September 2016 Diocesan Issue 434 Catholic VOICE FREE What’s A Legacy Congratulations, Bishop’s Of Love Canon Alan! Inside Column Page 2 Page 12

I discovered something that the British Media are really scared of. They Pope’s Inspiring Call are so frightened of it that they will do their utmost to play it down, misreport it and tell only part of the truth about it. They don’t want our young people to know that the vast majority of their peers are people of To World’s Youth faith, and of those a good proportion are Christian and Catholic. “Don’t be couch potatoes! Go home and be young people who work I have just spent a week in Krakow in to make the world more merciful.” So said Pope Francis as he sent us Poland celebrating World Youth Day all home from Poland at the end of World Youth Day. Two million young people had descended on Krakow in Poland for almost a week. with a group from the diocese, young It was an act of faith. It was a moment of encounter with Jesus Christ Catholics from every continent and and his Church. hundreds of countries, under the Thirty young people made up the diocesan pilgrimage, which joined leadership of Pope Francis. It was an together with our friends from the dioceses of Hexham & Newcastle amazing event in which to participate: and Southwark. World Youth Day is a life-changing experience. There so full of joy, enthusiasm, prayer, are many so-called life changing events nowadays but this one really contemplation, exuberant singing and does stand out. dancing, uplifting liturgies, friendship Our week-long pilgrimage made a huge impact from day one. The and genuine communion with brothers group came together as a family, looking after each other in the huge and sisters of so many countries, crowds and quickly making new friends. A good thing too as our first stop was Auschwitz. This was both a difficult and important starting God to work in their lives and be a part of the Church that goes out languages and cultures. point, so close that it could not be ignored and a hard-hitting focus for into the world. By then, of course, we had already worked that out, However, those who were left back in people who were to spend the rest of the week contemplating mercy. the message we had received since we began the week together was England would hardly have known any The silence that many people saw Pope Francis observe as he walked loud and clear. of this was happening. The BBC just the same steps we did engulfed us. But there was another message which was proclaimed loud and clear about managed to mention that the Later that afternoon we made our way to Błonia Park for the Opening every moment we spent on pilgrimage. Nowhere was it experienced Pope went to Auschwitz, and that he Mass attended by around 800,000 people, a fantastic atmosphere – more clearly than when, during the final vigil, two million young and Pope Francis hadn’t even arrived yet! Wednesday, Thursday and people fell silently to their knees for adoration of the Blessed was in Poland to celebrate the 1,050th Friday mornings saw us attend catechesis in our own language. We Sacrament. That message was simple – God is close to the young anniversary of its baptism. While all were assigned to be with Australians, people from Oceania and some people of the world and they desire to be close to him. God continues that is true, it rather missed the point small groups from USA and Canada. Each day we listened to a to call young people to live lives centred on their relationship with that he was also there to meet a vast different speaker, Cardinal Dolan of New York and Archbishop Prowse God and we must constantly renew our efforts to help them answer gathering of Catholic young people. of Canberra were both powerful communicators. that call. Again it managed to say that he On Wednesday afternoon Krakow really did begin to seem full. Every I returned home renewed, affirmed and challenged. Despite what some street was packed with joyful young people all giving high fives and would have us believe, young people in the Church are not a dying celebrated Mass on the Sunday of swapping badges as they waited for Pope Francis to arrive. Błonia breed. In our diocese we should be rightly proud of all we do to World Youth Day for a crowd of park filled up again and then came the magic moment when his encourage young people in their relationships with God. However, the hundreds of thousands of young popemobile drove past our part of the park. We were within ten challenge remains: are we being the kind of Church that always has its people. The rest of the European news metres of him. Flags and phones were all waved, people took photos eyes fixed on encounter with Christ? If so then our problems and channels were saying that there were and called home to let loved ones know he was here. worries will always seem small and young people will seek us out so in excess of two and a half million Amazingly, as his name was chanted, Pope Francis reminded everyone, that they may better know and serve the Lord. young people – even the Daily “We are all here because of one person, Jesus Christ. Let us all Father Paul Farrer Telegraph said there were 2.4m there. encounter him during these days.” Pope Francis spoke at length to the young people, encouraging them to be brave and faith-filled, to allow See centre pages for more from World Youth Day It was a wonderful occasion at which to be present. We took a group of 30 from the diocese – priests, leaders and young people. My impression from speaking to them is that they not only enjoyed it but that they learned much from it and it will form the basis of a long reflection well into the future. Wouldn’t it be good if every parish in the diocese sponsored Conveyancing, Wills at least one young person to go to & Probate the next world Youth Day in Panama Also covering Court Hearings, Family Problems, Crime, Housing, Personal Injury, Mental Health, 2019? Yes it’s a long way away, but I Immigration Law notice that not a few secondary For more information contact: schools take their pupils to places like Bill O'Hanlon, Sean Grainger, New York, and these trips are far from Helen Connelly, Peter Kilgour undersubscribed. So money and York House, 102 Borough Road distance aren’t the problem. Middlesbrough TS1 2HJ Here’s to 2019 and Panama with a E: [email protected] group of at W: www.watsonwoodhouse.co.uk least 70 young T: 01642 247656 people from Middlesbrough Diocese. 2 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + September 2016

