Young Catholics including Ryan Day, 27, a Middlesbrough Diocesan seminarian, will embark on a mammoth bike ride covering the length of the United Kingdom this summer to bear witness to their faith and raise money for three charities. Land’s End 2012 is the brainchild...
The Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul which is celebrated on 29th June meant a great deal to Father Nicholas Postgate, our martyr of the moors. It was the date he left the English College at Douai in 1630 to join the English Mission. After a very basic education at...
St Anne’s, Ugthorpe (Outdoors, weather permitting) with Concelebrated Mass at 3.00 pm in honour of the English & Welsh Martyrs and Blessed Nicholas Postgate Principal Celebrant Right Reverend Terence Patrick Drainey Sunday 1st July Hymns from 2.30 pm Mass at 3.00...
This was no ordinary Easter Saturday, HCPT Group 122 from York are waiting in the frigid air for the coach to arrive. The group, made up of children and helper volunteers, are eagerly awaiting the week ahead. Lourdes is the destination, specifically Bernadette’s...
In October 2011, Bishop Terence led his first Middlesbrough Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham with over 90 of our parishioners from all over the Diocese joining him. It was a very spiritual occasion for all concerned and there was an overwhelming response from those...
I went to Auschwitz with the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) in March. It was and still is one of the most humbling and eye-opening experiences I have had. As an Ambassador for the HET, it has been truly rewarding to be given the opportunity to educate children and...
The annual trip to New York for St Mary’s College was a trip I will never forget and I am positive that is the same for everyone else who took part. The trip was a once in a lifetime opportunity and right from the night we arrived in the city that never sleeps, we...
Arriving at York Minster with the two Margarets (Margaret Blatchford and Margaret Hinman) before 8.00 am on 21st April, we were struck by the grandeur of the building when it is virtually empty. Other members of the working party were busy in York St John University...
This is the title of the talk to be given by Sister Imelda Poole IBVM on 14th July at St Bede’s (10.30 am - 3.00 pm). Sister Imelda has been living and working in Albania for a number of years. She was also the speaker at the very first meeting of the Women’s...
