by webmaster | Apr 28, 2009 | Justice and Peace
Following the recent arrest of Anselme Noumbiwa (who now faces deportation back to a very uncertain future in Cameroon) could all concerned by this development please contact either the Immigration Minister Phil Woolas, the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith or your own MP....
by webmaster | Apr 28, 2009 | Event Calendar, Justice and Peace
There will be a ‘vigil’ at St Mary’s Stockton for Anselme Noumbiwa on Tuesday 28th April, 4-7. Justice First hope to contact MPs etc. Anselme is a Cameroonian Christian who faces a grave threat in his home country as a result of his beliefs. He was...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Visit the Middlesbrough Lourdes site middlesbroughlourdes.co.uk for information about the forthcoming pilgrimage to Lourdes. Please subscribe to the newsfeed for the very latest news. Don’t forget to register as a visitor to the site, especially if you are going...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | English Martyrs, York, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes
These were just about the last words spoken by Fr Ragheed Ganni, 34, an Iraqi priest serving in Mosul two years ago when the persecution of Christians in that part of Iraq was particularly severe. He had been told by militants to close the church and leave the city....
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Parishes, Religious Communities, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
A Mass of Thanksgiving will be offered in St Mary’s Cathedral, Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough on Saturday 4th July at 12 noon to celebrate the contribution to education in Middlesbrough by the Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ Sisters) from 1872-2009 The chief...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Organisations, Parishes
The Legion of Mary, an international organisation, open to men and women, young and old, in which successive Popes have expressed an interest, has a number of branches in the Diocese of Middlesbrough. Each branch’s weekly meeting concerns itself with prayer and...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Organisations
Edna Hunneysett is well-known to many Voice readers for her pioneering book ‘Carers in the Community: ‘Why have you forsaken me?” and for her great work providing friendship and spiritual support for families and carers of people with mental...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Diocese
Les Clark, the official photographer for the diocese, and Philip Cook have been extremely generous with their time, energy and expertise in providing the diocese with wonderful photos taken at events up and down the diocese. Sincere thanks to them and to all the...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Event Calendar, Parishes
Two of Europe’s greatest midfielders of the modern era will come face-to-face at the Riverside on May 18. Spanish superstar Gaizka Mendieta has agreed to join his fellow Boro legend Bryan Robson in a very special charity match organised by Fr Paul Farrer and pals in...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Origins of the Franciscan Movement 1209-2009 St Francis – Patron of Ecology and Poor Man of Assisi showed the way ahead 800 years ago Rumours of the death of religious life are, thankfully, much exaggerated. With the credit crunch causing us all to be careful...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes
CAFOD Pilgrimage to Holy Island will be on Saturday 13th June. Join us at 11.00 am on the Mainland side of the Causeway. This joint event with our friends from Hexham and Newcastle Diocese is continuing to grow in popularity. For those unable to walk across the...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes
There will be Mass and a Barbecue at York University Catholic Chaplaincy, More House, Heslington on Sunday 7th June, 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. This will be a chance to bring students together with CAFOD volunteers and clergy in the York and surrounding area to celebrate...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Miscellaneous
The ‘York: City of Faiths’ initiative was launched in March 2006 to demonstrate a commitment to working together between the local faith communities, learning institutions, City of York Council and several non-governmental organizations. In the last two...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes, St Wilfrid's, York
with Our Lady and the English Martyrs Sunday 10th May at York Praying for the Healing of Wounds caused by Abortion and Witnessing to the Sanctity of Life (with blessing of Very Rev Bishop Arthur, Leeds, and Bishop Terence, Middlesbrough, Bishop Seamus, Hexham and...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Dear Webmaster Would it be possible, through the Middlesbrough Diocesan web site, to remind the whole Diocese that 24th May has been set aside by Pope Benedict as a Day of Special Prayer for the Church in China. Christians there are subjected to all forms of...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Event Calendar, Religious Communities
Think God is wondering about you? The Faithful Companions of Jesus are hosting a vocations weekend for young women interested in religious life from May 22nd until may 24th at Stella Maris, Broadstairs, Kent. For more information please contact Sr Lynne on 0151 733...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Event Calendar, Pastoral Centres, St Bede's Pastoral Centre
