Northumbria Community

Celtic Daily Prayer is now available as an interactive ebook published by HarperCollins and available for a variety of devices. It can be purchased from:   Amazon iTunes googleplay kobo books     This enhanced e-book with app-like features includes the Daily Prayer and Compline liturgies, the Meditations for the Day from Book 2 and all four […]

We look forward to welcoming you and anyone else who you feel might be interested in joining us for our Community Gathering at Yealand Conyers in Lancashire. We will have Sarah and David Hay joining us to talk about one of the Community’s latest initiates – The School for Monastic Living project that Sarah is researching […]

Following the sudden death of Lorna Fisher, Community Companion and a dearly loved friend to so many of us, we have put together ‘Memories of Lorna’ which tells of the many fond memories folk had of Lorna and where they first met her. Enjoy reading about the impact that Lorna clearly had on so many […]

How are your feet today? A curious question. Are they beautiful? There must be irony in the statement ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’ The way we use our feet to walk says a lot about who we are as does who we walk with. Friday 2nd March is the feast […]

On Sunday 4th February in Newcastle Cathedral, Pete Askew was made an Honorary Canon in recognition of his service to the church through his work with the Northumbria Community. It was a particular delight to discover that he was installed into the stall of St Oswald!  

  The Community Easter 2017 resource, entitled In the Power of the Spirit provides a range of activities for exploring the Aidan Liturgy. This was created for us by Anita Haigh and, although it was used by many of our Friends and Companions at Easter, it can also be used for reflection at any time of the year.

If you’re looking for a festival before the summer really gets underway or are on the move in May or June then why not drop in to meet up with the Northumbria Community ‘on the road’ at Cliff College Festival 2017 (26-29 May 2017) at Cliff College, Calver, Hope Valley, Sheffield, or  One Heart One Soul […]

The Community Easter 2016 resource, entitled Into a Desert Place, provides a way of exploring the Cuthbert liturgy. This was created for us by Anita Haigh and, although it was used by many of our Friends and Companions at Easter, it can also be used for reflection at any time of the year.

In February 2016 Roy Searle spoke on Monastic Practices and the Missio Dei at the Inspiration  Conference:  Monastic  and  Missional at Zwolle, The Netherlands. Attached is the text of Roy’s lecture.

In June 2015 a gunman entered an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina and shot dead nine people. Ben Tucker has written a song, Charleston, for the families of the Charleston Nine, whose choice to forgive reminds us that hate won’t win. Ben, who lives in the USA, has also written some of the music on […]