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.