Bookshop favourites

Mirfield Bookshop stocks a wide range of books and much more besides – available both online (www.mirfield.org.uk/shop)  and in the Retreat House. Alongside an ever-changing selection of popular titles and devotional items, there are a number of perennial favourites, including: A Week of Simple Offices and Simple Offices – Saints and Seasons These two volumes bring together […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 (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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]