Easter 2026 Canterbury Update

In just a little over a week, Canterbury students will leave for Yellowstone National park for our annual retreat. It will be a time intentionally set apart for prayer, rest, honesty, worship, and spiritual formation. This year’s retreat theme is “The Wilderness,” exploring the ways Scripture portrays the wilderness not as a place of abandonment, but as a place where God forms identity, deepens faith, strips away illusion, and calls people more deeply into love and discipleship. Throughout the week, students will reflect on themes like belovedness, temptation, anger and disillusionment, community, justice, costly grace, and what it means to return to the world with calm clarity and ordinary faithfulness. 

Together, we will pray Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, and Compline as we reflect on the stories of Israel in the desert, Jesus in the wilderness, the wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, Bonhoeffer, Henri Nouwen, Martin Luther King Jr., and others who remind us that God often does holy work in places that feel uncertain or exposed. We ask for your prayers for safe travel, meaningful conversation, deep rest, courage, healing, and openness to the work of the Holy Spirit. Please pray that this retreat strengthens our students as they continue learning what it means to follow Jesus with compassion, courage, gentleness, and hope.

Also, as we prepare for retreat, Canterbury is continuing to raise funds through our upcoming garage sale. We are so grateful for the incredible generosity of all three Episcopal parishes in Lubbock, whose donated items are helping make this fundraiser possible and supporting the ministry and formation of our students.