Thousands of young people came together to watch ‘The Big Assembly’ on giant screens at York Racecourse. Fr Stephen Maughan wrote,
We had a fabulous and rain-free morning with 2,500 children at the Racecoure – the first time all the pupils and students in York have ever been in the same place at the same [...]
On Thursday 16th September, we went to St Mary’s Cathedral to catch our coach to London. After about six hours on the coach, we finally arrived at the Thistle Hotel near Heathrow Airport. I shared a room with Fenton and Lowan from Sacred Heart School. The dining room was very big and posh and it [...]
Pope Benedict said, ‘God wants your friendship, and once you enter into a friendship with God, everything begins to change.’
The Pope asked us not to accept being second best but be the best you can.
On Thursday, Maeve Campbell, Patrick Hall, Patrick James and I all got a coach down to London. We got a taxi to Blossom Street where we waited for the coach. When it finally came, we didn’t go straight to London, we had to go to Scarborough and then to Hull to pick up some people. [...]
We were up at 5.45 am on Friday (17th September) morning so we could have breakfast and get on the coach to St Mary’s College, Twickenham. There was a lot of security with marksmen on top of some of the roofs. It was very good apart from practising the hymns a lot of the time. [...]
On Thursday, we went to London to see the Pope. The Big Assembly.
The journey there was extremely long, we went by coach. We also had to stop off at Hull and Scarborough, we were two hours late. When we got to the hotel, it was eight o’clock in the evening. We had dinner there. It [...]
On Thursday, we went to London to see the Pope. The Big Assembly.
The journey there was extremely long, we went by coach. We also had to stop off at Hull and Scarborough, we were two hours late. When we got to the hotel, it was eight o’clock in the evening. We had dinner there. It [...]
Friday 17th September 2010
Four children were picked from our school to see the Pope in London, Patrick H, Patrick J, Sarah and myself. I stayed in a hotel which was very posh!! I shared a room with Sarah and another girl called Siobhan.
We had to get up very early to get to Twickenham on time. [...]
Michael Higham, aged 12, from St Martin’s Ampleforth, was honoured to be invited to be part of the parade to greet the Pope’s arrival in Edinburgh on Thursday 16th September. The youngest drummer in the Ampleforth Highlanders (the Ampleforth College pipe band), they had to march half a mile along Prince’s Street, before lining up [...]
