St Hilda’s School delight

Miss Pam Crabtree, headteacher of St Hilda’s RC Primary School, Whitby writes, ‘We are delighted with our OFSTED Report. ‘It is an external recognition of all our good work, which, of course, will continue. The recognition of behaviour as outstanding...

The Langdale Legacy

A book review The Langdale family were among those Catholic gentry families who maintained their faith in Penal times and enabled others to do so on and around their estate at Houghton Hall in East Yorkshire. In ‘The Langdale Legacy’, Martin Craven charts...

My happiness with the Fellowship

My happiness with the Fellowship, with those Masses and holidays, also anything else involved with the Fellowship. I will always be there for them within my happiness for I bless them all, and I won’t say goodbye because my happiness is still there and...

Tribute to Bill Baron

I first met Bill 26 years ago at a parish renewal weekend in St Peter’s, Scarborough. Not long after that, he became a regular visitor to our house. On one of his first visits, he presented us with Our Lady’s Miraculous Medal, and Bill and I began saying...

Heritage of the Diocese under Review

The diocesan stock of church properties includes sites both ancient (Ss Leonard and Mary, Malton) and modern (the Cathedral), and much built in between. The work undertaken during the preparation of the Pastoral Plan 2006 has increased awareness of our church...

Double Celebration at St Bedes’s

St Bede’s Parish, Marske-by-the-Sea, recently celebrated two very special occasions. Mgr Gerard Dasey celebrated his Silver Jubilee on 22nd June 2007 and on 23rd June 2007, the Ordination of Fr Simon Broughton. On 8th July 2007, to mark these occasions,...

Bridlington Confirmations

Nineteen parishioners have been confirmed in Bridlington this summer, 17 were teenagers and two adults. At Fr David Grant’s request, Fr John Paul Leonard, the Diocesan Youth Officer and former Curate at Our Lady and St Peter’s, stepped in when Bishop...

Pilgrimage draws 400

After hours of rain, the sun came out when the annual outdoor Mass to honour the feast of the Assumption was held at Mount Grace, Osmotherley, on Sunday 12th August. Some 400 people from all over the North-east walked up a rough track to the Chapel where the Rt Rev...

Ex-Boro Chairman remembered

A record 39 teams took part in a pro-am golf tournament held in memory of a former chairman of Middlesbrough FC, Mike McCullagh, who died in 2004. Nearly £6,000 is expected to be raised for the memorial trust fund which sends sick children to Lourdes. Mike McCullagh,...

Chorister for a Day

St. Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School will be hosting a Chorister for a Day event on Saturday November 17th 2007 in conjunction with Ampleforth Abbey. The day will start at 11.00 a.m. at Gilling Castle, Gilling East, York and will finish with everyone who is taking part...

Funeral Mass for Bishop Augustine Harris

Funeral Mass to be celebrated at 12.00 noon on Wednesday 12 September in the Cathedral Church of St Mary, Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough Bishop Harris died peacefully last Thursday evening, 30 August, the feast of St Margaret Clitherow, at the age of 89. The Most...

Death of retired Bishop of Middlesbrough

The Right Reverend Augustine Harris, Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, died peacefully in the early evening of Thursday 30 August at Ince Blundell Hall where he had lived in retirement. Augustine Harris was Bishop of Middlesbrough from November 1978 to November 1992....

Safeguarding with Confidence

The Cumberlege Commission set up just over a year ago has now completed its report on the review of the Nolan Report. In 2000 Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor invited Lord Nolan to set a framework for best practice in the prevention of abuse and in responding to...

Polish welcome pack in Ryedale

On Thursday 12th July at a joint Polish/English breakfast at St Leonard and St Mary’s Parish Community Centre in Malton, a Welcome Pack was launched to assist Polish Migrant Workers arriving in the district. The Catholic Parish and the District Council have...

Faith in Family and Friends

Claire and Mike Wren, parishioners of St Bernadette’s, recently lost their beloved three-year old Charlotte, their only child. In ‘Faith in Family and Friends’ they bravely share their heartbreaking loss, the profound human experience of loving so...