NEWS A Legacy Of Love

Decades ago, a chalice was gifted to a young Mass in his home parish of St Philomena. “It and a welcoming community made up the English priest about to set sail for the distant was in front of loads of friends and family,” mission and Father Jim set about learning the lands of Uganda. Here we learn about the Father Jim explains. “It was a big do!” local language, Lango. chalice’s remarkable ongoing journey… Soon afterwards, Father Jim was sent out to He’d sit in the children’s catechesis classes, Growing up together in Middlesbrough, Jim share his faith and the love of God with the listen and try to keep up. Father Jim wanted Daley and Tommy O’Neill’s friendship began people of Uganda. Taking his chalice with him, to celebrate Mass in a way that was when they were young boys at St Philomena’s he set off from England via passenger ship meaningful for the community. Whenever he School. They attended St Philomena’s parish and three weeks later encountered the celebrated Mass he would use the chalice he’d and both felt God’s call to the priesthood as wonder of Mombasa, Kenya. “It was all new,” been given: “Every time I used that chalice, I young men. While Jim trained at the St Father Jim says. “We landed in Mombasa and thought of Tommy and his family. I used it for Joseph’s Missionary Society (Mill Hill then took the ‘Uganda train’ at 7pm, arriving every single Mass and took it with me Missionaries), Tommy trained as a diocesan in Tororo at 3am the following morning, in the everywhere – even on safari!” priest, later leaving to get married. dark.” When Tommy died in 2006, Father Jim Father Jim Daley MHM was ordained on July 10 Father Jim was appointed by Bishop Grief conducted the funeral Mass, using the chalice 1960 in Mill Hill, London. A couple of days MHM to the “very poor” mission of Amolotar gifted to him so long ago. During the funeral later, Tommy gave Father Jim a beautiful village, right at the edge of the Tororo he told everyone why the chalice was being chalice which he used to celebrate his first Diocese. A small church, school, 15 outstations used and why it was so special. “He’s the best friend I’ve ever had,” Father Jim recalls. “He was the youngest of a big family and had two older brothers. I was like the brother he never had as I was closer to his age. As boys we were always out, roaming the hills. We were always together.” Once Father Jim retired he asked that the chalice be given to a newly ordained priest in Father Jim Daley Uganda. Father Michael Oluka received the chalice on September 3 2015, the feast of St during the celebration of the Holy Mass only Gregory. He wrote to Father Jim two days and always, unceasingly.” later: “I am greatly humbled to have the privilege of being the beneficiary of the Holy Father Jim is still in contact with Tommy vessel (chalice) which you donated… Due to O’Neill’s family and says: “This family, out of the joy I was compelled to celebrate Holy love, gave me a chalice. This chalice is now Mass using the chalice in thanksgiving to being used for Mass and celebrating the love God… My father is a Eucharistic Minister who of God. Out of love that chalice was given and at one time served under your leadership as they will receive that love of God through the parish priest. Thanks be to God that I joined Mass, wherever the chalice is.” the seminary after inspirational stories that © Used with permission – Michelle Slater, my father narrated to me about your good Missio. This article first appeared in Mission priestly conduct… I promise to use this gift Today, Summer 2016. Father Michael Oluka celebrates Mass using the chalice Meditating In Middlesbrough More than 100 people people spent 20 broke and had not eaten for days and from a minutes silently meditating during a seminar busy Newcastle food bank. Ampleforth village in Middlesbrough. "A Contemplative people gave collected food for a Response to Austerity" at area. drew Catholics and other Christians from a Canon Derek Turnham spoke of the wide area of the North-East and beyond. organisation of Catholic charities Caritas World-renowned speaker Father Laurence being based on Catholic Social Teaching. "It Freeman OSB led participants in his hour-long is the second largest charity of its kind in the presentation and two meditation sessions, world, after the Red Cross," he said. "It persuading them to sit up straight, relax, speaks up for the disadvantaged.” clear their minds, concentrate on a word such Seminar chairman Bishop Paul Ferguson, of as "maranatha" (Our Lord comes). Whitby, who chairs Together Middlesbrough Father Laurence, who is spiritual leader of and Cleveland, said it had been an Meditatio, the World Community for Christian "wonderful, unusual and exciting day”. The Meditation, said meditation "impregnated" a event was organised by Terry Doyle, knowledge of God, calmed the mind, reduced development officer for Together sin and produced good deeds. Middlesbrough & Cleveland. Question time heard from Thornaby food Mike Morrissey bank supporters finding people who were Monday 19th September 2016, 6.30pm Fellowship Celebrates Diamond Jubilee St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough Catholic Fellowship members from across Teesside gathered for a barbecue hosted by the East Cleveland group at Bishop Terry Drainey Redcar Rugby Club to celebrate 60 years of the organisation’s national council. “It was a true Fellowship gathering, with good friends, good food and a celebratory cake cut by Father Peter Ryan to mark the occasion,” said committee member Theresa Flaherty. “All who attended agreed we need to do it again, so we’re already looking forward to the next MVSept one.” September 2016 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + 3

NEWS Teesside Hero Award For Father Paul

The community work of a popular priest was recognised with a Teesside Hero award shortly before his 22-year stay in Middlesbrough comes to an end. Father Paul Farrer is transferring to Valladolid, Spain, to take up an appointment as vice-rector of the Royal English College of St Alban. He has become an adopted Teessider, having served in the town since leaving the Spanish college in 1994, and is well known for his charity fundraising efforts. Father Paul, whose most recent role was diocesan youth chaplain for the Middlesbrough Youth Mission, was presented with the award by Middlesbrough and Teesside Philanthropic Foundation. Foundation patron Alisdair Beveridge made a surprise presentation at Trinity Academy at the end of the Little Big Assembly, which was attended by more than 2,000 pupils from 70 schools across the diocese. “I’m really, really chuffed but I’m embarrassed because ever since I came to Middlesbrough I’ve been surrounded by loads football match at the , raising £8,500 that Teesside Heroes Award? Nominate volunteers via the Get of people who’ve always helped other people,” said Father was shared between the Middlesbrough Youth Mission Team Involved page on www.teessidecharity.org.uk Paul. “I don’t think I’ve done anything those around me and the National School for Arts and Trades in Port-au-Prince, wouldn’t have done anyway. Haiti, to rebuild a school destroyed by an earthquake. “You don’t have to believe in God to do good things, but I do For more than a decade he helped organise Rocking in the them because of what I believe. Ultimately, I hope people see Aisles, an annual charity concert at Middlesbrough Theatre, Chorister Open Afternoon what I believe affects my life.” involving talented local youths and the clergy. The events Father Paul said one of the highlights of his fundraising efforts raised more than £40,000 for a variety of local causes, Would you like your child to experience being a had been 40@40, a commitment to raising £40,000 for charity including helping to send people on the pilgrimage to Lourdes chorister? St Mary's Cathedral is looking for enthusiastic to celebrate his 40th birthday. With the support of his friends, who could not otherwise afford to attend. Another of his choristers for its newly formed Boys’ Choir and he organised a series of events including a Transporter Bridge projects was writing Pushing Fifty, a history of the annual renowned Junior and Senior Girls’ choirs. An open bungee jump, charity football match, golf tournament, gala pilgrimage. Sales raised a further £8,000 to help others get to afternoon for prospective boys and girls aged eight and dinner, sportsmen’s dinner, casino night and 60s night. Lourdes. above will be held at the cathedral on Saturday He blasted his initial £40,000 target to raise £110,000, which Along with a trophy and a meal voucher, Paul received £1,000 September 3 from 2pm to 4pm. All are welcome. To was shared between the Baghdad Cancer Hospital in Iraq, for Teesside good causes of his choice. He has asked for the book a place or for further information please email the Teesside Hospice, the Lourdes Sick Fund, James Cook donations to be split between the Youth Mission team to help music department at mbrocathedralmusic@ outlook.com University Hospital’s stroke unit, Climb, the Ellen Timney others get to Lourdes, Sowing Seeds Ministries to support ex- Tim Harrison, Director of Music Foundation, Teesside MS Society, Paediatric Diabetes Trust offenders, and the food bank at St Alphonsus Church in North Craig Cartwright, Assistant Director of Music Fund and three local schools. Ormesby. The following year Father Paul helped organise another charity Do you know an unsung community champion who deserves a Racing For Life in Beverley

Staff and pupils from St John of Beverley RC last two years the school has raised more Primary School took part in the Race for Life than £2,000 for Cancer Research. If you on the school field. Participants chose would like to donate, please visit whether to run 1km, 2km or 5km and www.justgiving.com and search for St John of everyone cheered each other on as they Beverley, then click on headteacher Angela aimed to reach their target distance. Over the Nicholl’s page.

