by webmaster | Jan 22, 2008 | CAFOD, Event Calendar, Organisations, Parishes, St Andrew's, Teesville
Sr Gladys Dimaku, a Nigerian Sister of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, will be visiting our diocese on Wednesday 6 February. Sr Gladys will speak about her work as the Health care co-ordinator in the diocese of Minna following the 7.00pm Ash Wednesday Mass at St...
by webmaster | Jan 18, 2008 | Diocese
We would like to apologise to those readers of the Catholic Voice in Hull who did not receive their copy of the Voice this month. There was a problem with deliveries.
by webmaster | Jan 5, 2008 | Miscellaneous
In a packed Cathedral with many standing, Bishop Crowley returned to the Diocese on 14 December 2007 to give thanks for his fourteen years service as our Diocesan Bishop and to say farewell to priests, religious and people. The night was foggy and frosty, yet people...
by webmaster | Jan 5, 2008 | Appeals and Special Events
Hi Everyone – Happy New Year! As you will probably know by now ROCKING IN THE AISLES 2008 will be at Middlesbrough Theatre on 11th 12th Jan. Doors 7pm. This year supporting St Mary’s School, Grangetown and The Children’s Cancer Hospital In Baghdad. Despite what...
by webmaster | Jan 5, 2008 | Miscellaneous
by Monsignor Dasey 14th December 2007 Dear Bishop John On behalf of the priests, deacons, religious and laity, it is my pleasure to welcome you back to our Cathedral and Diocese. It is good to see again Sisters Sheila and Kitty, and, also, members of your family. Let...
by webmaster | Jan 3, 2008 | Diocese
To ordination of new Bishop of Middlesbrough Members of the Press and Media are invited to attend the Ordination of The Right Reverend Monsignor Terence Patrick Drainey as Bishop of Middlesbrough on Friday 25 January at 12.00 noon in St Mary’s Cathedral, Dalby Way,...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Miscellaneous
St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough 14th December 2007 Mass of Thanksgiving and Farewell Dear sisters, dear brothers How I’ve always enjoyed addressing you in such a way, because that’s what we are within the household of faith, sisters and brothers together. And...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Bishop Terry, Event Calendar
Bishop Elect Terence has expressed a desire to get to know the diocesan family as soon as possible and to this end has chosen Lent to spend extended visits to the pastoral areas – this will enable him to visit some of the hospitals, schools and educational colleges,...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Bishop Terry, Event Calendar, Parishes, St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough
Bishop Elect Terence is very aware of the limitations placed on him for those able to join him for his Episcopal Ordination in his Cathedral of St Mary’s on Friday, 25 January 2008 (the Conversion of St Paul). Anxious as he is to meet the good people across the...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Diocese
The Middlesbrough Diocesan Year Book 2008 is now on sale in most churches in the Diocese, costing £2.00 Or, you can order a copy by post for £2.00 plus £1.25 postage and packing from: Miss Jenny Dowson, Curial Offices, 50a The Avenue, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, TS5 6QT...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Appeals and Special Events, Event Calendar, Schools and Colleges
A Knights of St Columba presentation Tickets for this variety show with music and mayhem from priests and parishioners are available now! At the Middlesbrough Theatre, The Avenue, Linthorpe tel: 01642 815181 On Friday 11th January 2008 and Saturday 12th January 2008...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Diocese
(effective from 6 April 2008) Parishes within the Diocese face a potential loss of tax amounting to £50,000 To prevent this loss can I increase the amount of my donation by 15p in every pound? If I’m not already using Gift Aid can I now complete a Declaration to...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Diocese
A Message from Mgr Dasey Dear Brother Priests, Deacons, Religious and lay people of our Diocese It is my task as Diocesan Administrator and Chair of our Trustee Board to present to you our 2006 Accounts. However, 2007 has been a year of significant change in our...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Event Calendar, Religious Communities
During 2008 the FCJ Sisters are celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the death of their Foundress Marie-Madeleine díHouet. There will be a special Mass celebrated at Middlesbrough Cathedral on Saturday 5th April 2008 at 12 midday. An open invitation is extended to all...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Organisations
On Saturday October 20th, four delegates from the Middlesbrough Diocese attended a National Conference on Families, Mental Health and Pastoral Care in the Catholic Community organised by The Marriage and Family Life Division of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Parishes
