The brand new ladies Schola Cantorum meets each Wednesday evening at St Mary's Cathedral. This exciting new choir is aimed at more experienced choral singers in the Diocese to give them an opportunity to explore the choral repertoire for women's voices from Gregorian...
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The Friends of Music
at St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough Music at St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough, is aiming for the high notes. The Friends of Music at St Mary's Cathedral are helping us create a Scholarship and Bursary fund to assist our best young Cathedral musicians. Can you...
St Stephen’s Day Mass at the Lady Chapel, Mount Grace
The traditional Mass on St Stephen's Day, established by the late Canon Peter Storey, will take place this year on Monday 27 December at 11 am. Although parts of the track up Rueberry Lane to the Lady Chapel are considerably better for walkers than they used to be,...
Parish remembers its dead
On Monday 1st November, the eve of All Souls Day, the Parish of Our Lady and St Benedict's, Ampleforth, commemorated in traditional manner its dead parishioners and all others buried in its graveyard, placing lighted candles on each of the graves. At Mass on All Souls...
John Paul Centre 250+ Club Draw November 2010
Drawn on Monday 1st November 2010 £100 Winning No 76 £75 Winning No 150 £50 Winning No 309 £30 Winning No 235 Next meeting and monthly draw - Monday 6th December 2010
£81,210 for Help for Heroes
The Catholic Women's League of England and Wales have been raising funds to help our injured Service personnel. Since October 2009 until October 2010, they have raised £81,210.73 through cake stalls, garden parties, 40s nights, appeals and coffee mornings. The cheque...
The Cathedral Processional Cross – 200 years old?
The reappearance of the Diocesan processional cross at major ceremonies has led to a lot of interest in its origins. The first occasion the cross was used was at the televised Midnight Mass in the old Cathedral in December 1980, when the principal concelebrant was...
‘Light of the World’
Amongst the countless legacies of Pope Benedict XVI's visit is one that is very simple and tangible, and is accessible to us all. Every parish (or cluster of parishes) in our Diocese has received an image and candle blessed by the Pope to support us in our ongoing...
Congratulations Canon Michael
Over 30 priests joined Canon Michael Loughlin to concelebrate his silver jubilee Mass at St Charles Borromeo Church in Hull recently. Fr Michael White presented Canon Michael with an Apostolic Blessing from His Holiness Pope Benedict.