Excellent Report For York School

All Saints Roman Catholic School in York is celebrating after being rated “Outstanding” in all areas in its Ofsted report. The report praised the passion and enthusiasm of teachers and the “exceptionally strong strategic role” of governors and staff. St George’s Celebrates 40 Years Bishop Terry concelebrated Mass in a huge marquee erected on the playing fields to mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of St George's Primary School in Scarborough. The celebration took place on the Feast of St John Fisher and St Thomas More, Martyrs, and was organised by the joint headteachers Mrs Parr and Mrs Spencer with the help of school staff. The bishop explained that as chancellor Thomas More was expected to do and say what the king ordered him to. However, as a Christian he did not always agree with what the king said and he was put to death for refusing to carry out his orders. The bishop suggested that the children follow St Thomas More’s example and always keep to the truth. The congregation included past students, teachers and other former staff and governors. Children presented the readings and bidding prayers. The school choir was accompanied by pianist Lucy Wilkinson. After Mass everyone reminisced with friends and former colleagues as they enjoyed refreshments in the school hall. Sheila and Cyril Father Andrew Smith O.Praem, parish priest at St George's, Bishop Terry and Canon Pat Swales Harney, who was parish priest when the school was built. 4 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + September 2016

SCHOOLS

Saint of the Month

St Wenceslas September 28

St Wenceslas was born about 907 in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. He became Duke of Bohemia but after he died he was declared a king, which is why we call him “Good King Wenceslas” in the carol we sing about him at Christmas. Wenceslas was kind and intelligent, a respected ruler and a devout Christian. He built many churches and gave money to poor widows, orphans, people in prison and anyone in need. According to the words of the carol, he was out one winter’s night doing his good works and had taken his pageboy with him. When the snow became very deep, Wenceslas walked in front so that the boy could step in his warm footprints. There is a very famous statue of King Wencelsas in the square named after him in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. He is the patron saint of the Czech state and his feast day is a public holiday there. When we sing his carol at Christmas we should remember that he was a real person who is now a saint in heaven.

In The Footsteps Of The Saints

St Bernadette’s, , pupils Tom, Noah bacon sandwiches and Coco Pops. Soon after and Tilly tell us about their summer we travelled to Holy Island and were pilgrimage in the footsteps of the northern fascinated to see the sea just inches away saints… from the road. When we reached Lindisfarne Day one we went to a museum and as we explored we found out so much information about St We left school to go on our class pilgrimage. Cuthbert. Later we visited Lindisfarne Castle, First we visited Hexham Abbey, it was so which has been renovated to be a holiday beautiful: the stained-glass windows were home, and Lime Kilns. Before we knew it, it gorgeous and the architecture and size of the was time to go back to Minsiteracres. We had building was breathtaking. We learned to a really good time despite the rain pouring write with a feather pen and discovered what You are warmly invited to our down. At the end of the day we had an Monks do and why and about the history of evening liturgy together. It was wonderfully Hexham Abbey. Before we left we said a peaceful and quiet – beautiful. prayer: “Dear Lord, thank you for this wonderful abbey, please help us to treasure Day three OPEN EVENING places like this, Amen.” It helped us reflect on We were all excited to see our families again what being a pilgrim really meant. We then back in Middlesbrough. We set off for Durham drove to Minsteracres Retreat Centre, where Cathedral and met our pilgrimage guide, Mr for prospective Students and Parents we were staying, and after unpacking we Duffy. As we were admiring the cathedral’s enjoyed a gorgeous cottage pie. A long walk wonderful sights we spotted St Bede’s coffin, Wednesday 14 September 2016 in the fields followed, including time in the which was amazing. We then found St beautiful, peaceful garden, before an evening Cuthbert’s tomb as well. We all knelt and of football, hot chocolate and Pringles! Bed- prayed beside his memorial stone set in the 18:00 – 20:00 time was at 10pm. floor and then ended with the hymn Be Still Day two for the Presence of the Lord. Lunch at Nando’s was a fabulous way to end our journey Presentation to Parents: 18:00 We woke up early to an amazing meal of together with food and laughter. followed by: 1. Tours of the School Ged’s Quick Quiz 2. Opportunity to meet staff and students With TV quiz champion Ged Askins 3. Classroom demonstrations Connection question 1. What is Cliff Richard’s real name? 2. Which county is known as the Garden of England? Headteacher: Mrs Z Hammond 3. Which English actor starred as the leader of a gang of South African mercenaries in the film Normanby Road, South Bank, Lethal Weapon 2? 4. Where is the US Open tennis tournament played? Middlesbrough TS6 6SP 5. Which Leeds-born comedy writer who has written for Morecambe and Wise, Kenny Everett, Dick Emery, Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies was presenter of the comedy series Jokers Wild 01642 453456 from 1969 to 1974? [email protected] www:stpeters-sch.com Thinking cap question Name the four current and four past members of the Rolling Stones. September 2016 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + 5

Please send stories and photos of what’s been happening in your school to [email protected] – we’d love to hear from you! SCHOOLS Mini Vinnies Get Busy In Loftus St Oswald’s A dozen year five and six pupils from St Joseph’s Academy in Loftus have been putting concern into action after joining the growing ranks of the Mini Vinnies. Hits The Armed with gardening gloves and trowels, the children worked in the school prayer garden to make it a place of peace and beauty that everyone at the school could benefit from. They also reflected on the Heights gifts the Holy Spirit brings and how he helps us be kind and caring followers of Jesus. Each child chose one gift they needed to grow in their St Oswald's Academy Trust in lives. Middlesbrough is celebrating after being The gardening project is the latest in a series of initiatives they have named one of the highest performing undertaken. They also encouraged fellow pupils and families to collect trusts in the country in an analysis of Key food and other festive goods to make up Christmas hampers for the Stage Two data. elderly, housebound and sick, with parish priest Father Simon Broughton The trust, which includes St Peter's distributing them on his visits. Secondary, St Margaret's, St Mary's and St Leading up to Easter they raffled Easter Eggs and raised over £100 for Gabriel's, was in a list published by the Macmillan Nurses in memory of a member of staff who sadly died just Department for Education in its own before Christmas. Mini Vinnies is part of the Society of St Vincent de “league tables” for multi-academy trusts. Paul, encouraging primary school children to become involved in their work.

St. Gabriel’s Catholic Voluntary Primary Academy Allendale Rd, Celebrating Our Schools Education Ormesby, Middlesbrough TS7 9LF Sunday 11th September 2016 Headteacher: M. B. Ryan M.Ed [email protected] 01642 315538

The Collaboration of

St. Augustine’s RC Primary School St George’s RC Our Lady and St Peter a Catholic Voluntary Academy Primary School (Part of St. Hilda’s Catholic Academy Trust) RC Primary School Sacred Heart Secondary Catholic VA Eastfield, Scarborough YO11 3RE Bridlington YO15 3PS ‘Serve the Lord in gladness’ ‘Pupils make good progress and achieve well’ ‘Pupils of all abilities make outstanding Mersey Road, REDCAR, TS10 1PJ Gunnergate Lane, Telephone: 01642 487100 Middlesbrough TS8 0TE Ofsted June 2015 progress’ Ofsted Feb 2015 Head Teacher: Mrs P Strudwick Headteacher: Martin Macaulay Tel: 01723 583535 Tel: 01262 670138 Email: [email protected] Tel: 01642 599001 Email: [email protected] Email:[email protected] www.sacredheartrc.org.uk Email: [email protected] Web: www.staugustinesmiddlesbrough.co.uk Co-Headteachers: Mrs A Parr and Mrs A Spencer

Saint Paulinus Primary St Edward’s Primary School Catholic Voluntary Academy a Catholic Voluntary Academy St Mary’s Catholic The Avenue, Guisborough Part of St. Hilda’s Catholic Academy Trust Primary Academy Redcar and Cleveland Eastbourne Road, Tennyson Avenue, Grangetown, TS14 8DN Middlesbrough TS5 6QS Middlesbrough TS6 7AD Headteacher: Simon Geaves Tel 01642 819507 Headteacher: Mrs C Ruddy Tel: 01287 637978 Headteacher Mrs Mary Brown [email protected] email: [email protected] Tel: 01642 455309 www.st-paulinus.co.uk www.stedwardsrc.eschools.co.uk [email protected]

