Spiritual Practice and Discussion Circle

NOTE: Finished for the 2024 term & will start up again in January 2025!

Please feel welcome to join our weekly circle for some gentle breath-centred meditation. After briefly greeting one another, we will do about half an hour of practice, followed by some open discussion about our experience. You are free to come weekly or just once in a while. Everyone is welcome and no previous experience is required. Please try to arrive on time (6:30 p.m.), or enter quietly if you’re a bit late. At ECUT, we welcome and support all students regardless of religious background, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.

Daily Evening Prayer

Join others in reading a Psalm, Scripture text, and praying together. The services are from 4:10-4:30 p.m. on Monday through Thursday (on regular school days). On Mondays and Wednesdays, the prayers are held at Knox College chapel, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the prayers are held at Regis College Chapel. Hosted by chaplains and students from St. Michael’s, ECUT, and Graduate Christian Fellowship/Christian Reformed Campus Ministry.

What to Expect: The prayers are held at the front of the chapel. Those gathered (2-6 people) read together the Prayer during the day from the Church of the England. You are invited to participate in the services through the communal responses, reading lines of Scripture and/or by praying aloud during the prayer times.

The service can be accessed via the Time to Pray app, which we recommend you download on your phone ahead of time. You can also use the app to read through and/or listen to the prayers ahead of time so that you know what to expect. On days that you cannot join others in daily prayer, we encourage you to listen to the app or find a different way to pray, including even attending the daily prayer time via WhatsApp (Reach out to Tim Kennedy for the link).

Film, Faith and Friends

Alongside of the Christian Reformed Chaplaincy, we host a gathering focused on understanding better the story of the gospel and how it intersects with our own beliefs and lives. We’re doing this by watching episodes from the third season of the Chosen and then talking about them, focusing particularly on how the episode relates to and challenges our understandings of who Jesus is and what following God looks like.

These events are inclusive to all spiritual backgrounds (or none) and are open to anyone who wants to discuss questions about faith and spirituality. We seek to be a diverse gathering of students who can explore spirituality, faith, and deep questions together. We’d love to have you join us!

We are meeting at Regis College, Classroom D.

We’re hiring work study students!

The Ecumenical Chaplaincy and St. Michael’s campus ministry are hiring work-study students! Join our team collaboratively to be part of creating more ecumenical and justice oriented programming on campus in the coming year!

Apply on CLNX:  https://clnx.utoronto.ca/home.htm

Job IDs: 
🔍 Social Justice and Inclusion – 240644
🔍 Ecology and Spirituality – 240602

Deadline September 8, 11:59 pm!