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College Life and Worship

Sharing in the life of a worshipping community of others who are preparing for Christian ministry is central to the experience of residential training. Much of the process of ministerial formation takes place here, through friendships made and conversations shared.

Eating together, worshipping together, preparing worship together, studying together – all this provides an environment for mutual challenge and enrichment in which to grow as Christian disciples.

The daily round of worship is central to the life of the College, and the pattern for the current worship can be viewed here .

• A rich variety of worship

  Worship at St Michael's offers a rich and diverse fayre, representing the diversity of our College community: Anglican and Methodist, Church in Wales and Church of England, English language and Welsh language; and being a non-party College our worship draws on a variety of approaches within this overarching denominational and linguistic diversity.

• Discipline and continuity in prayer

  Continuity in corporate worship is given by the regular use of the new Church in Wales Office of Morning Prayer throughout the year. Students are also encouraged to find their own patterns of discipline in personal prayer, patterns which will sustain them throughout their ministries.

• The purpose of College worship

  Worship at St Michael's serves at least four purposes: individual spiritual formation, the formation of the worshipping community, practical preparation for ministry, and the opportunity to learn the varied languages and traditions of worship which are part of our formational community. Whilst each of these is important, we give priority to the first two of these purposes because at the heart of it all, the regular round of worship is there to keep our individual and corporate attention on God who is the source and summit of our lives and ministries.