Looking Ahead

SUNDAY 15 AUGUST – Assumption of Our Lady

3.00 pm Annual Assumption Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Mount Grace. The main celebrant will be The Rt Rev Mgr Canon Gerard Dasey, Vicar General and the Preacher will be the Very Rev Dom Colin Battel OSB the Prior of Ampleforth. Rosary at 2.30 pm.

 

TUESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 7.30pm Churches Together meeting at Great Ayton Methodist Church.

 

WEDNESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 7.30 pm ‘Mary Ward an Extraordinary Yorkshire Woman’ and presentation by Pam Eillis organised by the Adult Formation Planning Group.

 

THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 11.00 am Autumn Ladies Lunch in aid of Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice at the Thistle Hotel, Middlesbrough. For tickets at £20.00 telephone 457985.

 

SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER – Study Day at Askham Bryan College, York for all Ministers of Holy Communion.

10.30 am – 4.00 pm Retreat Day at Wycliffe for all members of the Parish Youth Group.

SUNDAY 12 SEPTEMBER

Day of Prayer for Racial Justice

Second Collection for the Retired Priest’s Welfare Fund

SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

Second Collection for Home Mission Sunday

WEDNESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 7.30 pm The Cleveland Newman Circle have inited Proffessor Lewis Ayres from Durham University to speak on ‘Pope Benedict XVI – the influence of Augustine’ at St Mary’s Cathedral – all welcome.

 

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 25/26 SEPTEMBER

A Mission Appeal will be made at all our Masses this weekend by members of the Volunteer Missionary Movement.

SUNDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 5.30 pm Youth Group ‘Bring your Thing’ Meeting to which Father Paul Farrer, the Diocesan Youth Chaplain has been invited.

FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER – Autumn Fast Day

 

SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER – Harvest Festival

3.00 pm There will be a Mass of Thanksgiving in St Mary’s Cathedral for Fifty Years of the CAFOD Fast Day – all welcome.

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER 9.00 am -1.00 pm Workshop on “Antony and Cleopatra” by William Shakespeare in St Joseph’s Hall. This is an exploration of a drama about Ancient Egypt, politics, love and many more intriguing Shakespearean themes. The workshop is in aid of Wolisso Hospital, Ethiopia. The hospital is remarkable, offering a gradually-increasing amount of health services to more than a 1,000,000 extremely-poor Ethiopians. Every penny makes a significant contribution to developing aid in this heroic, Catholic hospital. RSVP Eileen Driver: email eileendriver@hotmail.co.uk or 01642 713505

 

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER 5.00 pm Members of the Parish Youth Group will take part in ‘Get Connected’ at St Thomas More Church in Middlesbrough.

 

SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER – World Mission Sunday

Second Collection for Missions

 

SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER – Study Day for all ministers of the Word at Askham Bryan College, York

SUNDAY 31 OCTOBER – All Saints Day

TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER – All Souls Day

10.00 am Mass at St Margaret’s

7.00 pm Mass at St Joseph’s

SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER – Remembrance Sunday

5.00 pm Members of the Parish Youth Group will take part in ‘Get Connected’ at St Thomas More Church in Middlesbrough.

 

SUNDAY 21 NOVEMBER – Christ the King

National Youth Sunday, Day of Prayer for Prisoners, Second Collection for Youth Work

SUNDAY 28 NOVEMBER – Advent Sunday

5.30 pm The Parish Youth Group will meet in St Joseph’s Hall.

 

FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER – Day of Prayer for Migrants and Refugees

SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER – Bible Sunday

SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER 5.30 The Parish Youth Group will meet in St Joseph’s Hall.

SUNDAY 19 DECEMBER – Day of Prayer for Expectant Mothers

FRIDAY 24 DECEMBER – CHRISTMAS EVE

6.30 pm Vigil Mass at St Margaret’s

12.00 am Midnight Mass at St Joseph’s

SATURDAY 25 DECEMBER – CHRISTMAS DAY

9.00 am Dawn Mass at St Joseph’s

10.30 am Christmas Day Mass at St Margaret’s

Please note there will not be a 6.30 pm Vigil Mass of Sunday on Christmas day.

 

SUNDAY 26 DECEMBER – FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY

9.00 am Mass at St Joseph’s

10.30 am Mass at St Margaret’s

SUNDAY 6 MARCH 11.30 am North Yorkshire County Council Civic Service in Stokesley Parish Church. This celebration takes place during the Chairmanship of the County Council by Caroline Seymour who is a resident of Stokesley.

 

SATURDAY 19 MARCH 10.00 am Parish Quiet Day at Ampleforth Abbey – more details available nearer to time.

 

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