Canterbury at Cal

Coffee + office hours = coffice hours

Come sit in the warm afternoon air (or the Berkeley approximation of warm) and have a cup of coffee (on me) and chat and study and everything else.  I hope to see you at Strada.

Coffee + office = coffice

Please join me at Starbucks at 10:30.  I will gladly buy you a coffee or other beverage.  Sit and chat or take it off to your exam!

Ascension Day is one of the seven principle feasts of the Christian Calendar.  This day, celebrated 40 days after Easter, marks the departure of Jesus as a physical presence on earth.  Ascension makes the space to prepare for the reception of the Holy Spirit by the apostles on Pentecost.

We will have a Taizé Prayer with Communion on Ascension Day.  Taizé is a monastic community in Burgundy, France which focuses on reconciliation and hospitality to young adults from all over the world.  The form of prayer used by the monks of Taizé is built off of simple chants and short readings of scripture with silent prayer.  Take a break from your studies and work to celebrate one of the major holidays of Christianity and enter into the peace of contemplative prayer.

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings there will be morning prayer at the Canterbury House.  This form of prayer dates back to the 16th century in England when it was modified from forms of prayer used in the morning hours by monastic communities.  Morning prayer offers the perfect way to begin your day (or take a pause after an all-nighter) during the hectic time of exam week.

Evening Prayer, a feature of Anglican worship since the 16th century and connected to patterns of prayers going back to the early centuries of Christian worship, will be offered during exam week.  This service provides a peaceful way to take a break from your daily work and reflect on the scriptures and find peace in prayer.

Please drop by the Canterbury House for free coffee, tea, snacks and internet during exam week.  We are close to campus and like a little living room just for you.  Study or take a break and join us.

Drop by the Canterbury House during exam week for a quiet place to study or rest or take a break.  We will have coffee, tea, snacks and free wi-fil and a cozy space to be close to campus.

Each Thursday at 7:00 there is a prayer in the tradition of Taizé in the canterbury house.  The prayer is a simple sung service offering rest and peace during the hectic finals season.  We have light refreshments following.

This form of contemplative prayer comes from the community of Taizé in Burgundy, France.  Visited each summer by tens of thousands of young adults, the monastery of Taizé explores reconciliation, simplicity of life and contemplation of God as a community experience.  Visit the website at www.taize.fr

Each week Canterbury continues a tradition dating back at least to the 6th century in which Christians sing the final prayers of the day known as Compline (from the Latin for completorium or completion).  Our community uses ancient melodies from eastern and western traditions combined with prayers developed by the Anglican Province of New Zealand.  The melodies ground us in our past while the prayers unite us with the ever expanding realities of faith in the world around us.