St Margaret Clitherow’s Primary School St Peter’s Catholic Voluntary Academy St Thomas More South Bank, Middlesbrough TS6 6TA Normanby Road, South Bank Middlesbrough TS6 6SP RC Primary School Tel 01642 835370 part of St Mary's College Federation Headteacher Mrs N Jamalizadeh Headteacher: Mrs Z Hammond Tel: 01642 453462 Together we are delivering email: [email protected] [email protected] outstanding primary education in Hull. www.stpeters-sch.com St Thomas More Road, Hull HU4 7NP Tel : 01482 354093 email: [email protected] website: www.st-thomasmorehull.org.uk 6 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + September 2016

NEWS Cleveland Newman Circle Celebrates 70 Years Monsignor William Charlton celebrated Mass in the medieval chapel of Markenfield Hall in Ripon to celebrate Cleveland Newman Circle’s 70th anniversary. The mission of the Newman Association is “promoting open discussion and greater understanding in today’s church.” The Cleveland Circle began in 1946, one of the earliest to be set up. Members came from the south of the Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle and the north of Middlesbrough Diocese. It includes Teesside and Darlington, Northallerton, Stokesley and all the surrounding villages. The circle has met at many venues, including Darlington (The Holy Family), Middlesbrough (Harrow Road Centre and the John Paul Centre), Stockton (St Patrick’s), Nunthorpe (St Bernadette’s) and now Coulby Newham (St Mary’s Cathedral hall). Our speakers have discussed many topics including theology, spirituality, history, social justice, politics and education, always in the context of Christian understanding. The spectrum of speakers includes bishops and peers, priests and politicians, academics and social workers, religious and writers, monks and missionaries, Anglicans and Quakers, local members and visitors from London and even – back in the very early days – the celebrated writer Evelyn Waugh! Patricia Egerton Biblical Scholar Begins Newman Programme

Internationally known biblical scholar Father Nicholas King SJ will speak on “The scandal of Christian disunion: a biblical approach” at the opening Cleveland Newman Circle meeting of the 2016-17 season. Father King, who has published a new translation of the Bible, is the Academic Director of Theology at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. The talk takes place at St Mary’s Cathedral hall in Middlesbrough on Wednesday September 28 from 7.45pm. Tea and coffee is served from 7.30pm, with a £2 donation requested. All are welcome. Email [email protected] or call 01642 645732 for details.

A Hull Of A Ride For Charity

President John Buckton of Middlesbrough Prothero, Peter Martin, Matt Cockerill and Circle 30 of the Catenian Association was Darragh McKay said their goodbyes to Ray joined by brothers of Middlesbrough and and Ailsa and continued on to Easingwold Redcar Circles along with work colleagues and before completing the first day’s riding in friends for a fundraising cycle ride from York. Middlesbrough to Hull. There was an overnight stay enjoying the The riders were led out by Brother Barney company and hospitality of Father John Bane Ord, a keen cyclist in his youth, and Ray and at English Martyrs before the riders continued Ailsa Bell from Linthorpe Wheelers, on a the journey to Hull. After 120 miles of cycling sunny morning for the start from St Mary’s the riders finally made it to the Humber Cathedral. Barney completed five miles before Bridge, ending their ride at the iconic returning home but his grandson Matt and his landmark. friend Darragh continued on to York to John is using his year as president to raise complete the first day. funds for the Haematology Unit at James Cook After a 28-mile ride to Northallerton and University Hospital where he received another short stop, the main party of John, treatment for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma five Phil Carey, Simon Carey, Mark Fleming, Chris years earlier. Rhodes, Reuben Hanlon, Phil Luke, Gavin

Middlesbrough Catholic Women's League members are pictured during the national pilgrimage to Westminster Cathedral. September 2016 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + 7

LOURDES CORNER A Crafty Way To Raise Funds

Last year’s blanket appeal was a huge think by either emailing success in bringing friends, families, parish [email protected] or calling 01642 groups and others together. Now I’d love us 324043. I’d love to hear from you and once to keep those groups going and creating their again I thank you for all the support you give own choice of crafts before coming together towards making our Lourdes pilgrimage so in a “Lourdes Craft Day” next April to sell special. them. The funds raised would enable Chris Tillotson, Head Handmaid someone to join us in Lourdes who might not otherwise be able to. Lourdes should be at the heart of our homes *We’ll be hosting an afternoon tea party on and parishes, with stories told and memories Saturday October 1 at Trinity College, shared. This could hopefully be one way we Middlesbrough. Please put the date in your could do this while creating beautiful crafts to diaries. The time is still to be confirmed so benefit others. Please let me know what you look out for a notice on your parish newsletters.

Stephen Takes On Head Nurse Role Stephen McKenna, pictured above, has been appointed Head Nurse after playing a major role during this year’s pilgrimage. Chris Tillotson (Head Handmaid), Jan O'Neill (Deputy Head Handmaid), Tony Kirk (Head Brancardier) and Tony Walton (Deputy Head Brancardier) continue in their current roles. Communion had to be brought into the car park We thank all of them for accepting their to an overflow of an estimated 200 mourners roles and I hope you will join me and unable to get inside St Clare’s Church in wish them every success for the future. Brookfield, Middlesbrough, for the funeral of We would also like to thank Jean Sue Collin. Sue passed away shortly after Cornfoot for her time spent as Head returning from this year’s pilgrimage to Lourdes, Nurse and wish her a continued recovery. where she was cared for as a supported pilgrim. She is pictured here at the Blessing of Please note, our pilgrimage dates for next Hands in the St Bernadette Centre along with year are Friday May 26 to Friday June 2. her parents John and Helen Pennington, both regulars on our pilgrimage. Search “Sue Collin’s Keith Tillotson, Executive Director Fight Song” on YouTube to see a heart-warming video recorded by Sue and her family. 8 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + September 2016 WORLD YOUTH DIARY Harry’s World Youth Day Diary

On the first day of our pilgrimage we visited Auschwitz and walked the path that would be walked by the Holy Father later in the week. Although a harrowing experience, Auschwitz was an ideal place to start the week because it showed us the damage the absence of mercy can cause. Our group left a candle in an act of remembrance for all those who lost their lives due to the lack of mercy shown at Auschwitz and similar places. After wandering the streets searching for our coach, we made our way to the opening Mass celebrated at Błonia Park by the Cardinal Archbishop of Krakow, also the former secretary of St John Paul II. Looking around at all the different nations’ flags was a really special moment for me. It made me feel like I was part of something big, part of a global community, a global church. For the next three mornings we attended catechesis with about 10,000 other English- speaking pilgrims. Each started with the delivery of the main catechesis by a cardinal or archbishop followed by Mass. The messages shared with us were truly inspirational. On Thursday evening we set out to Błonia Park for the Papal Welcoming Ceremony and on Friday, Father Paul led a reconciliation service for our group. On Saturday morning we waved goodbye to running water and comfortable beds. Armed Candlelit Vigil W with sleeping bags we embarked on our journey to, in essence, a field in the middle of nowhere known as Campus Misericordiae, which means camp of mercy. After a six-hour World Youth Day was incredible! I experie journey we arrived at our section, which was behind the altar! This meant we were viewing made some memories that will last a lifeti everything going on through big screens put up around us. At 7.30pm Pope Francis arrived youth of the diocese. and held a prayer vigil. He challenged us to respond to a world at war with brotherhood, with communion, with family. At that request, everyone in the field, two million people, no The highlight of the trip for me was the ov matter how tired or weary, stood up, held hands and prayed silently. That was an incredibly Francis in the evening. The silence while p special moment that will stay with me forever. both unforgettable and moving. After the Pope preached, we all settled to adore the Blessed Sacrament. Volunteers handed candles out to everyone present. This was another special moment. Picture this. Two million people, all kneeling in a field holding candles and praying. And people say that the church is dying? How wrong they are. On Sunday morning, the Pope returned to say the closing Mass at Campus Misericordiae. In his homily he challenged us, as young people, not to “vegetate”. He told us Jesus is calling us to leave our mark on life, our own history and the history of others. During the week we laughed, smiled, cried, got rained on, danced, chanted (some louder than others), sang, got rained on again, celebrated and prayed together. But it’s safe to say I had the time of my life and my experiences of World Youth Day 2016 will stay with me forever. Bring on Panama for World Youth Day 2019! Harry Twohig, St Andrew’s Parish, Teesville

