7:30pm. For gatherings at home, please contact us for the address.

JULY

  • Thursday, July 3 – Home
  • Tuesday, July 15 – Home
  • Tuesday, July 29 – St. Benedict’s Monastery (419 Youville St., St. Boniface)

AUGUST

  • Monday, August 11 – Home
  • Tuesday, August 26 – St. Benedict’s Monastery (419 Youville St., St. Boniface)

The Enneagram and the Love of God: A Lenten Teaching Series

There are several metaphors to describe the role and dynamic of the Church. A hospital – where people experience care and healing. A chapel – where people have time and space to pray. Lastly, a school – where people grow in their spiritual understanding and wisdom.

This Lent we’re intentionally leaning into the Church as a school, and trying something new.

We’ll have three interactive (time for sharing, questions, discussion etc.) and cumulative teaching sessions on the Enneagram, which is an increasingly known and helpful personality framework that deepens our self-awareness. It reveals the (often subconscious) compulsions that drive us and why. In doing so, it gives us greater understanding, acceptance, and freedom. Similarly, the Enneagram helps people understand others more deeply and, as a result, nourishes compassion and love.

This is all very much in keeping with the practices of self-examination and repetance which are customary Christian observances in Lent.

Ultimately, our hope is that these sessions will clarify strengths and areas of growth in our personalities. They will help us bring more of ourselves into the love of God. They will also encourage us to love ourselves and others in greater measure.

The sessions will build upon one another and if you would like to join us, please do!

The Enneagram and the Love of God

Featuring teaching, conversation, questions, etc. All dates/times are during normal service hours: Sundays, 10:30am – 12:15pm.

  1. Why and What: March 9, 2025
    • “Do you see the speck in your own eye?”: the importance of self-awareness in Christian spiritual formation
    • Heart, head, and gut: the Enneagram triads and their general preoccupations and compulsions

  2. What (continued): March 23, 2025
    • The trees in the forest: the 9 Enneatypes
    • Upstream or downstream: arrows and how the 9 Enneatypes move with or against their compulsions

  3. So What?: April 6, 2025
    • “Lord, teach us to pray:” how to open your Enneatype to the love of God
    • Examen: reflecting on the series and sharing gratitudes, consolations, desolations, and hopes

Winter – Summer Schedule

We have established our service schedule for the first half of 2025 (January – June). You can find it here. There are a few things we’d like to highlight below in this next season. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us!

Lent Series: Enneagram and the Love of God

There are several metaphors to describe the role and dynamic of the Church. A hospital is one metaphor. It is a place where people experience care and healing. Another metaphor is a chapel. It provides people with time and space to pray. Lastly, a school is another metaphor. It is where people grow in their spiritual understanding and wisdom.

This Lent we’re leaning intentionally into the metaphor of Church as a school. We are trying something new. We will have three cumulative sessions of teaching on the Enneagram, a personality framework. This is in the spirit of self-examination and repentance, which is often customary of Christian observance of Lent.

The Enneagram helps people understand themselves more deeply. It reveals what (often subconscious) compulsions drive them and why. In doing so, it gives them greater self-awareness and freedom. Similarly, the Enneagram helps people understand others more deeply and, as a result, nourishes compassion and love.

Ultimately, our hope is that these sessions will clarify strengths and areas of growth in our personalities. They will help us bring more of ourselves into the love of God. They will also encourage us to love ourselves and others in greater measure.

Kids’ Time

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Though we don’t quite yet have specialized kids’ programming every Sunday (pray for us!), we are increasingly featuring designated kids’ time during our services. This time is open to anyone ages 4-12. We have been using The Peace Table which is a good, accessible contemplative Bible for children. Kids’ time is led by an adult in a separate room and includes:

  • A fun icebreaker
  • A brief time of silence (taking some breaths) to prepare to hear the Gospel story
  • Reading the Gospel aloud from The Peace Table
  • “Wondering and Sharing” time based on questions in The Peace Table
  • Guided prayer from The Peace Table

Presence: A Contemplative Gathering


❤️ FREE ADMISSION

7 pm – 9 pm, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024
419 Youville St., Winnipeg, MB

Presence is a contemplative gathering – held at the beautiful, peaceful chapel at St. Benedict’s Monastery – intended to nurture experience of the love of God. 

Our time together will feature silence, listening to scripture, a short teaching by Suhail Stephen, and quiet prayer. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided afterwards in the chapter room. 

If you are drawn to spiritual direction, contemplative prayer, or simply seek to deepen your experience of God with others who have a similar desire, we welcome you! 

Note: Space is limited to 30 participants; please register (either by indicating that you’re going in our Facebook event or contacting us directly) to reserve your spot.