Daily Practices: Living our commitments and values as best as we are able, and setting a little time aside each day for bringing awareness to our relationship to the Mystery Beyond, Within, and Around Us. Partners are also encouraged to create a daily rule of life to support them in living a wholehearted, whole, and balanced life that includes the following elements:
Weekly Practices: Setting aside a more substantial time and space (Sabbath) to catch our breath, ground and center on the Sacred Earth.
Monthly Practices: Meeting at least once a month with another Partner for mutual support, whether that be in person, by phone, or by web. Partners are encouraged to rotate between the various members of the Partnership for these calls, while cultivating relationships with specific partners on their own.
Annual Practices: Meeting Annually at the Earth of Columcille together for ceremonies and spiritual practices created by each other, clearness committees (gatherings where each of us can bring the issues of our lives for reflection by the entire group), holy play and business meetings. At each yearly gathering we will renew our commitment to the Sacred Earth, to Ourselves, to Each Other and to the Mystery, and pay our yearly dues to the Partnership to cover basic costs for gatherings and administrative costs, and to help the Partnership make a yearly donation to Columcille.
Lifetime Practices: Each of us is invited to make whatever commitments we wish to our own unique expression of activism, stewardship, vocation, and spirituality, with the support of our Companions. Each of us erects and maintains a cairn, standing stone, altar or shrine where we live as a symbol, icon, and focus for our commitments, as well as offering a stone from that place to the Sacred Earth of Columcille. Each of us may opt to offer something of our own bodies – blood, semen, sweat, tears, or milk – to the Sacred Earth, as an expression of our commitment to the Sacred Earth of Columcille, and the Sacred Earth where we live.
- Silence: Contemplation, Prayer, Brooding and Silence
- Celebration: Remembrance, Worship, Praise and Celebration
- Study: Study and Reflection (Private and Corporate)
- Service: Work (Physical, Creative, attuning and centering)
- Play: Play and Recreation (Singing/Dancing/Games/Giggles)
Weekly Practices: Setting aside a more substantial time and space (Sabbath) to catch our breath, ground and center on the Sacred Earth.
Monthly Practices: Meeting at least once a month with another Partner for mutual support, whether that be in person, by phone, or by web. Partners are encouraged to rotate between the various members of the Partnership for these calls, while cultivating relationships with specific partners on their own.
Annual Practices: Meeting Annually at the Earth of Columcille together for ceremonies and spiritual practices created by each other, clearness committees (gatherings where each of us can bring the issues of our lives for reflection by the entire group), holy play and business meetings. At each yearly gathering we will renew our commitment to the Sacred Earth, to Ourselves, to Each Other and to the Mystery, and pay our yearly dues to the Partnership to cover basic costs for gatherings and administrative costs, and to help the Partnership make a yearly donation to Columcille.
Lifetime Practices: Each of us is invited to make whatever commitments we wish to our own unique expression of activism, stewardship, vocation, and spirituality, with the support of our Companions. Each of us erects and maintains a cairn, standing stone, altar or shrine where we live as a symbol, icon, and focus for our commitments, as well as offering a stone from that place to the Sacred Earth of Columcille. Each of us may opt to offer something of our own bodies – blood, semen, sweat, tears, or milk – to the Sacred Earth, as an expression of our commitment to the Sacred Earth of Columcille, and the Sacred Earth where we live.