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Community of the Resurrection

Stocksbank Road, Mirfield, West Yorkshire WF14 0BN

Contact Details

Contact Name:

Guest Administrator

Email:

Telephone:

01924 483346

Retreat Centre Description

Our large Retreat House adjoins the main house of the Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican monastic community founded at the end of the 19th Century. It is set in 20 acres of grounds overlooking the Calder Valley. There is a rose garden with pond; a small orchard; woodland and a labyrinth. Guests are welcome to join in worship with the brothers in the Community church: plainsong daily offices and a daily Eucharist . In addition to our programmed retreats we welcome individual retreat guests; parish groups; external / commercial events; conferences; day groups; sabbatical stays. Concessions are available on application.

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Accommodation on Offer

Retreat House

33 single / 2 twin rooms with washbasin on ground, first and second floors. Ground floor rooms have level access.

Shared bathroom facilities (WC / showers / baths) on each floor.

Kitchenette on each floor.

1 meeting room - capacity 22

1 art room (first floor)

1 sitting room (second floor) - capacity 6

Bookshop

Annexe

6 double / 2 single en-suite rooms.

Additional space in the College of the Resurrection

1 meeting room - capacity 50

2x classrooms with AV - capacity 20+ each (can be 1large room)

2x breakout rooms

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Retreat Centre Facilities

Please see website for retreat centre facilities

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Types of Retreat Offered

Please see website for retreats offered

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2024 Events 

January

28th January – 4th February Winter Individually Guided Retreat

February

5th – 9th Pre-Lent Clergy Retreat

March

8th – 10th Lay Lent Retreat

16th (Saturday) Passiontide Quiet Day

23rd – 31st Holy Week & Easter Experience

April

21st – 28th Spring Individually Guided Retreat

May

24th – 27th May Spring Bank Holiday Pilgrimage

June

31st May – 2nd June School of Contemplative Life Retreat

August

11th – 18th Summer Individually Guided Retreat

23rd – 26th August Bank Holiday Pilgrimage

October

5th (Saturday) Quiet Day - ‘Slow Down & Wake Up!’

14th – 18th Reading Retreat

27th October – 3rd November Autumn Individually Guided Retreat

November

8th – 10th Themed Retreat

18th – 22nd Pre-Advent Clergy Retreat

December

6th – 8th Lay Advent Retreat

2025 Events 

26th January - 2nd February

Winter Individually Guided Retreat

Ignatian-style with a prayer guide

 

7th - 9th February

Contamplative Prayer Retreat

Teaching and practice led by two CR brothers

 

17th - 21st February

Pre-Lent Clergy Retreat

Silent retreat with addresses from a CR brother

 

14th - 16th March

School of Contemplative Life Retreat

Led by Chris Whittington

 

21st - 23rd March

Lay Lent Retreat

Silent retreat with addresses from a CR brother

 

Saturday 29th March

A day on Dante

With the Revd Dr Claire Honess

 

13th - 20th April

Holy Week Experience

Led by the College of the Resurrection

 

25th May - 1st June

Spring Individually Guided Retreat

Ignatian-style with a prayer guide

 

6th - 8th June

Pentecost Pilgrimage

An invitation to come to this special place of prayer to spend time with God and to worship, eat and journey in faith with the brothers of the Community.

 

3rd - 10th August

Summer Individually Guided Retreat

Ignatian-style with a prayer guide

 

29th August - 31st August7th - 9th

Late Summer Pilgrimage Weekend

An invitation to come to this special place of prayer to spend time with God and to worship, eat and journey in faith with the brothers of the Community.

 

Saturday 27th September

Thomas Merton Day

With Dr Paul Pearson from the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain & Ireland

 

29th September - 3rd October

Reading Retreat

Step aside from 24/7 media exposure and experience words – read, spoken and sung – in a different time-frame and at a different pace … in your own reading and reflection;  in joining in with the prayer of the Community and in those silent spaces where God speaks.

 

26th October - 2nd November

Autumn Individually Guided Retreat

Ignatian-style with a prayer guide

 

17th - 21st November

Pre-Advent Clergy Retreat

Silent retreat with addresses from a CR brother

 

5th - 7th December

Lay Advent Retreat

Silent retreat with addresses from a CR brother

 

 

Retreat Centre Location

Stocksbank Road, Mirfield, West Yorkshire WF14 0BN

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