Fairtrade Christmas Preview

St Margaret Clitherow’s Fairtrade Christmas Preview was held in the church meeting room in Haxby during the weekend of 8th-10th October. We are already a Fairtrade parish, serving coffee, tea and biscuits after our Sunday Mass and at parish meetings, and holding...

CoAct – Action in the Community

CoAct is a project of the Christian Police Association aimed at reaching out and building bridges between Christian communities and the Police across the United Kingdom. The Christian Police Association wants to encourage prayerful and practical involvement in local...

‘Light of the World’

Amongst the countless legacies of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit is one that is very simple and tangible, and is accessible to us all. Every parish (or cluster of parishes) in our Diocese has received an image and candle blessed by the Pope to support us in our...

‘To know me is to know the Father’

Forty eight Catechists, working in 22 parishes across the Diocese, came together in York in October for the Diocesan Catechists Renewal Day. Fr John Lumley and I had led them to anticipate some excellent input from our guest speaker, Paddy Rylands, and I’m...

International Meditatio Seminar

Regents College, Regents Park, London 7 December 2010 (Teaching of Christian Meditation in Schools) This approach to contemplative prayer is based on the tradition the Desert Fathers handed down and passed on more recently by John Main and The World Community for...

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