by webmaster | Jun 29, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Cleveland Newman Circle, Parishes, Sacraments
Congratulations to all those recently confirmed by Bishop Terry in Scarborough. They were Katie Atkinson, Gemma Coultas, Sophie Ball, John Grierson, Billy Johnson, Josh Irwin, Seamus Nolan, Joe Smith, Rebecca Thompson, Peter Westlund, Giselle Villanueva, Callie...
by webmaster | Jun 29, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Despite the mixed weather, this year’s first ‘Praise by the (Millennium) Bridge’ got the series off to a cheerful start. Organised by Churches Together in SW York, and SE York Churches, Praise by the Bridge is held at the west end of York’s...
by webmaster | Jun 29, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
On the 14th and 15th March, Fr Kevin Dring, from the Arundel and Brighton Diocese, visited St Mary’s Cathedral to fulfil a promise he had made while working in the Diocese of Chulucanas in Northern Peru. Fr Dring wanted to visit our Diocese to thank the...
by webmaster | Jun 29, 2009 | English Martyrs, York, Parishes
Persecuted Christians in the Middle East are praying for the Western World. This surprising information was given by a Maronite Rite Catholic priest, Fr Samer Nassif, to an audience of over 50, following a Saturday Midday Mass at the Church of the English Martyrs in...
by webmaster | Jun 29, 2009 | Event Calendar
For several years, York’s churches have co-operated in offering the Alpha course, introducing non-believers to Jesus Christ. This autumn, a group at St Bede’s Pastoral Centre will also take part, offering the Alpha course on Monday evenings. ‘The...
by webmaster | Jun 29, 2009 | Homilies
for XT3 180 seconds June 2009 You can’t give what you haven’t got. It is a simple truth that most of us live by. If we don’t have the faith we can’t pass it on. Jesus asks a simple straightforward question in the gospel, “Who do people say the Son of Man...
by webmaster | Jun 25, 2009 | Homilies
at Stanbrook Abbey, Crief Farm, Wass 25 June 2009 Lord, by your cross and resurrection you have set us free. You are the Saviour of the world We are called to be part of God’s priestly, prophetic and royal people. We know that; we take it for granted. It should...
by webmaster | Jun 20, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
26th May 2009 Introduction Philip Neri was born into in 1515 in Florence. He lived his life in Rome and he is described as a truly Renaissance man. One of his many gifts was the art of conversation and encouragement. In all our human relationships the ability to meet...
by webmaster | Jun 20, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
Saint Bede the Venerable 25 May 2009 They say that you don’t decide to come to Lourdes of your own will; rather it is Our Lady who calls you to be here. In other words, you never come to Lourdes by accident, even if for some of us it might look like that. If you have...
by webmaster | Jun 20, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
St Bernadette Centre 23 May 2009 : The Way of Bernadette Introduction I was talking to someone earlier on about coming to Lourdes this year. It has been quite a sacrifice on the part of many people given the uncertain economic climate in which we live. So, the first...
by webmaster | Jun 19, 2009 | Event Calendar, Pastoral Centres, St Bede's Pastoral Centre
Due to Jury Service, St. Bede’s will be closed Monday and Thursday next week (22 and 25 June) and Thursday and Friday the following week (2 and 3 July). Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Carol Reeves
by webmaster | Jun 19, 2009 | Homilies
of Marc Lyden-Smith, John Moriarty, and Séan O’Brien Ushaw College – 19 June 2009 For years now, you have been wondering if you had a vocation. Sometimes certain; other times, not so sure, you continued to listen, to pray, to discern, to test yourself and...
by webmaster | Jun 18, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Event Calendar, Parishes
Bishop Terry will be the main concelebrant and preacher at this year’s Postgate Rally which will take place on Sunday 5th July from 2.30pm at Egton Bridge. The Mass is in honour of the English and Welsh martyrs and Blessed Nicholas Postgate. There is free parking and...
by webmaster | Jun 17, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes, St Andrew's, Teesville
On Wednesday 24th June, 7pm at St Andrew’s Church, Teesville St Andrew’s Parish Youth Cabinet will present Paul’s story through drama, music and readings – the stoning of Stephen, Paul’s encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, his missionary journeys and...
by webmaster | Jun 17, 2009 | Event Calendar
LMS Residential Training Conference for Priests Wishing to Learn the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (Traditional Latin Mass) at All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney, St Albans, Herts The Latin Mass Society of England and Wales (LMS), in association with the...
