by webmaster | Feb 25, 2012 | Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters
Dear sisters and brothers Where would we be without adverts? Our world is peppered with them. Turn but a corner and your eyes are bombarded with them. Flick the switch and your senses are flooded with them. Enter any shopping Mall and your ears are blasted by them. As...
by webmaster | Jan 1, 2012 | Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters
World Day of Prayer for Peace Dear Brothers and Sisters Happy New Year to you all! Does the passing from the Old Year to the New Year make things feel any different to you? I have always been disappointed with New Year. There is such a build up to it – reviews of the...
by webmaster | Nov 26, 2011 | Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters
Dear Sisters and Brothers Listening to the news at the moment can be so depressing. Everything seems to be collapsing around us; earthquakes, wars, revolutions, financial instability, sleaze in politics, corruption in the media, scandal in the Church. Where can we...
by webmaster | Aug 28, 2011 | Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters
Pastoral Letter of Terence Patrick Drainey, Bishop of Middlesbrough Dear brothers and sisters, I don’t consider myself old, well, not very old, but already since my boyhood I have lived through at least six major changes in the language used to celebrate the...
by webmaster | May 14, 2011 | Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters
Dear Sisters and Brothers After a long hard winter it has been lovely to enjoy both some spring weather, and the first green flush of the leaves on the trees which for so long have seemed barren and lifeless. New growth encourages new hope. I think this is true of...
by webmaster | May 14, 2011 | Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters
Dear Sisters and Brothers After a long hard winter it has been lovely to enjoy both some spring weather, and the first green flush of the leaves on the trees which for so long have seemed barren and lifeless. New growth encourages new hope. I think this is true of...