An Amazing Experience

Since taking early retirement from teaching, my wife and I have been helping out the Middlesbrough Youth Mission Team with their work in schools throughout the diocese – and our experiences have been among the most valuable and rewarding of our careers. We can’t quite remember at what point the subject of World Youth Day was first broached, but Father Paul Farrer would hardly qualify as the best salesman for the event! We remember him saying that the experience would be “memorable” and then explaining that as pilgrims we would spend a week living in student accommodation, walk for two days, to and from the vigil site, and spend a night under the stars (no tent) – not exactly strong selling points, but we decided to sign up anyway. What an amazing experience it turned out to be. We did indeed stay in student accommodation and still have the blisters from our exertion, but that all pales into insignificance compared to the bonds we forged with each other and especially the inspiration we derived from the daily catechesis sessions and the words from the Holy Father. His address at the vigil was quite breathtaking (especially the asides that didn’t find their way into the published text). So I slept with the company of a slug in my sleeping bag and to the soundtrack of samba chords played by a group from Brazil who were “sleeping” next to me. We awoke stupidly early to the feel of the dew and were spoken to in person (albeit on a big screen) by Pope Francis. We learned that Monsignor Robinson can walk for England and, most importantly, that our young pilgrims are people of whom the diocese can be really proud. What else are we to know? World Youth Day was something that all who are able would be enriched and inspired by. Would we go again? If we were asked to do so, then a definite yes to that question and we’ll be well into our 60s by then. Finally, wouldn’t it be great if we could host this fantastic event here in the UK? Colin and Trisha Lunn With New York’s Cardinal Dolan at a cate September 2016 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + 9 WORLD YOUTH DIARY Finding God And Fellowship

Wow! The week was incredible, meeting people from around the world was amazing. Getting to know everyone from Middlesbrough Diocese was fantastic. I would say the week for myself was, in fact, life changing. Sharing my Catholic faith with more than two million young people. We didn't celebrate our faith in a Church but in a circus tent, in a field, in a park, even a corridor, as God is present everywhere, God is always with us, everywhere we go. It is us who has to find him. Catherine Cantwell, School Chaplaincy Co-ordinator, Sacred Heart, Redcar

Was Unforgettable enced every emotion throughout the week and have ime as well as forming new friendships among the vernight vigil; celebrating Benediction with Pope praying with a lit candle among millions of people was

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A Welcome For Asylum Seekers Around 50 asylum seekers from Teesside enjoyed the annual welcome prepared at St Benedict's parish centre school on a sunny day in Ampleforth. They were invited by the ecumenical Ampleforth Justice and Peace group and came with Justice First, a Teesside charity helping immigrants whose first recourse to the asylum process has been unsuccessful. St Benedict's and the Red Cross provided transport. The group, including families, came from as far afield as Tibet, Uzbekistan, Albania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Ethiopia. The day included lunch and time together to share histories and hopes on the grass area at the school. A home-made Punch and Judy show and some spirited African drumming accompanied tea and cakes as new friendships were formed and old ones renewed. Meanwhile, a group of around 30 asylum seekers are pictured here during their trip with Mary Frankland to St Hilda's Parish, Whitby, where they enjoyed the hospitality and friendship of parishioners from both churches, who were rewarded with sunny smiles and beautiful singing. September 2016 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + 11

NEWS CAFOD Supporters Look Towards Harvest

Harvest is a time of abundance and plenty and a time to feed their families but also to have some left to sell. You can help the communities of Bolivia by joining the two- celebrate and share the fruition of a hard year’s work. On this Mother of four Nicanora lives on a small farm on the Bolivian year Hands On Project. A gift of just £5 a month can build two Harvest Fast Day CAFOD are asking our supporters to join Altiplano. She is a strong woman working in hard conditions wormeries and provide worms to bring rich compost and you’ll together on Friday October 7 to help the families of the to feed her family. “On a normal day when we don’t have be sent regular updates on how the community is developing Altiplano in the South American country of Bolivia to grow much food we eat barley soup,” she says. “When we eat just with your support. more food. this soup all day we get tired very quickly.” Alternatively, a one-off £10 donation this Harvest can provide a At 4,000 metres above sea level, the Bolivian Altiplano plain is She and her neighbours are about to start a two-year journey family with seeds to start their own vegetable garden. You can a difficult place to live and now the highly agricultural to build a vegetable garden, greenhouse and wormery and to also join Harvest Fast Day by volunteering with CAFOD to community is being adversely affected by climate change. improve irrigation to her land. Working alongside CAFOD’s speak at Mass to spread the word in your local parish and by Unpredictable rains and frequent hailstorms are destroying local partner, an organisation called Nuna, she is now very joining us in praying for our brothers and sisters who do not crops that the community relies on. Men are being forced to optimistic for next year’s Harvest. have enough food. leave their families for months at a time, travelling to the “I have a lot of hopes for the future working with Nuna. The To find out more about how you can get involved in the cities to find work, leaving the women and children to work Harvest appeal, please visit cafod.org.uk/harvest. the land by themselves. thing I am most excited about is being able to grow more food and to sell my crops.” In Bolivia nearly 60% of the rural population live below the poverty line. During the Year of Mercy we are called to feed the hungry and this Harvest time we are calling on our supporters to join us helping to create a fairer world where we can share the richness of our common home with all our Parishioners Mourn Brancardier Dave brothers and sisters, so they too can live their lives to the full. By investing in the building of greenhouses, the provision of Mourners packed St Paulinus Church in seeds and materials, the teaching of new farming techniques Guisborough for the funeral of parishioner and by providing technical staff to educate the community on Dave Walton. Dave, aged 70, was a Knight of how to build wormeries and make their own organic fertiliser, St Columba and regularly travelled to Lourdes our partners help people not only to grow enough food to as a brancardier. The service was conducted by parish priest Canon Michael Bayldon assisted by Father Paul Farrer. In the eulogy, fellow Knight George Metcalfe spoke of his work with the Knights and at Lourdes and also his love for Middlesbrough FC. He said Dave liked to be at the back of the church as a welcomer, usher and general organiser. He would sense if someone was struggling and discreetly brought them a drink or helped them outside for a breath of fresh air. Dave leaves his wife of 40 years, Beryl, son and daughter Mark and Karen, in-laws Lynsey and Phil and grandchildren Josh and Jarred, Jake, Abbie and twins Sophie and Chloe. Brian Gleeson

