‘The Sacred Bundle‘ – Canon Cathy Rowling (The first 10 seconds is silent)
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Fr Eric Simmons CR
Our dear brother Eric died on Tuesday 19 January, after a short illness.Fr Eric was in his 91st year and the 58th year of his profession in the Community, and served as Superior of the Community from 1974 until 1987.The Requiem Mass for Fr Eric was held in Upper Church on Thursday 4 February and […]
New You Tube series
Fr Nicolas is continuing to add new videos to his YouTube series. This week Fr Nicolas talks on ‘The Promise of Eternal Life’, and previously added a video discussing, ‘Distractions in prayer’. Fr Charlie nCR has also contributed to the series with his video, ‘The sayings of the Desert Fathers’. There are many videos to […]
CR Library Update
Refurbishment Project We were greatly encouraged by the news that the Community has been awarded a grant by the Number 1 Trust towards the cost of our library refurbishment project. We are hoping work will begin on the project in the next couple of months. In order to protect and preserve the library collection and to […]
Simeon and the child Jesus
In the constellation of Orion there are three tiny stars that make up the sword of Orion. The middle one is barely visible to the naked eye. Yet this is the Great Orion Nebula described in a catalogue of deep sky objects as: Orion Nebula Messier 42 (M42, NGC 1976) is the brightest starforming, and […]
Eric Simmons CR 1930-2021
The Requiem Mass for Fr Eric Simmons CR will be held in the Church of the Resurrection, Mirfield, at 11.00 am on Thursday 4th February. You can access the service as it is live-streamed with this link:https://www.facebook.com/Mirfieldservices or you can find a link on our streaming page:https://mirfield.org.uk/live-streaming/ The conditions of lockdown and the safety of […]
Eric Simmons CR
Our dear brother Eric CR died on Tuesday 19th January, after a short illness (non Covid-19 related). Eric was in his 91st year and the 58th year of his profession in the Community. Eric served as Superior of the Community from 1974 until 1987. We give thanks to God for our brother, for his faithfulness […]
The voice of the Lord is upon the waters
‘the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep.’ Have you ever felt overwhelmed? I am sure you have. The unimaginable scenes from Washington DC this week were of being overwhelmed. [The surprised joy of those doing the overwhelming, the insurrectionists, … contrasted with the very real fears …] Senators […]
The word became flesh
Recently one of my nieces became pregnant with her first baby. I shall never forget that moment when she told me with joy shining in her eyes, and showed me the baby’s heart beat on her phone. It was only 8 weeks from conception, a tiny, fragile little foetus, yet already the heart was beating […]
New You Tube series
Fr Nicolas has started a new YouTube series. There are currently four videos to view, covering a range of interesting topics. You can watch any of his talks here; https://youtu.be/bG2kSK921EU Please subscribe to the channel to receive notifications of new videos. Fr John has also produced a talk for Advent which can be viewed here; […]