Events Calendar

**This day is now full** Philippians Study Day

Date / Time: Saturday 25th January 2020 10.00am

**This day is now full**

Paul’s letter to the Philippians is a short and personal letter, written from a Roman prison. We get a glimpse of Paul’s affectionate relationship with a church he felt close to.   Often called the “letter of joy” we actually find a range of emotions in Philippians: Paul talks openly about frustration and sadness, about his struggles as well as his hope. But above all he talks about his deep longing to be close to his Lord in life and death.

Come along and discover more about this rich document of faith and early Christian life.

Saturday 25th January 2020

Dr Dorothea Bertschmann

10.00am-3.30pm (including lunch & refreshments)

£23.00

Philippians 25.01.2020

Philippians Poster 25.01.2020

Winter Individually Guided Retreat

Date / Time: Sunday 26th January 2020 Arrival from 3pm

You will spend a week in personal prayer and reflection on scripture, sharing silence with the Community. There are no addresses as in other retreats. Rather, each person, meeting daily with an experienced guide, follows their own path as it seems God is leading them. The emphasis is on integrating body, mind and heart in faith.

Led by the Mirfield IGR Team

The cost for this retreat is £440

Contextual Theology in an Indian Context: lessons for Bradford

Date / Time: Wednesday 5th February 2020 3.00pm

Free Open Lecture

All are welcome to this as part of the St Hild Missional Theology in Global Context Module.

Hosted by the College of the Resurrection and St Hild College in partnership with the Mirfield Centre.

Wednesday 5th February 2020

3.00pm-5.00pm

Bishop Toby Howarth

This lecture is free but booking is advised.

Joint Lecture 05.02.2020

‘Seeing Temptation’ – Pre-Lent Clergy Retreat

Date / Time: Monday 10th February 2020 Arrival from 3pm

A look at temptation in art and poetry as we approach the season of Lent.

This is a preached retreat conducted by Fr. John Gribben CR

Thriving (not just surviving!) through change

Date / Time: Friday 21st February 2020 Arrivals from 3pm

Thriving (not just surviving!) through change

Led by Bishop Chris Edmondson

Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd February 2020

The cost of this retreat is £140

It is a fact of life that everything changes.   So how do we navigate our way through it and live with it positively? Over this retreat weekend we will explore the landscape of change in different ways, including through Bible study and in personal reflection.

Bishop Chris has, over the course of his ministry, been a parish priest, Diocesan Missioner, Warden of Lee Abbey, and prior to his retirement on 2016, was Bishop of Bolton in the Diocese of Manchester. He now lives in Bradford, and is an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Leeds.

Journey into Lent Retreat

Date / Time: Friday 28th February 2020 Arrival from 3pm

A weekend in preparation for the Penitential Season, using scripture, readings from St. Luke’s gospel and selected writings of Fr Benson SSJE

Retreat conductor: Br Steven CR

Confession is Good for the Soul

Date / Time: Saturday 29th February 2020 10.00am

The Anglican adage about making your Confession is ‘All may, none must, some should’. But we know how good it feels when we get something off our chest, when we have had the chance to say sorry to someone. But it can go deeper than this. This day will explore what a gift the Sacrament of Reconciliation is and how we can make it part of our own lives.

Andrew Nunn is the Dean of Southwark. He trained for priestly ministry at the College of the Resurrection and, since ordination in 1983 has ministered in parishes in Leeds as well as being Chaplain to the Bishop of Southwark and from 1999 first the Sub Dean and Precentor and then Dean at Southwark Cathedral. Andrew has been a member of the national Working Party looking at the Seal of the Confessional in the life of the Church of England. He is a regular speaker and retreat conductor, he blogs and tweets.

Saturday 29th February 2020

10.00am-3.30pm

£23.00 includes lunch and refreshments

Confession is Good for the Soul Flyer 29.02.2020

Confession is Good for the Soul Poster 29.02.2020

Missional Theology in a Secular Age

Date / Time: Wednesday 11th March 2020 3.00pm

Open Lecture

Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor

All are welcome to this as part of the St Hild Missional Theology in Global Context Module.

Hosted by the College of the Resurrection and St Hild College in partnership with the Mirfield Centre.

Wednesday 11th March 2020

3.00pm-5.00pm

The Revd Dr Tony Carroll

This lecture is free but booking is advised.

Joint Lecture 11.03.2020

Creative Spaces Retreat

Date / Time: Friday 20th March 2020 Arriving from 3pm

A creative weekend retreat offering time and space for rest and reflection alongside the rhythm of the Community with an opportunity to join them in daily prayer.  We will explore the exciting processes involved in 3-dimensional wet-felting.

The weekend is suitable for beginners and more experienced wet-felters. Teaching and support will be given throughout, but you will also be able to work at your own pace, with your own design ideas.

All materials are provided: including merino wools, silk and mixed fibres and a variety of threads. During the retreat you will be able to make felted beads for on-trend bracelets and necklaces and your own unique and practical ‘grab-bag’.

All you will need to bring with you are two large towels, one small towel and a pair of scissors.

Led by the Revd Anne Wood

Anne is an experienced teacher, an ordained priest and a qualified therapist.  Currently she teaches part-time as a tutor in Pastoral Studies with the Leeds Diocesan School of  Ministry.   Anne has ‘made things’ for much of her life, and has quite recently studied Creative Textiles at Advanced and Diploma level. She has a keen interest in the link between creative activities and general well-being and
offers a variety of felting and slow-stitch workshops, all of which also include times of silence.