Book Review: Living The Just Soul There is a welcome trend at the moment for Authenticity especially appealed to me. The those belonging to religious orders to write phrase “…we be such as we appear, and about their history, thus making their appear such as we are” was written by Mary spirituality accessible to the modern reader. Ward in the early 17th Century. Today one of This is true of orders founded three, four, or the sisters has written: “I must shed all my even ten centuries ago. Recently I picked up a masks and live a life of sincerity and book of reflections at the Bar Convent in York, truthfulness in total freedom, as a child of compiled to celebrate the 400th anniversary God.” Nothing has changed! Authenticity is as of Mary Ward’s insight about the “Just Soul”. much needed and valued today as it was Its aim is to introduce people to the then. Each section has similar insights, all spirituality of Mary Ward. The Mary Ward needed in the time of Mary Ward herself but, Sisters were asked to send in their amazingly, just as relevant today. understanding of the Just Soul, based on their Living the Just Soul Today is published by The lived experience; the result is this beautiful Congregation of Jesus and The Institute of the meditative booklet. Its themes are Living in Blessed Virgin Mary and is available from The Freedom, Living with Integrity, Right Bar Convent, 17 Blossom Street, York YO24 Relationships, Authenticity, Joyfulness and 1AQ priced £6.50. ISBN 978-2-7468-3233-6. Being a Transformative Woman. Catherine Rowland Each section has short phrases and insights This review first appeared in Network, the given by Mary Ward Sisters, all enhanced by magazine of Women, Word, Spirit. beautiful photography. The section on Ageing Better Reaches Out In Middlesbrough St Mary’s Cathedral Parish in Middlesbrough similar interests and form connections and is using a Big Lottery Fund programme to friendships. Members can also volunteer to reach out to those aged over 50 who may feel demonstrate their skills, run activities in lonely or isolated. nursing homes or become a peer friend, with Many parishioners signed up as members for support and training available. We are Ageing Better Middlesbrough at an currently looking at how Ageing Better could information evening. This gives them access help the housebound and those in residential to regular newsletters with information about homes who are unable to attend meetings. social and support groups, art and craft One way is during our Ministers of Holy classes, sport clubs, history talks and music. Communion’s weekly visits, while Ageing Ageing Better organised a summer programme Better outreach workers can also call round. of talks to examine suggestions from new See www.ageingbettermiddlesbrough.org.uk members, drawing on resources including for more information. crafts, technology and local history. Teresa Lyth, on behalf of St Marys Cathedral Meetings are free and refreshments are Justice and Peace Group provided, as chatting over cakes or scones is • For details of how your parish can get an important aspect of the group’s work. They involved, contact John Hinman on 01642 give the opportunity to find others with 700075. 12 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + September 2016

NEWS Chipping In After The Fire

FRANCIS HANNAWAY, from St Gabriel’s He explained that passports were all processed online these days, and that would be difficult Parish, Ormesby, in Middlesbrough, after other documents had been lost in the fire. lives and works in Basankusu Diocese, “We can only give you an emergency travel document to go back to the UK, and then you can in the Democratic Republic of Congo. apply there,” he concluded. He is a lay missionary with Mill Hill Missionaries. After the recent house- I enjoyed accompanying Father John on his quest for a passport. We decided to relax a bit now fire, Francis finds himself on his way to that we were in Kinshasa; we ate together, shared a drink and welcomed visitors. We went out Kinshasa. to eat in a restaurant and I pondered what I’d missed most by being in Basankusu for so long. I looked at the menu; there was fish, of course, there always is – and there it was. “Bring me a “I do need a break,” conceded Father big plate of chips!” I beamed. John Kirwan MHM. “But I have too much to do here first.” It was five Follow Francis Hannaway on Facebook and YouTube. Email [email protected]. To support weeks after the fire, five weeks of his projects send money via PayPal (type PayPal.me/FHannaway into your browser), or internet Father John sifting through burnt banking. Pay St Joseph’s Society for FM, Ref: F Hannaway Congo, sort code: 16-00-15, account: papers, hoping to retrieve something of 23114537. worth and, most importantly, his missing passport. All the time the two of us had been living out of suitcases. Father Stan and I decided Father John Congratulations, Canon Alan! needed a break – but the captain wouldn’t leave his ship. We channelled our concerns through the local Congolese sisters and he accepted their suggestion to go to Kinshasa to apply for a new passport. Passenger planes rarely land in Basankusu. Normally, a trip to Kinshasa would involve a 25- hour sleepless river journey cramped in a canoe, and then a one-hour flight. We got places, however, on the plane that brings the teachers’ salaries – in cash. I thought of waiting a few more weeks before going away. I’d come to the end of the teaching year, but the nutrition project was still extremely busy. “Take the opportunity, Francis,” Father Stan urged. “People will manage without you. You’ll be very useful in Kinshasa when our students arrive to apply for their passports. You must be tired of the food here by now, and in Kinshasa...they have potatoes!” The 16-seater plane, one propeller impatiently still turning, hurriedly deposited its cargo of cash, and we were off. We passed our roofless house – still charred from the fire. We passed the lines of canoes along the river and over the dense tropical rainforest. The plane flew north to Lisala, then Bumba, stopping for only 15 minutes each time to deliver more money, and then south-east to Bokungu, refuelling from jerricans before heading off to Mbandaka, on the River Congo and exactly on the Equator. We’d been flying all day and spent the night there, continuing our journey to Kinshasa for three more hours the following day. The Vice-Consul listened sympathetically to Father John’s story. “We haven’t forgotten that you’re there,” he smiled. “You’re our man in Equateur Province.” Priests and well wishers from throughout the diocese gathered at St George’s Church in York for Canon Alan Sheridan’s silver jubilee celebration. Our picture, taken by Lars Karlsson, shows Canon Alan receiving a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham from Ann Middleton on behalf of the parish. Canon Alan had requested the statue as he has always Leeds Middlesbrough Hallam wanted one.

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ANYONE CAN HELP THEM Newman Fest organiser Al Bury pictured during this year’s Lourdes pilgrimage BY BECOMING A BENEFACTOR Got the Glastonbury blues? Back from holiday Middlesbrough’s Westgarth Club on Saturday Each Benefactor will have five Masses offered during and have nothing to look forward to? Well September 10 from 3pm to 11pm. life or after Death as requested, and share in fear not, as I’m very excited to announce that, Acts include Blackfish, Village Green, Jonny back by popular demand, is Newman Fest (Rees) and David (Hawkins), The Season, over 400 monthly Masses offered 2016. Williams Bros and Steve McCormick, with Newman Fest is a music festival I set up last more to be announced, and there will also be by Priest Members. year to raise money for the Newman Holiday a fish and chip van on hand. Trust, a charity that takes children with Tickets are £7 from myself on 07896171407, disabilities away for a one-week respite the Westgarth or See Tickets – Apply to your Parish Priest or The Secretary: holiday. This gives families a much needed http://www.seetickets.com/tour/newman-fest- break and also offers the kids the opportunity 2016. Fr Timothy Wiley, Immaculate Heart of Mary of a lifetime to have fun and achieve their full potential. If for whatever reason you cannot come, I (Parish of St John Vianney), Leeds, LS17 6LE have also set up a Virgin Giving page for Many glowing testimonials from parents talk anyone who would still like to donate to such about the confidence it has built in their an amazing cause – children and also within themselves. We are http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Newman the only charity working in the North East Fest2k16. offering this level of care and support for free. For more details about the charity, please visit We need to fundraise to enable us to keep www.newmantrust.org. Contribute £30.00 these holidays going – and what better way Registered Charity Number 511025 than with music and a few drinks in good See you all there! company? The event takes place in Al Bury September 2016 + Middlesbrough Diocesan Catholic Voice + 13

