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    Meeting for Handmaids

    There will be a meeting for all Handmaids on February 2oth at 2pm, St Clare's Church, Low Lane, Brookfield, Middlesbrough. All handmaids, past and present are invited to attend. If you have never been a handmaid but would like to sign up, please come along, we would love to see you. The ...

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    Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Day Mass

    Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Day Mass

    The Annual Mass to celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes will take place on Thursday 11th February at 7pm. All pilgrims, past, present and future are welcome to gather together at St Joseph's Church, Marton Road, Middlesbrough. Canon Dan Spaight will be the main celebrant and Fr John Loughlin ...

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    Bishop Perrier on the Baths at Lourdes

    Bishop Parrier has launched an exciting redevelopment of the Baths at the Grotto in Lourdes. To read all about it click here.

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    Preliminary Application Form for Sick Pilgrims

    The Preliminary Application Form for Sick Pilgrims is now available to download in pdf form. Click here to download the Sick Pilgrim Application Form (known as the 'pink' form) (pdf). If you are using the pdf form please print it out, fill in the details and return it to the ...

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    2010 Booking Form Available Online

    2010 Booking Form Available Online

    The Booking Form and Brochure for the 2010 Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes is now available to download. Postal copies will be circulated this week. Application forms for those wishing to travel as registered sick pilgrims are also available. Click here for more information. Bishop Terry gives the following message: Dear Fellow Pilgrims, No ...

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    World Youth Day 2011 - Preparations begin!!

    World Youth Day 2011 - Preparations begin!!

    Bishop Terry launched Diocesan preparations for World Youth Day 2011 at the celebration Mass for National Youth Sunday this Nov 22nd. This massive event will take place in Madrid in the August of 2011 and is not to be missed! If you are 16+ by mid August 2011 and would like ...

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    HCPT Group 122 Diary Dates 2010

    Group 122 have announced two events for your diary: The HCPT Group 122 30th Anniversary Ball will be held on Saturday 3rd July 2010 at the Royal York Hotel. There will also be an 'Irish Night' to be held on Saturday 20th March in York (venue to be confirmed). For more information contact ...

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    Hospitalite and Helpers News

    Hospitalite and Helpers News

    Nomination Forms for election to the Hospitalite Council have now been sent out to all Lourdes Helpers. Together with a new questionnaire which aims to gather further information following our experience of the new team structure we used for the 2009 pilgrimage. Please take the time to complete and return the questionnaire ...

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    HCPT Group 122 - Our Diocesan Group

    HCPT Group 122 - Our Diocesan Group

    HCPT Group 122 is based at St Aelred's in York. Group Leader Claire Shanks met with former chaplain Fr Paul Farrer and Keith Tillotson, Head of Hospitailite to see how both the Diocesan Pilgrimage and Group 122 can help each other.The first step in creating a better realtionship and raising ...

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    Lourdes 2010 - With Bernadette We Make the Sign of the Cross

    Lourdes 2010 - With Bernadette We Make the Sign of the Cross

    Bishop Perrier has announced the 2010 Pastoral Theme and issued a set of notes for us to consider as we prepare for our pilgrimage. Click here to read the notes

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Meeting for Handmaids

There will be a meeting for all Handmaids on February 2oth at 2pm, St Clare’s Church, Low Lane, Brookfield, Middlesbrough.

All handmaids, past and present are invited to attend. If you have never been a handmaid but would like to sign up, please come along, we would love to see you.

The meeting will begin with the Rosary and end with some social time.

All welcome.

email the Head Handmaid here.

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Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Day Mass

The Annual Mass to celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes will take place on Thursday 11th February at 7pm.

All pilgrims, past, present and future are welcome to gather together at St Joseph’s Church, Marton Road, Middlesbrough.

Canon Dan Spaight will be the main celebrant and Fr John Loughlin will preach.

There will be a chance to meet up and chat over a cuppa after Mass and secure parking will be provided.

Our thank to Fr Pat Keogh, Parish Priest, for making us welcome. See you there!

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A poem for Lourdes

Jesus, on discovering his Mum’s plan to appear at Lourdes

Mother, I’ll do you a rosebush;
Yes, yes, I insist;
It’s the least I can do;
Just a wild one;
OK, just a little scraggy one,
In the cliff, for you to stand on.
It will be in flower;
I don’t care what month it is;
It’s going to be in flower.
Everything else is ready:
The place is the back of beyond,
So far back it’s beyond beyond and again;
No-one knows Beyond goes that far back.
We’ve done stable,
We did that together;
This time you’re doing the tip;
The hospital tip:
Stuff that should be incinerated;
Some of it may be smouldering
And it’ll all be stinking and putrid.
You’ll find an illiterate peasant-girl –
No, she’s not stupid, just illiterate,
And sickly, she’s got asthma, poor lass!
And poor! Her family are so poor
Even the rest of the parish feel sorry for them.
So I’ve got to do something for you,
Something special,
Just a little straggly rose bush
And roses on your feet,
To show you’re special,
My mum,
The queen of heaven,
Talking to a peasant girl
Beside the hospital tip
In Massabielle,
Outside Lourdes, in the Pyrenees,
At the back of beyond.

So God comes, to redeem
Even the stinking corners of our lives
And even the hard, barren rocks.

F Mary Simpson

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Bishop Perrier on the Baths at Lourdes

Bishop Parrier has launched an exciting redevelopment of the Baths at the Grotto in Lourdes. To read all about it click here.

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2010 Booking Form Available Online

GrottoThe Booking Form and Brochure for the 2010 Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes is now available to download. Postal copies will be circulated this week. Read More »

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World Youth Day 2011 – Preparations begin!!

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Bishop Terry launched Diocesan preparations for World Youth Day 2011 at the celebration Mass for National Youth Sunday this Nov 22nd.

This massive event will take place in Madrid in the August of 2011 and is not to be missed! If you are 16+ by mid August 2011 and would like to join us for a life-changing experience find out more by clicking here.

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HCPT Group 122 Diary Dates 2010

Saturday March 20, 2010
12:00 amto11:00 pm

Group 122 have announced two events for your diary:

The HCPT Group 122 30th Anniversary Ball will be held on Saturday 3rd July 2010 at the Royal York Hotel.

There will also be an ‘Irish Night’ to be held on Saturday 20th March in York (venue to be confirmed).

For more information contact claire.shanks@sky.com

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Hospitalite and Helpers News

Middlesbrough Diocesan Lourdes PilgrimageNomination Forms for election to the Hospitalite Council have now been sent out to all Lourdes Helpers. Read More »

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Thanks for the Hospitalite!

Middlesbrough Diocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage

Thank you to everyone who attended the first annual Hospitalite Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral in September. This was the first Hospitalite event in our Diocese but it will be followed by other events to enable us to bring the spirit of Lourdes to the Diocese on a year round basis and not just for a week in May. Click here to read our constitution. Read More »

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Pilgrimage dates on new web page

Friday May 28, 2010 8:00 amtoFriday June 4, 2010 8:00 pm

Fr Paul has set up a new web page for details of the 2010 Middlesbrough Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Details will be linked to this page.

The pilgrimage will take place from 28th May until 4th June.

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