The Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill Benedictine Community welcomes you to join us in contemplation, reflection, fellowship, and study. Our group emerged out of conversations amongst seekers of a balanced Benedictine life and participants in Benedictine courses at School of Spirit sessions in 2009 and 2010. Our vision is to create a lay, ecumenical, contemplative, inclusive group of seekers that promises to bring the balance and harmony that one experiences in a cloistered community to our own local gathering place. That gathering place remains centered in Northern Virginia but now includes a number of members farther away as we have moved to Zoom format. We are trying to model the Benedictine ideal of balance and harmony for our families, workplaces, spiritual communities and daily lives in an increasingly complex world.
Our group is composed of people from Immanuel and other churches, and we are open to individuals of all faith traditions as well as those who claim no particular faith tradition at all. Everyone is welcome to be a part of the Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill Benedictine Community. The Evening Gathering is the first and third Tuesdays of the month and begins promptly at 7:00pm on Zoom (with occasional hybrid Zoom and in-person gatherings). We end between 8:00 and 8:15pm. Periodically, we gather for hospitality and fellowship, or host a speaker; in the past we have also participated in DC area Benedictine events.
Since 2010, we have been studying the Rule of Saint Benedict with the guidance of leading practitioners such as Esther de Waal and Sr. Joan Chittister. We are continuing a spirit-led discovery, discerning in prayer and in living practice how our expression of Benedictine spirituality will evolve. You can be a vital part of shaping this expression. Please join us!
Contacts: office@icoh.net
Our group is composed of people from Immanuel and other churches, and we are open to individuals of all faith traditions as well as those who claim no particular faith tradition at all. Everyone is welcome to be a part of the Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill Benedictine Community. The Evening Gathering is the first and third Tuesdays of the month and begins promptly at 7:00pm on Zoom (with occasional hybrid Zoom and in-person gatherings). We end between 8:00 and 8:15pm. Periodically, we gather for hospitality and fellowship, or host a speaker; in the past we have also participated in DC area Benedictine events.
Since 2010, we have been studying the Rule of Saint Benedict with the guidance of leading practitioners such as Esther de Waal and Sr. Joan Chittister. We are continuing a spirit-led discovery, discerning in prayer and in living practice how our expression of Benedictine spirituality will evolve. You can be a vital part of shaping this expression. Please join us!
Contacts: office@icoh.net
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