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July 2010

  • Five Years of Marriage
  • Pay Rome a Virtual Visit
  • Why should we participate in the Liturgy
  • The Birmingham Three: A Second Open Letter
  • Liturgy for Laity
  • Arriva Roma
  • Liturgy for Priests
  • Cardinal Arinze: Know Your Faith
  • Onslaught
  • Wanted: New Sacristan for the Birmingham Oratory
  • Same Sex Unions: Who knows?
  • Prayer Meme
  • Encouraging Violence in Christian Children
  • Liturgies outside the Mass
  • John Paul II on the Family
  • Liturgy and the Holy Trinity
  • My Three Favourite Prayers
  • Liturgy in Heaven
  • Middlesbrough Diocese Walk for Vocations
  • Liturgy of Hours
  • World Cup Mass: Priest Suspended
  • Well done James!
  • Liturgical Year
  • Endangered Species
  • Liturgy in the Mass
  • Fr Richard Duffield: Two Weeks of Silence
  • Liturgical Balance
  • The Injustice of Inju5tice
  • Via Romea
  • Things have Changed
  • What is the Liturgy?
  • Sunday Morning Live
  • Liturgical Entertainment
  • The Church as a Sacrament
  • The Oratorillennium Bug
  • Jesus the First Sacrament
  • We want schools, housing and jobs. Is that it?
  • More on the Mass at St Charles
  • The Mass - A Sacrament
  • Attack of the Earthenware Vessles
  • Get Used to Life
  • Sung Mass in the Usus Antiquior in Hull
  • Catholic Book Reviews
  • The Seven Sacraments
  • Archbishop Vincent Nichols: I don't know...
  • The Birmingham Three: How therefore could there have been a verdict?
  • Feathers and Jewels and Butterfly's. Oh My!
  • Participating in the Sacraments
  • The Birmingham Three: Disagreements About The Beatification
  • What is a Sacrament?
  • The Birmingham Three: Bring Them Home

June 2010

  • BBC West Midlands
  • Concluding my thoughts on suffering
  • The Situation in Belgium... The Situation Here?
  • Catholic Mom of 10 on Haitus (again)
  • Joining our suffering to Christ's
  • Papal Visit Communication Officers Training
  • Argos Customer Service
  • Revealed: The Real Plan for the Papal Visit
  • Can babies feel pain at 24 weeks?
  • The Passion of Jesus Christ and Suffering
  • Isaiah and Suffering
  • There are no problems with the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales
  • Earliest Icons of the Apostles Discovered
  • Dopplegangers
  • The Book of Job and Suffering
  • Bernie to meet the Pope
  • Sin and Suffering
  • St John Fisher and St Thomas More
  • The Fall and Suffering
  • Stonewalling at the Birmingham Oratory
  • Omnipotent God
  • Archbishop Nichols: Putting words in Pope Benedict's mouth?
  • Archbishop Nichols: Understand the delicacy of the mission...
  • Please don't rock the boat...
  • Papal Visit Propaganda: Don't Mention Abortion!
  • Papal Visit Booklet: Designed by a three year old?
  • Mary - Symbol of the Church
  • The Tablet: 'there are grounds for reconsidering the Catholic Church’s present position on abortion'
  • Newman: Nature is a Parable
  • You are the salt of the earth...
  • Everything is an opportunity for Evangelisation
  • The Hail Mary - Symbol of the Church
  • Can we use the media for evangelisation?
  • Ella's Pink Hair
  • Colourful Pub Signs
  • Have you ever seen a bumble bee in the rain?
  • Mary - The Assumption
  • Birmingham Oratory: Am I just being paranoid?
  • Mary - The Second Eve
  • Do they even know what 'primary educators' means?
  • A Shark Infested Baptism
  • Damian Thompson: The papal visit in in jeopardy
  • Fighting for the real Cardinal Newman
  • Young Catholic Adults at Douai Abbey
  • Christoph Schönborn: Liturgical Crazy?
  • Mary and the Eucharist
  • Cool pictures of facepainted hands...
  • How Crayons are (were) made...
  • Lego Felt Tip Printer
  • Writing to the Vatican is hard...
  • Flashback: Looking at Youth Ministry
  • Mary Mother of the Church
  • Mary models the Church at the Foot of the Cross

