Sunday 11th February saw the Annual Hull Lourdes Sick Fund Rally for Hull and district at the church of Our Lady of Lourdes and St Peter Chanel in Hull. Due to Bishop John being unwell, the principal celebrant was Canon Michael Loughlin, the Episcopal Vicar for the city of Hull and the East Riding.
16:30 Mass for pilgrims, St Cosmos and Damien Chapel
17:00 Mass for sick pilgrims, Accueil
21:00 Marian Torchlight Procession
Morning Walking tours of Lourdes
11:00 Stations of the Cross, Bottom Stations
14:00 Opening Mass of the Pilgrimage, St Bernadette (Carmel)
17:00 Blessed Sacrament Procession, Underground Pius X
20:30 Welcome for Young Pilgrims, Hemicycle
21:00 Marian Torchlight Procession
10:00 Reconciliation Service, St Bernadette (Carmel)
14:00 Youth Mass, St Bernadette (Grotto)
17:00 Blessed Sacrament Procession, Underground Pius X
21:00 Marian Torchlight Procession
9:45 Mass with other English speaking Pilgrimages, Grotto
Diocesan Photograph, Basilica Steps
14:00 Baths
17:00 Blessed Sacrament Procession, Underground Pius X
20:00 Holy Hour Taize, St Joseph’s Chapel
21:00 Marian Torchlight Procession
10:30 Mass with Children’s Liturgy, St Bernadette (Carmel)
12:00 Excursion to Lac d’Estaing
17:00 Blessed Sacrament Procession, Underground Pius X
21:00 Youth Prayers, Hemicycle
21:00 Whole pilgrimage joins the Marian Torchlight Procession
09:30 Youth Trip to Mountains
10:00 International Mass, Underground Pius X
13:30 Shopping and Leisure
17:00 Blessed Sacrament Procession, Underground Pius X
19:00 Youth Party, Solitude Hotel
21:00 Marian Torchlight Procession
10:30 Anointing Mass, St Bernadette (Grotto)
14:00 Closing Ceremony and Blessing, St Bernadette (Grotto)
Whenever possible, it is best to avoid kerbs. Always try to use dropped kerbs or ramps. If you wish to negotiate kerbs unaided, do not do so until you have had proper instruction. Ask a nurse, handmaid or branc for help.
It is safer to go down a kerb backwards. It requires less strength and gives a gentler ride. Care needs to be taken though, because you will be stepping backwards into the road.
It is safer to go up a kerb forwards; it requires less strength and gives a gentler ride.
Never hang bags on the back of the wheelchair because this can make it unbalanced and more liable to tip over backwards.
Booking forms available NOW for air travel via Parishes or Father Brian Nicholson, Redcar. Hope to see you there.
Low Lane, Brookfield, Middlesbrough.
Any Handmaids interested in joining the 2007 Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes in May please come along.
Further details available from Helen Pennington, tel 01642 591623
Found in the James Cook University Hospital Coffee Bar
A fawn lightweight jacket with Lourdes Pilgrimage Badge and Millennium Badge pinned on the front
Please telephone (01642) 277096
Gypsy Lane, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough
Any nurses interested in joining the 2007 Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes in May, please come along. Further details available from Rachel Forgan, tel 01642 323236.
The Middlesbrough Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2007 needs you!
Are you willing to give up a week’s holiday, work as a nurse and actually pay for the experience? If the answer is yes then read on.
We are appealing for nurses to join us on our next pilgrimage to Lourdes (the dates for the 2007 pilgrimage are 25th May - 1st June). Nursing in Lourdes is a very unique and rewarding experience. Our role is to care for and meet the nursing needs of sick pilgrims from the Middlesbrough Diocese in the Accueil Notre Dame (a purpose built centre across the river from the Grotto). We work alongside a team of Doctors, Handmaids (female helpers), Brancardiers (male helpers) and school groups.
Our current team of nurses have a diverse range of backgrounds and experience and include Registered Nurses, Student Nurses and Health Care Assistants. If you are interested and would like further information please contact Rachel Forgan on 01642 323236 or e-mail rachel.forgan@btinternet.com
We would also like to appeal to anyone who is able to make a donation to part fund a Nurse who may require financial assistance to enable them to go to Lourdes. Many thanks.
Mike Boyes, Executive Director of the Middlesbrough Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes, writes
The Organising Committee for the Middlesbrough Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes has recently met and discussed tenders from three companies for the 2007 Pilgrimage. As a result of a full investigation of the submitted tenders and having considered all grounds especially the question of cost, the Committee has appointed Tangney Tours to be the agent for the Pilgrimage for both the 2007 and 2008 Pilgrimages. The latter Pilgrimage is, of course, the 150th anniversary of the apparitions in Lourdes to St Bernadette in 1858.
The Committee wish to record their sincere thanks to Bowen Travel Limited who have been our agents for the past three years. The Committee confirm that they have sought to obtain the best value whilst, at the same time, enabling our sick pilgrims to travel with an adequate number of helpers from Durham and Tees Valley Airport. Needless to say it is to be hoped that as many pilgrims will book for the 2007 and, indeed, the 2008 Pilgrimages and support the Diocesan Pilgrimage. The number of sick pilgrims that we can take to Lourdes is directly referable to the number of helpers who are able to join the Pilgrimage on the main flight from Durham and Tees Valley Airport.
In 2007 the City of Hull is celebrating the bi-centenary of the abolition of the UK slave trade. William Wilberforce, who was born in Hull and at 21 became the youngest person ever elected to the House of Commons, was responsible with others for the parliamentary bill that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK on 25 March 1807. The birthplace of William Wilberforce in the heart of Hull’s old town has become the first British Museum to tackle the subject of Slavery and its Abolition. There are websites about William Wilberforce and the continuing fight against slavery at www.hullcc.gov.uk/museums/wilberforce/index.php and www.wilberforce2007.co.uk
In 1980 the city twinned with Freetown, Sierra Leone, a city created especially for the return of liberated slaves. In doing this Hull was the first European city to twin with a city in a developing nation. Freetown today is still one of the world’s poorest cities. The Holy Cross parish in Cottingham is twinned with Our Lady, Star of the Sea parish in Freetown.
The Hull Lourdes Sick Fund have decided to commemorate this event by purchasing wheelchairs for use on the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes and other pilgrimages from the city. Each Hull parish will be asked to help in whatever way they wish and the appeal was launched formally at the Hull Lourdes reunion held at St Charles Church in the city on Saturday July 1st. Future plans include the placing of wheelchairs within the city for local use including the placement of a wheelchair in St Charles Church and one in the Holy Trinity Church with our friends from the Church of England. We are delighted that Bishop John has agreed to formally dedicate all the chairs at The Hull Lourdes reunion to be held on February 11th 2007 at the church of Our Lady of Lourdes and St Peter Chanel, Cottingham Road, Hull at 2 pm.
If you have a Hull or Lourdes connection and would like to help this appeal, please send your donations to The Hull Lourdes Sick Fund c/o G A Baker, 26 Finkle St, Cottingham, East Yorkshire, HU16 4AZ.
