Lenten Retreat at Monastery, Nova Scotia
Friday – Sunday, March 21 – 23, 2025
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s numerous retreats were jointly organized by the St. Andrew’s Mission Society of King’s College Chapel, Halifax, and the Nova Scotia – P.E.I. branch of the PBSC at Our Lady of Grace Monastery, located in Monastery, N.S. (The monastery was originally Trappist, later Cistercian and then Augustinian, until 1999.)
The retreat house is now once again open to visiting groups, and some Maritime Anglican clergy are organizing a Lenten retreat this month along the lines of the previous ones. The cost is $250 per person, and includes accommodation and meals from Friday supper until Sunday lunch. Enrolment is limited to 24 persons, and limited student support is available.
Schedule for the event:
Friday:
- 4:00 pm – arrival;
- 6:00 pm – Evening Prayer;
- 6:30 pm – supper;
- 8:00 pm – first address;
- 9:00 pm – Compline
Saturday:
- 7:15 am – Mattins;
- 7:30 am – Eucharist;
- 8:00 am – breakfast;
- 9:30 am – second address;
- 12:00 pm – noonday prayers;
- 2:00 pm – third address;
- 5:30 pm – Evening Prayer;
- 6:00 pm – supper;
- 8:00 pm – fourth address;
- 9:00 pm – Compline
Sunday:
- 7:30 am – Mattins;
- 8:00 – breakfast;
- 9:30 am – fifth address;
- 11:00 am – Eucharist;
- 12:00 pm – lunch;
- 1:00 pm – depart
Speaker:
The retreat will be led by the Revd. Gethin Edward. Fr. Edward was born and raised on Prince Edward Island. A son of former PBSC National Chairman Michael Edward and a cradle Anglican, he grew up attending St. Peter’s Cathedral in Charlottetown, where his faith was formed and fostered by the Common Prayer tradition. During his teens, encouraged by the communities he found at the St. Michael’s Youth Conference and the chapel at King’s College, Halifax, he discerned a vocation to the priesthood, and after marrying his wife, Meg, in 1999, entered the divinity program at Wycliffe College, Toronto. He was ordained a priest in 2010, in the diocese of Saskatchewan. He now lives and ministers on PEI with his family, where he is the priest in charge of the parish of Montague and Souris, and also a member of the spiritual care team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown. For more information on the retreat, please send your inquiry to info@prayerbook.ca.