by webmaster | Jun 17, 2009 | Event Calendar, Justice and Peace
Reporting on the devastating reality of the War on Gaza An evening meeting with Physicians for Human Rights on 25 June, 7.30pm in the Clementhorpe Room, CVS Building, Priory Street, York All are welcome Speakers Miri Weingarten Advocacy worker for Physicians for Human...
by webmaster | Jun 17, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Miscellaneous
Please pray for Louis Anderson, who is only two years old. He has a neuroblastoma and will have an operation on 22 June to remove the malignant tumour. He is being remembered in prayer at Holy Cross Abbey in Tipperary and at the Friary at San Giovinna Rotondo, Italy...
by webmaster | Jun 14, 2009 | Homilies
13/14 June 2009 Introduction Our celebration of this Eucharist is a sign of Christ’s sacrifice: the one, eternal sacrifice which brings us salvation. In this celebration we find unity and peace. With grateful hearts we come before the Lord. Lord, we are your...
by webmaster | Jun 7, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
A time of grace for England and Wales At the request of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and the bishops of England and Wales, the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux, the French Carmelite Sister known as ‘The Little Flower of Jesus’ will be visiting our...
by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Event Calendar
After the success of Taste and See in 2008, Taste and See 2009, a day of Bite-Size Spirituality, is a ‘second slice’ of this wonderful way to experience different types of prayer and worship in a friendly and engaging setting. A variety of workshops are...
by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Organisations, Parishes
Holy Cross Church, Cottingham celebrated its first Passover Meal for Christians on the evening of Spy Wednesday. It was attended by 80 parishioners and friends. With readings, prayers and music, we recalled the night when the Angel of Death passed over the houses of...
by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Event Calendar, Parishes
Everyone’s welcome to come and visit St George’s, York on Saturday 20th June between 10am and 4pm for its Open Day. Opened in 1850 and designed by Charles and Joseph Hansom, famous for the Hansom cab, St George’s stands between Walmgate and...
by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Bishop Terry, Event Calendar, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
Pope Benedict XVI declared 28th June 2008 to 29th June 2009 the ‘Year of St Paul’ to celebrate the 2,000th anniversary of St Paul’s birth. It was the Holy Father’s intention that during this year we all came to know better ‘the immense...
by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Organisations
Burma/Myanmar Cyclone one year on Survivors of Burma/Myanmar’s worst cyclone in living memory are facing continuing hardship one year on, but needs are being met with the support of both local and international organisations. Cyclone Nargis tore through the...
by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Organisations, Parishes
Fr Austin O’Neill’s body was received into St Aelred’s Church by Canon Jerry Twomey, Episcopal Vicar for the Central Vicariate and Austin’s successor as parish priest, on the evening of 7 May 2009 followed by Mass attended by many who could not...
by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Obituaries, Parishes
Fr Austin O’Neill, retired parish priest of St Aelred’s, York, died on Saturday 25 April after a long period of ill health. He was 73 and had been a priest for almost 48 years, 21 of which were at St Aelred’s. Education was close to his heart. He...
by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events
With the Year of St Paul drawing to a close readers may like to listen to a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘In Our Time’ entitled St Paul. In this episode the host Melvyn Bragg and his guests Helen Bond (Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at...
by webmaster | Jun 5, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
A Mass of Thanksgiving will be offered in the Cathedral on Saturday 4th July at 12 noon to celebrate the 137 year long contribution to education in Middlesbrough by the FCJ Sisters. All past Newlands Orchestra members are invited to play (but please contact Miss C...
by webmaster | Jun 5, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Upon arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo following his deportation from the UK, Blaise Kamba was arrested by plain clothes agents once he had left the airport. He was blindfolded and handcuffed, thrown into a jeep/van and taken to the prison he subsequently...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Thank you to all who help – as volunteers or donors. Especial thanks to the parishes and individuals who have been most generous, to St Charles Parish for paying the energy bills and the SVP for covering any deficit, to St Mary’s College for the huge...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Liturgy and Music
Bishop Terry presided at the Day of Commissioning for Ministers of Holy Communion and Word at Askham Bryan near York on Saturday 9th May. Bishop Terry also blessed a wooden portable altar table beautifully made by Mr Max Stockton.
