Tickets, at £5 each, for the main fund raiser of the year are now available for Friday 25th July at the Marton Hotel and Country Club, Middlesbrough from 7:30 to midnight. The First Annual Lourdes “Do” is a re-union, fund raiser for the Diocesan Pilgrimage Sick Fund, family fun event, ceilidh and disco all rolled into one. Entry tickets are individually numbered and include a free tombola for children and a free draw for a meal for 4 courtesy of the Blue Bell Hotel, Middlesbrough. There will also be a bottle tombola and a raffle draw for a Wii with games, plus flat screen TV. Tickets for this raffle will be available at various events and on the night.
So when and where can you get tickets for the “Do” and the raffle?
Moving and Handling Course for Nurses, Handmaids and Brancs on 27th April 1pm
Lourdes Music Day, St Thomas More, Middlesbrough 10th May from 11am
Pre-Pilgrimage Mass in St Joseph’s, Newby on 11th May at 10am
Pre-Pilgrimage Mass in Sacred Heart, Hull on 11th May at 2pm
Pre-Pilgrimage Mass in St Thomas More’s, Middlesbrough 18th May at 3pm
Permanence No. 8, Lourdes Domain, Sunday-Thursday during Pilgrimage.
Plus “Do” tickets from
The Knights Club Middlesbrough
Fr Paul Farrer
And some parishes will have them, watch this space.
Tickets for the “Do” and raffle from Andrew Lombard, 01642 475714.

Lourdes was a very different place on Monday 11th February 2008 to the town it had been on the same day in 1858. On the Prairie opposite the Grotto, where Our Lady appeared for the first time to Bernadette, about 70,000 people descended for Mass. Over 800 priests and 25 bishops attended the Mass with pilgrims from all over the world. The day was cold, as you would expect for February, but the sun shone and people were just happy to be there.

Paul Griffiths will be arranging the first meetings for 2008 of all Brancardiers and anyone interested in our work very shortly.

This year was not the first time I had taken part in the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes: I had been previously as part of the Newlands group in 1998 and also with a group of college friends, taking part in the music group in 2000, so I thought I knew what to expect, but this year turned out to be very different.

photo of new St Therese School banner

Thanks to Christine Renshaw of St Thérèse of Lisieux Primary School, Ingleby Barwick for the photo of the new school banner.

It was the first time that their school banner had been taken to Lourdes.

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16.06.06

Dear Editor

I would like to express my most sincere and heartfelt thanks to the Diocesan Youth who worked so hard, always with a smile and caring manner, to negotiate a wheelchair with a will of its own around the town and the Domain during the Diocese of Middlesbrough Pilgrimage to Lourdes.

These young people who were from various schools and colleges are a credit to their parents and school teachers, long may they keep their lights lit.

Yours sincerely

Marguerite Nicklin
on behalf of Anita Fildes, lady in the wheelchair
and Margaret Robson