By now you will have been asked by your Parish Priest or Parish Pilgrim Leader to let us know if you would like to see the Pope at either Hyde Park on Saturday 18th September or at Cofton Park on Sunday 19th September. Details are with your parishes as to how you go about filling [...]
After months of reflection, consultation and careful planning, Bishop Terry is proposing to re-organise the diocese. This is not change for the sake of change – the Bishop concluded that the present structures need renewing, to better serve the people, the parishes, the organisations and above all the mission of the diocese. These changes present [...]
Bishop Terry Drainey presided and twelve other priests concelebrated at a wonderful Mass to mark Fr Joe Brennan’s diamond jubilee at St Hida’s Roman Catholic Church in Whitby.
Fr Joe, who was born in 1921 at Enfield in County Meath, entered Blackrock College in Dublin at the age of 12. There he obtained distinctions in religious [...]
Congratulations to Peter Warren who was ordained to the Permanent Diaconate by Bishop Terry Drainey on Saturday 26th June at St George’s Church in York.
Photos of Peter’s Ordination can be found in the Diocesan galleries at gallery.me.com/middlesbroughdiocese and are also at flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughdiocese/sets/72157624281210733
Photos by kind permission of Lars Karlsson.
People passing St. Andrew’s Church Hall in Teesville, Middlesbrough, on Sunday, July 11 could be forgiven for thinking that parishioners had finally run out of patience with their parish Deacon, the Rev. Pat Thomas, when he was locked in a set of stocks outside of the church hall and soaked with wet sponges.
But in reality [...]
In Nicholas’ time there were for the whole of England perhaps a little more than the number of priests as we have in Yorkshire today. They mainly came from training in the English colleges abroad, and of course Nicholas had been trained in Douai, the forerunner of Ushaw, our last remaining Northern Seminary. Yet, somehow, the faith had survived persecution, the people were baptised, the Mass was celebrated, catechism was taught. More importantly, perhaps, prayers were said daily in Catholic homes
On the Feast of the Visitation, 31st May, Fr Pat celebrated 40 years as a priest. Mass was celebrated at 2pm at Our Lady’s Church in Acomb, York, followed by a party in the church grounds.
Several priests concelebrated the Mass and Canon Michael Ryan, in his homily, praised Fr Pat’s many qualities. He had been [...]
Fr Pat Grant, who was for more than 30 years parish priest at St Paulinus, York, celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of his priestly ordination on Sunday 13th June at a concelebrated Mass in the parish of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven, Kilkee, County Clare.
The principal celebrant was Fr Gerard Kenney, parish priest, who read a [...]
Mrs Pat Wilson retired on 30th June after 20 years service in the Curial Office. She joined the team when it was based in what is now the John Paul Centre. She served as Secretary to Mgr Charlton and then to Jim Whiston following Monsignor’s retirement.
Mgr Charlton joined staff and others in a farewell party [...]
It used to be said that we were a ‘throw away society‘ with unwanted items, even those in perfectly good order being discarded, possibly in favour of newer models. In recent times however, the ever increasing demand to recycle almost everything has perhaps made us stop to think about saving energy, reserving resources and to [...]