A Discussion Day is being organised by the Lay Dominican movement at St Bede’s Pastoral Centre, Blossom Street, York on Saturday 6th June from 10.30 am to 4pm. This is open to anyone interested in the Order of Preachers. The programme will include Mass at 12.30...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Cleveland Newman Circle, Organisations, Parishes, St Bernadette's, Middlesbrough
On Wednesday 18th March, Sr Patsy MacDonald gave a lively and engaging discourse to the Cleveland Newman Circle on the theology of St Paul using three texts and the theme of Eschatology. She outlined something of St Paul’s theological progress, beginning with 1...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | English Martyrs, York, Parishes
Parishioners from English Martyrs, York, joined ladies from host-venue Southlands Methodist Church and others from Church of England parishes of St Clement’s and St Chad’s to celebrate Women’s World Day of Prayer on 6th March. This year’s...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Robert Nestor writes, You may recall an article I wrote in November’s Voice in which I brought the reader’s attention to a very worthwhile charity called The Newman Holiday Trust. To remind those of you who read it and to let those of you who didn’t...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, English Martyrs, York, Organisations, Parishes, Religious Communities
To mark the 400th anniversary of Mary Ward’s foundations, the Diocesan Women’s Commission invited Sr Patricia Harriss CJ to speak on ‘What happened to Mary Ward’s vision?’ at our AGM on 28th March in English Martyrs hall, York. Sr...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Date of Draw – 6th April 2009 £100 Winning No 183 £75 Winning No 220 £50 Winning No 147 £30 Winning No 319 £25 Winning No 270 Next Meeting and Monthly Draw Monday 11th May 2009 New members welcome. Ask for details Tel: 01642...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Event Calendar
To launch the reading of St Luke’s gospel and the accompanying pamphlet, English Martyrs parish, York, held a Taizé service of music and meditation. As well as the parish priest, Fr Dominique Minskip, the meditations were read by members of the drama...
by webmaster | Apr 19, 2009 | Event Calendar, Organisations, Pastoral Centres, St Bede's Pastoral Centre
The fourteenth York Catholic History Day will be held at the Bar Convent on Saturday 6th June. Last year’s programme featured three young scholars from the University of York whose papers covered a range of topics of local, national and European Catholic...
by webmaster | Apr 15, 2009 | Evangelisation, Event Calendar, Parishes, RCIA, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
Especially, but not exclusively, for all those involved in 2009-10’s RCIA programme. Sunday 21st February 2010 at St Mary’s Cathedral, Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough.
by webmaster | Apr 15, 2009 | Evangelisation, Event Calendar, RCIA, Schools and Colleges
For all those involved in 2009-10’s RCIA programme. Saturday 6th February 2010 at All Saints Lower School, York.
by webmaster | Apr 15, 2009 | Evangelisation, Event Calendar, Parishes, RCIA, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
Especially, but not exclusively, or all new Catholics, their godparents and sponsors at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough on Saturday 30th May, 3pm (the Vigil Mass of Pentecost). Saturday 30th May 2009, 3pm (the Vigil Mass of Pentecost) at St Mary’s Cathedral,...
by webmaster | Apr 12, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
12 April 2009 Sacred Heart Middlesbrough “Seeing is believing”. It’s something that we can take for granted surely? It’s a phrase that we use quite a lot to put an end to an argument or to force a point home. After pronouncing this magic formula, the spell...
by webmaster | Apr 12, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
11 April 2009 Middlesbrough Cathedral We have travelled a long way this evening. We have come from the first day of creation up to this present moment via the Red Sea and the Exodus, through the promises of the prophets of a blessed future all guaranteed by the...
by webmaster | Apr 12, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
York Minster Good Friday 10 April 2009 I had not heard from a friend of mine for quite a long time, in fact, for more than a year. I sent them the obligatory Christmas card, but no reply came. Then suddenly in February I received an email. She explained that her...
by webmaster | Apr 12, 2009 | Homilies
12 April 2009 Sacred Heart Middlesbrough “Seeing is believing”. It’s something that we can take for granted surely? It’s a phrase that we use quite a lot to put an end to an argument or to force a point home. After pronouncing this magic formula, the spell...
by webmaster | Apr 11, 2009 | Homilies
11 April 2009 Middlesbrough Cathedral We have travelled a long way this evening. We have come from the first day of creation up to this present moment via the Red Sea and the Exodus, through the promises of the prophets of a blessed future all guaranteed by the...
by webmaster | Apr 11, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
9 April 2009 Christ is our salvation, our life and resurrection. It is through his cross we are saved and made free. With confidence in his loving mercy we turn to him and ask mercy and pardon. Lord, we call on your name. Lord, have mercy. You are good to us. Christ,...
by webmaster | Apr 11, 2009 | Carmelite Spirituality Group, Organisations
Saint Nuno a Military General turned Religious Friar On 26th April Pope Benedict XVI will declare saintly a military general turned religious friar. A fourteenth-century knight Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira is still a national hero in his native Portugal. Monuments,...