NEWS ‘Friends’ Promote Mount Grace Devotion

On the edge of the North York Moors, high on “the poor remains of the old chapel on the chapel, which was established as a National system whereby groups are asked to book the hills overlooking the ruins of Mount Grace brow of the hill”. Monument in 1958. The first diocesan their visits well ahead of time, via the Priory and the busy A19 and by the side of It was not until 1916 that a certain Flora pilgrimage celebrating the feast of the diocesan office, in order to ensure their use of the Cleveland Way, stands the chapel of Our Morrish perhaps almost literally stumbled Assumption of Our Lady was held that same the chapel. Lady of Mount Grace. Perhaps constructed as across the chapel and, after witnessing year. The work itself began in 1959 and took In consultation with Bishop Drainey, Lord a hermitage by the monks from the priory as picnickers vandalising the ruins, she appealed two years and the chapel was re-dedicated by Eldon and the Scrope family recently proposed early as the 15th Century, the chapel’s exact to Sir Hugh Bell, who now owned the land on Cardinal William Godfrey, Archbishop of the establishment of the "Friends of the Lady origins are unknown, but it has been a place which the chapel and adjoining cottage stood, Westminster, on December 8, Our Lady's Chapel" to promote devotion to Our Lady of of Christian pilgrimage for hundreds of years. to have the area fenced off in order to protect birthday, 1961. Mount Grace and hopefully also encourage By the 16th Century and the Dissolution of them from further damage. Over the years since then the Lady Chapel has financial support for essential maintenance of the Monasteries it had fallen into a ruinous The chapel and the locked cottage were become a popular place of pilgrimage for the chapel and cottage in order to ensure that state and when the foundress of the Institute "discovered" yet again in 1942 by two priests individuals and groups from all over the it continues to be available as a place of of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mary Ward, visited of the Middlesbrough diocese, Father Peter country. The diocese's own pilgrimage on the pilgrimage and devotion. the chapel in the mid-1700s, one of the sisters Storey and Father Michael O'Sullivan, and six Feast of the Assumption is now an annual Father Neil McNicholas accompanying her wrote: “It is to this day a event and a Vigil Mass is celebrated in the years later Marist Fathers, accompanying a • Bishop Terry will celebrate Mass with the place of great devotion, where many graces group of scouts, celebrated Mass in the ruins Chapel at 4pm every Saturday. At one time it are granted, though so destroyed as only four might have been possible for someone to Friends of the Lady Chapel at Mount Grace at for perhaps the first time since the Dissolution 4pm on Saturday September 10. Our photo, walls remain without roof or cover and four centuries earlier. make their way up the hillside from the village exposed to great winds. Yet there you shall of Osmotherley and be able to enjoy the taken by David Smallwood, shows priests find Catholics praying together for hours.” At Father Storey's urging Lord Eldon and Ralph solitude of the chapel all by themselves, but it processing at this year’s Assumption Similarly, in 1745 when John Wesley visited Scrope purchased the site and a trust was has now become necessary to introduce a pilgrimage. Osmotherley, he reported that he had seen established to oversee the rebuilding of the Father Bill Celebrates Mass In The Sun Father Bill Serplus and parishioners of St Aelred's York enjoyed an uplifting day as they celebrated Mass in the open countryside at Nidderdale. Dianna Bowles had invited the parish to visit her farm and flock of Herdwick sheep near Howe Stean Gorge. Anyone is welcome to contact Dianna if they are in need of a peaceful, restful break from the struggles of life. Email [email protected] for more information.

