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Happiness

by webmaster | Jun 23, 2011 | Miscellaneous

Happiness is very much in the news at the moment. The National Wellbeing Survey is now under way to measure our quality of life, and an initiative to create a happier society ‘Action for happiness’ has just been launched. In their search for what makes us...

World Communications Day, 5 June, Ascension Sunday

by webmaster | Jun 4, 2011 | Miscellaneous

On World Communications Day we pray for communications professionals. The theme this year is ‘Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age’. The Catholic Communications Network (CCN) provides support for the bishops of England and Wales and the...

With Christ on the Cross

by webmaster | May 28, 2011 | Miscellaneous

The bishops of England and Wales are re-establishing the practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays as a penance to identify with Christ on the cross. The Bishops’ Conference stated, “Every Friday is set aside by the Church as a special day of penance,...

Eighty at Good Friday service

by webmaster | May 27, 2011 | Miscellaneous, Parishes

Some 80 people joined in a hymns-and-readings service held outside the supermarket at Saltburn-by-Sea, North Yorkshire, on Good Friday when Mgr Ricardo Morgan, of Our Lady of Lourdes parish, urged people to spread Christ’s message in their everyday lives, not only in...

Why not join the 2011/12 MYMission Team?

by webmaster | May 27, 2011 | Miscellaneous

Are you over 18? Thinking about what to do in September? Want to strengthen your faith and share it with others? Why not join the 2011/12 MYMission Team? In September 2010, I moved up to Middlesbrough and joined the Middlesbrough Youth Mission Team. We are a group of...