A new internet radio station, "Heart Gives Unto Heart", designed to cover the Papal visit is to launch in September. Broadcasting from 7am until midnight from Tuesday 14th until Monday 20th September 2010 www.heartgivesuntoheart.co.uk aims to provide a positive media...
On Thursday 19th August, 7:30pm Vin Garbutt will play a charity concert in aid of Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and Justice First (Stockton). Support will be from the Volunteer African Drummers. The concert will be at the Georgian Theatre,...
By now you will have been asked by your Parish Priest or Parish Pilgrim Leader to let us know if you would like to see the Pope at either Hyde Park on Saturday 18th September or at Cofton Park on Sunday 19th September. Details are with your parishes as to how you go...
After months of reflection, consultation and careful planning, Bishop Terry is proposing to re-organise the diocese. This is not change for the sake of change - the Bishop concluded that the present structures need renewing, to better serve the people, the parishes,...
Bishop Terry Drainey presided and twelve other priests concelebrated at a wonderful Mass to mark Fr Joe Brennan's diamond jubilee at St Hida's Roman Catholic Church in Whitby. Fr Joe, who was born in 1921 at Enfield in County Meath, entered Blackrock College in Dublin...
The Pilgrimage for the Feast of the Assumption will take place at the Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Grace, Osmotherley on Sunday 15th August. The Rosary will be at 2.30pm, and Mass at 3pm This year the main celebrant will be our Vicar General, the Rt Rev Mgr Canon...
Congratulations to Peter Warren who was ordained to the Permanent Diaconate by Bishop Terry Drainey on Saturday 26th June at St George's Church in York. Photos of Peter's Ordination can be found in the Diocesan galleries at gallery.me.com/middlesbroughdiocese and are...
People passing St. Andrew's Church Hall in Teesville, Middlesbrough, on Sunday, July 11 could be forgiven for thinking that parishioners had finally run out of patience with their parish Deacon, the Rev. Pat Thomas, when he was locked in a set of stocks outside of the...
In Nicholas’ time there were for the whole of England perhaps a little more than the number of priests as we have in Yorkshire today. They mainly came from training in the English colleges abroad, and of course Nicholas had been trained in Douai, the forerunner of Ushaw, our last remaining Northern Seminary. Yet, somehow, the faith had survived persecution, the people were baptised, the Mass was celebrated, catechism was taught. More importantly, perhaps, prayers were said daily in Catholic homes
