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2008 is the 150th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to 14 year-old Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes. Many people from the Clifton Diocese have experienced Lourdes since then and to celebrate cliftondiocese.com brings you a series of podcasts about the world famous shrine. Published every Saturday, our podcasts tells the stories of people in and round the Clifton Diocese who have been to Lourdes. This week we hear from Father Richard McKay, who tells an amazing tale.
Bishop Declan is inviting people to a special event which is part of Clifton Cathedral’s year-long series of environmental events - Sound of Many Waters. The Bishop is hosting a dawn chorus - in his back garden and part of series of activities on Sunday 6 April.
Read more about Experience the Dawn Chorus in the Bishop’s Garden »
The leading organiser of Clifton Cathedral’s Sound of Many Waters - the year of environmental events - will be on the radio this Sunday (30 March). Mary Colwell will be a guest on the BBC’s ‘Sunday Starts’. Tune in to find out about the dawn chorus in the Bishop’s garden.
cliftondiocese.com caught up with the Director of Ongoing Formation for Priests in the Clifton Diocese, Father Christopher Whitehead. Our podcast features Father Christopher in conversation about his role and the benefits it brings to the Catholic community in the West of England.
A priest of the Clifton Diocese visited the oldest, purpose-built, continuously operated cinema in the world. Father Robert King visited the cinema as part of his new voluntary role as reviewer for a radio show.
Read more about Curious Curzon Visit for Father Robert’s Review »
The Sisters of La Retraite (Britain and Ireland) announce the death of Sister Grace Major (Mother Mary Joseph) who died very peacefully, age 99, on 25 March in the Burnham Nursing and Residential Home.
World Youth Day 2008 (WYD08) will provide specially designed vestments for the world’s Cardinals, Bishops, priests and deacons to wear during the week-long event in July. The Clifton Diocese priest who will be chaplain to a group of around 20 young pilgrims from our diocese lets us know his thoughts.
cliftondiocese.com brings you a special podcast from Lourdes. Father James Finan the Assistant Priest at Holy Rood in Swindon is Chaplain to a group of disabled children on pilgrimage in France. We caught up with Father James on the phone this morning (26 March 2008).
Prior Park Catholic College’s Rosie Pinches has achieved well deserved success with her harp this month. She first entered the Annual Oswestry Youth Music Festival and came away with the Jill Bowler Cup for Under 19s and the John Cassin Memorial Trophy for Under 25s.
Images, music and news from around the Clifton Diocese have been sent into cliftondiocese.com, illustrating the celebrations that have taken place during Easter.
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