Trinity Sunday 2021. Isaiah 6.1 ‘holy, holy, holy..’ The vision of Isaiah is one we deeply familiar with; ‘holy. Holy, holy is the Lord’, the Lord of hosts; in every Eucharistic prayer it is sung, and often we use it to acclaim God, holy God, holy and strong, holy and almighty have mercy on us. […]
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Fr Oswin’s sermon 23 May 2021
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.” ***** “When the day of Pentecost had come …”: – it’s a completion. We’ve ceased singing the psalms at a sprint. We’re about to put away our special booklets. We won’t be sprinkling our praise and conversation so liberally with Alleluias. […]
Br Patrick’s sermon 16 May 2021
(1 John 5:9-13; John 17: 6-19) This period in the Church’s year can seem rather strange – our Lord has ascended to sit at the right hand of the Father, yet we are waiting for the Spirit to come down at Pentecost and settle upon the disciples; so that the Church can begin to […]
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Songs of Praise – Pentecost Sunday 23 May
The Community were delighted to be invited to take part in an upcoming episode of Songs of Praise for the BBC. Filming took place in different locations around site. One of the show’s regular presenters Sean Fletcher conducted various interviews to learn more about life at the Community and College. This episode is due […]
Fr George’s Sermon – 9th May 2021
In last week’s Economist there was a photograph of a huge robot in the shape of a human being, and where its head should be there was a driving-cab with a real man inside operating the controls. That’s how we tend to think about our minds and our bodies. Our mind is the most important […]
Visitor & Guest Update Regarding Covid-19
Latest Update – March 2021 Following recent government announcements regarding the cautious removal of Covid restrictions in stages, the Community of the Resurrection is hopeful that we will be able to reopen to a limited number of self-catered day and residential visitors from 12 April 2021. From 17 May 2021, we hope to reopen our Retreat House […]
Come to the Well
The Retreat Association icon, depicting Jesus’s encounter with the woman at the well (John 4.) is currently making its way around a number of retreat houses and cathedrals and we are among those taking part in this ‘pilgrimage’. We shall be receiving the icon on the 6 May from The Bield, in Perthshire, and after […]
Fr John’s Sermon – Sunday 2nd May 2021
The Gospel for St Philip and St James Day is part of Jesus’s farewell discourse with the disciples before he goes to face his enemies and the Last Enemy. The Lord speaks in riddles and paradoxes and the disciples’ questionings show both bewilderment and impatience. He talks of leaving them, of some unknown Comforter after […]