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‘Year of St Paul’ Diocesan Celebration

by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Bishop Terry, Event Calendar, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough

Pope Benedict XVI declared 28th June 2008 to 29th June 2009 the ‘Year of St Paul’ to celebrate the 2,000th anniversary of St Paul’s birth. It was the Holy Father’s intention that during this year we all came to know better ‘the immense...

Fr Austin O’Neill’s Funeral Mass

by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Organisations, Parishes

Fr Austin O’Neill’s body was received into St Aelred’s Church by Canon Jerry Twomey, Episcopal Vicar for the Central Vicariate and Austin’s successor as parish priest, on the evening of 7 May 2009 followed by Mass attended by many who could not...

Servant of God returns home

by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Obituaries, Parishes

Fr Austin O’Neill, retired parish priest of St Aelred’s, York, died on Saturday 25 April after a long period of ill health. He was 73 and had been a priest for almost 48 years, 21 of which were at St Aelred’s. Education was close to his heart. He...

FCJ Thanksgiving Mass – a reminder

by webmaster | Jun 5, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough

A Mass of Thanksgiving will be offered in the Cathedral on Saturday 4th July at 12 noon to celebrate the 137 year long contribution to education in Middlesbrough by the FCJ Sisters. All past Newlands Orchestra members are invited to play (but please contact Miss C...

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...

Read-a-Book-a-Month

by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | English Martyrs, York, Parishes

The launch event for reading the Acts of the Apostles was held at St Paul’s Church, Holgate Road. The vicar, John Lee, spoke of Paul and Barnabas’ time with the church in Antioch, and reminded us every Christian is called to evangelise. The...