Please help Phil support MYMission by sponsoring him (sponsorship form at the back of church).

To see why we need to support the Mission team visit mymission.org.uk

“Planted and built up in Jesus Christ, firm in the faith”
Saint Paul

World Youth Day is the Catholic Summer Festival of the year.

Initiated, by Pope John Paul II in 1985, World Youth Day brings together young people from across the globe to celebrate the Catholic faith with the Holy Father.

This year’s event is expected to attract up to two million young people from across the globe and the invitation extends to all young people, of all faiths and none.

This is the second time that Spain will host the event – World Youth Day 1989 was held in Santiago de Compostela.

Find out more about World Youth Day online by visiting madrid11.com

From 8.30am-2.30pm each day there will be Adoration in the College Chapel. On Tuesday St Clare’s parishioners (and others) are asked to be guardians of the Blessed Sacrament.

If you would like to be a guardian please sign the list at the back of church.

Of course, parishioners are welcome to join the Mass or Adoration on any day of the mission.

March 21 – 25 sees the MYMission Team working closely with our friends at Trinity Catholic College in Middlesbrough.

As the Mission takes place in the season of Lent we will be contemplating what it means to make a sacrifice. Of course, there is no better example of sacrifice than the one that Jesus himself made on the Cross. So we will be looking forward to Easter and seeing what the Passion of Our Lord can teach us.

We cannot contemplate the Cross of Jesus alone. It can only really be understood in the light of the last supper, and so we will spend time exploring what the Eucharist means to us. Part of our plans for the Mission include a celebration of the Eucharist for the whole school.

The Team is a creative, dynamic and initiative response to the needs of young people and the Church today.

They will work with well over 9000 young in the diocese this year. These young people come from a variety of places with mixed social and economic backgrounds.

Set up by Bishop Terry Drainey the Mission Team aims to preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God to young people so that they might know true freedom in relationship with Jesus Christ and live out that freedom as an active member of the Church community.

You can support the Mission Team in many ways, through prayer and volunteering time and also by making a gift.

Visit mymission.org.uk

The team will be based at St Thomas More’s but will serve the entire diocese. Team members will be fed and housed and will receive a small weekly allowance.

Anyone who is interested please contact Fr Paul Farrer on 01642 814564 or email
youthchaplain@middlesbrough-diocese.org.uk