St Francis’ in Middlesbrough is a parish which has close contacts with a number of asylum seekers. In November the parish priest Fr Peter Keeling was invited to accompany Anwar Rasoul, an Iraqi, on the occasion of his graduation from Teeside University with an...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Schools and Colleges
St. Mary’s College, Middlesbrough hosts November Justice and Peace meeting. Students from St. Mary’s College, Middlesbrough hosted the November meeting of the Justice and Peace Commission. This is the fourth of our meetings that has been facilitated by students from...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Event Calendar, Schools and Colleges
On 28th April 2008 Our Lady’s School in Acomb, York will be celebrating its Golden Jubilee. We are hoping to mark this special occasion with several events throughout the Summer term. We would love to hear from any former pupils, staff or governors who would...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Schools and Colleges
St Augustine’s RC Primary School, Coulby Newham in Middlesbrough was recently involved in a successful OFSTED Inspection and a three year review, by an assessor of Investors in People, to evaluate the School in order to qualify for its esteemed award. The...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Schools and Colleges
Following National Road Safety Week, Carrie Watson, PCSO 5389, Community Safety Officer, paid a visit to All Saints RC Primary School. The children dressed up and handed out leaflets to parents and pupils highlighting school parking. Goodie bags were also given out to...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Schools and Colleges
All Saints RC Primary School in Thirsk recently held their first ever Grandparents’ Lunch. Fifteen Grandparents attended and were treated to roast chicken with roast potatoes, broccoli and carrots followed by a special pudding of ‘Granny Crunch’...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Schools and Colleges
Mr Harland, All Saints RC Primary School Thirsk’s Caretaker for 13 years recently retired. A special assembly was held for Mr Harland and Mr Starr, the Headteacher, paid a special tribute to Mr Harland for all his hard work. Mr Harland was then presented with a...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Our Lady of Mount Grace, Osmotherley, Parishes
Pilgrims meet at 2.00 pm at the first Station on Rueberry Lane, pray the Stations, then the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet in the Chapel followed by the Vigil 3.30 pm Mass, refreshments and Evening Prayer. Why not join us to pray in this 40th anniversary year of...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Event Calendar, Liturgy and Music
at York Minster, entry by the West Door Sunday 27th January 2008 at 6.30 pm An act of worship in the style of the Taizé Community in France (chairs provided) Contacts: Veronica Copley (01904) 632649 and Anne Paskett (01904) 626521
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Book Reviews
Preaching in the Year of Matthew by Bill East Fr Bill East brings a wealth of experience to this book of sermons for every Sunday of cycle A in the lectionary. Ministering as a Catholic priest in the diocese of Middlesbrough since 1996, he had previously served in the...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Cleveland Newman Circle
Cleveland Newman Association meeting Meeting Room, St Bernadette’s, Nunthorpe 21st November 2007 The night’s speaker was Terry Doyle, a local holistic therapist and worker in addictions, who has a special interest in meditation. His topic was ‘Is...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Event Calendar, Liturgy and Music
5th April 2008, 7.30 pm Join in song with the YUMI Warblers and listen to music from Chechelele; Sounsphere; Wo-Man Band and The York Madly Aspiring Musicians Group. This is going to be a rousing programme of SONGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. They share a joy for life and...
by webmaster | Dec 16, 2007 | Miscellaneous, Parishes
A brand new website for the Roman Catholic churches in the Esk Valley has recently been launched. Click here to visit the Roman Catholic Churches in the Esk Valley website.
by webmaster | Nov 28, 2007 | Appeals and Special Events, Parishes
Parishioners at Saint Mary and St Romuald, Yarm, are very eager to acquire, or borrow, a set of Nativity figures suitable for outdoor use, to decorate the front of the Church on Yarm High Street. The figures don’t necessarily have to be in perfect condition, nor does...
by webmaster | Nov 28, 2007 | Event Calendar, St Wilfrid's, York
Students from the University of York have planned a CAFOD Advent Service! It is taken from the “Live Simply” Advent Service promoting the themes of Advent and Cafod. This will take place in St Wilfrid’s Catholic Church in York (with the kind...
by webmaster | Nov 28, 2007 | Event Calendar, Miscellaneous
The Catholic Students’ Society at the University of York is holding a Christmas Fayre at St Paul’s Church, Heslington on Wednesday 5th December from 5pm until 8pm. There will be music and games, entertainment and fun for all ages. Refreshments and stalls,...
