News

Fr George and Peter Sowden (CR Companion) have completed their sponsored charity bike ride. They completed the ride and clocked up around 102 miles according to Fr George’s milometer, although Peter did think it had undercounted! We will announce shortly how much has been raised from the bike ride. Thank you all for your generosity […]

Join us for our annual Family Fun Day on Sunday 26 June, from 1pm. We have a variety of stalls, games, face painting, bouncy castle and a ice cream van. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore our grounds and take part in our scavenger hunt, or you may prefer to join us for a […]

Sunday 26 June at 1pm Join us for a day of fun!We have a bouncy castle, hook a duck, play your cards right, face painting, plant stall and more…..

We are looking for Summer volunteers to help tidy our libraries. Shelving and shelf tidying are the main aims during the Summer to ensure that all books are in the right place, ready for the academic term in Autumn. Tidying is paramount in terms of collection care to ensure books are stored correctly. If you […]

This sponsored bike ride will be from 28 April to 1 May 2022, travelling between Ford End near Chelmsford and Tunbridge Wells, aiming to raise money for the Tariro charity. (Tariro UK raises money to support orphans or young people whose parents can’t look after them any more. It funds between 45 and 50 such young […]

Our aspirant, Tom Clark, provides the latest news from the Community….. CR recently hosted a group of 26 postgraduates (plus one baby) from Oxford University on a week-long reading retreat. They were all recipients of a scholarship from the Canterbury Institute (perhaps excluding the baby) and reported that they had had a delightful and productive […]

The Community and College Library require a volunteer with skills in content creation for social media and the website.  A love of libraries, storytelling and new technology is essential. You will be creating and gathering content in a variety of forms for social media posts including videos and online presentations to highlight our treasures; volunteers […]

The Library of the Community of the Resurrection is a wondrously diverse collection of books occupying rooms on each floor of the house. With over 60,000 volumes, it is vast,  and we are privileged to house some volumes which can only be found in this Library in the UK. While its strength is in biblical, liturgical […]

Sometimes there is more in a providential meeting, and a growing friendship, than we could expect. Desmond has often paid tribute to CR. The truth has been that we, the brothers of CR and our companions, have always known that we have received more from him, in friendship, prayer and true encouragement, than ever we […]

An astonishing, totally authentic, discovery from our Archives; a previously unknown eighth ‘O Antiphon’ has been unearthed. It is titled ‘O micron’. We believe it to be an absolutely, 100%, genuine mediaeval text, although the latin seems rather shaky, which may explain why it didn’t make the final cut. Nevertheless we have now recorded it […]