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Parish News and Announcements  

Lunch Club will start again on Wednesday 3rd  September as usual at 12pm in the Jubilee room at St. Joseph's.  We look forward to seeing guests and helpers again!

Pat Conway 07943016225

 

And so it’s back to school. I hope all our teachers have enjoyed a good summer break: the hottest on record and so while long distance travel may have been part of some of our plans, I’m sure those who stayed home were not disappointed.

 

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

    

Our Holy Island pilgrimage will be a great day and I look forward especially to celebrating Mass for the first time on the Island.

 

St. Joseph’s cleaning. Can we have volunteers for a church cleaning rota ? It’s your church.  

 

We gave the go ahead this week for the new windows at St. Josephs. As you can see, it is also in need of painting. 

 

Worth watching Pope Leo’s response to recent Trump administration’s migration handling. They are on YouTube, but also on parish website. A prophetic message for us all, especially in these days of misinformation.

 

Also worth watching is Historian William Dalrymple’s damning indictment on western leaders’ lack of response re Gaza. See his 5 minute speech at St. James’s Church, Piccadilly. ‘Historian William Dalrymple Speaks about Gaza’


The end is in sight of the most blatant act of vandalism I have witnessed in my time in this parish, when access will be restored to us to the Sherburn Road next month. Deo Gratias. May it never happen again.

 

Finally I quote  the Stoic Philosopher, and sadly relevant :

 

‘And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.’

Persius

 
About Us 

The parish of the Durham Martyrs incorporates the Catholic churches of Our Lady of Mercy and St Godric, St Bede and St Joseph (Gilesgate) in Durham City. We are part of the Finchale Partnership and based within the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.

Addressess

St. Bede,

St Godric's RC Primary School,

Carrhouse Drive,

Durham

DH1 5LZ 

Our Lady of Mercy

and St Godric

Castle Chare
Durham
DH1 4RA

St Joseph

Mill Lane
Durham
DH1 2JG

Contact 

Marjorie, the Parish Secretary's working hours are 8:30am -4:00pm Tues - Fri. If you email outside these hours you will receive a response when Marjorie is back in the office. 

07483 369 561

​durham.martyrs@diocesehn.org.uk

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