Wednesday 26 January 2011

St (Padre) Pio Day - Bradford



On Saturday a group of us travelled to Bradford to visit the Franciscan Friars for one of their Padre Pio days.


It was a great day with a cheeky little stop at Xscape on the way there.



We arrived at the friary just in time for a quick drink and a biscuit, then moved over to the Church for a talk given by Fr Augustine on the Sacrament of Confession. He spoke of the encounter with Christ we have when we approach the Sacraments. It was good to be reminded that "Confession makes you happy." He also reminded us that we need to be aware of sin and the importance of the Ten Commandments.


After the talk we stayed in Church ready for Holy Mass after which we went back over to the friary for a cup of tea and chance to meet lots of new people. After refreshments it was time to go back into church. Time of prayer in front of Jesus present in the Blessed Sacrament during which time everyone was inspired to experience the joy of confession. The Holy hour finished with Benediction then back to the friary for chili.








Friday 21 January 2011

Josh and Jess WYD 2011 Madrid - Why I can't wait!

Josh and Jess gave a little talk tonight on why they are looking forward to World Youth Day, I think these videos sum it up.......

Thursday 20 January 2011

Spring Programme


Please note error on programme: Both groups Friday 21st June - Jess and Josh go to world youth day. Should read - 21st January. (Not 21st June)

Friday 11th June Apostleship of the sea. This is actually on 11th March!

Saturday 15 January 2011

Welcome Back

We had our first meeting of the new year last night, and we had a pretty good turn out.


We had a few birthdays to catch up with - so this = CAKE!

A few of us got to work decorating our new question box. Every week this will be available for posting any questions we might have regarding our faith but just don't like to ask. Then once a month we'll tackle these questions.

Before Christmas one of our projects was to send Christmas cards and a letter to some of our house bound parishioners. Sadly one of these ladies has recently died so we remembered to pray for her along with all the recently departed in our night prayers.

Monday 10 January 2011

Faith Winter Conference - Stonyhurst- 2010














Youth club resume tomorrow (14th Jan), but since we finished for Christmas it seems we haven't stopped.
Between Christmas and New Year a group of us attended the Faith winter conference. Which as always was really good. the theme for the talks this conference was "Lord teach us to pray" (Lk 11:1). Hopefully very soon one of our young people will write a report on their experience for the blog - until then hopefully the photographs will suffice.