Retreats & Trips

The Chapel runs a number of out-trips every year to give students the chance to get off campus and spend time in the natural beauty of Nova Scotia. All hikes, retreats, and other out-trips are open to all students, faculty, staff, and friends of King's/Dal. We especially encourage first-year students to participate in these trips out of the Quad and into the woods! Details and registration information are posted in “Calendar” when a trip is approaching.

Altar Guild

The role of the Altar Guild is to care for the physical space of the Chapel, so that it may be a contemplative space for all who enter it at any time, and to support the daily and weekly worship that takes place there.

Outreach

The Chapel facilitates, and is sometimes a site of, engagement/volunteering with the wider community outside of campus. The Chapel especially has a relationship with St. George’s YouthNet, which is an after school program.

Student Meditations

In some terms, each Friday at 5pm a student from King’s or Dalhousie has given a brief meditation on the Lessons of the Day, a spiritual theme, a subject of the student’s choosing or (most recently) a favourite FYP text. This has been and may continue to be an important moment for the building of spiritual community as students gather to honour their peers by listening attentively and expectedly to their fellows.

View Sermons, Reflections and Meditations, a collection of transcripts from chapel services in 2016, including Student Meditations.

Quiet Days

Every once in a while the Chapel will hold a Quiet Day: a day or morning of silence, reflection and prayer in the Chapel. No preparation is necessary, it is simply an opportunity to enjoy some communal silence with reflections from the Chaplain or a guest to guide your thoughts.

Quiet days have been led by alumni, faculty, guest lecturers and other friends of King’s and the Chapel.

Upcoming Quiet Days are marked on the Calendar.

Chapel Concerts

An opportunity for established and up-and-coming maritime singer-songwriters to perform in Halifax’s best listening room. Past performers have included Amelia Curran, Old Man Luedecke, Thom Swift, Ben Caplan, Ostrea Lake, Nick Everett, Museum Pieces, and George Woodhouse. Admission is by donation, and all donations at the door go to a local charitable organization. Past beneficiaries include: Laing House, Metro Non-Profit Housing, St. George's YouthNet, St. George's Refugee Sponsorship, and Adsum House.