by webmaster | Jan 31, 2008 | Homilies
This evening we celebrate the feast of St John Bosco who was born near Turin in 1815. He became a priest and devoted his life to the education of young people and founded a religious congregation to bring them up in the Christian way of life. The order he founded is...
by webmaster | Jan 31, 2008 | Diocese
Click here for a press release issued on Thursday 31 January 2008
by webmaster | Jan 31, 2008 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
This evening we celebrate the feast of St John Bosco who was born near Turin in 1815. He became a priest and devoted his life to the education of young people and founded a religious congregation to bring them up in the Christian way of life. The order he founded is...
by webmaster | Jan 30, 2008 | Homilies
David begins to think that he can interpret God’s will and tell God what he should do and shouldn’t do. God warns David and reminds him that it is only because God has been close to him that David has won the day. David is the servant of God and while he remembers...
by webmaster | Jan 30, 2008 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
David begins to think that he can interpret God’s will and tell God what he should do and shouldn’t do. God warns David and reminds him that it is only because God has been close to him that David has won the day. David is the servant of God and while he remembers...
by webmaster | Jan 29, 2008 | Homilies
Indeed, the Lord was with him and David was well aware that it was the close presence of the Lord that gave him strength, courage and direction. So he wants to bring the Ark of the Covenant from outside of the city to the very heart of his house and the heart of the...
by webmaster | Jan 29, 2008 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
Indeed, the Lord was with him and David was well aware that it was the close presence of the Lord that gave him strength, courage and direction. So he wants to bring the Ark of the Covenant from outside of the city to the very heart of his house and the heart of the...
by webmaster | Jan 28, 2008 | Homilies
“If a household is divided against itself, that household can never stand.” If the people of God are divided, they will not stand. Unity is such a powerful sacrament with which we can show the world that it is by the power of God – through Christ Jesus, bound...
by webmaster | Jan 28, 2008 | Bishop Terry's Homilies
“If a household is divided against itself, that household can never stand.” If the people of God are divided, they will not stand. Unity is such a powerful sacrament with which we can show the world that it is by the power of God – through Christ Jesus, bound...
by webmaster | Jan 25, 2008 | Bishop Terry, Diocese, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
Bishop Terence Drainey’s ordination message can be read here.
by webmaster | Jan 25, 2008 | Bishop Terry, Diocese, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
A report on the Episcopal Ordination of Monsignor Terence Drainey as the seventh Bishop of Middlesbrough can be read here.
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Parishes, Sacred Heart, Middlesbrough
On Tuesday 18th March at 7pm there will be a Reconciliation Service at Sacred Heart Church, Middlesbrough.
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Diocese, Event Calendar, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
The annual Chrism Mass will be at noon on Tuesday 18th March at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough.
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar
Wednesday 12 March 2008, 7pm With Fr Simon Broughton
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, Parishes, Sacred Heart, Middlesbrough
Wednesday 5 March 2008, 7pm
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, Parishes, Sacred Heart, Middlesbrough
Wednesday 27 February 2008, 7pm With Mgr Gerard Dasey
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, Parishes, Sacred Heart, Middlesbrough
Wdnesday 20 February 2008, 7pm With the Redemptorists
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, Parishes, Sacred Heart, Middlesbrough
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 7pm With Canon Edmond Gubbins
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Friday 14 March 2008, 12.10pm
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Friday 7 March 2008, 12.10pm With Fr Paul Farrer
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Friday 29 February 2008, 12.10pm With Fr Patrick Keogh
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Friday 22 February 2008, 12.10pm With Monsignor Ricardo Morgan
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Friday 15 February 2008, 12.10pm With Fr Gerard Robinson
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Friday 8th February 2008 at 12.10pm. With Fr John Paul Leonard
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Bishop Terry, Event Calendar, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
This year Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, will be on 6th February. All are invited to join Bishop Terence Drainey for Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral at 7pm. On the following Wednesday and every Wednesday in Lent there will be a Station Mass at 7pm at the Sacred...
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes
Come and join us for ‘A Day With CAFOD’ from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm at Ss Leonard and Mary Parish Centre, Malton on Saturday 8th March. For further details and to book your place contact the CAFOD Diocesan Office on the above telephone number or email...
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | CAFOD, Endsleigh Centre, Event Calendar, Organisations, Pastoral Centres
Come and join us for ‘A Day With CAFOD’ from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm at the Endsleigh Centre, Hull on Saturday 16th February. For further details and to book your place contact the CAFOD Diocesan Office on the above telephone number or email...
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations
Please give generously.
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Religious Communities
The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Marie-Madeleine d’Houet. Readers may be tempted to say “Marie-Madeleine who?” It is likely, however, that bells will begin to ring for many people, some young, some not so young, because for...
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations
CAFOD will be holding ‘A Day With CAFOD’ event on Saturday 26 January from 10.00am to 4.00pm at Christ the King Church Hall, Trenchard Avenue, Thornaby. The aims of the days are to update our volunteers and supporters on the overall work of CAFOD including...