May 2010

  • Mary models the Church in Christ's Ministery
  • Mary and the Covenant of Abraham
  • Why are they strugging to get new Nuns?
  • A joy filled day for Middlesbrough Diocese...
  • Why are the English Bishops picking on Marie Stopes?
  • Mary - Daughter of Zion
  • Marie Stopes International's London meeting with China's minister of forced sterilisation
  • World Youth Day: Target Reached
  • The Dinosaurs - Sliding in to irrelevance...
  • The Magnificat
  • Help Catholic with Attitude to get to Lourdes
  • The Annunciation
  • Bishop Drainey on World Youth Day
  • Marriage is a Sacrifice of Love
  • Rosary for the Bishop
  • Aid to the Church in Need
  • Almost every historical film in the last decade...
  • Helping send somebody to World Youth Day
  • Let's go fly a Catholic Kite
  • Swimming the Humber
  • Lego Bridge Launching Tank
  • Help send somebody to World Youth Day
  • The Importance of Marriage Preparation
  • Laurence England reports on the truth about Brighton's homeless hostels
  • Edible London
  • God's wonderful plan...
  • The Tablet: Health Warning
  • Marriage and Family (The Domestic Church)
  • Obligatory Post About Moving of Days of Obligation to the Nearest Sunday
  • Marriage and Procreation
  • Marriage as an Image of the Trinity
  • Ten Reasons
  • Oh look, a man in a dress...
  • Marriage as an Indissolvable Covenant
  • No place for Mary in the Mass?
  • Angels, Demons and Pyramids
  • Marriage as a Vocation
  • No Sense of Humer
  • Marriage as a Sacrament
  • Marriage in today's world
  • The Dehumanisation of Politics
  • Loving the Church
  • Marriage and the Wedding Feast of the Lamb
  • Misleading Correspondence about Catholic Education Services
  • Jesus teaching on marriage in the New Testament
  • Marriage in Old Testament Law

April 2010

  • Marriage and the Fall
  • Archbishop Vincent Nichols Approves Full Frontal for Ten Year Olds
  • Marriage - From the Beginging
  • Misleading and Diverting Correspondence
  • Loving and Fighting
  • Gregorian Chant Training Day in Middlesbrough
  • Catholic Education Services appoints it's own Pope
  • Austen Ivereigh is a Liability
  • Summing up the Accounts of Creation
  • Jesus Christ: The fulfilment of Man (Priest, Prophet and King)
  • It is hard to live the faith in these lands...
  • The Place of Sin in Creation
  • Five Years of Pope Benedict XVI
  • Killer Marriage Tips
  • Man's choice between good and evil (between God and death)
  • Pilramage to Lourdes
  • Man's Stewardship of Creation
  • Jack Valero on The Big Questions
  • Archbishop Nichols may sue The Times
  • The Other Roman Sex Scandal
  • Notes To Support A Counter-Narrative
  • The Creation of Man and Woman
  • Free Catholic MP3s
  • Not a Spiral
  • The Creation of Man
  • Duckings in a Bath Tub
  • The Pattern of Creation
  • The Westminster Declaration
  • The right to judge about his own health...
  • The Work of Creation
  • Compulsory Sex Education Bullet Dodged (For Now)
  • Writing to the Wrong Bishop
  • The last of the Last Supper ponderies
  • Last Supper Ponderies Continued
  • Last Supper Ponderies Continued
  • Last Supper Ponderies

March 2010

  • The Sign of the Cross - Entering the Faith
  • Do you know Pope Benedict XVI
  • The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there...
  • The Sign of the Cross - Claiming the Faith
  • This joke cost an arm and a leg to make...
  • Coca-Cola Priest Commercial
  • Children Schools and Families Bill: Three Bishops Say No!
  • The Sign of the Cross - A Physical affirmation of faith
  • Arcibishop Nichols: The Church is not trying to cover anything up
  • The Sign of the Cross - A Priority of Grace
  • The Smiting is Still Implied...
  • Prepared for Marriage?
  • The Sign of the Cross - A Fourfold Prayer
  • All that is required is our generous cooperation...
  • Everything he writes is Christian Allegory, even his Laundry List. Get Used To It
  • The Sign of the Cross - A Witness of Faith
  • The Problem is bigger than sex abuse...
  • The Sign of the Cross - Doctrine
  • The Sign of the Cross - The Promise of Christ
  • Pope's letter to Irish Catholics
  • The Sign of the Cross - Our Baptismal Birthright
  • Virtual Sistine Chapel
  • Summing up my Holiness Ponderies
  • Oona Stannard on 'a leave of absence'
  • The Holiness of Love
  • Pray for Fiorella
  • Catholic Care Win - For Now
  • Responding to the call of Holiness
  • Pope Benedict Visit - It's Official
  • Kieran Conry: Any allegation is real, we can't deny it
  • Achieving Holiness
  • The Catholic Bishops Conference has left the building...
  • Reading the Summa in York
  • Marie Oops!
  • Do Not Be Afraid To Be Saints!
  • On her bike...
  • The Holiness of the Church
  • Pater Noster
  • Big Ben Optical Illusion
  • The Potential Holiness of Mankind
  • Marie Stopes: Should abortion be legal in Ireland?
  • Baptism makes us Holy
  • What is Holiness?
  • The universal call to Holiness
  • Introducing The Worlds First Catholic Woman Bishop
  • Bishop Drainey stands up to Ed Balls
  • Contraception and the Vocations Crisis
  • Petitions, Petitions, Petitions
  • Christ reveals the Holy Trinity
  • It is NOT wrong to criticise Bishops
  • Jesus' Mission

