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Red boxes Mass at Ushaw

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Miscellaneous

Two leather-bound ‘remembrance’ books containing the names of several thousand supporters of the red box mission appeal had a place of honour at a special Mass at Ushaw College, Durham on Sunday 29th June. The Mass was offered up for the deceased people...

Richard Rolle: The Fellowship of Angels

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Book Reviews, Parishes

The latest book to appear on the Repository at St Joseph’s Church in Pickering is something rather special. It is a translation into modern English of some of the work of the mediaeval mystic and writer Richard Rolle, born in the year 1300, in our diocese in...

The Last Dragon

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Book Reviews

Readers looking for a good read over the summer may like to pick up ‘The Last Dragon’ by Rosemary Brydon, a former editor of the Middlesbrough Catholic Voice. Though not a religious book it is firmly set in our diocese, and all the places are real; you...

The Story of Gilling Castle

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Book Reviews, Religious Communities

Fr Anselm Cramer, the Monastic Archivist at Ampleforth Abbey has written a new book entitled ‘Gilling Castle, The Story of the House and its Families’. The book starts, as it should, with the first family the Ettons who started building Gilling Castle...

‘Noah, where were you when we needed you?’

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Miscellaneous

So said the caption on a photo display showing the effects of the great flood visited on Hull last June. The monsoon like storm brought several months of rainfall on the city in just a few hours. Result. Thousands of homes and businesses were severely damaged and the...

McEwan Cup 1958

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Miscellaneous

This team photograph from 1958 may be of interest to readers. It is of the football team that won the McEwan Cup for St Philomena’s Boys Club in that year. St Philomena’s is now the Sacred Heart, of course. The team played in the Middlesbrough and District...