by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Parishes, St Andrew's, Teesville
Canon Eddie Gubbins said there is ‘genuine joy’ at The Salvation Army officially inheriting a former Roman Catholic Church building as its new home in Eston, adding that the Roman Catholic Church offers its ‘support and solidarity’ as The Salvation Army in Eston...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Event Calendar, Organisations
Women’s World Day of Prayer this year provides a wonderful opportunity to build up unity among Christians. Prepared by the women of Papua, New Guinea, the theme is ‘In Christ there are many members, but one body’. Look out for your local service on...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Parishes
Our third Christmas Party took place at Sacred Heart School, Redcar on 20th December. One hundred children under 11 enjoyed face painting, lucky dip, party games and food, a disco and of course meeting Father Christmas. The photographs show a big game of pass the...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Parishes
The February READ-A-BOOK-A-MONTH launch was hosted at URC Church, Priory Street, an imposing edifice built to cater for the spiritual needs of the Scottish regiments based in York. Leviticus, the book for January, and Numbers for February share a pamphlet. These...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Obituaries, Religious Communities
Fr Benet Perceval, the oldest member of the monastic Community at Ampleforth, died peacefully in the monastery infirmary in the early hours of Friday 30th January 2009, surrounded by some of his fellow monks in prayer. Fr Benet’s death was marked later that day...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Obituaries
Sr Mary Carolan DC, Headmistress of St George’s RC Primary School 1958-1985, died peacefully in St Vincent’s Nursing Home, Pinner on 29th November 2008. Bride Carolan was born in Middlesbrough in 1921 and educated at St Philomena’a and Newlands...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Parishes
Two thousand and nine is the 800th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Franciscan Religious Order. As a contribution to the occasion, Guided Walks round Richmond Town Centre of the Franciscan Friary remains and associated places of interest will be available, after...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Pastoral Letters
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ I suspect many of you followed the election of the President of the United States? No matter what you think of the outcome, it was certainly an important event and one which in some ways will affect all of us. There is another...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Parishes
Father John Lumley was inducted as parish priest of St Augustine’s in Redcar by the Very Reverend Canon Michael Bayldon VF at Mass on 16th January before all the priests from the deanery and priest friends from outside the diocese. There were also...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Parishes, St Wilfrid's, York
The Filipino choir from St Wilfrid’s Church in Hull led the singing at the Sunday Mass on 1st February 2009 at St Leonard and St Mary’s RC Church, Malton. After the service, the parishioners were treated to a meal of both Filipino and English food in the...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Date of Draw – 2nd February 2009 £100 Winning No 284 £75 Winning No 314 £5 Winning No 170 £30 Winning No 157 £25 Winning No 317 Next Meeting and Monthly Draw Monday, 2nd March 2009 New members welcome. Ask for details Tel: 01642...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Apostleship of the Sea, Organisations, Parishes
The 2008 Confirmation Group from Redcar, Marske and Saltburn enjoyed their Christmas Party early in December. During the evening, they packed 70 shoeboxes with gloves, scarves, hats, toiletries and sweets donated by their families and the people of their parishes....
by webmaster | Feb 26, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
25 February 2009 I have never had much love for Wednesdays. It always seems too far into the week to remember what happened last weekend, and it is just not near enough to next weekend to feel good about! I don’t like the end of February or early March either for the...
by webmaster | Feb 25, 2009 | Homilies
25 February 2009 I have never had much love for Wednesdays. It always seems too far into the week to remember what happened last weekend, and it is just not near enough to next weekend to feel good about! I don’t like the end of February or early March either for the...
by webmaster | Feb 22, 2009 | Miscellaneous
On 1st October 2008, four of us – all ladies from All Saints Parish in Thirsk, joined 18 others from the Middlesbrough Diocese on a coach bound for Manchester Airport. We flew to Split, Croatia, en route to Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzogovnia under the auspices of...
by webmaster | Feb 16, 2009 | Event Calendar
Science City York is delighted to announce the upcoming visit to York by Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Castel Gandolfo. The Vatican collection is one of the largest in the world. His research explores the connections...
by webmaster | Feb 9, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
8 February 2009 Fifth Sunday of the Year (B) Introduction It is good to be here today with you to celebrate the Mass and to remember God’s great gift to us in the apparitions of Our Blessed Lady at Lourdes to St Bernadette. The Gospel tells us of the healing message...
by webmaster | Feb 8, 2009 | Homilies
8 February 2009 Fifth Sunday of the Year (B) Introduction It is good to be here today with you to celebrate the Mass and to remember God’s great gift to us in the apparitions of Our Blessed Lady at Lourdes to St Bernadette. The Gospel tells us of the healing message...
