(Should any of the following links not work, please tell us)

Links

• Community of the Resurrection (the Community's main website)

• I Love CR

• College of the Resurrection (the College's main website)

• The Mirfield Centre

• The Kingdom is Yours

• Anglican Religious Communities and resources

• Anglican Religious Communities website

• Anglican Religious Communities in England

Resources

• Companions etc locator here (with grateful thanks to Paul Taylor)

• Ways of Giving to the Community

• Forms of Bequest/Addresses

• CR's page on justgiving.com

• Gift Aid form and Standing Order form for the Community Church Centenary Appeal

• Mirfield Publications - a selection of publications available from Mirfield

Items of interest

• * NEW * Letter from Thomas CR which was published in the Church Times 30 July.

• To see presentation slides of the life, work and mission of Mirfield (from the 2010 Northern Companions Day) please click on the following (longish downloads but worth it!): Part 1    Part 2    Part 3    Part 4    Part 5    

• Photographs of the installation in 2010 of the bell donated to the Community can be found here

• Concern over new monastery design for Mirfield - from the Victorian Society's website

• Letter in the Church Times about Religious Communities.

• Following recent press coverage the Community has produced a paper discussing the issues which necessitate the proposed reordering of the church. Click here to read the paper.

• The levelling of Mirfield Church - article from the Daily Telegraph 14 November 2009

• Letters regarding proposed reordering at Mirfield from the Superior's Council and the Rev Wealands Bell published in the Church Times 13 November 2009

• Letter written by Vanessa Dixon, CR Companion, to the Church Times in response to the letter published on 6 November

• Report of the CCR London meeting on 7 November 2009, including Fr Nicolas' resume of how Companions can reflect the Community's characteristics

• "Concern over planned re-ordering at Mirfield" - a letter from the Church Times of 6 November 2009

• "Moved by the Spirit" - article from the Church Times about the new, green Benedictine Convent at Stanbrook Abbey

• Article from "The Northern Echo" - "Community of the Resurrection, near Mirfield, may have claim on finds"

• Letter published in "The Mirfield Reporter" - "Think again over Mirfield church"

• Life at Mirfield's Community of the Resurrection - brief article from the "Mirfield Reporter"

• Benedictines detached from Rome - article from the Church Times of 23 October 2009

•   "New 'must' at Mirfield" - article from the Church Times of 23 October 2009 regarding compulsory attendance of students at the weekly College Eucharist.

• "Monks amid the maelstrom" -  article from the Church Times about the Benedictine monks at Nashdom

• A quotation from "Sayings of the Desert Fathers" which, according to one CR Brother "speaks exactly about what our life is like"

• Notes and slides from a talk given recently by William Cooper-Bailey on "Communities and living the life" (with grateful thanks for allowing their use here: please visit his website for further information)

• A selection of Powerpoint slides shown at the annual Companions Day showing the proposed new monastery can be found here (large file). 

• Powerpoint presentation given at the 2009 Companions Day here (large file ). This shows how a photograph of a spark of light emanating from a sparkler became the inspiration for the revolutionary redesign of the Community church

• List of points in response to questions posed at the 2009 Companions Day here

• Extract from "Mirfield Memories" website - a couple of minor inaccuracies but an otherwise interesting page

• Article from the Church Times, 22 May, 2009: "Precious Silence of a Charterhouse"

• Article from the Church Times, 24 April 2009 mentioning the Benedictine Abbey at Solesmes

• Article by the Rt Rev David Walker on Religious Orders (from Church Times 20 March 2009)

• Text of a talk given by Fr James Lawson at the meeting on 7 March, 2009 of the CCR London Group. Subject: Charles Gore and the founding of the Community of the Resurrection

• Fundraising Manager Job Specification

• Two articles from the Church Times 27 February, 2009 on religious orders here (continues here). Follow up letters in 6 March, 2009 edition of Church Times Follow up letters in 13 March, 2009 edition of Church Times 

• A copy of the address given by the Rev Canon Andrew Nunn to the recent meeting of the St Albans and London CCR local groups is available here

• Resume of Fr George's Closing Address to the Companions Day 2008

• Holy Week at Mirfield 2008 - watch the video and turn your speakers up!

• Article about Walter Frere from the Church Times 28 March, 2008

• Shaping the Church - Philip Atherton's original proposals for a network of CR cells, linked through the internet

• CR West Yorkshire Local Group (Ripon and Leeds) - Minutes of Meeting 14 November, 2007

• From the Church Times 18 May 2007 - reprint of an article which first appeared in the Church Times on 17 May 1907: "Protestant flak for Mirfield"

• Comments from the Companions and Associates Day 2007 (from the 12 May 2007 gathering at Mirfield, reflecting on the way the CR family would develop and the areas which the people present thought important

• Community ends 'Commem Day' - article from the "Mirfield Reporter"

• A Life of Learning by Michael Maasdorp SSM -  a review of "Anglican Religious Life" edited by Nicolas Stebbing CR (Dominican Publications, 2003). Also includes a reference to CR

• "We few, we happy few" - article from the Church Times 20 July 2001. Fr Aidan is mentioned and quoted therein.

• Centenary Commemoration Day 18 July 1992: text of the address given by the Rt Rev George Carey, then Archbishop of Canterbury

• Extract from "Christian Monasticism" - Ch 19 "Anglican Monasteries" by David Knowles (McGraw-Hill, 1969), The Community at Mirfield is of course mentioned!

Obituaries

• The Right Rev Anselm Genders - Obituary which was published in The Daily Telegraph on 26 June, 2008

• Father Benedict Green - Obituary which was published in the Church Times on 2 November, 2007

• Father Benedict Green - Service Booklet for Funeral Requiem which took place at Mirfield on 19 September, 2007: Pages 1 and 8    Pages 2 and 7    Pages 3 and 6    Pages 4 and 5

Report and Accounts

• Summary information from the Charity Commission website

• Year ended 31 August, 2009

• Year ended 31 August, 2008

• Year ended 31 August, 2007

• Year ended 30 April, 2006

• Year ended 30 April, 2005

• Year ended 30 April, 2004

• Year ended 30 April, 2003

Photographs of other Anglican Religious Communities

• * NEW * Community of All Hallows. Ditchingham

• Community of St Mary the Virgin, Wantage

• Community of St Mary at the Cross, Edgware Abbey

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Companions of the Community of the Resurrection (CCR)