Dear Friends and Companions, I hope that you are all well. I know how depressing the news can be and I know that many of you are living under restrictions that are making life difficult for you. Many people have friends who have been ill with the virus and some have been bereaved. Among the […]
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Remembrance Day Sermon Upper Church
1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18 and Matthew 25: 1-13 Our ability to remember is a great gift. Memories from childhood of long summer holidays playing football with friends until dusk will always be ones that I shall treasure. We all guard some particular memories as special in our lives and they represent a precious repertoire of […]
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Great news! There are now two ways in which you can help raise money for the Community or the College (Frere Educational Trust) at no additional cost to yourself. We’ve registered with easyfundraising, it’s a great site where you can help CR or the Frere Educational Trust raise funds simply by doing your everyday online […]
What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?
A few years ago I was visiting one of my favourite countries, Romania, and was with a friend in the city of Timisoara. The new Archbishop of Timisoara came to a service and turned out to be very nice, relaxed and humble and had none of that pompous self-importance that some Orthodox bishops have. But […]
Render Unto Caesar – Nashua
In today’s gospel the Pharisees and the Herodians ask Jesus “Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar?” Jesus says, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God, the things that are God’s.” I grew up in Zimbabwe, or Rhodesia as it was called then. It’s a country I loved, and still […]
Welcome Back!
Few Mirfield students think their time here quite complete until they have returned for Deacons’ Week. It was our privilege, last month, to welcome back seven deacons who left the College in 2019. Their visit allowed us to trial our social distancing measures for the new term and so it was with some confidence that […]
Book Review – Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin and the World it Created.
By Nicholas Ostler Latin is a language dead as dead could be;first it killed the Romans and now it’s killing me. So we used to chant as schoolboys, though actually I loved Latin even then. What people do not realise is that Latin was not confined to the Ancient Romans but remained, in many different […]
Book Review – Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
By Jonathan Sacks Jonathan Sacks is the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and a well-known writer and speaker. In this fascinating book he deals with a problem which has arisen in the Western world over the past century, but especially since the Sixties: is there a moral law we can all sign up to? […]
Book Review – Austin Farrer: Oxford Warden, Scholar, Preacher
Edited by Professor Marcus Bockmuehl and Bishop Stephen Platten with Nevsky Everett I am currently reading with much enjoyment a book, recently acquired by our library, Austin Farrer: Oxford Warden,Scholar, Preacher, edited by Professor Marcus Bockmuehl and Bishop Stephen Platten with Nevsky Everett. SCM Press 2020. I was privileged to be tutored by Farrer for […]