10:30 am, Dec. 24, 2024
St. Benedict’s Monastery: 419 Youville Rd., St. Boniface.
* Join us for snacks and refreshments afterwards
Space is limited (the chapel is cosy!) so if you would like to attend, please contact us.
Suhail overviews the tri-focal spirituality of Advent and highlights the particular appropriateness of lament in Advent. If you would like to write/pray your own lament, you are welcome to use the sheet we used here.
“Christ in the Rubble” is the name of a modern-day icon by Kelly Latimore created in partnership with Red Letter Christians. The icon is meant “to be a ‘holy pondering’ – a process that potentially brings about a new way of seeing [that] will create more dialogue among Christians […] during this holy season about the ways our beliefs and actions – or lack thereof – contribute to the violence we’re currently witnessing in Gaza.”
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.
Suhail gives the homily from Mark 12:28-34.
On our five year anniversary of being a community (!), Suhail gives the homily / some reflections from Matthew 22:34-40.
Suhail gives the homily from Mark 8:27-38.
Summer rhythms are different – school is closed and given the warmer weather, people enjoy things like being outside, camping, travelling/vacationing, and generally moving at a more leisurely and recreational pace. Flexibility are freedom seem more important. Weekends are especially precious and, inevitably, weekend church services take on a different complexion.
This year, we’re trying something new to take these realities in stride and to honour people’s summer dynamics and preferences.
Over July and August, we won’t be meeting weekly on Sundays at the resource centre. Alongside some informal gatherings, we’ll gather intentionally four times at someone’s home on a Wednesday evening. We’ll begin with supper and then have some curated times of prayer, scripture, singing, communion, reflection, etc.
If you’d like to join any gathering, you’re welcome! Just message us and we’ll send you the address. 🙂
Suhail gives the homily from Mark 4:26-34. The opening prayer (“Patient Trust”) is by Teilhard de Chardin.
Sister Mary Coswin, OSB, gives the homily from John 17:6-19.
Suhail gives the homily from Luke 24:36b-48.
