Daily Archives: Saturday April 5, 2008

‘Did I really agree to do this?’

The awful truth seems to be dawning on Fr Paul Farrer, parish priest of the Holy Name and St Thomas More in Middlesbrough, as he contemplates leaping from the Transport Bridge in June.

Fr Paul will be 40 later this year and is planning, along with some friends, to make a bungee jump from Middlesbrough’s most [...]

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Bishop Terry Visits Deerbolt Young Offenders Institution

As part of his “whistle-stop” tour of the diocese Bishop Terry recently visited Prison Chaplain, Fr Patrick Cope and spent the best part of the day with him at Deerbolt Young Offenders Institution. During the day he met with members of the Senior Management team and over a buffet lunch with a cross section of [...]

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Congratulations to Fr Pat Cope

Fr Patrick Cope appointed as Prison Service Area Chaplain for the North East
Fr Patrick is due to take up a new role from 1st May after his appointment within the Prison Service as Area Chaplain for the North East. In this new role he works with the Prison Service Chaplaincy Senior Management Team at Headquarters [...]

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Bishop Terry to unveil a plaque to St Margaret Clitherow

[ Friday August 29, 2008; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] A Press Release from Council 95 (York) 0f the Knights of St Columba.
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Ushaw College A Celebration 1808-2008

This superb publication celebrates some of the successes and aspirations of the founders of Ushaw College. The text is principally the contributions of three Ushaw academics. Rev Dr D Milburn, M Sharratt and P Phillips.

Together they chart the passage from Douai, Belgium to Ushaw a hilltop to the north west of Durham city. It [...]

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‘Living Theology’ now open for booking!

2008 Residential Summer School
The 2008 ‘Living Theology’ Residential Summer School will take place at Ushaw College, Durham from Sunday, 27 July to Friday, 1 August. Full details including lecture titles, names of lecturers, cost, and a downloadable application form and poster can be found on their website www.livingtheology.org.uk
The theme of the keynote [...]

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Bishop Terry meets the Justice and Peace Commission

We were very happy to welcome Bishop Terry at our Core Group meeting at the end of February. This gave us an opportunity to tell him about the aims and work of the Commission and to ask him to send a message to our readers which you will see below. We look forward to further [...]

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Coming Soon – Ushaw College 1808-2008 A Celebration

Ushaw College has produced a Bi-Centenary Book. A celebration of the contribution to Roman Catholic life in the North of England and beyond.
Ushaw College is a scion of Douai, which trained priests for the English Church.
Ushaw continues to train men for priestly ministry and offers courses for men and women in many aspects of Christian [...]

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Venerable Marie Madeleine d’Houet

Mass to Celebrate the Life, Work and Legacy of
Venerable le Marie Madeleine d’Houet
St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough – 5 April 2008
Welcome one and all for our celebration today. We come together to bless the God of all things who is the doer of great deeds everywhere. We bless him especially today for the life and work [...]

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Mass to celebrate Marie-Madeleine, FCJ foundress

[ Saturday April 5, 2008; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] You are all invited – men and women, boys and girls, teachers and students who have known the F.C.J.s in parishes, schools and colleges – to a Concelebrated Mass of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Marie-Madeleine d’Houet at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough on Saturday 5th April at 12 noon.

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