The Mirfield Liturgical Institute Do you want to improve your skills and understanding of worship and liturgy, then this opportunity for study is for you! The Revd Dr Jo Kershaw is now recruiting the 2023/24 academic year intake for the new Post-Graduate Diploma and MA in Worship & Liturgical Studies (University of Durham, Common Awards). […]
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Ordinations Summer 2023
The College is pleased to be sending out six students to be ordained deacon in six different dioceses this year. We ask all friends and associate of CR to remember them in their prayers along with those who are to be made priest. Through the year, the College continues to remember in prayer every student […]
The Visitation to Blessed Mary 2023
Wishing you all a joyful feast of the Visitation to Blessed Mary, as we commemorate how mysterious it is that we are called to share joyfully in the vocation of an ordinary young woman from a n insignificant Palestinian town. We also approach the season for ordinations during June, on the feast of Ss. Peter […]
Br Marc’s Sermon, 4 June 2023
TRINITY SUNDAY 2023 Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20. May I speak in the name of the Son, to the glory of the Father, in the power of the Holy Spirit. AMEN “In the beginning, there was a wind from God. And God said, “Let there be light. And there was light.” […]
The Revd Dorothea Bertschmann’s sermon at the College end-of-year eucharist, Thur 1 June 2023
Leavers’ service 1st of June 2023 Upper Church, Mirfield The Rev’d Dr Dorothea H. Bertschmann Mark 10: 46-52 ‘Take heart, get up – he is calling you!’ I love the story of Bartimäus. And I love the way it is illustrated in my favourite children’s bible, by the Dutch artist Kees de Kort. Page after […]
Fr George’s sermon, 28 May 2023
PENTECOST 2023 Imagine a quiz programme where the participants are asked, who was Jesus? People would have no difficulty in having something to say. However, if you ask them who the Holy Spirit is, they would no doubt be nonplussed. Jesus is easy to relate to, but in general we don’t talk much about the […]
Fr George’s sermon, 28 May 2023
PENTECOST 2023 Imagine a quiz programme where the participants are asked, who was Jesus? People would have no difficulty in having something to say. However, if you ask them who the Holy Spirit is, they would no doubt be nonplussed. Jesus is easy to relate to, but in general we don’t talk much about the […]
The Revd Dorothea Bertschmann’s sermon, 21 May
Easter 7 John 17:1-11, (Acts 1:6-14) May I speak in the name of the living God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit Amen During my last holiday I took two of my nephews to a fun museum, which nearly bankrupted me. That’s how fancy it was! And one attraction was a labyrinth of mirrors, […]
Fr Oswin’s Sermon, 7 May 2023
Easter 5 Year A “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” *********************************************** You may be experiencing a strong sense of having heard the gospel words before.So, on your behalf, I looked up the hearing equivalent of déjà vu. It is … you guessed it: déjà entendu – literally “already heard”, and it’s defined as ‘the […]
Bless our House 1898 – 2023
125 Years at Mirfield Another milestone in the history of CR will occur on 4th May to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the formal blessing and opening of ‘HR’ aka House of the Resurrection, the Mother House of the Community of the Resurrection. CR moved from Radley to Mirfield in January 1898. The original proposal […]