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Contact tel 01642 Chaplains at St Aelred’s, York Patricia, tel: 07747 698553 or 0113 258 818203 for further details 10.30am 2745, e-mail: patriciasamon@ 6 Attend AGM at Madonna House, btinternet.com or contact Marie 12 Mon Robin Hood’s Bay 4pm Bedingfield on 01642 530739 for further 7.30pm Justice & Peace meet at St 7 Attends meeting of Bishop’s Council details Bede’s Pastoral Centre, Blossom Street, at Curial Office, Middlesbrough 2pm-4pm Chorister Open Afternoon, St York; contact Nan Saeki (tel 01904 11am Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough (boys 783621) for details 8 Attends meeting of Diocesan and girls 8+) Safeguarding Commission at Curial 13 Tues Office, Middlesbrough 11am 4 Sun 2pm-4pm Life Ascending Group, York 9 Attends meeting of Friends of the 11am Latin Mass in the traditional form West meet at Our Lady’s in the Fr Kelly Lady Chapel 2.30pm at Sacred Heart Church, Lobster Road, room. 10 Celebrates Mass with Friends of the Redcar, TS10 1SH 12.45pm Hull and District Catholic Lady Chapel at the Shrine, 12 noon Sung Latin Mass, St Wilfrid’s, Women’s Luncheon Club meet at the Duncombe Place, York YO1 7EF Osmotherley 4pm Kingston Theatre Hotel, Hull 6pm Sung Latin Vespers and 13 Attends meeting of Diocesan 7.30pm The Knights of St Columba, Benediction, St Wilfrid’s, Duncombe Trustees at St Stephen’s Centre, Council 95, meet at the Council Place, York YO1 7EF Hull 10.30am Chambers, English Martyrs’ Hall, Dalton Celebrates Education Mass at St Terrace, York Charles’, Hull 7pm 6 Tues 14 Celebrates Education Mass at St 7pm The Knights of St Columba, Council 14 Wed Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough 29, meet at St Mary’s Cathedral, Dalby Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help 7pm Way, Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough 15 Attends On-Going Formation Day commencing with Mass in the Cathedral follows 9.30am Mass at St John of focusing on Safeguarding at York Chapel Beverley Church Racecourse 9.30am 10.30am Life Ascending Group, Our Lady Celebrates Education Mass at St 7 Wed of Lourdes, Hessle meet after the Wilfrid’s, York 7pm Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Morning Mass 17/18 Parish visitation to SS Mary & follows 9.30am Mass at St John of 10.30am Life Ascending Group meets at Joseph, Hedon All weekend Beverley Church St Leonard and St Mary, Malton 19 Celebrates Apostleship of the Sea 6.30pm The Secular Franciscan Order 2.30pm Prayer Group at The John Paul Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral meets at More House, Heslington, York; Centre, 55 Grange Road, Middlesbrough. 6.30pm contact Mrs Lyn Bradbury, OFS (tel 01904 New members welcome. 20 Attends meeting of Ushaw Trustees 470041) for further details. at Hinsley Hall 11am 6.30pm Latin Mass at the Church of St 15 Thurs 21 School visits: Charles, Jarratt Street, Hull, HU1 3HB 2pm-3.30pm Julian Gathering with Revd Morning – St Gerard’s, Gwynne Wright, St Bede’s Pastoral 9am 8 Thurs Centre, 21 Blossom Street, York YO24 Afternoon – St Augustine’s, Coulby Our Lady’s Birthday, 1.30pm Rosary/2pm 1AQ (tel 01904 464900) Newham 1pm Mass, The Shrine of Our Lady of Mount 24/25 Parish visitation to SS Peter & Grace 16 Fri Paul, Leyburn and SS Mary & 7pm-8.30pm Divine Mercy Prayer Group, Joseph, Bedale All weekend 9 Fri St Anthony’s Church, Beverley Road, Hull; 27 Attends meeting of Bishop’s Council 7.30pm Marian Evening at The John Paul contact John (01759 380415) for details. at Curial Office, Middlesbrough 7.30pm Aquinas Reading Group in the 11am Centre, 55 Grange Road, Middlesbrough 28 School visits: – Rosary, Holy Mass, talk, witness. 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Contact the Hospitality Office, Redcar, TS10 1SH Contact the Hospitality Office, Ampleforth Ampleforth Abbey, tel 01439 12 noon Sung Latin Mass, St Wilfrid’s, Abbey, tel 01439 766386/766889 for 766386/766889 for further details Duncombe Place, York YO1 7EF To advertise please further details 3pm Catholic Fellowship Mass, St contact Caroline at 11 Sun Augustine’s, Redcar 2 Fri 11am Latin Mass in the traditional form 6pm Sung Latin Vespers and CathCom on Dates of events and articles for inclusion at Sacred Heart Church, Lobster Road, Benediction, St Wilfrid’s, Duncombe in the October issue of Voice must be Redcar, TS10 1SH Place, York YO1 7EF 01223 969506 received by today. 12 noon Sung Latin Mass, St Wilfrid’s, 3 Sat Duncombe Place, York YO1 7EF 19 Mon or email Pilgrimage for Life to the Lady Chapel, 6pm Sung Latin Vespers and 6.30pm Mass for Seafarers, St Mary’s Mount Grace, Osmotherley. 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21 Wed 24 Sat Tel: (01642) 865668 for venue and other Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help ’Tai Chi and Christian Meditation’; Fr details follows 9.30am Mass at St John of Christopher Gorst and Terry Doyle. Beverley Church Contact Ampleforth for further details 30 Fri 8pm The Knights of St Columba, Hull 7pm Marian Prayer Group, St Anthony’s Council 45 meet at St Joseph’s Church, 25 Sun Church, Beverley Road, Hull; contact Pat West Hull 11am Latin Mass in the traditional form (tel: 01482 802483) for details. at Sacred Heart Church, Lobster Road, 22 Thurs Redcar, TS10 1SH 30 Fri-Sun 2 Oct 12.30pm-2.30pm ‘Let’s Talk about 12 noon Sung Latin Mass, St Wilfrid’s, ‘Preoccupations’, Fr Christopher Gorst. Dementia,’ St Bede’s Pastoral Centre, 21 Duncombe Place, York YO1 7EF Contact Ampleforth for further details Blossom Street, York YO24 1AW (tel: 4.30pm Sung Vespers at St Mary’s 01904 464900) Cathedral followed by Mass at 5pm First Week of October 6pm Sung Latin Vespers and 23 Fri Benediction, St Wilfrid’s, Duncombe 1-2 Sat-Sun 6.30pm Preview of Flower Festival to Place, York YO1 7EF Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to celebrate the Year of Mercy including October issue of Catholic Voice available Walsingham (see poster) York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir at 7.30pm, St Margaret Clitherow Church, 28 Wed 1 Sat Haxby. Tickets £10 incl refreshments. Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Lourdes ‘keep in touch’ afternoon tea Contact Miriam Sigston, tel 01904 follows 9.30am Mass at St John of party at Trinity College; time to be 764291. Beverley Church confirmed 12.45pm-3pm Life Ascending Group, York 24-25 Sat-Sun Central meet in the Upper Room, St 2 Sun 10.30am-4pm Flower Festival, St Wilfrid’s, York Day for Life Pilgrimage, The Shrine of Margaret Clitherow Church, Haxby. 7.45pm Cleveland Newman Circle, at St Our Lady of Mount Grace 11am: meet in Programmes £1, refreshments available. Mary’s Cathedral Hall, Middlesbrough. Fr the village Contact Miriam Sigston, tel: 01904 Nicholas King SJ ‘The Scandal of 11am Latin Mass in the traditional form 764291 for information Christian Disunion; a Biblical Approach.’ at Sacred Heart Church, Lobster Road, All welcome. Redcar, TS10 1SH 23-25 Fri-Sun 12 noon Sung Latin Mass, St Wilfrid’s, ‘Great Themes of the Old Testament’, Fr 29 Thurs Duncombe Place, York YO1 7EF Henry Wansborough. Contact Ampleforth 7.30pm-9pm The Pastoral Support Group 6pm Sung Latin Vespers and for further details for carers especially of people with Benediction, St Wilfrid’s, Duncombe mental ill health meets in Place, York YO1 7EF Middlesbrough. Contact: Margaret Jones,

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RYAN ZOLAKIO from Hull writes about his experience of Faith Summertime, which took place at Ampleforth Abbey. His report won first prize in a competition for the best press release. This year nearly 50 young people from all over Middlesbrough and Lancaster dioceses came over to Ampleforth Abbey to repent, pray and have fun while doing so. They were given the theme “Called and Sent” and participated in numerous talks and activities throughout this extraordinary week. They tackled some difficult questions and grew in new knowledge of their Catholic faith. On the first day the young people faced a difficult question that many adults wouldn’t know the answer to: “Can we be certain God exists?” The first speaker showed how science actually points to God. This is because science has proved and depends on the fact God is the Uncaused Cause who is participants understand why humans are such our Saviour to fulfil us and as our Redeemer that everything has a cause. In the past 100 responsible for all the causes. complex beings. We can do more things than to forgive and heal us and founded the years they have discovered how the universe animals because we have souls and are made Church to pass this on to us. began – the Big Bang – and that must have a On the second day there were two talks, “The in God’s image and likeness (in the words of cause too. The cause of the Big Bang is God. Soul” and “Sin”, which helped the Compline with the monks was a special Genesis) and thus we are a unity of body and highlight for all the young people. A new twist spirit. In the talk on sin they learnt how sin was given to the workshops with the young began when our first parents, given the people preparing quiz questions based on the First Holy Communions On The Moors names Adam and Eve in Genesis, introduced talks, which were then formed into a highly disharmony to God’s creation by doing competitive version of Who Wants to be a something they had been forbidden to do. So Millionaire? Families and friends from St Hedda, Egton Bridge, and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, they learnt the meaning of Original Sin and Lealholm, made their way across the moors on a beautifully sunny morning to join how we are all born with it because we are The young people had a great time learning parishioners at St Anne, Ugthorpe, to celebrate with Isobel, Grace, Millie, Thomas, Rhys, descendants of those first parents. about God and their Catholic faith. They also Charlie, Jack, Emily, Dominic, Luke, Annie, Eleanor, Gregory, Ethan and Joshua, who were went swimming and to Flamingo Land. Send Our last talk explained how Jesus is the making their First Holy your son or daughter to Ampleforth next year bridge between us and God who comes as Communion. Father Roger and I’m sure they’ll have a great time! Guiver was assisted by Reverend David Moss for a joyous and uplifting service. Celebrations continued in the Quiz Answers parish hall afterwards thanks Connection question: 1. Harry Webb 2. Kent 3. Joss Ackland 4. Flushing Meadows 5. Barry to the generosity of Cryer. parishioners who provided and served refreshments. Connection: Police officers in TV’s The Bill (DS Mickey Webb, PC Gabriel Kent, PC June Edna Hunneysett Ackland, DCI Jack Meadows, Sgt Bob Cryer. Thinking cap question: Current members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood and former members Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. Diocesan Suppliers Section

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