Category: Appeals and Special Events - Page 43

The Venerable Mary Ward

by webmaster | Dec 25, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events

On 19th December 2009 Pope Benedict XVI formally published a Decree recognising the ‘heroic virtue’ demonstrated by Mary Ward and thereby conferring on her the title ‘Venerable’. Her cause will now go forward to the next stage in the process towards beatification and...

Thoughts on a visit to the relics of St Therese at York Minster

by webmaster | Dec 10, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events

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...

Hold a Parish Vigil of Prayer

by webmaster | Dec 8, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD Appeals

or Holy Hour between 7 and 18 December 2009 The UN leaders meet in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December to broker a Climate Change agreement to replace the Kyoto protocol. It’s vital that they come up with the right kind of deal that will: Recognise and support the right...

The True Spirit of Christmas

by webmaster | Dec 1, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events

A Conversation with our Neighbour in Iraq As you read your copy of the December Voice and with vast stocks of Christmas goods continuing to be sold in our shops (some Christmas items on sale since September), it is perhaps difficult to equate the preparation for...

IBVM (Loreto) helps Albanian Roma families

by webmaster | Nov 30, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events

When Sister Imelda Poole IBVM (Loreto) moved to Tirana in 2005 (after 16 years working in grassroots ministry at Port Clarence on Teesside) she soon encountered families of Roma communities living in shanty towns near the railway station, close by to where she lives....

Hundreds make a Wave for Climate Justice

by webmaster | Nov 30, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Organisations

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...