We are looking to appoint two administrators to work closely together covering 50 hours per week, ideally at 25 hours each with at least part of one day per week worked in common. The posts would suit a job-share arrangement. This is an active site, full of interest, and home for monks and students. No […]
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“I am the Good Shepherd” (Jn 10: 11)
Some years ago I made a long retreat at St Beuno’s in Wales, that lovely Jesuit house where Gerard Manley Hopkins lived, and wrote the Wreck of the Deutschland. Each afternoon I would go out for a walk up and down the hills, enjoying that wonderful countryside, as Hopkins had done: “Lovely the woods, waters, […]
The Third Sunday of Easter
Luke 24. 36b-48 Unlike the other Gospels St Luke does not mention the disciples going to Galilee to see the risen Lord. He tells his readers only about the appearances in and about Jerusalem leading up to the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles empowering them for the mission to all nations beginning […]
CR Miles for Masvingo
Challenge Completed! CR have been raising money to support a schools gardening project in the Masvingo diocese in Zimbabwe. This is a very dry and poor area, the rural people of Zimbabwe live constantly with the fear of crop failure. When this happens there is simply no food, except what Aid organisations can bring in. […]
The Hermitage
The Community recently identified an opportunity to convert an underused building at the heart of the site to provide simple accommodation responding to the need for what we are calling a ‘hermitage’. It is hoped this will provide a place of silence and reflection for those who require it. The outbuilding is on a single […]
Latest Auction News!
It is just about a year ago that I Adele, Charlie and I collected a large donation for the next auction (scheduled at that time for the end of June and when lockdown came moved to the beginning of September). Well 2020 was a year of disappointment and tragedies and compared with what people all […]
Festival Day 2021
Saturday 10 July We plan to hold our Festival Day as usual this year though we cannot yet make firm arrangements as we do not yet know what restrictions we shall be working with. Please put the date in your diary and we will provide further details in due course. The Solemn Mass will be […]
Holy Week 2021
We were delighted that College staff and some students were able to play a central part in the liturgies of Holy Week. Bishop Mark, Principal of the College felt it was a ‘great privilege to celebrate the Vigil Mass of Easter for the College & Community’, there was also the opportunity to enjoy a glass […]