by webmaster | Nov 27, 2007 | Miscellaneous
Adam Ditchburn, of St Stephen’s parish in Hull, has released a single in aid of the Bosco Volunteer Project, an organisation which sends young people to volunteer in worldwide projects both in the developing and developed world. Released on Monday 26th November,...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Diocese, Miscellaneous
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed Monsignor Terence Patrick Drainey the Seventh Bishop of Middlesbrough. On accepting the appointment, Mgr Drainey said: I give thanks to Almighty God for all his gifts and blessing, especially the gift of priestly...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Schools and Colleges
The Diocesan Trustees at its meeting on the 17th October received a report prepared by Mrs Kathleen Stead, the diocesan director of RE, on the Section 48 inspections of schools undertaken in the diocese in the school year 2006-07. (To find the reports type...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Appeals and Special Events
Two consignments left our diocese for Baghdad Central Training Hospital for Children over the summer and both consignments reached the hospital thanks to the support from the British Embassy and the Iraqi Ministry of Health in the City. The last consignment to the...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Miscellaneous
On Friday 14 December at 7.00 pm Bishop John will return to the Diocese for a Mass of Thanksgiving, and in preparation for that celebration the following article is offered as a simple appreciation of Bishop John’s fourteen years as Bishop of the Diocese of...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Miscellaneous
A Catholic and lost contact? You are welcome! The door of your local Catholic church is open to you. Whatever your situation or circumstances, however much time has lapsed since your last visit to a church, there is a place for you. If you are feeling afraid or...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Religious Communities
Sr Mary Raphael (Teresa Harrison) was born in Hull on 20th October 1907. The family lived in the Spring Bank area and numbered three boys and seven girls. The two remaining are Sr Raphael and Sr Benedict (now 98). Sr Raphael spoke recently of her memories of a secure,...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Liturgy and Music
All roads led to Scarborough on 20th October for the Diocesan Music Day. People travelled from all over the diocese for a truly uplifting and useful day on music in the liturgy led by the Director of Music for the Portsmouth Diocese and noted composer Paul Inwood....
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Book Reviews
‘Homilies to feed mind, heart and soul in a wholesome way’: that’s how Bishop John Crowley describes Follow Me! Preaching in the Year of Matthew, by Bill East. This book of homilies by a parish priest who is also a scholar, has just now been published by Dominican...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Book Reviews
The author – Fr Peter Corcoran of the Society of Mary (Marists), subtitles his book, ‘Unheard voices from the Gospels’. I prefer the subtitle: ‘Mary’s thoughts for TODAY’ I know Fr Peter as a very ‘down to earth … both feet on...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Liturgy and Music, Parishes, St Andrew's, Teesville
Boyce and Stanley Age to Age Tour Jo Boyce and Mike Stanley played to a packed St. Andrew’s Church on Sunday, September 30, for the Middlesbrough leg of their Age to Age national tour to promote their newly released album. The tour and album marks the tenth...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | CAFOD, Organisations
A local aid worker recently travelled to Mozambique to visit some of the most deprived communities in the southern African country. David Cross, an Ingleby Barwick resident, is CAFOD’s Diocesan Manager for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough. He...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Event Calendar, Organisations
The Knights of St Columba are organising another Rocking in the Aisles on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th January 2008. Details to follow.
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Cleveland Newman Circle, Miscellaneous, Organisations
The October meeting of the Cleveland Newman Circle saw Sr Francis Clare PPC outline the life and vision of St Clare in an enthusiastic and informative way. She explained that the virtues which Clare, a young woman of noble parentage, possessed were namely grace,...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Organisations, St Bernadette's, Middlesbrough
The Middlesbrough District Council of the St Vincent de Paul Society held a Half Day of Recollection on 3rd November, hosted by St Bernadette’s Parish Conference at Nunthorpe. Rev Andrew Burns CSSR of the Redemptorist Community at the John Paul Centre in...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Evangelisation, Event Calendar, RCIA, Schools and Colleges
The Retreat Day, in preparation for the Rite of Election, will be on Saturday 26th January 2008 at All Saints Lower School, Nunnery Lane, York. All who are to be received or baptised into the Catholic Church at Easter are invited to attend, together with their...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Religious Communities, Schools and Colleges
In 1857 a small group of Sisters of Mercy made their way from the West Riding of Yorkshire to Hull and established themselves in a small house near the town centre. They had come at the request of the then Bishop of Beverley to establish schools for the poor. From...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | John Paul Centre, Pastoral Centres
Come and join us at the beginning of the year to be with Christ in what may be a new way for you – Christian Meditation. Venue: John Paul Centre, 55 Grange Road, Middlesbrough Date: Weekly on Thursdays – beginning 10th January 2008 Time: Doors open 6.45 pm...
by webmaster | Nov 17, 2007 | Miscellaneous
Just after Easter 2006 we visited the Mass at the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes and St Peter Chanel on Cottingham Road in Hull. This church, I type with relief, with such a long name is fortunately known locally as the Marists. We have just started visiting...
