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Community of the Resurrection

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The Community of the Resurrection

The Community Church of the Resurrection Mirfield

Looking across the valley from Upper Hopton towards Battyeford your eyes can't help but be drawn to the magnificent church on the other side of the valley. The Community Church of the Resurrection with it verdigris lustered green copper roof and twin "pepper pot towers" forms a familiar landmark; but in recent years few local people will have visited it or know anything about the Community of the Resurrection, in whose 22 acre grounds it stands.
However, throughout the worldwide Anglican Church, Mirfield and the Community and College of the Resurrection would be very familiar.
Since 1902 the Community College of the Resurrection has trained ordinands to the Anglican faith from all over the world
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Bishop Charles Gore founder of the Community of the Resurrection Mirfield

Bishop Charles Gore
1853-1932

The Community was founded by Charles Gore 1853 - 1932. During his formative years Gore had come to realise that the present day Church and much modern knowledge had its roots firmly in the monastic orders of the past. He dreamed of a new modern order of priests whose work would be pastoral, evangelistic and scholastic.

While Gore was Principle of Pusey House, Oxford in 1887 he founded the Society of the Resurrection, an association of priests living under a rule.
Over the next few years they grew in number to six (including Gore). This led to the foundation of the Community of the Resurrection when the first six brethren made their profession on 25th July 1892 in the chapel of the Pusey House.

The rule of the new community was only loosely based around that of orders from the past. Brethren would make vows of obedience for only thirteen months at a time rather than life and these would be renewed yearly. It was expected that at the time of renewal brethren would have the intentions of remaining permanently. They should be free to leave at the end of every year. They should be obedient to the senior. (Senior being Gore's preferred title to the more conventional title of Superior.) They would make a vow of poverty and hand over all their material possessions and income to the Community's funds, but were allowed to keep capital. They were to intend to remain celibate but did not make vows for life. They were to dress as ordinary priest wearing cassocks with neither sandals or girdles. New entrants to the community would be known as probationers rather than novices.

The rule gave structure to the community but also gave the option for the individual to choose their own path later if they chose.  The rule of the new community was only loosely based around that of orders from the past. Brethren would make vows of obedience for only thirteen months at a time rather than life and these would be renewed yearly. It was expected that at the time of renewal brethren would have the intentions of remaining permanently. They should be free to leave at the end of every year. They should be obedient to the senior. (Senior being Gore's preferred title to the more conventional title of Superior.) They would make a vow of poverty and hand over all their material possessions and income to the Community's funds, but were allowed to keep capital. They were to intend to remain celibate but did not make vows for life. They were to dress as ordinary priest wearing cassocks with neither sandals or girdles. New entrants to the community would be known as probationers rather than novices.

The rule gave structure to the community but also gave the option for the individual to choose their own path later.
 

 

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