Happiest of birthdays to our brother Fr Antony Grant who turned 90 today! Here he is with his carer Jen, enjoying a welcome slice of cake, for which we thank our chef Catherine. We give thanks to God for Antony’s service to the religious life and his fellowship with us in the mystery of the […]
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Fr John’s Pentecost sermon, 19 May 2024
About ten years ago my (then) teenage nephew introduced me to the world of Percy Jackson. We were both present at a baptism and I noticed that he was reading a novel during the whole of the service. It was probably part of some teen bush warfare expressing his disapproval of the service or his […]
Dr Dorothee Bertschmann’s sermon, 12 May 2024
Sermon on John 17: 6-19 Everybody who reads the Gospel of John and in particular the Farewell Speeches knows how repetitive and almost redundant John’s language is. In our Greek translation group we found, that if you could be bothered to memorize a limited amount of Johannine key terms you would have made a prudent […]
A New Appointment!
The Community are pleased to announce that the Revd Nigel Wright has been appointed as our new Head of Strategy and Finance. Nigel has known the Community and our partners for over 20 years, and is a member of the Society of the Resurrection. He has extensive experience in finance, business planning and delivery, and […]
Fr Oswin’s sermon, 5 May 2024
“By this we know that we love the children of God … ” *********************************************** The Johannine writings turn faster and faster around the word ‘love’. We’ve been hearing a lot of it in the readings from The First Letter of John at Evensong this past week. Occasionally, as our heads spin, the texts throw out […]
CRQ Lady Day 2024
Book Launch
All Christians are Monks – By Fr George CR. Thursday 2 May 2024 at St Antony’s Priory, Durham. Religious Life Institute | Events (ssm.org.uk)
Fr Charlie’s Sermon, 7 April 2024
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. In the name of the Father… There is a kind of sequence discernible in the Resurrection appearances in the gospels, a sequence in which we witness the disciples’s growing capacity to grasp the implications of the Resurrection […]
Fr David Babbington’s sermon, 10th March 2024
This is a first for me. While in the parish, I was never able to use the readings for the fourth Sunday of Lent. Instead, we always used the alternate readings set, those for Mothering Sunday. I had thought that that was a difficult subject to preach on in the middle of the Lenten season, […]
Festival Day 2024
Saturday 6 July 2024 Come and see us on Festival Day this year. We like to see our friends and we think you will enjoy the day with us. Bring others with you. Bring a group from your parish to enjoy our grounds and take part in our worship. Plan for the day The theme […]