Lunesdale Community

01/07/2022

Tomorrow, Saturday 2 July, Anna will be ordained priest in Blackburn Cathedral at 14.30 (16.30 Finnish time). The service will be live streamed:

Saturday 2 July at 2.30pm

04/07/2021

Anna will be welcomed as a Deacon in the Church of England in an ordination service in Blackburn Cathedral at 16:30 (BST) this afternoon. This marks the start of her curacy at St Aidan's, Bamber Bridge & St Leonard's, Walton-le-Dale.

The Right Reverend Jill DuffThe Bishop of LancasterThose to be ordained Deacon todayBarbara HoughtonPreston St StephenIan McGrathEllell St JohnOlivia HainesC...

29/04/2021

Sometimes we notice that the collection of sacred items at the altar reflects the nature of a mixed-species household.

19/04/2021

Many who have journeyed with us in the past will be familiar with the significance of the welcome of young (and not-so-young) people in Taizé. Unsurprisingly, the Covid-related shutdowns have drastically impacted upon the operating income of the association. As a non-profit organisation, this is difficult to absorb beyond a certain point. If you are able, please consider donating to help ensure continuity of their activities for the future.
https://www.taize.fr/en_article31073.html

12/03/2021

The Noticeboard Series #15

19/01/2021

Recently we took part in some research regarding the impact of Covid-19 on religious life in the UK. As a tangent to that, the idea arose to look at how pilgrimage to Taizé from the UK has been affected during the past year. If you’ve taken part in any Taizé activities last year – either travelling there, or participating in any of the online meetings – Eleanor would be delighted to hear from you. It would be great if you could also share this in any local groups or with people you know who may be interested. Thanks!

She writes:

Bric-19 are making pandemic histories of religious life and experience under Covid-19. Through documenting, analysing and understanding the new ways that people are coming together to fulfil their spiritual needs or observances, our findings will help communities of all faiths become stronger and more resilient for the future. You can find out more about our project, our funders, and our partners here: https://bric19.mmu.ac.uk/

We invite you to contribute your memories and experiences of visiting, or connecting with, the Taizé community (Burgundy, France) in 2020, either in person or online (or both). Your reflections will help us understand how Covid-19 has affected pilgrimage and ideas of religious community. Interviews would be conducted over the phone or via teams/zoom and would last approximately 30 minutes. To learn more about participating and what that involves, please contact Dr Eleanor O’Keeffe at [email protected]

30/11/2020

For a few years now we have had a house tradition of counting the days of Advent (and through to New Year’s Eve) with a set of five candles on our dinner table, by a mathematical method.

This year we’ve scaled it up a little, with five lamps in our front window, controlled by a Raspberry Pi. Tomorrow the first lamp will be lit, and every following day a different combination of lamps will be illuminated, until finally all five will light on New Year’s Eve.

On each hour there will be a visual “chime” with the hour being briefly displayed by the same method, before returning to displaying the date.

See if you (or perhaps the kids) can figure out the logic used to display the numbers. If you know, don’t post it here – so that others can guess. If you want to check your logic, you could predict the next day’s lights here if you like!

We’re at 78 Beech Road (the Lunesdale Community house). You should be able to see the lights from High Road if you look through Houghton Court. Perhaps wander past on your way to one of the houses in the Halton Village Living Advent Calendar 2020?

02/11/2020

Do you want to spend the next half year or longer living, praying and co-working with others in a large household?

Adapting to the Covid-19 situation, we've decided to offer a creative new opportunity to join us in the Lunesdale Community during the coming months. Please see the linked post for more details.

Community opportunity for Winter 2020-21 by Andrew · Published 2nd November 2020 · Updated 2nd November 2020 Do you want to spend the next half year or longer living, praying and co-working with others in a large household?Life in the Lunesdale Community is centred around the prayer, morning and e...

14/10/2020

After 4-5 years of volunteer effort, we've finally gone live on the B4RN 4 Halton network, with full-fibre broadband. Enormous thanks to everyone involved in building one of the fastest domestic Internet connections in the world!

27/08/2020

For anyone over the age of 35 who would like to participate in a discussion group during Taizé's online weekend, staring tomorrow - welcome to join us by registering at: https://meet.lunesdale.community/

Also if you're under 35 and have missed the registration deadline for the groups Taizé have organised, please feel free to join us if you like.

The Taizé Community are hosting an online weekend meeting, Friday 28th August to Sunday 30th August. Young adults between the ages of 18-35 have been invited to register to take part in small discussion groups, which Taizé are organising, but registration for this has now closed. It has been sugge...

14/07/2020

Tomorrow will be our last morning prayer before the summer break. We will be back online around the time schools start in the beginning of September! You can listen to midday and evening prayer every day and join live video for Saturday evenings from Taize: https://www.taize.fr/en_article28227.html