February 2010

  • Well Done Catholic Care (Catholic Adoption Agency)
  • My First Skateboard
  • Jesus Divine and Human - What about us?
  • Catholic School Cartoons
  • Heads will have to roll. It's time for a fresh start at the CES
  • Jesus - Son of God
  • Ed Balls: Catholic Schools "must explain how to access an abortion"
  • The Bishop and the Schools Service of the Diocese of Middlesbrough...
  • Advice for parents from Archbishop Fulton Sheen
  • Will anybody support me?
  • Goodbye Catholic Schools
  • Jesus - the Son of Man
  • What does the Catholic Church teach about Sex Education?
  • Catholic Education Services:
  • Sister Myra Poole: The Nun Who Compared Pope Benedict with the BNP
  • Animals growing in the womb...
  • Remember man that you are dust and unto dust you shall return.
  • Explaining What We Believe
  • Remember man that you are dust and unto dust you shall return.
  • Sorting my social life out...
  • Archbishop Nichols vs Corrosive Cynicism
  • A Service to be Welcomed
  • The prevailing cultre in an institution...
  • Nursery Rhyme Cakes and Edible Books
  • Visualising the Bible: Old and New
  • Whence praying facing the East?
  • Talking to Catholic Education Services
  • One Button Bob
  • Sex Education: Powerpoint Presentation or DVD?
  • Know Your Rights...
  • Recognize dissent for what it is...
  • The Culture of Disdain for the Past

January 2010

  • Welcome to Catholic and Loving It!
  • How to find true north without a compass
  • Heads Up...
  • Where have we been?
  • Long time no blog...
  • Why Catholic Churches Should Be Tall...
  • Tip of the Day: Building Friendly Websites
  • Tram Sledding
  • Clever Lego Braiding Machine
  • Amazing Auditory Illusion...
  • Water clever machine...
  • The Language of the Soul
  • Imperceptibly introduces my soul to the glory of God
  • Let's not get a head of ourselves....
  • Active Participation...
  • Some nuns are bigger than others...
  • The Orientation of Liturgical Prayer
  • I need you Dad...
  • It is not good for Snowman to be alone...
  • The Christmas Cake
  • Marital Rating Charts
  • How do you like your curry?
  • If Only Abortionists Could Marry
  • Building a Snowman
  • A Man on His Deathbed
  • The History of Birth Control
  • Advice for Life
  • Catholic Education Services: Connexions is a service to be welcomed.
  • The Known Universe
  • Merry Christmas 2009 and a Happy New Year 2010

December 2009

  • Merry Christmas
  • Just in CASE
  • Advent Ponderies
  • How to Promote the Sacrament of Confession: A Beginner's Guide from Fr Fun
  • Catholic Education Services: Just keep digging...
  • Exciting Bicycles
  • How Star Wars Should Have Ended
  • Mission Impossible
  • Modernism and the Sacraments
  • Amnesty International vs The Tax Man
  • A Win for Christmas Vandalism
  • £75 of Free Advertising For a Good Cause
  • Learn to Write with Animated GIFs
  • Fined for being a Christian....
  • Scientific Party Fun
  • The Dissolution of the (Lego) Monasteries
  • Communion on the Tongue
  • The Legend of Zelda
  • On the Accontability of Bishops
  • Learning to Draw
  • Congratulations Laurence!
  • 30 Days for the Souls in Purgatory
  • Marital Arts
  • The Internet is Very Big
  • The Wisdom of Humanae Vitae
  • Pirates or Ninjas?
  • How the Catholic Church Creates a Culture which is Favourable to Abuse
  • Gathering Holly in Advent
  • Away in a Manger
  • The Feast of St. Nicholas
  • Nativity Cake
  • Welcome to England
  • Polite Conformity in Religious Education
  • Bonfire of the Missalettes
  • The Creamer Cannon
  • Interviewing Bishop Drainey
  • CYMFed: Hello, our name is...

