Short Emmaus Update

The membership of the Emmaus Community joyfully met last weekend for a more extended meeting to pray, check in, dream about the future of our common life, and set our 'customary' for 2025. 

This customary is decided by consensus and involves setting practices that members of the community (with grace!) share together based on our commitments to both personal and shared prayer, presence (with God, the neighbourhood and each other) and simplicity. 

This year, collective committments involve commitment to certain prayer and worship times and frequencies that we'll attend together, a retreat, fasting as a community for Advent and Lent, coming alongside the AbbeyChurch's growing partnerships in the neighbourhood, supporting worship and prayer - and sharing a regular breakfast / life check-in together.

Individual members also make their own committments based on our Rule of Life calling us each into being a supported witness for justice, hospitality, prayer, presence, sabbath-keeping and contemplation.

We also set our spring 2025 retreat and talked about about keeping momentum going on finding or building a space for monastic cooperative housing - noting that there are a number of members deeply interested in living in embodied intentional / neo-monastic Christian community.  

If you're interested in learning more about Emmaus, drop us an email - or talk to Marilyn, Matt, Lynn, Phil, Kevin, or Rob.