Sunday 22 November 2009


Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King - National Youth Sunday 2009 - York

Monday 16 November 2009

Making Banners

We had a change of location this week, due to the parish jumble sale. So our thanks to the staff who run the hall down at St Wilfrid’s for allowing us the use of the hall.

This week we helped out the Hull evangelisation team by creating banners for their Advent project. During Advent they will be going out on to the city centre streets, prompting people to think about the real meaning of Christmas. Hopefully our banners will give a focal point and a base from which they can pass on the ‘Good News’.



Lots of careful planning went on with the help of David.




It takes great skill, to mix the paints to get just the right shade of errr brown.




Down to work!


The finished products.


Sunday 15 November 2009

Faith Youth Day - Scarborough (31/10/09)




(Sorry for the delay in getting this post out)

Most of us have been on many an enjoyable 'Faith Youth Day', So it didn't take much encouragement to get together nearly thirty of us to join Fr William and his new parishioners for Scarborough's first ever Faith Youth Day.

After refreshments on arrival (thank you for all the yummy cakes), we had our main talk "Can I be certain that God exists?"
Many people today, think that science has disproved the existence of God. This could not be further from the truth. So it was good to be reminded of the important key facts with which we can give our reasons for believing.

Later there was the opportunity for confession and it was great that so many young people wanted to go; there had to be a second sitting (for want of a better word) after Mass.

Mass was followed by lunch, then there was a choice of activities,some of the more sporty types played football or basketball and for those who preferred a gentler form of exercise there was a walk along the sea front.

Later in the afternoon we heard from Sophie Ward and Nathan Too (two of our young people who have been coming for many years now) "Why I Still Go To Mass."

The day finished with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Sunday 8 November 2009

All Saints Party




This week we held our All Saints Party. It is the third year running we have held this event and each year it gets better.



After our opening prayers, some of our Saints came forward to give a brief description of themselves: St Paul turned up with his sword,











St Lucy - with her eyes in a dish.

















St Agnes could not find a sheep so brought a woolly jumper instead.















St Frances Cabrini was a bit too fashion conscious and kept using her veil as a scarf.





















It was good to see Blessed Mother Theresa along with St Francis of Assisi. And James was a very convincing St Thomas Moore.









As it is November; the month of the Holy Souls. We made a visit to our make shift cemetery, along the way we had a torch light procession and recited the litany of the saints.


After it was time for some Saint related games and a Saint quiz.





For a treat we had - blood of the martyrs Soup (Tomato) , Saint Cakes and as the Saints are our hero's we also shared a big box of Cadbury's Heroes.

Saturday 24 October 2009

Saturday 17 October 2009

Cinder Toffee

Every year Hull fair, one of Europe's largest travelling fun fairs comes to Hull and it's a major event for young people in Hull. One of the youth asked if we could mark the visit of Hull fair by making Toffee Apples at youth group but everybody knows the trouble with toffee apples is after you eat the toffee you have to eat an apple as well (some kind of parental ruse).

So... We made cinder toffee instead.

Cinder toffee is mostly made of sugar (shhhh! don't tell the parents!)

After boiling up sugar, butter and golden syrup in a pan you add vinegar and bicarbonate of soda which fizzes up and causes the bubbly goodness.

Yum!
I would like to tell you that we finished the evening with a profound moral lesson based upon the experience of making cinder toffee but we played ping pong instead!

Tuesday 13 October 2009

St Therese of Lisieux


Dispite it being Hull Fair week several of the younger group turned up for youth club. The week before many of our older youth went to see the relics of St Therese Lisieux in Middlesbrough so it seemed appropriate for one of the older group to give a talk about St Therese and the trip to see the relics.





It was not only a good talk but he also answered questions about St Therese and relics really well.

Naturally there was plenty of time for games, and once they were all sugared up and tired out we sent them home.

Sunday 4 October 2009

St Therese Of Lisieux - Visit to Middlesbrough








On Friday 2nd Of October 30 of our children and young people travelled to Middlesbrough Cathederal for the visit of the relics of St Therese.

Want to find out more about the visit of the relics to England? You can learn More here

More Pictures from the Catholic Church of England and Wales

Sunday 27 September 2009

New Beginnings











Unfortunately, we do not have very good photographs of tonight's meeting as the camera was playing up, so apologies for the blurry photographs.
We had the opportunity to meet two new people tonight: firstly our new diocesan youth worker, David. Some of us had a chance to say hello and have a little chat before we got started.
Mass was celebrated tonight in St Joseph's by our new parish priest, Fr John Wood, so we all trooped across to Church.
After Mass it was back to the hall for a bit of free time to socialise. During this time we unpacked the fabulous new table tennis table, that had arrived during the week. Only to find it was a million piece self assembly job. (Fr William makes his presence felt, even when not here!), this however did not deter us, David along with some of the older group members set to work - and after an SOS call for a screw driver and a visit from Mr A the table soon started to take shape.
Fr John popped in to see us, and was given a big WHP welcome along with a card signed from the group.
This Friday was one of those nights, when nothing goes quite according to plan, so the intended power point presentation on St Therese didn't happen due to a technical hitch. However I am sure that after our visit to Middlesbrough next Friday for the visit of the relics of St Therese, we will all be even more inspired to learn more about her.
We concluded the evening with our closing prayer, after which a small group of us went down to Our Lady of Lourdes, Hessle, to spend some time in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.

Saturday 19 September 2009

Farewell Fr William






























































It hardly seems like yesterday that we were welcoming Fr William into our parish, and yet so much has happened since he arrived that it hardly seems possible that we are saying good-bye.



Last night at youth group we all got together to give Fr William a great send off.


We started the evening with our opening prayers, followed by some games out on the lawn. We then watched a fantastic DVD, complied by Ian of all the events that we have shared with Fr, in the last five years.



Party food came next followed by the presentation to Fr William of a huge photo album crammed with memories.


Then a big surprise from Fr, a present to the youth group of a table tennis table. Thank You So Much!


Next came - (you've guessed it ) - cake!


The evening concluded with prayers and a Blessing from Fr.


We thank Fr for all that he has done for us, it was through him the youth group started, but its now time for us to let other people have a share of his talents. The best present we can give him is to continue to grow strong in the Faith and to be good faithful Catholics, to support our youth group, our parish and our new parish priest.




In this year for priests, remember to pray for all our priests.



We look forward to meeting up with Fr William at future events and perhaps youth group trips to the seaside (for those who don't know - he's going to Scarborough).




Next week we welcome Fr John to our parish.



To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 3:1)


Saturday 12 September 2009

Belated Birthday Bash


During the week, we celebrated the birthday of Our Blessed Lady. So we thought it was only fitting at this weeks youth group to have a bit of a celebration.


What do bithdays mean - CAKE!


Ella kindly baked some "blue" buns, which we had fun decorating. When I say blue buns I'm not referring to the icing, they where BLUE BUNS! As Fr William said, "Hmmm they taste quite nice if you close your eyes."
Feast of The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary - 8th September - Learn More here.

Friday 17 July 2009

Older Group - Summer Finale







Not only did we finish the summer term with a BBQ, we helped Fr William celebrate the anniversary of his ordination.