Students and staff from St Hild College left Mirfield in Holy Week to spend their annual Easter School at St Chad’s College Durham. As always it proved a great week, with the staff at St Chad’s looking after us very well and Durham Cathedral and its surroundings proving an inspiring place to worship and study for the […]
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Turn it and turn it again…
Turn it and turn it again, for all is in it; see through it; grow old and worn in it. – Rabbi Bag Ben Bag, Pirke Avos, 5:22 One of the great ironies of biblical scholarship is that often those who have given their lives to study of the bible are at best bored, and […]
Holy Week 2017
The afternoon of Saturday April 8th saw John CR and I set off for our 30th and first (respectively) Holy Week to the parish of St. Giles, Cheadle with Freehay St. Chad, Staffordshire! It is commonplace for parish clergy who know the community and who have perhaps trained at the College to ask for the […]
St Hild College appoint new Academic Tutor and Communications Officer
St Hild College (formerly Yorkshire Ministry Course and St Barnabas Theological Centre) has created two new roles since its launch in January. Rev Dr Mark Vasey-Saunders joins the team as Academic Tutor. Mark has a background in parish ministry, chaplaincy and encouraging Fresh Expressions. His Phd thesis was published by Routledge in 2015. Emily Spademan […]
Father John announces another Auction!
I know that after the last one (and the one before) I said ‘never again’. I really meant it but there are certain circumstances which have led me to try again. Firstly we need money to keep this vast plant going. The Community church attracts a lot of people who come to praise God, to […]
Prayer & Community Study Day – Canterbury
On Saturday 11 March, CR came to Canterbury to play a leading part in a Study Day arranged by Canon Christopher Irvine – Canterbury’s Canon Librarian and former Principal of the College of the Resurrection. Exploring the importance of prayer and community in the circumstances of our everyday lives, CR’s Oblates, Companions, the Society of the […]
Four monasteries for Five brothers or ’The Italian Job!’
It has been many months in the planning, but brothers George, Dennis, Jacob Marc and Fabian finally embarked on our nine-day visit to Italy and the homes of the Vitorchiano, Civitella, Siloé and Bosé communities. And much is to be said. Significantly, the Trappist community of seventy-five sisters at Vitorchiano, 80 km north of Rome, wishes […]
Talking Jesus Mission
From the 2nd to the 5th of March Stephanie and I spent time with the local people of Gateshead as part of a wide spread mission across the Diocese of Durham. The mission titled ‘Talking Jesus’ included bishops, teams of clergy and laity from all parts of the Northern Provence. Although the mission was a […]
Sponsored Bike Ride
Sponsored Bike Ride From 13 to 15 May, George CR is leading a group of cyclists on a Sponsored Bike Ride with the theme of Returning to the Sources of Christian Life (the aim of religious communities). We now have six riders confirmed – ranging in age from late teens to early 70s and […]
School Visits
Yarm School We have already had around 150 school students visit us so far this year, the rest will be in May (after my exams). Every year we are given a wonderful opportunity to engage with the young people who come her e. This year’s visit from Yarm School, arranged by their inspiring head of […]