On Wednesday, for the feast of St James, Oswin took us deep into those caves where the Wild Boars were trapped in the darkness without food or drink. He pointed us to Jesus’ question ‘What do you want?’ and remarked on its relation to the question we answer at profession, ‘What do you seek?’ – […]
Sermons
Letter from Marc – July 2018
Have you been making the most of the unusually long heat wave? The brothers CR have had a whole week of retreat punctuating our Chapter meetings, in which to enjoy the sunshine and get outdoors. This has been really welcome after a week of meetings and being inside. Our retreat this year is being conducted by the […]
Trinity 7. Proper 10. Track 2
AMOS 7:7-15 PSALM 85: 8-END EPHESIANS 1:3-14 MARK 6:14-29 Amos’s plumb line is unexpectedly a symbol of destruction, and warns us of what is to come in the Gospel which we’ve just heard, one of the most horrible in the whole of the New Testament, barring none. The soldiers who crucify Jesus are simply executing […]
Companions Letter July 18
Dear Friends, You will have gathered that I may have been a little busy since Christmas and hence I have not been writing Chaplain’s letters. I have not spent all the time reading Harry Potter or watching Paddington 2. I have been to Walsingham three times, I have given a retreat on Film, I have been […]
Repitching the tent
Repitching the tent May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. ‘… here in the body pent, absent from Him I roam, yet nightly pitch my moving tent a day’s march nearer home.’ (James Montgomery, 1835) To be ‘at home in the body’ as St Paul expresses it can be […]
Mark 2.23 – 3.6
TRINITY 1 – Mark 2.23 – 3.6 “Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Jesus, how they might destroy him.” After just two chapters of his Gospel St Mark records that powerful parties were bent on getting Jesus killed. Why? Did they think that he was a terrorist? No. They […]
Letter from Marc – May 2018
Greetings – (and warm ones at that) – to all our friends and supporters from the brethren here at Mirfield. We continue to bask in the Lord’s glorious sunshine which ripens both the corn and ourselves at the rogation season. Tomorrow (Wednesday), we will have a rogation procession taking place out in the grounds to […]
Fourth Sunday of Easter
I am the good shepherd When I was a teenager, in a country far away from here, we young people were often irritated to be called kids by those older and wiser than ourselves. If we dared we would reply, “If I’m a kid you’re a goat and all the dirty slops go down your […]
Easter 3 Year B
“Father, in your great mercy you gladdened the disciples with the sight of the risen Lord”. It is difficult not to think of Syria at the moment and wonder what Easter there may be for the Christian communities of Syria. One of the people I met last week has been a regular visitor to Syria […]
Lent 5 – Jeremiah 31.31-34 Heb 5.5-10 Jn 12.20-33
Later this morning the Community and our late Brother Roy’s family will inter his ashes in our cemetery. It’s appropriate that we do this as we begin to observe Passiontide with its purple veiling because when he was recently professed Roy had the singular honour of representing Jesus in various parishes in outdoor processions during […]