On Saturday 11 March, CR came to Canterbury to play a leading part in a Study Day arranged by Canon Christopher Irvine – Canterbury’s Canon Librarian and former Principal of the College of the Resurrection. Exploring the importance of prayer and community in the circumstances of our everyday lives, CR’s Oblates, Companions, the Society of the […]
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Four monasteries for Five brothers or ’The Italian Job!’
It has been many months in the planning, but brothers George, Dennis, Jacob Marc and Fabian finally embarked on our nine-day visit to Italy and the homes of the Vitorchiano, Civitella, Siloé and Bosé communities. And much is to be said. Significantly, the Trappist community of seventy-five sisters at Vitorchiano, 80 km north of Rome, wishes […]
Talking Jesus Mission
From the 2nd to the 5th of March Stephanie and I spent time with the local people of Gateshead as part of a wide spread mission across the Diocese of Durham. The mission titled ‘Talking Jesus’ included bishops, teams of clergy and laity from all parts of the Northern Provence. Although the mission was a […]
Sponsored Bike Ride
Sponsored Bike Ride From 13 to 15 May, George CR is leading a group of cyclists on a Sponsored Bike Ride with the theme of Returning to the Sources of Christian Life (the aim of religious communities). We now have six riders confirmed – ranging in age from late teens to early 70s and […]
School Visits
Yarm School We have already had around 150 school students visit us so far this year, the rest will be in May (after my exams). Every year we are given a wonderful opportunity to engage with the young people who come her e. This year’s visit from Yarm School, arranged by their inspiring head of […]
Raising of Lazarus
Raising of Lazarus “Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, he stayed two days longer…” This is not what we would expect. We would expect Jesus to drop everything and go, either to be with Lazarus when he died, or to heal him. Instead, Jesus […]
Healing of the man born blind
Lent 4 26 March 2017 Year A: Healing of the man born blind (John 9) In a few moments’ time we shall be on our feet declaring our belief that it was ‘for us and for our salvation’ that Jesus Christ ‘came down from heaven, was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary […]
The truth
Lent 3 (19 March 2017) John 4.5-42 Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well ‘Woman believe me the hour is coming when you will neither, on this mountain nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father but the hour is coming – and now is – when the true worshippers will worship the Father in […]
Indeed
‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him’ The strap line of the Blood Donor Service is ‘save a life’. It is brilliant: what could be better than to endure just a few moments of discomfort in order to […]
Reading Retreat
Come to read, rest and reflect. Step aside from the relentless 24/7 media exposure and experience words in a different time-frame and at a different pace. An opportunity to explore the Community’s extensive and unique library. 12th – 14th MAY 2017 Led by Barbara Clarke (Associate of the Community & Librarian) Cost for this retreat: […]