The Society of St Columba offers evening chapel services eight times per year in the Celtic Christian and Liberal-Catholic traditions as well as quarterly seasonal ceremonies. Our Chapel services combine the beauty of traditional sacramental worship and liturgy with a nature-centered and mystical approach to Christian Spirituality. We offer a welcoming, spiritually nurturing community whereby people can come together to celebrate the changing seasons and connect to God and each other through meditation, prayer, sacramental worship, and ceremony.
The Society is an independent ecumenical religious community in the Celtic Christian, Liberal Catholic, and Contemplative traditions. The Guardian of the Society is an ordained Priest with valid apostolic succession tracing back through the Liberal Catholic/Old Catholic, Anglican/Scottish Episcopal, and Celtic and Greek Orthodox church lineages.
Anyone is welcome to attend the public chapel services, Regular attenders and those who wish to help support our spiritual work and activities are however invited to join as members. Suggested membership donations to help towards covering costs and expenses are $120 NZ per year ($10 per month). We also provide a quarterly newsletter, a lending library of spiritual books and host an annual weekend retreat.
Chapel Services
The Societyof St Columba was established in 2016 as an ecumenical, religious community in the Celtic Christian and Contemplative Traditions.
Join us in a beautiful historic church for our evening chapel services. Our sacraments are open to all people. The services combine traditional liturgical worship with candles, incense, sacred music, poetry, and contemplative prayer and meditation and the eucharist. Steeped in tradition, the services evoke an atmosphere of spiritual stillness and peace.
Seasonal Ceremonies
Seasonal Sanctuary Ceremonies are held four times a year in March, June, September and November to mark the seasonal cycles of Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer. The Ceremonies are participatory and held in the sacred space of a circle with candles and incense and draw on Mystical Christian as well as Celtic spiritual traditions. During the ceremonies we honour the four elements of creation and the Archangels, and take part in meditation, prayer, chant, seasonal readings or ceremony, and receive the Eucharist (bread and wine).
Celtic christianity
Celtic Christianity draws on ancient religious and monastic traditions, yet this spiritual path is relevant for the contemporary world today. Revering nature as God's Creation and incorporating sacred music, art, and poetry in worship are integral elements of Celtic Spiritual and Monastic traditions. Through a deep personal spiritual journey a close relationship to Christ, Mary, and the Saints is developed. Distinctive features of this path include: Hope, equality, mystery, nature, holism, simplicity, and community.
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