Happy New Year

I do hope and pray this year brings you many blessings and that you also have had the chance to reflect on the good things which may have come your way last year – it’s all too easy to remember the bad, difficult and challenging.

 Fr Adrian

WELCOME

This website is currently developing as our four parishes develop their new relationship and partnership.

Our four parishes strive to serve God and his people in the Tyne and Derwent Valleys.  We believe that our faith can help to make us better people, caring for others while on our journey to our heavenly home. We respect and keep safe all who come to join us, what ever their circumstances. As the Catholic Church, we welcome everyone, inspired by the words of Pope Francis in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti: 

Of the counsels (St) Francis offered, I would like to select the one in which he calls for a love that transcends the barriers of geography and distance, and declares blessed all those who love their brother “as much when he is far away from him as when he is with him”.  In his simple and direct way, Saint Francis expressed the essence of a fraternal openness that allows us to acknowledge, appreciate and love each person, regardless of physical proximity, regardless of where he or she was born or lives.”

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For details of this week's services and Masses, please see this week's newsletter  

Please remember in your prayers at this time...

All those in our parishes who are sick, including: 

Deacon Derek Gallagher, Jenny Burns, Simon Burns, Pat Butler, Chloe Cant, Tommy Carr, Valeria Coleman, Shirley Cresci, Eleanor Dobson, Stephen Duffy, Jack & Ellen Goodfellow, Michael Hogan, Michelle Horrocks, John James, Sienna Jane McNestry, Fr Alan Macknight, Terry Meadows, Norah Parker, Annette Pinota, Frances Renwick, Norah Rogers, Barbara Wray, Kathleen Diamond.

• Rosie Kane who was Baptised in St Joseph’s, Blaydon on Saturday 28^th
• Kathleen Burns whose funeral took place on Tuesday last week.
• Kathleen McGurk, formerly of St Joseph’s, Blaydon, who died recently
• Fr Kevin Cummins, formerly PP of St Oswald's, Wrekenton,  who died recently.

Please contact the parish office requesting the name of the person to be included in the published list for people who are sick/housebound. Only the named person, or their next of kin/close relative, is permitted to give permission for their name to be included in the published list in the newsletter. Please inform us if someone’s name can be removed from the list.

Cycle of Prayer

During this season of Advent and Christmas, we pray especially for:

• Openness to the Word of God especially on Bible Sunday (2nd Sunday of Advent)
• Migrants and Refugees, especially on Migrant's Day (3 December)
• Expectant Mothers, especially on 4th Sunday of Advent

Pope Francis has announced that 2025 will be a year of Jubilee, and the theme is “Pilgrims of Hope”.  It will be a year of pilgrimage and prayer, celebration and reconciliation and we’ll be opening the Jubilee Year in our Diocese with celebrations at our 2 Jubilee Hub Churches  (Sunday 29th December). Bishop Stephen will be celebrating Mass and opening the Holy Door at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Newcastle at 11.30am and at St. Joseph’s Hartlepool at 4.00pm. Everyone is welcome. There’s more information about the Jubilee Year on the Diocesan website at https://www.bit.ly/DHNjubilee2025.

Click HERE to find out more about how our diocese is responding to the Holy Father's call.