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.
Read our retreat reflections by clicking on the image above.
Mary is totally dependent upon God and completely directed
towards him, and at the side of her Son, she is THE MOST PERFECT
IMAGE OF FREEDOM AND OF THE LIBERATION of humanity and of
the universe.
As this is written, Easter is coming, please God we will feel renewed in our love and service of Him who died that we might live.
Lent – a time of contemplating the betrayal, suffering, and crucifixion of our beloved Lord and Master.
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