Why are so many people so bad? Why are we ourselves inclined to do bad things? Newspapers may answer that it is because there are not enough police, or it is because people are poor, or because people are badly brought up or have not been taught how to behave. None of these answers provides […]
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Meet Chris and David, Our new Operations Manager and Catering Manager
Chris Moralee – Operations Manager David Flett – Catering Manager
SERMON 9 JUNE 2019: PENTECOST. WHITSUNDAY. YEAR C. (1) ACTS 2:1-21. (2) JOHN 14: 8-17 (25-27)
On my way back from doing a bit of shopping in Mirfield – it’s amazing how often I manage to go shopping, in spite of being sworn to “simplicity” of life – I said “Excuse me” to a young mother whose little boy was running along a doorstep. “I’m preaching on Sunday, and it would […]
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Br Marc’s Companions Letter – May 2019
We have had a super weekend, with the arrival of Abbot Ignatius and Prior Antonius from Trier and the Huysberg arriving on Friday. There have been several opportunities for conversation in English and German alike, and we have had some varied topics to consider, such as the various expressions of Benedictine life lived in community […]
St Helens, Hemsworth
Anyone living in this part of the world knows what a coal face is! They are now, largely, a thing of the past, but time was when everyone in this area depended on coalfaces. Without those coalfaces the villages all died. Those coal faces gave life to this world. I like to think of parish […]
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Greek for Fun
Most people think that title is a contradiction in terms. How can an ancient language be fun. Even clergy who learned Greek at College seem often to have found it really boring. That is sad. It shouldn’t be boring. Those who took part in this week’s Greek for Fun course here at Mirfield know that […]