Quiet Days are times 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

March 8, 2025 (At St George’s Round Church) : Reflections by Elizabeth King

Details TBA.

March 22, 2025 : Reflections by Elizabeth King on the Psalms with opportunity to attend a Rare Books Talk with Patricia Chalmers

The Quiet Day will follow Morning Prayer at 9 am. The Rare Books Talk begins at 1:30 pm.*

‘The cure for the wounded heart.’ “Bread in the wilderness.’ ‘The honeycomb of the inner man.’ ‘A paradise full of all fruits.’ The soul’s ‘complete gymnasium’—its ‘anatomy’—its ‘mirror’.  As the Bible’s poetic ‘book of praises’, the Book of Psalms, the foundation of Jewish and Christian liturgical prayer, has been described in these terms, and more, across the centuries. This Quiet Morning will afford an opportunity to consider the Book of Psalms through these images. We will spend some time looking at one particular grouping, Psalms 113-118, integral to Jewish feasts and therefore also to Christian Holy Week and Eastertide. And we will consider the role of the Psalms in Benedictine-inspired forms of prayer, turning our imaginations in particular to a perhaps lesser-known instantiation of this way of life, the 17th century community of Little Gidding. The morning will take the form of several short addresses followed by time for discussion, interspersed with periods of quiet reflection.

Elizabeth King is raising three young children with her husband, Evan, in the fishing town of Lockeport, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia. She studied the Liberal Arts at St John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, and Classics at Cambridge University. For the MA in Classics at Dalhousie, she wrote on Plotinus’s fourfold gradation of virtue and its relation to the soul of the world. While completing the MA at Dalhousie she was Residence Don of 4th Floor Alexandra Hall, and a Chapel Warden.

*There are only 15 spots available for the Rare Books Talk. Please email chapeladministrator@ukings.ca to sign up.

April 5, 2025: Reflections by Luke Hathaway on ‘The Poetry of Affirmation’

Following Morning Prayer at 9am.

Details TBA