Appeals

The Day for Life

Posted by webmaster on Jul 25, 2010 in Appeals | 0 comments

There will be a retiring collection today for the Day for Life, the day, initiated by the late Pope John Paul II, when the Catholic Church in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales dedicates to celebrating the dignity of human life from conception to natural death.

Anselme Noumbiwa

Posted by webmaster on May 1, 2010 in Appeals, Justice and Peace | 0 comments

Prayers are urgently asked for Anselme who was deported on Wednesday to a very uncertain fate in the Cameroon.

Many of us will remember hearing Anselme speak here at St Clare’s.

Anselme will have arrived in Cameroon in fear for his life and without any means of support. He wasn’t even allowed to charge his mobile phone before deportation.

If anyone would like to make a donation, no matter how small, to help Anselme at this dreadful time please see Barbara, Gerry or Brian.

Priests’ Training Fund

Posted by webmaster on May 1, 2010 in Appeals | 1 comment

There will be a retiring collection today for the Priests’ Training Fund

We currently have three students discerning their vocation in seminary; one in the first year, one in the third and one in the fourth. The normal course is of six years duration.

• The cost of training a student to priesthood is £120,000
• Last year our collection raised £40,000
• We (the Diocese) had a legacy of £28,000

Today a new collection box for the Priests’ Training Fund is being launched.

Boxes are available in our parish; may I encourage each family to have a box in their home and support all the efforts being made to raise funds for the training of present and future priests for our Diocese.

Three of our priests have died in the past 18 months – Frs Jimmy Purcell, Austin O’Neill and Joe O’Brien; in total 146 years of priestly service.

Please remember them and all our priests in your prayers.

Lenten Soups

Posted by webmaster on Apr 4, 2010 in Appeals | 0 comments

The total raised for the CAFOD for the Haitian Earthquake Appeal £680.40.

Many thanks to St Margaret’s, Salvation Army and St Clare’s volunteers for all their support.

Copies of recipes used for the Lenten Soups are available to purchase at the back of church for only £1.

All proceeds to the CAFOD Haiti appeal!

Family Fast Day

Posted by webmaster on Mar 3, 2010 in Appeals, CAFOD, Event Calendar | 0 comments

There will be a retiring collection for CAFOD’s Family Fast Day after Masses on the weekend of 6th and 7th March 2010.

Thank you, St Clare’s School!

Posted by webmaster on Oct 29, 2009 in Appeals, Groups, Justice and Peace, Mary Thompson Fund, Schools and colleges, St Clare's School | 0 comments

The foods brought in for the Harvest Celebration in St Clare’s School have been very kindly donated to the Mary Thompson Fund, which supports refugees and asylum seekers in the Tees Valley many of whom receive no other support.