“Thus far you shall come and no further, and here shall your proud waves be stopped.” *********************************************** I had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago of visiting Crackington Haven on the North Cornish coast and walking on the sands. It was a bright day and a peaceful scene. At least, it was until I […]
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Summer Ordinations 2024
This year the College bids farewell to four students. Three will be ordained in the dioceses of Chichester, Southwark and Peterborough and one will defer in order to be ordained next year alongside his wife. They all leave Mirfield with our prayers and good wishes. We anticipate being joined by rather more than four new […]
Fr Nicolas’ sermon, 2 June 2024
Mark 2: 23 – 3: 6 Keeping the Sabbath It’s easy to mock the Pharisees or criticize them for their strict rules for keeping Sabbath. Yet it was not they who invented the Sabbath. That came from the hand of God on Mount Sinai. Keeping the Sabbath is at the heart of the Mosaic Law. […]
National Volunteers Week June 2024
This week is National Volunteers’ Week, a time to recognise, celebrate and thank our wonderful volunteers for all their hard work. Meet Michael!Michael began his volunteering journey with the Community around 20 years ago, and can often be found mowing and tending to the lawns and gardens. Michael is a valued member of the grounds […]
Fr George’s sermon, 30 June 2024
It was utterly compelling. It’s not so easy for us to realize that the message that Jesus brought to the ancient world made people sit up in amazement. In a world full of us-and-them attitudes, Jesus told people to love one another. In a world full of vindictiveness and conflict, he told them to love […]
Happy Birthday Antony CR
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 […]
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 […]