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Book Reviews
Anthea Dove’s new book – unusually, a novel – is a thought-provoking, moving story of a priest whose day-to-day life presents him with many situations which affect us in our lives. In the very first chapter, we meet the apprehensive curate, the...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Book Reviews, Parishes, Religious Communities
Apples have been grown at Ampleforth Abbey for well over one hundred years and monks today still provide the work force in what is England’s northernmost commercial orchard. Now, many of their famed recipes have been re-published in a mouth-watering book...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Miscellaneous
17th – 24th July, 10am to 5pm (3pm, Friday 24th) Every day except Sunday in the Guildhall, York Thousands of books in all categories ‘Feed the Minds’ is an ecumenical charity raising funds through the sale of second-hand books to promote literacy and...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | English Martyrs, York, Parishes
The launch event for reading the Acts of the Apostles was held at St Paul’s Church, Holgate Road. The vicar, John Lee, spoke of Paul and Barnabas’ time with the church in Antioch, and reminded us every Christian is called to evangelise. The...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Children from schools and parishes across our diocese have been making their first Holy Communion recently. Congratulations to all those children who have celebrated their first Holy Communion recently and to all the parents, families, catechists, teachers and...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Organisations
The April meeting of Wetherby Catenians marked the end of one Catenian year and the inception of their new year. To succeed the outgoing President, former printing executive David Barker, the members appointed the distinguished senior member Frank Rowett who has held...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Parishes, Sacred Heart, Middlesbrough
On Friday 8th May the Mosaic Singers put on a performance of songs from various musicals in aid of the Sacred Heart and St Patrick parish appeal for the Baghdad Childrens Hospital. Mark Turnbull introduced and closed the evening with his usual eloquence. John Hinman...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Event Calendar, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
On the second day of Lent, priests and people from across the Diocese came together at St Charles Borromeo, Hull, to celebrate the ‘Year of St Paul’ in music, song, word and prayer. The Liturgy was graced by the Presidency of Bishop Terence Drainey, the...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Event Calendar
Join the celebration, part of Refugee Week 2009, at 119 Marton Road, Middlesbrough on Friday 12th June, 11.30am-2.30pm. A time for women to enjoy each other’s cultures and traditions with songs, dancing, music and poetry from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Liturgy and Music
A beautiful collection of meditations by Anthea Dove with music by Val Goldsack and featuring the George Herbert’s poem ‘Love bade me welcome’ has recently been released. This collection of music and meditations, scripture and prayer on this CD leads...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Event Calendar, Miscellaneous
To mark United Nations Torture Victims Day, the annual International Prayer Vigil, ‘Take Them in Your Hands’ will be held on the night of 27th/28th June from 8.00 pm to 8.00 am. Members of Action by Christians Against Torture (UK), a mainstream Christian...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Event Calendar
A different kind of holiday? If you are looking for an experience that is more than a holiday, then the Mariapolis is the perfect event for you. The Mariapolis is a temporary ‘town’ where the message of love contained in the Gospel is put into practice in...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Jean Michel, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo, writes, I would like to say thank you to everyone who supported me when I was in detention with phone calls to keep up my spirits, signing petitions and taking the time to write personal letters for...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Event Calendar
Rev Roger Simpson, Vicar of St Michael-le-Belfry Church, will speak on ‘What ALPHA has done for the Church’ at the summer CHURCHES TOGETHER meeting in York. The Alpha course has been an effective means of bringing new people to Jesus Christ, and into the...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes, St Andrew's, Teesville
Starting at 3pm on Sunday 14th June at St Andrew’s Church, Teesville, an outdoor Corpus Christi Procession conducted by Fr John Paul Leonard including Benediction, Holy Rosary and Crowning of Our Lady. Everyone welcome, especially school children. Please bring...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events
A crowd of several hundred people gathered on the evening of Monday 18th May to watch the charity football match played at the Riverside Stadium. The match, which featured Gaizka Mendieta, once the world’s mot expensive footballer, and fellow Boro legend Craig...
by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Parishes
Congratulations to Fr Michael White on his Golden Jubilee from all the parishioners and friends of St Vincent’s Parish. Thank you for all you have done in the last 30 years. May God bless you.
by webmaster | Jun 1, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Cath Ramos writes I will give the good news. The church in Kinshasa confirmed Blaise has just got out of prison – of the two men that helped him, one man and his family are now in trouble with the authorities for having done so and we will send some financial...
by webmaster | Jun 1, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Cath Ramos writes, Our dear Blaise was removed last week and immediately arrested. Blaise had told us what he was wearing and this info was given to people in Kinshasa who hoped to meet him and get him to a safe house. He was arrested immediately and taken to a...
