Monthly Archives: January 2009

Jubilee Mass of Mary Ward

29 January 2009
York Minster
If you take my word to heart, you will discover the knowledge of God. Like the earthenware jar you will bring the glory of the face of Christ to many and then you will be happy, you will be blessed, even though some will consider you poor and of little consequence. Indeed [...]

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York Carmelite Spirituality Group 2009 Programme

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Mary Ward

A Special Feature to mark Jubilee 400
The Yorkshire Society, which honours the achievements of distinguished people born in Yorkshire by erecting Yorkshire Rose Plaques in their name, usually celebrates famous Yorkshire men. In March 2007 the Society came to the Bar Convent, York, to set up a plaque for Mary Ward, the first woman to [...]

By webmaster on January 27, 2009 | Leave a comment

Celebrating Family, Introducing Caroline

Jane Cook writes
I am delighted to introduce Caroline Dollard as our new Diocesan ‘Celebrating Family’ Project Worker. This is an exciting new development, completely funded through the Fundraising Grants Committee of the Catholic Trust for England and Wales, to promote the Bishops’ Conference Marriage and Family Life Project ‘Celebrating Family’.

Some parishioners may already be familiar [...]

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Jubilee 400 Opening Celebration

[ Thursday January 29, 2009; 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. ] A Reminder

The Congregation of Jesus and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary are opening this Jubliee Year with a celebratory Catholic Eucharist in York Minster by kind permission of the Dean and Chapter on Thursday 29th January at 11.30am.

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Celebrate the ‘Year of St Paul’

[ Thursday February 26, 2009; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Sunday June 28, 2009; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Pope Benedict XVI has declared 28th June 2008 to 29th June 2009 the ‘Year of St Paul’ to celebrate the 2,000th anniversary of St Paul’s birth. It is the Holy Father’s intention that during this year we all come to know better ‘the immense wealth of teaching’ of St Paul.

But in addition to being a [...]

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Offering Hope in Cambodia

[ Friday March 6, 2009; ] Lent Fast Day, 6th March 2009

AIDS has orphaned thousands of children in Cambodia. Maryknoll, a local charity supported by CAFOD since 2003, offers young people a family home and the chance to finish their education.

The Khmer Rouge murdered Phalla’s family in front of her. She was imprisoned and tortured but never lost hope of raising [...]

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Ringing in the changes at Thicket Monastery

On 6th January, an ancient bell was installed at the new monastery of the Carmelite nuns at Thicket Priory just outside York.
Thicket has long been the home of Roman Catholic religious women; from the 12th Century, Cistercian nuns lived there until the Reformation when the house passed into private hands. In the Victorian era, a [...]

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A mercy mission that began with a homily

The Baghdad Appeal has been making the news recently with coverage in The Stockton and Darlington Times and The Northern Echo.
In the following article, originally published The Catholic Herald and re-published here by kind permission, the man behind the mission John Hinman, a Trustee of the Middlesbrough Diocese, explains how the people of our diocese [...]

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Busking for CAFOD

We’ve heard about the runners, cyclists and fashion shows as fundraising activities but students from York University’s Catholic Chaplaincy took to the streets of York City Centre throughout advent to raise funds for CAFOD by busking.

They braved the freezing cold and persistent wet weather to entertain the Christmas shoppers with some lively performances which featured [...]

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