Religious Communities | Middlesbrough Diocese

Jubilee 400 Pilgrimage to Mount Grace

by webmaster | Mar 3, 2010 | Appeals and Special Events, Miscellaneous, Event Calendar, Our Lady of Mount Grace, Osmotherley, Parishes, Religious Communities

May 22, 2010, starting at 11am There will be a Jubilee Pilgrimage from the village of Osmotherley to the Lady Chapel (2 mile uphill walk) in thanksgiving for Mary Ward and all the favours her sisters have received from God in the last 400 years. This will be an...

First step on the road to sainthood for Mary Ward

by webmaster | Mar 3, 2010 | Appeals and Special Events, Schools and Colleges, Religious Communities

Mass in Westminster Cathedral to celebrate Bar Convent Sisters and All Saints School attend More than 2,300 people attended a service at Westminster Cathedral recently when the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, conducted a Celebratory Mass in honour...

Peace Built on Justice

by webmaster | Dec 31, 2009 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Carmelite Spirituality Group, Organisations, Religious Communities

On Saturday 16th January there will be a meeting of the Carmelite Spirituality Group at Lawrence Street looking at the topic of ‘Peace Built on Justice’, with presentations by Sr. Anna-Maria Reverand, O.Carm., on the work of the Carmelite Order’s NGO at...

Benedictine Sisters On The Move

by webmaster | Nov 5, 2009 | Miscellaneous, Religious Communities

The Abbess and the community of Benedictine Sisters, along with the architects of the new Abbey at Wass, recently held a media day to show members of the press including the BBC and religious correspondents from national newspapers around the new eco-friendly Abbey....

A Day to Remember

by webmaster | Nov 5, 2009 | Religious Communities

Saturday 12th September 2009 will certainly stand out in the history of the Poor Clare Community in York as a memorable day because on that day Sr Margaret celebrated her 100th birthday. In the 144 year history of the Poor Clare’s in York, Sr Margaret is the...

Death of an Ampleforth Monk

by webmaster | Sep 5, 2009 | Obituaries, Parishes, Religious Communities

Fr Gerald Hughes, a monk of Ampleforth Abbey, has died at the age of 80. Fr Gerald died peacefully in his sleep on 31 August 2009 while on holiday with family relations in York. He was educated at Ampleforth and in 1947 went to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst....