Parish Resources for the Papal Visit

The Visit of Pope Benedict XVI provides a historic opportunity for Catholic parishes to celebrate and witness to their faith. Read More »

By webmaster on August 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

Papal Visit Internet Radio Station for September launch

A new internet radio station, “Heart Gives Unto Heart”, designed to cover the Papal visit is to launch in September. Read More »

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Pope Benedict’s Visit to the UK

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 your details in and sending them to the Curial Office. Every Parish Priest has been asked to appoint a Parish Pilgrim Leader and there are set dates that we are having to work with in order to get the final list of pilgrim names for these events. Read More »

By webmaster on July 30, 2010 | Leave a comment

Change in the Diocese

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 us with a fresh opportunity to meet the challenges that face our Church. Read More »

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Diamond Jubilee for Fr Joe Brennan

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. Read More »

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Peter Warren Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate

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.

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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.

By webmaster on July 30, 2010 | Leave a comment

Locked Stocks and One Soaked Deacon!

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. Read More »

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Canon Bayldon’s Homily at the Postgate Rally 2010

‘Whatever house you go into let your first words be, ‘Peace to this house’.’ So, taking a leaf from the Bishop’s book, ‘Peace to you’. Sharing with you today coincides with an ordination jubilee year for me. To celebrate another Diocesan priest from a time of persecution is poignant. Nicholas Postgate lived in a hurting Church, and I think we do, too. The hurt which the Reformers did to Catholicism cannot be doubted. Within his hurting Church, Nicholas Postgate did an ordinary ministry in an extraordinary way. Whether we feel it or not, whether we recognise it or not, we are a damaged Church. In a few weeks time the successor of Peter, Benedict XVI, will come to our land. I wonder what Nicholas Postgate would have made of that. His allegiance to the Pope was fundamental to his priesthood. I think that is one key to any vocations crisis which we may feel in the hurting Church of the 21st Century. There are some other things, of course. Read More »

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Fr Pat Smith’s Ruby Jubilee

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. Read More »

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Fr Pat Grant celebrates his Diamond Jubilee

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. Read More »

By webmaster on July 30, 2010 | Leave a comment