College of the Resurrection Welcome back to all the returning students, and welcome to those beginning their formation at the College. Two previous CoR students are being ordained deacon at Michaelmas, please pray for: Lee Taylor (Diocese of Chelmsford) Alex Hobbs (Diocese of Exeter)
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CIR Gathering – Casteller Ring
CIR Gathering – Casteller Ring It sounds incredibly romantic: a medieval castle on top of a hill in Bavaria, and indeed it was beautiful. Here Nicolas and Jacob CR met with nearly sixty monks and nuns, brothers and sisters from all over Europe, to celebrate the religious life that we all share across our denominations. […]
Book Launch of: ‘Oneness – The Dynamics of Monasticism’
Book Launch of: ‘Oneness – The Dynamics of Monasticism’ (edited by Stephen Platten and published 2017 SCM Press) ‘The Monastic Tradition and the Contemporary Church’ Wednesday 11th October 2017 4.00pm – 6.00pm Short lectures will be delivered by Fr George Guiver CR and Rt Revd Dr Stephen Platten. “Oneness” considers the role small-group monastic life […]
St Hild College receives A Rocha Bronze Eco-Church Award
St Hild College receives A Rocha Bronze Eco-Church Award St Hild college has announced this week that it is the first theological college to be presented with an Eco Church Award at bronze level. The award, presented at St Hild’s recent commendation weekend, is part of charity A Rocha’s Eco Church initiative. It highlights a […]
The Sixth Annual Walter Tapper Lecture
Church Furnishings: Do we need them? Tuesday 17 October 2017 at 7.30pm ‘Discovering quality and meaning in sacred places and how we are affected by furnishings’ Guest Lecturer: Jane Kennedy Jane is architect to Christ Church Oxford, Ely and Newcastle Cathedrals and has extensive experience of restoration and conservation as well as delivering […]
High Altar
Those who attended July’s celebration weekend at Mirfield – and, indeed, those who have read the new Church of the Resurrection book – will be aware that the one major commission outstanding for the Community Church is a new High Altar. The process of identifying the stone and the craftsman to work it has been […]
The Way of the Cross
How quickly the mood changes, the tone darkens. Only moments earlier Peter’s insight has been declared by Jesus to be heaven-inspired, something beyond the capacity of flesh and blood, providing the rock on which the future will be built. But now Peter is sternly reprimanded and firmly put in his place; he is called Satanic, […]
Isaiah 51:1-6. Romans 12:1-8. Matthew 16:13-20
In the modern kingdom of Jordan is a big tourist attraction, the rock hewn city of PETRA, where beautiful tombs are cut out of the living rock: PETER/PETRA. Isaiah says is all: “Look to the ROCK from which you were hewn”, and the reading from Paul’s letter to the Romans tells us about ministries we […]