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Dedication of Cadeby Main Colliery Pit Wheel
On Saturday, 26 January, 2019, the Cadeby Main Colliery Pit Wheel was dedicated near Kilners Bridge in Denaby Main. Denaby Main was originally a company village built by the Denaby Main Colliery Company Ltd. Denaby Main Colliery began production in 1868 mining coal from the Barnsley Main seam. Cadeby Main Colliery began production in 1893, … [Read More...]
Society of St Vincent de Paul – Changing Lives
Recent articles about the St Vincent de Paul Society – SVP – have covered a range of aspects of the society including its founder, its history and more recently how it works and what it does locally. This article is the start of an occasional series presenting factual accounts of SVP activity, taken from the SVP publication ‘Changing Lives’, where … [Read More...]
Renewing the Liturgy: Six Simple Steps, 3 and 4
At the annual gathering of the priests of the Diocese last October the speaker was Tom O’Loughlin, Professor of Historical Theology at Nottingham University. Tom gave the priests of the Diocese Six Simple Steps which could go some way to achieving Vatican II’s vision in our celebration of the Eucharist. This month we take a look at steps 3 and … [Read More...]
SVP – What we do in Hallam
Readers may have been following the history of the Society of St Vincent de Paul in recent editions and will therefore be aware of its early years, its development over the last 175 years and the nature of the organisation it is today. Last month’s article focused on the reason why people volunteer to help those in need and this month the focus is … [Read More...]
Renewing the Liturgy: Six Simple Steps, 1 and 2
At the annual gathering of the priests of the Diocese last October the speaker was Tom O’Loughlin, Professor of Historical Theology at Nottingham University. Tom gave the priests of the diocese Six Simple Steps which could go some way to achieving Vatican II’s vision in our celebration of the Eucharist. This month we take a look at the first … [Read More...]
Celebration Mass and LGTB Ministry
We gathered on Sunday, 9 December at the Bar Convent, York to celebrate the first anniversary of the inauguration of the new ministry that gives an explicit welcome to LGBT+ Catholics, their families and friends. Every second Sunday of the month since December, 2017, the Sisters of the Bar Convent have welcomed hundreds from across the north of … [Read More...]
Memorial Mass at St William of York
St William of York Parish, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield invites families of all whose funerals have taken place in the parish during the year to come to a November Saturday Memorial Mass. On arrival, everyone lights a candle for their deceased friends and loved ones who are mentioned by name during Mass in the prayer of the faithful. Lunch in the … [Read More...]
St Mary and St Joseph, Worksop SVP 40th Anniversary
December 2018 saw the 40th anniversary of the Society of St Vincent de Paul at St Mary and St Joseph’s, Worksop. Established in 1978, this conference has been working hard over the decades to fulfil the mission of the society to seek out and help those in need, and is still going strong today. To celebrate this landmark occasion the conference … [Read More...]
Hallam Young Chaplaincy Leaders
The students involved in the Hallam Young Chaplaincy Leaders project For the second year running the Hallam Young Chaplaincy Leaders got together to fundraise and to purchase rucksacks for homeless people living on the streets of Sheffield. The rucksacks were filled with useful items and then brought to All Saints Catholic High School, where … [Read More...]
Climate Change Conference 2018
Climate Change Conference 2018 Help Save Father Christmas’s Reindeer! … a Personal Reflection Rita McManus On 11 December, 2018, with thirty-four fellow CAFOD climate campaigners, I returned from an overland trip to Katowice (pronounced ..tsay) in Poland. We were there to raise concerned voices during the UN Climate Change Conference known by … [Read More...]