More reflections from the Christchurch silent retreat
December 10, 2024
Rebecca, a new visiting retreatant from the Catholic Enquiry Centre, wrote up her experience of the Nov ’24 Christchurch Silent Retreat.
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The Peace of Christ Community meets every first Sunday (Community Meeting Day) and the third Tuesday (Bethany Day) of the month. Enquirers are generally invited to our informal Bethany Day gatherings in order to meet and mingle. When greater interest is ignited, after a period of about six months, they are then invited to join in the Sunday Community Meeting. The map below shows where we regularly meet.
We typically meet at the Carmelite Monastery in Halswell, Christchurch. New visitors are welcome but please contact us first by using the form below. Click on the map below for directions.
It is our commitment to develop communion with other communities especially across New Zealand and within Asia Pacific.
Each year we organise a silent retreat with a Carmelite theme which is open to the other OCDS Communities and to the wider Dioceses as a way of sharing our Carmel charism.
Looking for a retreat away from the stresses of our world?
The annual Christchurch OCDS retreat is scheduled from 15-17 November 2024. Join our secular carmelites as you take time away to listen to God’s voice. The retreat is being directed by a Carmelite priest visiting from Australia – Fr Adalbert OCD.
Register by contacting Megan Emery using the details above.
Please note the updated location of College House in Upper Riccarton.
Read our retreat reflections by clicking on the image above.
Read our retreat reflections by clicking on the image above.
Rebecca, a new visiting retreatant from the Catholic Enquiry Centre, wrote up her experience of the Nov ’24 Christchurch Silent Retreat.
Silence is the way to foster holiness. Our experience of silence can be positive or negative. It can mean peace, calm, joy… or it can mean loneliness or even traumatic.
We have fond memories of the First Promise ceremony – Fr Michael-Thérèse offered a moving Mass & homily for our lovely ladies, Ann-Marie, Catherine & Therese
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