The Parable of the Mustard Seed When I was a kid I once tried to grow a tropical rain forest in a wardrobe, in a bedroom in number six Sherwood in the house where I grew up. I decided to begin on the small scale. I began with a seed from out budgie’s cage. If […]
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Songs of Praise – Pentecost Sunday
The Community were delighted to feature in the Pentecost Sunday episode of Songs of Praise for the BBC. Filming took place in different locations around site. One of the show’s regular presenters Sean Fletcher conducted various interviews to learn more about life at the Community and College. If you missed the episode you can catch […]
Ordinations 2021
We invite your prayers for all those about to be ordained, and particularly for the 18 students of the College: 12 to be ordained to the Diaconate, and 6 to be ordained Priest. It is into a world coping with Covid19 and its devastating effects, that we send out our students. We commend them, and […]
Br Philip’s sermon – 6 June 2021
Trinity 1 2021 Mark 3 : 20-35 Let us pray: without you my table is empty, make haste O Lord and do not delay. Amen (a prayer from the inexhaustible treasury of the Imitation of Christ) The Collect for today, the 1st Sunday after Trinity, asks God to grant us the help of His […]
Fr Thomas’s sermon, 30 May 2021
Trinity Sunday 2021. Isaiah 6.1 ‘holy, holy, holy..’ The vision of Isaiah is one we deeply familiar with; ‘holy. Holy, holy is the Lord’, the Lord of hosts; in every Eucharistic prayer it is sung, and often we use it to acclaim God, holy God, holy and strong, holy and almighty have mercy on us. […]
Fr Oswin’s sermon 23 May 2021
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.” ***** “When the day of Pentecost had come …”: – it’s a completion. We’ve ceased singing the psalms at a sprint. We’re about to put away our special booklets. We won’t be sprinkling our praise and conversation so liberally with Alleluias. […]
Br Patrick’s sermon 16 May 2021
(1 John 5:9-13; John 17: 6-19) This period in the Church’s year can seem rather strange – our Lord has ascended to sit at the right hand of the Father, yet we are waiting for the Spirit to come down at Pentecost and settle upon the disciples; so that the Church can begin to […]
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Songs of Praise – Pentecost Sunday 23 May
The Community were delighted to be invited to take part in an upcoming episode of Songs of Praise for the BBC. Filming took place in different locations around site. One of the show’s regular presenters Sean Fletcher conducted various interviews to learn more about life at the Community and College. This episode is due […]
Fr George’s Sermon – 9th May 2021
In last week’s Economist there was a photograph of a huge robot in the shape of a human being, and where its head should be there was a driving-cab with a real man inside operating the controls. That’s how we tend to think about our minds and our bodies. Our mind is the most important […]