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.

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)

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.