Charities are to share a £1,000 windfall to help with their work during the coronavirus pandemic. The money has been donated by the Middlesbrough branch of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) to Teesside Hospice, food banks in Middlesbrough and Driffield Foodbank and to...
A letter from CAFOD chair of trustees Bishop John Arnold and his fellow trustee Bishop Patrick McKinney appealing for support for the charities work during this time… We wish you, belatedly, a hope-filled Easter and we trust that you are keeping safe and well. What...
Graduates of CAFOD’s Step into the Gap programme are inviting other young Catholics to an online webinar to explain how their lives were transformed when they travelled to Cambodia to see the charity's work first-hand – and maybe even to follow in their footsteps....
The technology department at St Francis Xavier School in Richmond has been helping the national effort in the fight against Covid-19 by producing face masks for local care homes, hospitals, prisons and the ambulance service. Sandra Bradley and Stuart Lister in the...
CHERYL ANN SMITH, of Madonna House at Robin Hood’s Bay, reflects on a life-changing Lenten experience… My life changed this Lent. Oh, you wouldn’t know it from the outside: I look the same. I act the same. I do the same things. But in my deepest heart, which I call my...
A gospel reflection and appeal from CAFOD… All of us are familiar with fear and how it can spread among us. After Jesus’ death, the disciples were holed up, together in a room, afraid of the authorities. We get a sense that they were in a tight space, feeding off each...
A special Mass for the sick and their families, NHS frontline workers and those working in social care is to be celebrated in a different cathedral each week, including St Mary’s in Middlesbrough. Catholic bishops recognise that the pandemic is affecting everyone...
During this time when we can’t attend Mass, the producers of the Magnificat have kindly provided free access to its online version to help people follow the Mass and pray from home. An Act Of Spiritual Communion Prayer of St Alphonsus My Jesus, I believe that you are...
DR MARGARET TURNHAM delves into the archives to examine some of the historical parallels with the way we are experiencing Mass during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Live streaming of Mass and other devotions is rapidly becoming a part of many Catholics’ lives during...