November 2009

  • What if the Earth had Rings like Saturn?
  • Did Jesus ever visit Britain?
  • How NOT to interview a Bishop
  • National Youth Sunday 2009 Feedback
  • How to avoid the parts of Christianity you don't like: A beginners guide from Bishop Kieran Conry
  • Celebrating the Feast of Christ the King
  • CYMFed: Definitely Not Anonymous or Shadowy
  • 'Resting' Catholics
  • Alive to the World
  • Very Late Notice
  • GK Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC 1874-1908
  • What's mah name?
  • The Anvil Test
  • Pirates of the Classroom
  • Teach contraception and abortion in an 'anti-discriminatory way'
  • Horrific Clowns
  • St Martin's Day
  • Discussions in the Dark
  • Rememberance Day
  • National Youth Sunday - Eat and Pray
  • Magic Carpet Ride
  • The Blogger and the Bishop
  • London in 1927
  • Spot the Difference
  • The Sword of Damocles? The Culture of Abuse in the Diocese of Middlesbrough
  • Cardinal Newman: Education, Conscience and Faith Today
  • Catholic Education Service Response
  • The Times
  • Getting Our Language Right
  • More Bizarre Underserved Fame
  • Catholic Schools on a Collision Course
  • Yay for Blogging Catholic Cartoonists!
  • Burdensome Existence
  • A Meme In Praise of Priests
  • Singing in the Vatican
  • This made me smile on Catholic Dads
  • Holy Pumpkin Batman!
  • The Divine Fr Daniel O'Leary
  • The Re-Sacrificialisation of the Liturgy
  • The suffering of an adult cow..

October 2009

  • Not a theologian
  • They had struck a rock
  • Speaking of women...
  • How do Catholic men like their women?
  • A better Catholic
  • How Catholics must fight back
  • Tales of the Unexplaned
  • Archbishop Nichols on The Sacred Made Real
  • In order to succeed as a blogger you have to be angry
  • Frank Skinner on Atheists
  • Undercover Judgementalism
  • The Anglican Provision
  • Profanities
  • Liturgy Circular
  • Ad Orientem
  • A Message for Married Catholics from Archbishop Vincent Nichols
  • The problem with men
  • The results are in...
  • 1300 Years of St Wilfrid
  • Control over their bodies?
  • St Therese of Lisieux and Hull Fair
  • Time Travel
  • Rocket Science
  • CYMFed: No sign of a patron saint...
  • Cardinal Schönborn: Who gets married nowadays, except the most fanatical Catholics?
  • Catholic Youth Quango
  • Extraordinary Goings On
  • God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
  • Time Travel
  • Rite of Passage
  • On the cover of a magazine...
  • Effing Hell Jeeves!
  • Steam Powered Pencil Sharpener
  • Church Politics
  • The Man Crisis: A Visual Aid
  • Lepanto!
  • Jerry Andrus' Optical Illusions
  • The Next Crusade
  • St Therese in Middlesbrough
  • Nobody is going to do anything about anything?
  • I'm too sexy for my blog...
  • Michaelmas Day
  • If the Venerable Bede had YouTube

September 2009

  • The Michael Line
  • The Way of Making Tea
  • The Battle of the Lamb
  • Jeremy the Annoying Horse
  • Twenty-First Centry Beauty Pageant
  • Advanced Encryption Standard: The Comic Strip
  • Somebody is coming...
  • Goodbye Fr Massie
  • The Julie Andrews Inspired Mark Shea Evilness Diagnostic Generator
  • Dear Clergy and Clergypersons
  • The Colonel
  • Speaking of Confession...
  • The Perils of Going to Confession
  • The Archbishops Letter
  • An Important Notice Regarding Email
  • Papercraft Link is Awesome!
  • If you printed the internet...
  • The Perils of Being a Dad
  • So can we use birth control or not?
  • Chesterton
  • Who leads a Mass?
  • Santa Maria Del Fiore
  • Horticulture
  • Oval Gears
  • Joanna Moo-Head is a Silly Moo
  • Thankyou Philip Pullman
  • Terrifying Little Girls
  • 100 Years of Special Effects
  • Spot the difference...
  • What do you want for your birthday?
  • The B51 Bomber
  • Joanne's Baptism
  • The Wind Trader
  • Young Girls in Abusive Relationships
  • Too Much Math in your Face
  • Electric Sheep
  • Oman Festival 2009

