The leaders of Anglican religious communities had their annual conference at Mirfield again, and had an excellent day on leadership led by Dr Loveday Alexander and Sr Josephine Miller, a Cistercian Superior. On the second day one session was led by a solicitor from Anthony Collins, a firm specialising in advising church bodies. He gave […]
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Unusual ecumenical talks
Our friends will know that we have long been twinned with the Roman Catholic Benedictine Abbey of St Matthias in Trier, Germany. In order to mark the approaching 50th anniversary of our brotherhood together, and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, we jointly organised a small conference at Trier for three Anglican bishops and three […]
CR Grand Auction V
We are back in business. I was doubtful when I decided to hold another auction. I wasn’t sure that we could go for a fifth one. In fact I have been pleasantly surprised. There are now 175 lots in the catalogue and if everything that is promised turns up we will have over 200 lots […]
Hostel of the Resurrection
From 1908 to 1976 CR ran the Hostel of the Resurrection in Leeds, a kind of hall of residence-cum-priory for students, most of whom were preparing for ordination. Former students recently raised money to pay for two panels of St Wilfrid and St Cuthbert, in the arches of the old piscina in the Resurrection […]
6th Walter Tapper Lecture
Jane Kennedy, a leading church architect who has responsibility for several cathedrals, gave an illustrated lecture on how and how not to furnish churches. We had moved the time from the morning to the evening, with a supper available, and as a result the attendance was the highest yet. There was great appreciation of the […]
CR Poet in Residence
“The Tent of Meeting” Quiet Day on October 28 offered those who came time to reflect on images and quotations that helped to expand an understanding of “Tents of Meeting” in our “ordinary” lives today. Maggie Jackson (CR Poet in Residence) shared some of her poems with the group and some participants wrote their own […]
CoR New Students
As our new students begin to settle into College life, one student shares his experience of arriving at College and explains how he has settled into the routine; ‘I arrived on a grey afternoon, the famous Yorkshire silver skies were in evidence. My Mum and Dad had gone ahead by about ten minutes in the […]
CR Oblates
Oblates of CR are men who accept a vocation to celibacy and live it out wherever they are, either working or in retirement. Some are priests; some are lay men, but all wish to live by the charism of CR and deepen their life of prayer with God. This October, six of the […]
Us and Them
When I was a schoolboy, each August my mother would take me and my brother to Smith’s department store in Leicester to buy new blazers. Putting on the new blazer was always magic, but there was another bit of magic I always looked forward to. The store was equipped with a vacuum tube payment system. […]
19th after Trinity
It all comes down to the money. That seems to be the consensus of political commentators this week on the Brexit negotiations after the latest EU leaders’ meeting. The future relations between neighbours sharing one continent and centuries of entwined cultural development depend on ‘how much?’. Later this week we’ll be commemorating the Christian King […]