Daily Archives: Wednesday July 2, 2008

Red boxes Mass at Ushaw

Two leather-bound ‘remembrance’ books containing the names of several thousand supporters of the red box mission appeal had a place of honour at a special Mass at Ushaw College, Durham on Sunday 29th June. The Mass was offered up for the deceased people named in the books and all current supporters of the APF-Mill Hill [...]
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Remembering Mike

The Diocese of Middlesbrough Catholic Primary Schools Cup Twelfth Annual Football Tournament A total of 83 teams (50 boys and 33 girls) from 34 schools participated in the twelfth annual Catholic Primary Schools Cup Football Tournament held at the splendid joint sites of Sacred Heart Comprehensive and St Benedict’s Primary Schools, Mersey Road, Redcar, in glorious sunshine [...]
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Richard Rolle: The Fellowship of Angels

The latest book to appear on the Repository at St Joseph’s Church in Pickering is something rather special. It is a translation into modern English of some of the work of the mediaeval mystic and writer Richard Rolle, born in the year 1300, in our diocese in Thornton-le-Dale. The translation is the work of a [...]
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The Last Dragon

Readers looking for a good read over the summer may like to pick up ‘The Last Dragon’ by Rosemary Brydon, a former editor of the Middlesbrough Catholic Voice. Though not a religious book it is firmly set in our diocese, and all the places are real; you could even do a dragon trail. The [...]
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New Catholic Bookshop for York

St Pauls is delighted to announce they are to open a shop in York. The shop at 5 King’s Square, in the heart of the shopping centre of York, is a short walk from York Minster and the Shrine of St Margaret Clitherow on the famous Shambles. Covering 2000+ square feet, it will stock a [...]
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The Story of Gilling Castle

Fr Anselm Cramer, the Monastic Archivist at Ampleforth Abbey has written a new book entitled ‘Gilling Castle, The Story of the House and its Families’. The book starts, as it should, with the first family the Ettons who started building Gilling Castle between 1350 and 1390, the story continues to the present day and the [...]
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Carers in the Community

Please note that the July monthly meeting of the support group for families and carers of people with mental illnesses has been brought forward from July 31st to July 24th. Subsequent meetings are will be at the normal dates. The group meets at Marion House, 336 Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough (next to the Sacred Heart church).
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‘Noah, where were you when we needed you?’

So said the caption on a photo display showing the effects of the great flood visited on Hull last June. The monsoon like storm brought several months of rainfall on the city in just a few hours. Result. Thousands of homes and businesses were severely damaged and the Endsleigh Centre as much if not more [...]
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McEwan Cup 1958

This team photograph from 1958 may be of interest to readers. It is of the football team that won the McEwan Cup for St Philomena’s Boys Club in that year. St Philomena’s is now the Sacred Heart, of course. The team played in the Middlesbrough and District Youth League and one of the cups that [...]
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“Oh Boy!” that was some wedding!

Fr Pat Keogh, along with 140 or so people from Teesside, set off recently for the beautiful village of Arpino in Italy to marry Lucia Rovardi and Chris Tomlinson, both of whom hail from Middlesbrough. Lucia, a former student at Newlands School, is a singer and actress, and is now starring as Buddy Holly’s wife Maria [...]
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