by webmaster | Feb 5, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, English Martyrs, York, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes
To mark the 400th anniversary of Mary Ward’s founding vision, the Women’s Commission invites you to… “What Happened to Mary Ward’s Vision?” A presentation by Sr Patricia Harriss CJ at English Martyrs Parish Hall, Dalton Terrace, York on Saturday 28th March, from 11am...
by webmaster | Feb 2, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Fr Paul Farrer has kindly posted price details for those wishing to go to Lourdes on the Middlesbrough Diocesan Pilgrimage in May 2009. Click here to see the prices. Further news of the Middlesbrough Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will be posted on the official site....
by webmaster | Jan 31, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Event Calendar, Parishes, Sacred Heart, Middlesbrough
with Tombola and a Cake Stall Saturday 7th Feb, from 10 until 12 At Marion House, next to Sacred Heart Church, Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough In aid of the Baghdad Training Hospital for Sick Children
by webmaster | Jan 30, 2009 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
29 January 2009 York Minster If you take my word to heart, you will discover the knowledge of God. Like the earthenware jar you will bring the glory of the face of Christ to many and then you will be happy, you will be blessed, even though some will consider you poor...
by webmaster | Jan 29, 2009 | Homilies
29 January 2009 York Minster If you take my word to heart, you will discover the knowledge of God. Like the earthenware jar you will bring the glory of the face of Christ to many and then you will be happy, you will be blessed, even though some will consider you poor...
by webmaster | Jan 29, 2009 | Carmelite Spirituality Group, Organisations, Religious Communities
Click here to read the Programme in pdf format Details from the programme are also available in iCal calendar format. To view the calendar click here To subscribe to the calendar and be kept up to date click here
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Parishes, Pastoral Centres, Religious Communities, St Bede's Pastoral Centre
A Special Feature to mark Jubilee 400 The Yorkshire Society, which honours the achievements of distinguished people born in Yorkshire by erecting Yorkshire Rose Plaques in their name, usually celebrates famous Yorkshire men. In March 2007 the Society came to the Bar...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Miscellaneous
Jane Cook writes I am delighted to introduce Caroline Dollard as our new Diocesan ‘Celebrating Family’ Project Worker. This is an exciting new development, completely funded through the Fundraising Grants Committee of the Catholic Trust for England and...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Event Calendar, Religious Communities
A Reminder The Congregation of Jesus and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary are opening this Jubliee Year with a celebratory Catholic Eucharist in York Minster by kind permission of the Dean and Chapter on Thursday 29th January at 11.30am.
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, Bishop Terry, Event Calendar, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
Pope Benedict XVI has 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 is the Holy Father’s intention that during this year we all come to know better ‘the immense...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events, CAFOD, CAFOD Appeals, Event Calendar, Organisations
Lent Fast Day, 6th March 2009 AIDS has orphaned thousands of children in Cambodia. Maryknoll, a local charity supported by CAFOD since 2003, offers young people a family home and the chance to finish their education. The Khmer Rouge murdered Phalla’s family in...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Carmelite Spirituality Group, Organisations, Religious Communities
On 6th January, an ancient bell was installed at the new monastery of the Carmelite nuns at Thicket Priory just outside York. Thicket has long been the home of Roman Catholic religious women; from the 12th Century, Cistercian nuns lived there until the Reformation...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events
The Baghdad Appeal has been making the news recently with coverage in The Stockton and Darlington Times and The Northern Echo. In the following article, originally published The Catholic Herald and re-published here by kind permission, the man behind the mission John...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Event Calendar, Justice and Peace
Bringing to light the true causes of the war in Congo with Reverend Theodore Ngoy, Congolese Pastor, Lawyer, elected Member of Parliament for Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and former candidate for the Presidential Elections in Congo. Thurs...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations
Dean Brackley, S.J., a Jesuit priest in Latin America, will present a lecture in York entitled Crosses and Resurrections in El Salvador – The Wider North-South Divide and Our Vocation to Solidarity at 7.30pm on Friday 13th February 2009. Dean Brackley’s visit is...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | CAFOD, Carmelite Spirituality Group, Organisations