Aspects of the Cross: A Quiet Day for Passiontide

Date / Time: Friday 3rd April 2020 10.00am

A day in preparation for Easter looking at the symbolism and significance of the different ways in which the cross has been depicted in nearly 2,000 years. The day will allow time for quiet reflection, meditation and prayer, and will conclude with an Audio-Visual presentation of the Way of the Cross.

Friday 3rd April 2020

10.00am-3.30pm

PQD Flyer 03.04.2020

PQD Poster 03.04.2020

Holy Week Experience

Date / Time: Saturday 4th April 2020 Evening of Palm Sunday

Holy Week at the College and Community of the Resurrection is a powerful and moving celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Beginning our journey on the eve of Palm Sunday, we live together through the experience of Holy Week. From Maundy Thursday we enter into silence until the great vigil of Easter and the celebration on Easter day. As we celebrate these ancient liturgies we are all drawn into the heart of the Christian faith. You are invited to join us in this experience.

Stay The Week
Sat 4th April – Sun 12th  April
£325  (£385.75 en-suite)

Or
Join Us For The Triduum
(Maundy Thursday until Easter day)
Thurs 9th April – Sun 12th April
£160.50 (£184.50 en-suite)

Bursaries are available on application for students.

N.B. The week ends formally after
lunch on Sunday.

Byzantine Icon Painting Retreat. Fully Booked

Date / Time: Tuesday 14th April 2020 10.00am

*****This retreat is now full****

This five day workshop will be woven into the prayerful fabric of the Monastery’s daily offices. Participants will learn the traditional and ancient techniques of the Byzantine Masters, including ‘water gilding ‘, with 24 carat gold leaf over clay and how to make and use pigments made fresh each day in the studio from natural mineral colours and eggs.

The aim of the retreat is to produce a small head and shoulders icon in the late Byzantine ‘Proplasmos ‘ style.

No previous experience is required

A 5 Day residential in the peaceful surroundings of

The Community of the Resurrection.

Cost from £660.00

(includes all materials)

Tuesday 14th to Saturday 18th April 2020

Peter Murphy

Leading Iconographer

To book or for more information contact our Guest Team on 01924 483346 or email guests@mirfield.org.uk

Flyer Byzantine Icon Retreat 2020

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‘Choosing Life’ Retreat

Date / Time: Monday 20th April 2020 Arrival from 3 pm

Choices face us within our relationships, work, and ministry. Sometimes we are aware of a specific choice that is ours to make; at other times what we recognise is the need for change, without seeing where this leads us. Sometimes events jolt us out of our former path and we don’t know how to respond.

Drawing on themes and prayer exercises from the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises this retreat, led by Christopher Chapman, will provide the space and resources to explore new directions, as we become aware of the invitation of the Spirit.

God desires to lead us into our own truth: a truth that will set us free and enable our lives to be fruitful.

Christopher Chapman is the former Spirituality Adviser for the Diocese of Southwark. He is an experienced retreat leader and spiritual director and author of Seeing in the Dark and Earthed in God: Four movements of spiritual growth.

Cost of retreat: £210

More information about the retreat

 The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola are used widely in the context of retreat work, spiritual accompaniment and discernment processes. Ignatius helps us set particular choices we face within the larger choice of responding to the invitation of the Holy Spirit. The Exercises contain some very practical guidelines on discernment and the making of a good choice. Ignatius is also concerned to help us work through the muddle of our experience. How do we recognise the invitation of the Spirit amidst the different pulls of our thoughts, feelings, desires and fears?

Within the retreat we will relate these insights to our individual circumstances. After each input session you will be provided with a range of prayer and reflection materials to use as is helpful. Though the retreat will not be totally silent, during these periods I will suggest we keep a quiet in the house to give one another the space to listen to what is stirring in our own spirit and be attentive to the invitation of the Holy Spirit.

Each day will include a reflection session where we will be able to digest more fully what we have experienced, ask questions and explore the issues that come up. This process of going deeper into what has taken place for us, and noticing those things that are significant, is very much within the spirit of the Exercises.

Christopher will also be available for anyone who wants to talk one-to-one during the retreat.

Reflective Day based on the work of Sieger Koder

Date / Time: Saturday 25th April 2020 10.00am

Further details to follow

Day led by Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ

Saturday 25th April 2020

10.00am-3.30pm

£23.00 includes lunch and refreshments

Spring Individually Guided Retreat

Date / Time: Sunday 26th April 2020 Arrival from 3pm on first day.

You will spend a week in personal prayer and reflection on scripture, sharing silence and meals with the Community. There are no addresses as in other retreats. Rather, each person, meeting daily with an experienced guide, follows their own path as it seems God is leading them. The emphasis is on integrating body, mind and heart in faith.

Led by the Mirfield IGR Team

The cost for this retreat is £440

Monasticism and Non-Belief

Date / Time: Monday 8th June 2020 10.00am

A day exploring how monasticism and contemporary forms of non-religious belief can better understand and learn from one another. In our contemporary secular age, monasticism can seem a thing of the past and even irrelevant to present day concerns, but does monasticism still have important insights to offer our secular world today? Do non-religious world views have insights to offer contemporary varieties of monasticism? Speakers from Christian and Buddhist monastic traditions as well as from non-religious perspectives will address these issues.

Chaired by Fr George Guiver and Fr Tony Carroll

Speakers: Dom David Foster OSB, Ajahn Punnyo,

Prof. Richard Norman and Dr Edward Howells

Monday 8th June 2020

10.00am-5.00pm

£30.00