Wednesday 8th June at 7am (time t.b.c.)
Our friends at York Minster are kindly allowing us to celebrate the feast of one of York’s medieval saints, at the site of his shrine in the crypt. Entry is by the door in the Chapter House Yard at the back of the Minster. The time is early so [...]
Eight hundred people from all over the country made a pilgrimage to York to honour St Margaret Clitherow on her Feast Day, 26th March.
She was honoured with the first Sung Latin Mass to be celebrated at the High Altar of York Minster since the reign of Queen Mary Tudor, thanks to the, as ever, warm [...]
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, [...]
24th March 2010 marked the 30th anniversary of the martyrdom of Oscar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated by a government-back militia for his speaking out in defence of human rights and the dignity of the poor. The 30th anniversary was being marked by a week of commemorative events in El Salvador, [...]
In the end, the visit of the relics of St Thérèse to York Minster was almost unbearably moving. I talk as one who went on the Friday morning and listened to the service for schoolchildren and witnessed the procession of the relics down the nave to the great West Door followed by hundreds of children [...]
One of three thousand!
At 11.30 am on a damp and windy Saturday morning on 24th October, 400 people made a human wave for Climate Justice around York Minster. The event led by CAFOD and supported by Christian Aid and other networks of people concerned about the impact of climate change drew people, of all ages [...]
Lars Karlsson of York has very kindly posted a set of photos taken in York Minster of the visit of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux.
Click here to see the photos.
Many thanks to Lars.
