Monthly Archives: November 2007

Music Day in Scarborough a Great Success!

All roads led to Scarborough on 20th October for the Diocesan Music Day. People travelled from all over the diocese for a truly uplifting and useful day on music in the liturgy led by the Director of Music for the Portsmouth Diocese and noted composer Paul Inwood.
Paul went through the various parts of the [...]

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Follow Me! Preaching in the Year of Matthew

‘Homilies to feed mind, heart and soul in a wholesome way’: that’s how Bishop John Crowley describes Follow Me! Preaching in the Year of Matthew, by Bill East.
This book of homilies by a parish priest who is also a scholar, has just now been published by Dominican Publications at €9.99 / £7.50. You can [...]

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The Reminiscences of Mary

The author – Fr Peter Corcoran of the Society of Mary (Marists), subtitles his book, ‘Unheard voices from the Gospels’. I prefer the subtitle:
‘Mary’s thoughts for TODAY’
I know Fr Peter as a very ‘down to earth … both feet on the ground type of person’ … and he is. He was a successful teacher but [...]

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A New Sound to Timeless Hymns

Boyce and Stanley Age to Age Tour
Jo Boyce and Mike Stanley played to a packed St. Andrew’s Church on Sunday, September 30, for the Middlesbrough leg of their Age to Age national tour to promote their newly released album. The tour and album marks the tenth anniversary of the partnership of the singing and song [...]

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Local aid worker visits communities affected by floods in Mozambique

A local aid worker recently travelled to Mozambique to visit some of the most deprived communities in the southern African country. David Cross, an Ingleby Barwick resident, is CAFOD’s Diocesan Manager for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough.
He travelled to Mozambique with the Catholic aid agency CAFOD to learn how CAFOD’s partners [...]

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Back by popular demand

[ Friday January 11, 2008; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. Saturday January 12, 2008; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] The Knights of St Columba are organising another Rocking in the Aisles on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th January 2008.

Details to follow.

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St Clare: Her Life and Writings

The October meeting of the Cleveland Newman Circle saw Sr Francis Clare PPC outline the life and vision of St Clare in an enthusiastic and informative way. She explained that the virtues which Clare, a young woman of noble parentage, possessed were namely grace, chastity, youth, maturity, steadfastness, ardency, wisdom and humility.
In fact, as [...]

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SVP Half Day of Recollection

The Middlesbrough District Council of the St Vincent de Paul Society held a Half Day of Recollection on 3rd November, hosted by St Bernadette’s Parish Conference at Nunthorpe.

Rev Andrew Burns CSSR of the Redemptorist Community at the John Paul Centre in Middlesbrough provided a stimulating spiritual address which gave much food for thought to [...]

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RCIA/Journey in Faith Retreat Day

[ Saturday January 26, 2008; 11:00 am to 2:30 pm. ] The Retreat Day, in preparation for the Rite of Election, will be on Saturday 26th January 2008 at All Saints Lower School, Nunnery Lane, York. All who are to be received or baptised into the Catholic Church at Easter are invited to attend, together with their sponsors, godparents and catechists.

As in previous years they will [...]

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School Celebrates 150 years of the Sisters of Mercy in Hull

In 1857 a small group of Sisters of Mercy made their way from the West Riding of Yorkshire to Hull and established themselves in a small house near the town centre. They had come at the request of the then Bishop of Beverley to establish schools for the poor. From these humble beginnings the work [...]

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