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

Links

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

• Monastery Stay

• 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  

I Love CR on Facebook

* NEW * Centenary Church Appeal on Facebook

Resources

• Ways of Giving to the Community

• Forms of Bequest/Addresses

• CR's page on justgiving.com

• Just Giving page for the Community Church Centenary Appeal

• Mirfield Publications - a selection of publications available from Mirfield

CR related 

• Advertisement in the Church Times for a new Principal for the College of the Resurrection

• A Way for Daily Praying by Fr George Guiver CR, Superior

• Text of a lecture given by George CR in Cambridge, November 2010 "My faith is weak" - So what?"

• An exciting offer from Fr John Gribben CR: An Evening of Blarney. 

• Video of Nicolas CR preaching at St Paul's Cathedral on Sunday 10 October

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

Companions related

• * NEW * A letter from a Companion (July 2011)

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

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

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

• 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

The Religious Life generally

• * NEW * Keeping watch on behalf of a sleeping world (reflection on the Rule of St Benedict) article from The Church Times 27 January 2012

• Extract from an article from The Church Times (September 2011) by Clare Bryden reflecting on a year living alongside the brethren at the Anglican Benedictine Community at Mucknell Abbey

• Out of the frying pan into the friar: article from The Church Times (July 2011) [extract from A Hermit's Cookbook]

• Series of four articles (from The Church Times) on finding a "Rule of Life" - Part 1: Turn the ear of your heart  Part 2: Daily Daily - it does help  Part 3: Get your values right  Part 4: The 'called life'  

• Series of four articles (from The Church Times) on Monasticism and Contemporary Life - Part 1: Journey into a dark Wood  Part 2: Seeking the way of hospitality  Part 3: On the road with the God-man  Part 4: Monatic rhythm of life

• Letter in the Church Times about Religious Communities

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

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

• "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)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)

• 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 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

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

Re-ordering/Building project

• * NEW * Video of the newly refurbished church

• * NEW * Details of the planning application (including plans etc) for the new Monastery can be found here

• * NEW * Photographs here and here taken by Paul David Deakin show the newly refurbished church being prepared for the first act of worship, Solemn Evensong, on the day after the church was handed back to the Community from the builders. Paul's blog can be found here.

• Photographs of the Community Church less than two weeks before being handed back to the Community following re-ordering and re-furbishment

• * A MUST SEE * Video of Fr George's bike ride from Monkwearmouth to Mirfield

• Photographs from the Auction held of 22 October can be seen here  

• Plans for new Monastery go to Kirklees Council - as reported by the BBC here

• * NEW * 'Audacious' - but its going ahead - article from The Mirfield Reporter 29 July 2011 about the proposed new Monastery

• * NEW * Futuristic Monastery get go ahead in Mirfield - article from The Huddersfield Daily Examiner 22 July 2011

• Photographs of the exterior in of the Community Church in July 2011 during the refurbishment work

• Photographs of the interior of the Community Church during the refurbishment work - Spring 2011

• Is there cash in the monastery attic? Article from the Mirfield Reporter

• Equipping Mirfield to Serve the Church - letter from Fr George Guiver, Superior CR in The Church Times 24 December 2010

• Consistory Court Judgment re costs

• A full copy of the Consistory Court Chancellor's Judgment is here

• Article from the Church Times 13 December: "Mirfield Brethren permitted to get warm" here. 

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

• 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

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

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

• 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

Obituaries etc

• * NEW * Obituary from the Church Times for long term CR Companion Mary Ullyot

• Sermon preached by Peter CR at the Requiem Mass for Br Zachary on 24 September, 2010

• 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

CR - Historical

• * NEW * Information about Giles Ormerod CR (died 18 April 1993)

• * NEW * Old Photographs of the Hostel of the Resurrection in Leeds

• * NEW * When the CR Refectory became its Chapel (2010-2011)

• * NEW * CR church interior prior to the 2010-2011 refurbishment

• Book review (from The Church Times) of "Walter Frere: scholar, monk, Bishop" by Benjamin Gordon-Taylor (College of the Resurrection) and Fr Nicolas Stebbing CR

• Hostel of the Resurrection - memories courtesy of Canon Sydney Connolly

• Pages from "A Second Look at Mirfield - Scenes Past and present" * NEW * These now include a superb slideshow of old photographs of the church and college

• Photographs from the closing day of St Francis House, Hemingford Grey (12 December, 2009)

• Photographs of the St Francis House, Hemingford Grey retreat house, sold by CR in 2010

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

• 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"

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

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

CR Report and Accounts

• * NEW * Ministry Council Inspection Report - The College of the Resurrection Feb-Mar 2011

• Summary information from the Charity Commission website

• * NEW * Year ended 31 August 2010

• 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

• Community of All Hallows. Ditchingham

• Community of St Mary the Virgin, Wantage

• More of CSMV, Wantage

• Community of St Mary at the Cross, Edgware Abbey

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Companions of the Community of the Resurrection (CCR)