We’ve heard about the runners, cyclists and fashion shows as fundraising activities but students from York University’s Catholic Chaplaincy took to the streets of York City Centre throughout advent to raise funds for CAFOD by busking. They braved the...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | CAFOD, Organisations
a bleak future for Zimbabweans A recent food security and livelihoods assessment carried out by Caritas Zimbabwe with support from aid agency CAFOD has shown that there is now very little to distinguish between the most vulnerable in society and everyone else in the...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Obituaries
Fr Paul Farrer’s tribute to Brian McGowran It really is wonderful to see so many people in church today. It is a wonderful tribute to Brian, and as I offer our sympathy and prayerful support to Cath, Julie, Paul, Bev, Daniel, Joseph, Naimh-Mary, Josie and...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Organisations
Hundreds of mourners packed Middlesbrough’s Holy Name of Mary Church for the funeral of Brian McGowran, while many more listened to the service on speakers set up outside. Brian, who died at the age of 65 on January 3, was a former head brancardier of the...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Pastoral Centres, St Bede's Pastoral Centre
If you have never been in the St Bede’s Pastoral Centre, you’re in for a pleasant surprise. Five minutes’ walk from York rail and bus station, the Centre aims to provide a warm welcome and a place of quiet refreshment, spiritual replenishment and...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events
Sr Imelda Poole IBVM(Loreto) writes, Thank you to all the readers and generous donators who have so kindly responded to the appeal for the projects in Albania. The amazing total raised was £2365.00 and this achievement, during such a short time and at this time in...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Apostleship of the Sea, Organisations
The effects of the economic downturn are apparent for all to see, with companies cutting back on production, laying off staff all accompanied by the spectre of well known High Street names ceasing to trade. However there are some places where these effects may not be...
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Parishes
at the Concert on 19th December 2008 Fr David, Hon Mayor of Driffield, Invited Guests, Fellow Parishioners, In his autobiography the artist Eric Gill considered his life’s work was, in essence, an attempt to make a cell of good living in the chaos of the world....
by webmaster | Jan 27, 2009 | Parishes
A special Christmas Concert was held at Our Lady and St Edward’s Church, Driffield on 19th December 2008 to celebrate nearly 15 years of ministry of Fr David Hynes. Fr Hynes, aged 75, retired from the parish early in the New Year. Parishioners and well-wishers...
by webmaster | Jan 26, 2009 | Organisations
People who are seeking asylum are not allowed to work and do not receive benefits. The Mary Thompson Fund (named in memory of Mary who most of you will know, and that assists refugees and people seeking asylum when in hardship and destitution), are holding their...
by webmaster | Jan 26, 2009 | Diocese
Put a note like this in the Offertory plate and it is worth only £5. Put the same note into an envelope like this, place it on the Offertory plate – it is now worth £6.25 to your Parish Don’t deny your parish 25% extra income – Gift Aid your donations If...
by webmaster | Jan 26, 2009 | Cleveland Newman Circle, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes, St Bernadette's, Middlesbrough
The Cleveland Newman Circle presents a talk by Fr. Michael Sharratt from Ushaw College, Durham Where? in the meeting room of St Bernadette’s Nunthorpe Middlesbrough When? Wednesday 18th February 2009, 7.30pm tea/coffee for all, 7.45pm the talk Do join us! You are most...
by webmaster | Jan 26, 2009 | Miscellaneous
At a press conference held at St Mary’s Cathedral on Friday, 9th January, at 11am, it was announced that Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Canon Seamus Cunningham to become the 13th Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. Our congratulations to Canon Cunningham and the...
by webmaster | Jan 26, 2009 | Bishop Terry, Event Calendar, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
A multi-denominational Memorial Service for the families of those who have lost their lives in tragic circumstances is to be held at St Mary’s RC Cathedral at 3.00 pm on Sunday 22nd February 2009. It is emphasised that the persons who have lost their lives in...
by webmaster | Jan 26, 2009 | Appeals and Special Events
Once again heartfelt thanks from CAUSE to all who contributed to the Christmas Hamper Campaign. As usual many of the donations were sent anonymously so we hope you will all accept this acknowledgement of our gratitude. The enthusiasm and generosity of all the young...
by webmaster | Jan 26, 2009 | John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Date of Draw – 5th January 2009 £100 Winning No 206 £75 Winning No 93 £50 Winning No 175 £30 Winning No 148 £25 Winning No 225 Next Meeting and Monthly Draw Monday, 2nd February 2009 New Members Welcome. For Details Tel: 01642...
by webmaster | Jan 17, 2009 | Miscellaneous
A large-scale demonstration in support of the people of Palestine is planned for Saturday, 17 January. The Israeli slaughter of the people of the Gaza strip has appalled a wide range of opinion across Teesside and south Durham. The March will assemble at 11.00 am at...
