Category: Appeals and Special Events - Page 56

The Bar Convent 1686

by webmaster | Dec 7, 2008 | Appeals and Special Events, Religious Communities

The Bar Convent is the oldest living convent in England. Frances Bedingfield founded the Convent in 1686 during the time of persecution for Catholics in England. A school for Catholic girls was established on the current site and the surviving Grade 1 listed Georgian...

Messages from Baghdad

by webmaster | Dec 7, 2008 | Appeals and Special Events

John Hinman, a Trustee of the Middlesbrough Diocese, has kindly forwarded the following messages from Dr Jaffar Al-ghaban of Baghdad Central Training Hospital following the recent successful delivery of the seventh consignment of aid, ‘Dear Friends, We send you...

69@40 and rising!

by webmaster | Dec 2, 2008 | Appeals and Special Events, Parishes

Congratulations to Fr Paul Farrer who recently celebrated his 40th birthday in style at the Knights Club in Middlesbrough. This has been an amazing year for Fr Paul who, with the help of so many friends especially Keith and Chris, Dave and Bernie and Mike and Lyndsey,...

Your Used Stamps Please!

by webmaster | Dec 2, 2008 | Appeals and Special Events, Parishes

Don’t throw away those used stamps after Christmas. Peter Derry has been collecting them to help the Redemptorist Missions for over 20 years. Peter is a parishioner of St Edward’s and St Peter’s in Scarborough. Please send your stamps (and postcards...

Local paper reports Baghdad Appeal success

by webmaster | Dec 1, 2008 | Appeals and Special Events

The Northern Echo has an excellent leader about the Baghdad Appeal. Click here to read The Northern Echo’s Baghdad Appeal article.

Mary Ward Jubilee 400

by webmaster | Nov 7, 2008 | Appeals and Special Events, Religious Communities

2009 ‘I hope in God it will be seen that women in time will do much’ 2009 marks 400 years since Yorkshire woman Mary Ward (1585-1685) pioneered the first uncloistered religious order of women modelled on the freedom and mobility of the Jesuits. Born into a network of...