by webmaster | Apr 10, 2009 | Homilies
York Minster Good Friday 10 April 2009 I had not heard from a friend of mine for quite a long time, in fact, for more than a year. I sent them the obligatory Christmas card, but no reply came. Then suddenly in February I received an email. She explained that her...
by webmaster | Apr 9, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
7 April 2009 At our baptism we were made part of God’s priestly people and we were called by the Son to serve his God and Father in the power of the Spirit. Trusting in his mercy, we confess our sins to the Lord. You are the Rock who saves us. Lord, have mercy....
by webmaster | Apr 9, 2009 | Homilies
9 April 2009 Christ is our salvation, our life and resurrection. It is through his cross we are saved and made free. With confidence in his loving mercy we turn to him and ask mercy and pardon. Lord, we call on your name. Lord, have mercy. You are good to us. Christ,...
by webmaster | Apr 7, 2009 | Homilies
7 April 2009 At our baptism we were made part of God’s priestly people and we were called by the Son to serve his God and Father in the power of the Spirit. Trusting in his mercy, we confess our sins to the Lord. You are the Rock who saves us. Lord, have mercy....
by webmaster | Apr 7, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
5 April 2009 Middlesbrough Cathedral A question that I have been asking myself and also posing to the young people of the diocese throughout the whole of Lent is the question that Jesus asked Peter and the other disciples in chapter eight of St Mark’s Gospel;...
by webmaster | Apr 6, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
The annual Mass of Chrism will take place at St Mary’s Cathedral, Coulby Newham on Tuesday at 12 noon. (The webmaster writes, ‘This is one of the great events in our calendar and is always well-attended. Please arrive in good time and park with care.’)...
by webmaster | Apr 5, 2009 | Homilies
5 April 2009 Middlesbrough Cathedral A question that I have been asking myself and also posing to the young people of the diocese throughout the whole of Lent is the question that Jesus asked Peter and the other disciples in chapter eight of St Mark’s Gospel;...
by webmaster | Apr 3, 2009 | Miscellaneous
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has today appointed the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, who has been Archbishop of Birmingham since March 2000, as the next Archbishop of Westminster. Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor as...
by webmaster | Mar 31, 2009 | Endsleigh Centre, Pastoral Centres
On 12th March, the O’Connor Conservatory was officially blessed by Canon Michael Loughlin of St Charles Parish in Hull and opened by Justin Morgan, present Head Coach of Hull Kingston Rovers, and former coach of Toulouse. Justin was born in Australia and retired...
by webmaster | Mar 29, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Evangelisation, Parishes, RCIA, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
Almost 500 people filled St Mary’s Cathedral for the celebration of the Rite of Election on the First Sunday of Lent, 1st March 2009. This joyful occasion saw 30 catechumens – preparing for baptism, and 58 candidates – preparing for reception into...
by webmaster | Mar 26, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Parishes, Sacraments
Peter Warren writes, ‘I was inducted into the Ministry of Acolyte by Bishop Drainey at the Sunday morning Mass at St George’s in York on 8th March. It was wonderful to be able to share this special service with the parishioners of my home parish. The...
by webmaster | Mar 26, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Parishes
I like to thank the Editors of ‘Catholic Voice’ Diocesan Newspaper for the help in advertising my appeal for used stamps, also the many parishes in the Middlesbrough Diocese and parishioners of St Peter and St Edward, and St Joseph for all help and...
by webmaster | Mar 26, 2009 | Parishes
Jayne Donnelly of St Joseph’s in Middlesbrough writes, Dear Readers, something amazing happened at my church. Fr Keogh very kindly welcomed a young lady called Peace to share her testimony with us. She was born in Uganda, one of 14 children and is a twin. Sadly,...
by webmaster | Mar 26, 2009 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes
Sunday 7th June. Mass and Barbecue at York University Catholic Chaplaincy, More House, Heslington 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. A chance to bring students together with CAFOD volunteers and clergy in the York and surrounding area to celebrate our work, pray together and get to...
by webmaster | Mar 26, 2009 | Event Calendar, Justice and Peace
The Anthony Storey Memorial Lecture will be given this year by Eamon Duffy, Cambridge Professor of the History of Christianity on 9th May, 11am, Lindsay Suite, Staff House, University of Hull. ‘Saints and Torturers: Catholics as Religious Persecutors in Tudor...
by webmaster | Mar 26, 2009 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations
Saturday 13th June. Join us at 11.00 am on the Mainland side of the Causeway. This joint event with our friends from Hexham and Newcastle Diocese is continuing to grow in popularity. For those unable to walk across the causeway, there will be a liturgy in the Parish...
