Daily Archives: Thursday July 8, 2010

Reflecting on Learning to Listen

Sometimes when I write enthusiastically about Adult Formation events, it might sound like I’m blowing my own trumpet! However, I want to share some reflections about a recent course which Caroline Dollard and I tutored at Easingwold – but reflecting on it by giving rightful praise to the course material and the participants, and by [...]

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Global Day of Prayer in York

On 23rd May, Pentecost Sunday, more than twelve hundred Christians from a wide variety of York churches gathered to take part in the Global Day of Prayer.

At 5.45 pm, the Minster bells stopped ringing and trumpets announced prayer on the city walls. People then proceeded to York Minster for a lively, yet profoundly reflective, [...]

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York Knights board the Smile Train

[ Wednesday July 28, 2010; Saturday August 14, 2010 to Sunday August 15, 2010. ] The Knights of St Columba in York (Council 95) will be fundraising for Smile Train. This is a charity which arranges surgery for children with cleft lips in the developing world. There will be a collection at the Mass the Knights are holding on 28th July at Fairfax House.

A church collection is planned at [...]

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Having Faith in Politics and Business

[ Saturday October 16, 2010; ] Our country is facing testing times and whilst there is a great deal of anxiety about the economy and cuts there is also the promise of a new form of Government through Coalition.

Catholic social teaching is not as well-known today as it should be. If it were better known, Catholics would be more encouraged to [...]

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The Postgate Society and its Origins

Each year in July, the Diocese celebrates the memory of Nicholas Postgate, martyr-priest of the Moors, by a rally and Mass held alternately at Ugthorpe and at Egton Bridge. The Postgate Society exists to foster devotion in general and at all times to Fr Postgate and to the rest of the English Martyrs, those who [...]

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