We are arranging a Flower Festival to celebrate our different Jubilees, with Flower Arrangers from all the different Catholic Parishes in the local area and with other local Christian churches
This will be held at St Joseph’s Church.
It will begin with a Short Service of Thanksgiving on the evening of Thursday 20th August.
The Church will be open throughout the day on Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd.
There will be a special Jubilee Mass on the evening of Monday 24th August.
The first of our parish meetings will take place on Saturday 12th September 2015 between 10am and 1pm in St. Cuthbert’s Parish Hall. This session will consider all of the questions for our response to the Diocese and will be divided into small group discussions as well as group exploration of the key questions. In the coming two months there will be much shorter sessions following each Sunday Mass (Including Vigil) but this session is the main event to consider the response to the Diocese. Would you please make a special effort to attend and put this in your diary?
Welcome to Fr Chris Hughes, new Parish Priest of St Cuthbert’s & St Joseph’s, North Shields. We look forward to working with Fr Chris in the Cluster for the years ahead. He will join the Cluster Council at its meeting on 30 September.
Speakers: Claire Childs, Archivist in Bermondsey and Jenny Smith, Archivist in Birmingham.
In 2014 to commemorate the Centenary of the start of the First World War, the Archivists of the Sisters of Mercy created a standing exhibition as well as an illustrated talk to recall the experiences and involvement of the Sisters, Priests and school children during WW1.
This is a story of real people living through war. Not the abstract ide of thousands of soldiers in trenches, but individuals- priests talking the Catholic Faith to the trenches, children suffering zeppelin attacks and sisters nursing. The exhibition and talk has been to many areas. The reactions to seeing the presentation have been very positive and have given us much encouragement.
The next day in this series will be this coming Saturday, 19 September, from 11am-3pm at St Aidan’s Church, Holy Island. The day will be lead by Alison Adam, a member of the Iona Community. The theme of the day will be ‘Psalms as Soul Food’. To book please contact either by e-mail: spirituality@diocesehn.org.uk or by phone: 0191 243 3302
We are holding a Coffee Morning in aid of MacMillan appeal on Wednesday 23rd September, 10:00am to 12:00 noon, at St. Cuthbert’s. The coffee Morning is the perfect chance to catch up over a cuppa and a slice of something delicious for a great cause. One in three of us will face cancer, and the money raised at the Coffee Morning will help MacMillan make sure no ne has to face it alone.
If anyone has any items for the agenda, can they please e-mail Fr. Chris, Linda Shotion (lindashotion@googlemail.com) or Ian Pearson by 17th September.