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Event Calendar, Religious Communities
You are all invited – men and women, boys and girls, teachers and students who have known the F.C.J.s in parishes, schools and colleges – to a Concelebrated Mass of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Marie-Madeleine d’Houet at St Mary’s...
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Carmelite Spirituality Group, Organisations, Religious Communities
Sr Thérèse of the Sacred Heart, a Carmelite nun at the Monastery of the Annunciation at Thicket Priory near York made her solemn profession on 8th December 2007, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. Sr Thérèse was born Clare...
by webmaster | Jan 24, 2008 | Miscellaneous
Click here to read Margaret Turnham’s full account of the Episcopal Ordination of Bishop Lacy.
by webmaster | Jan 23, 2008 | Schools and Colleges
The latest OFSTED inspection of St Clare’s RC Primary School in Trimdon Avenue, Middlesbrough considers that it provides an ‘outstanding education for its pupils’. The inspection, made in late November 2007, also says that the headteacher gives...
by webmaster | Jan 23, 2008 | Schools and Colleges
You’re Outstanding! That’s the verdict of the recent OFSTED report at All Saints Roman Catholic Primary School, Sowerby, Thirsk. ‘All Saints provides an outstanding education for its pupils’, the OFSTED inspector writes in her report....
by webmaster | Jan 23, 2008 | Schools and Colleges
Inspectors have praised a Middlesbrough school for its strong Christian values and the keen community involvement of its pupils. St Alphonsus’ RC Primary School in Cadogan Street, North Ormesby, was inspected by OFSTED in September and achieved the second...
by webmaster | Jan 23, 2008 | Schools and Colleges
Recently, a group of us from St Margaret Clitherow’s Primary School chaplaincy team (age 7-10) in South Bank went on a fact finding visit to York. We wanted to learn more about our patron saint, St Margaret Clitherow. Fr Dominique from English Martyrs Catholic...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Schools and Colleges
The children of St. Martin’s Ampleforth School have raised £200 for the Loreto Convent School in Kolkota India. This is a school for young girls catering for all children, including orphans and those from the slums. One of our pupils, Marguerite Henriot, age 11 from...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Event Calendar, Schools and Colleges
Three Sixth Form Cadets from Ampleforth College Combined Cadet Force will carry out a sponsored Bungee Jump in aid of the Help for Heroes charity, which supports wounded soldiers, and aims to raise £5m to build a gym and swimming pool at Headley Court, a...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
£100 Winning No 212 £75 Winning No 177 £50 Winning No 277 £30 Winning No 50 £25 Winning No 23 Next Meeting and Monthly Draw Monday, 4th February 2008 NEW MEMBERS WELCOME ASK FOR DETAILS Tel: 01642...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | 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 22, 2008 | CAFOD, Organisations
On Saturday 27th October, David Cross, CAFOD’s Diocesan Manager for Middlesbrough, along with CAFOD colleagues from London, Bridget Fenwick and Patrick Murphy, departed on their visit to CAFOD funded projects in Mozambique. The aim of the visit was to see...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Cleveland Newman Circle, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes, St Bernadette's, Middlesbrough
Cleveland NEWMAN Circle presents a talk “Slavery in 2008” by Br Michael Newman O.H. Brother Michael will speak about the work of the Medaille Trust, a charity founded by a number of Catholic religious orders to support and empower freed victims of the sex-trafficking...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Schools and Colleges
Santa’s visit to Sacred Heart School, Redcar, Saturday 15th December 2007, was greeted with great delight from the young children of the Deanery. They also enjoyed a Christmas Disco, Face Painting, Lucky Dip, a free Raffle and enough food to stuff a Camel…..or should...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Parishes
Young people of St John of Beverley Parish celebrated Youth Sunday with a Christ the King concert and launched the Advent appeal for AIDS orphans in Uganda and street children in Mongolia. More than 30 took part, from beginners on flute, clarinet and trumpet to a...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Parishes, St Andrew's, Teesville
Three Wise Men from the east arrived in St. Andrew’s Parish, Teesville on January 6 just in time for the end of the 9.30 am Mass to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. They spent time worshipping the new born King along with shepherds who had arrived earlier after...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Our Lady of Mount Grace, Osmotherley, Parishes
Osmotherley and Crathorne Parishes celebrated Christmas again by packing and distributing 50 hampers in Port Clarence. The goods were paid for by donation; about 30 parishioners and friends were involved in shopping, packing and distribution. The photo shows Sue...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Parishes
Pat Connelly brought Canon Louis Collingwood home to Redcar for a few days. As most of the parishioners have no means of travelling to Hull, it was lovely to see him again, as he is greatly missed. Canon Collingwood was presented with a TV for his birthday from the...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Event Calendar, Parishes
On the evening of Wednesday 13th February we have an exciting opportunity in the Diocese to hear from one of the world’s leading experts on The Shroud of Turin. Fr Martin Haigh OSB will introduce a fascinating audio-visual presentation and answer questions on...
by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | Book Reviews
A down-to-earth book on prayer has been written by the ‘art nun’ Sr Wendy Beckett. In ‘Sister Wendy on Prayer’, she says people complain they lack time for prayer. But she suggests trying it in a 10 minute silence ‘in the lavatory or the...
