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Prayers needed please!

by webmaster | Jun 17, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Miscellaneous

Please pray for Louis Anderson, who is only two years old. He has a neuroblastoma and will have an operation on 22 June to remove the malignant tumour. He is being remembered in prayer at Holy Cross Abbey in Tipperary and at the Friary at San Giovinna Rotondo, Italy...

Blaise Kamba

by webmaster | Jun 5, 2009 | Miscellaneous

Upon arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo following his deportation from the UK, Blaise Kamba was arrested by plain clothes agents once he had left the airport. He was blindfolded and handcuffed, thrown into a jeep/van and taken to the prison he subsequently...

St Charles ‘Drop In’ Report

by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Miscellaneous

Thank you to all who help – as volunteers or donors. Especial thanks to the parishes and individuals who have been most generous, to St Charles Parish for paying the energy bills and the SVP for covering any deficit, to St Mary’s College for the huge...

Father Dan: the story of an imperfect priest

by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Book Reviews

Anthea Dove’s new book – unusually, a novel – is a thought-provoking, moving story of a priest whose day-to-day life presents him with many situations which affect us in our lives. In the very first chapter, we meet the apprehensive curate, the...

Cooking apples the Ampleforth Abbey way

by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Book Reviews, Parishes, Religious Communities

Apples have been grown at Ampleforth Abbey for well over one hundred years and monks today still provide the work force in what is England’s northernmost commercial orchard. Now, many of their famed recipes have been re-published in a mouth-watering book...

‘Feed the Minds’ Book Sale

by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Miscellaneous

17th – 24th July, 10am to 5pm (3pm, Friday 24th) Every day except Sunday in the Guildhall, York Thousands of books in all categories ‘Feed the Minds’ is an ecumenical charity raising funds through the sale of second-hand books to promote literacy and...