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CONTEMPLATIVE

CHRISTIANITY

in the Heart of West Marin

WELCOMING YOU TO
ST. COLUMBA'S INVERNESS

We are an inclusive contemplative community incarnating the

Mystical Body of Christ in Word, Sacrament, and spiritual intimacy.

"A spiritual truth to which our culture and society have so successfully numbed us is that the contemplative life is not a luxury or a quaint pastime but a matter of grave spiritual, social, and now even planetary urgency. Contemplatives know this intuitively. The prayer of silence that confronts the tyranny of the false self and opens us to the transforming power of the Spirit is a moral imperative."

~Fr. Vincent Pizzuto, Contemplating Christ, 90.

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ABOUT OUR MISSION

Our Sunday Eucharist Service is at 10am. Alternatively you may join our Online Morning Prayer Service at our Virtual Chapel at 11am PT.

ABOUT OUR RETREAT HOUSE

The Retreat House is currently open. We are welcoming those who wish a quiet, contemplative visit.

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ABOUT OUR VICAR

Father Vincent has brought to our community a contemplative spirit and academic rigor promoting openness and hospitality in the Celtic Christian Tradition.

Come to me, all you that are weary and heavy burdened and I will give you rest.

~Matthew 11:28

An introduction
to the four gospels

PORTRAITS
OF
CHRIST

FOR CRITICAL MINDS & CONTEMPLATIVE HEARTS

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BIBLE STUDY & LECTURE SERIES

with

FR. VINCENT PIZZUTO, PhD

Series IV

August 29 – October 10

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You search the scriptures

because you think that in them you have eternal life;

but it is they that testify to me.

~John 5:39

CHRISTIAN
MEDITATION

Meditation Chapel

Wednesday Evenings

7pm

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Summer Growth

Fall Harvest

An Online Series with Mathew Francis

September 13 – October 4

ONLINE BOOK STUDY

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A MINISTRY OF 

ST. COLUMBA'S INVERNESS

 COUNCIL FOR

ECOLOGICAL DISCIPLESHIP

FIRE
&
GRACE

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Sunday, October 15
3PM

St. Columba's 
Outdoor Amphitheater

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Mountains of Contemplation

An Online Workshop on Thomas Merton
with Kathleen Tarr

Saturday, November 4

ECOLOGICAL
ONLINE BOOK STUDY

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Hosted by the

Council for Ecological Discipleship  

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Noospheric Consciousness

An In-Person Retreat with Brian Thomas Swimme
and Fr. Vincent Pizzuto

October 20 – 22

The incarnation has made mystics of us all.

What if we read the gospels as if that were true?

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The Dark Numinous

An In-Person Retreat with
The Rev. John Michael Hayes, PhD, ABPP,Priest-Psychologist-Psychoanalyst

November 17 – 19

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