National Initiative To Reach Out To Lapsed

A new initiative is being launched to encourage parishes to reach out to non church-going (lapsed) Catholics. Called ‘Where are they now?’, the project aims to equip Catholics to extend an invitation to those who for many different reasons have stopped...

Feeding the hungry

For the past six years the Upper Room at the John Paul Centre, Middlesbrough has been providing food on Saturday afternoons for those in need. Every week we get around 30 to 40 mainly young people who, for all sorts of reasons, are hungry. This is sometimes because...

Women’s World Day of Prayer

Catholic women representing various parts of York were privileged to attend the dynamic service at St George’s Church, Leeds on 16th June to mark 75 years of WWDP in England. From an initial service in 1932 attended by 250 women at City Temple, the movement has...

Making the News

Young newshounds from Sacred Heart RC School in Redcar have been reporting on the news – and now they are making it as well! For the year eight pupils have been named 11-14 age-group winners of the inaugural national CES Just News competition, for which they...

Enjoying signing, loving the Mass

Children from St Charles’ School learnt to sign the Hail Mary and “Come Lord Jesus Come” to fully participate in the recent Deaf Awareness Mass at St Charles Borromeo Church in Hull. The children, from English, Filipino and Polish backgrounds, were...

Fr Michael O’Connor’s Golden Jubilee

Fr O’Connor, ordained on the 28th July 1957 in St Charles Borromeo in Hull, celebrated his Golden Jubilee in the same church on Saturday 28th July 2007. The Jubilee Mass was generously shared by Fr Michael with two of his friends who were ordained with him...

Harvest Festival Appeal

The Mary Thompson Fund supporting refugees and people seeking asylum in the Tees Valley As many of you are aware, the Mary Thompson Fund provides packs of food and toiletries to refused asylum seekers who are homeless and destitute. Sally, one of our Volunteers based...

SVP Awareness month

September 2007 is host to the first ever SVP awareness month. For over 160 years the St Vincent de Paul Society (England & Wales) has been committed to tackling poverty through social action. SVP conferences across the country will be highlighting the scope of the...

Baghdad Appeal consignment sent

Subsequent to the Riverside event a consignment valued at £40,000 was sent to Baghdad Children’s Hospital. Follow the progress of the Baghdad Appeal and see how your contribution can make a real difference in the Catholic Voice and on the Diocesan...

SOS

6th August 2007 21.35 hours flight ET 701 to Kinshasa Refugee Week 2007 Congolese Community spoke of their fear of forced removal. “Congo is not safe. We want to go back – when it is safe.” June 2007 in Middlesbrough Rev. Theodore Ngoy, opposition...

Archbishop Kelly ordains Simon Broughton

In a packed St Mary’s Cathedral on 23rd June 2007, Archbishop Patrick Kelly of Liverpool ordained Simon Broughton as a priest for our Diocese. More than 30 diocesan priests were joined by Simon’s friends and staff from Ushaw College including the...

Fifteen Priestly Jubilees

Fifteen priests in the Middlesbrough diocese marked ordination jubilees of their ordination and ten of them took part in the annual celebration of priesthood Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough, on Sunday 17th June. About 700 people attended the Mass for...

Monsignor Charlton steps down after 50 years

Monsignor Ray Charlton, Parish Priest of St Joseph’s in Stokesley and St Margaret’s in Great Ayton, has celebrated his Golden Jubilee as a priest and announced his retirement from active ministry. He has served Stokesley, Great Ayton and the surrounding...

How we will meet the costs of the Diocesan Curia in 2007

The costs of the Curia cover the funding of the main pastoral activities of the Diocese – adult formation, child protection, education, vocations and liturgy, care of buildings, youth ministry, historic churches commission, communication, the costs of the Bishop...

Celebrating Franciscans

On Sunday 22nd June 1958, The Worshipful Mayor of Richmond, with the Minister Provincial of the Franciscans, Fr Justin McLoughlin OFM, led the procession of many guests from the Catholic Church in Richmond to the town’s Franciscan Friary ruins to commemorate the...

New Priest for Diocese

35 year old Simon Broughton from Redcar will be ordained a priest by the Archbishop of Liverpool, Patrick Kelly, in St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough at noon on Saturday 23 June 2007. Simon was employed in Printing and Graphic design before he commenced his six years...

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