Main Service | Saturday 6pm
- St Ninian’s hall, cnr Brigalow & Mouat Sts, Lyneham
- To attend via zoom, click here
Morning Meditation | 8.15am weekdays | online
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Evening Meditation | 5.30pm Sun – Fri | online
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Late Evening Meditation | 8.30pm Tues – Thurs | online
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Midday Meditation | 12.30pm Tues – Thurs | at St Ninian’s
- For guidance on how to meditate, click here
Supporting Benedictus
Benedictus is a self-supporting community relying entirely on donations to sustain our ministry. If you are able to make a regular or one-off financial contribution by direct debit or via our PayPal account, we would very much value your support:
Direct debit: Benedictus Contemplative Church | BSB 633 000 | Account 153841135
PayPal donation | click here
Benedictus is a contemplative church seeking an authentic, open-hearted and thoughtful encounter with God. Silent meditation, reflection on Scripture, and celebration are features of our shared life and worship. In the spacious hospitality of prayer and community, we learn to attend more deeply to ourselves and each other, and to the movement and calling of the Spirit in our time.
Benedictus means blessed. To be blessed and a blessing is to join in God’s reconciling love for the world. We welcome all people who are seeking to deepen their spiritual journey.
Weekly Service 6.00 – 7.00pm Saturdays
Location: cnr Brigalow & Mouat Sts (the hall @ St Ninian’s), Lyneham ACT Australia
E. info@benedictus.com.au
‘Benedictus strikes me as a fresh, refreshing and contemporary manifestation of Christian faith and community for our time. Benedictus brings the depth dimension of contemplative spirituality into the experience of both worship and fellowship … It is not only the church that benefits from this. The social institutions with which the church works in the world are also challenged to live at a level beyond outward appearance and to make compassion and wisdom integral to their vision and way of life’.
– Laurence Freeman OSB, Director,
World Community for Christian Meditation
Reflecting on Joy (Philippians 4. 1-9) - Listen to this reflection (mp3)
Upcoming events
Online Finger Labyrinth Walk, Sunday 11 October
All are welcome to join our online finger labyrinth walk, Sunday 11 October, 7pm, focusing on 'The Sacrament of the Present Moment'. Use the Morning Meditation Zoom link.
Men's Mini (un)Retreat, 23-34 October
This Men’s Mini (un)Retreat is an opportunity to draw aside on Friday evening and Saturday for a time of connection, conversation and reflection in an open and respectful space - a breathing space! All men are welcome. Read more
The Well, 11 October, 7.30-8.30pm
Join us online as Rev'd Dr Kathleen Alleaume-Ross reflects on how St Thérèse of Lisieux has nurtured her faith. Read more
Scar Tree Walk, 11 October, 2.00-4.00pm
This is a special opportunity to learn about and sit with scar trees in south Canberra. Places are limited so please register. Read more
Benedictus Contemplative Photography Workshop, 31 October, 9.30am-4.00pm
Come and find out what happens when you slow down and look through the lens in a different way – to see the world with fresh eyes, when things you’d never imagined reveal themselves in all sorts of life-giving and enabling ways. Read more