August 2009

  • A Joke...
  • Cardinals tell the stories of their vocations
  • The Gamers PC
  • People called James Preece
  • How Things Are Made: CDs
  • Inexorably Distancing: The Movie
  • The night jobs
  • How to deal with the police...
  • Happy Birthday William Wilberforce
  • Paternal Coaxing
  • Fun with Bubbles
  • 53 Beads on a String
  • Vatican to Prepare Document on Seminarians
  • Spin the Black Circle
  • Looking for something to do over summer?
  • Bishop Arthur Roche is a resourceful chap
  • The Feast of the Assumption
  • Novus Ordo
  • Leonardo Da Vinci's Lion
  • British children now 92% ham, says charity
  • Something Fluffy
  • Father Peter McDonough is a good man
  • More Misery from Marriage Care
  • Look after the pennies...
  • Father Peter McDonough has a son
  • This is the only level...
  • Throwing his weight around
  • All That I Am - 'Relationship and Sex Education' from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham
  • Richard Feynman is a Legend
  • Inexorably distancing themselves from the Church
  • Terry Prendergast put in his place
  • Examination of Conscience for Men
  • Insanewiches
  • Which version of the Bible do you use?
  • Nun Plus Nun Equals Two Many
  • Archbishop Vincent Nichols on MySpace and Facebook

July 2009

  • Red Remover
  • That Blessed Arrangement
  • Turning Their Back on the Church's Ordinary Pattern of Prayer
  • Fourth Wedding Anniversary
  • Gutenberg Rap
  • MarioKart
  • Has the Church changed it's teaching on suicide?
  • The Archbishop Vincent Nichols Rap
  • For Epsilon
  • Photos of Outer Space
  • Did he jump or was he pushed?
  • Pandoras Box
  • Kneeling for Communion
  • Sex Education Consultation
  • Dendrology is the Study of Trees
  • How it Works
  • Evangelisation in the Young Christian Workers
  • The problem of Catholic Musical illiteracy
  • Absolutely Nothing
  • The Screwtape Letters
  • Golden Chalices
  • 'Catholic' Marriage Care
  • Dignity
  • Swine Flu Catches Cherie Blair
  • And then they came for the racists...
  • You are Sooooo Trendy
  • The Last Crusade
  • Modern Art
  • Let's all go to Lapland
  • How to Eat a Banana Like a Monkey
  • Condoms are a Big Lie
  • The Monk and the Fish
  • The Festival of Food
  • Disobedience is Harming the Church
  • Pope Benedict XVI: Truth may become love and love may make us truthful
  • Her First Communion
  • The Horrors of the Middle Ages
  • Be a Man: Hold on to your N.U.T.s
  • A Days Silent Ignatian Man Retreat

June 2009

  • LiveChastely... the end?
  • Holy Fire
  • Is that what you call being on TV?
  • Should Catholic priests be allowed to marry?
  • The Big Questions - Take 2
  • Midsummer's Day
  • Seven Knots Every Man Should Know
  • I don't know much about traditionalists...
  • Correction: I Think I Meant Traditionalism
  • Feast of St John Fisher and St Thomas More
  • Is there anybody out there?
  • Beverley Folk Festival
  • Should Catholics Criticise Priests?
  • The Seven Most Holiest Places
  • What is a traditional Catholic?
  • Bakewell Tarts
  • The Catholic Church: A Culture Favourable to Abuse
  • Rome WAS Built in a Day!
  • All That I Am: Eucharist
  • Polish Family Day
  • Richard Marsden's Talk on the English Martyrs
  • Published! (Sort of...)
  • A Certain Point of View
  • Do We Need Married Priests?
  • Richard Marsden on the English Martyrs
  • Oh no not more terrible puns...

May 2009

  • Build a Cairn for Peace in the Holy Land
  • Bishop Crisis "Confirmed"
  • John C Wright on Nihilism
  • Pope: Laypeople should shut up, keep their heads down and let the clergy get on with the job...
  • Mendocino Motor
  • Catholic Teaching on Sex Education
  • The New Archbishop
  • What's in a name?
  • People having Babies
  • Catholic Action UK
  • For those who are interested
  • News
  • Eurovision 2009
  • Still No News
  • No News
  • Help Margaret get her PhD!
  • Religious Tolerance
  • Traditional Retreat at Douai Abbey
  • Another Day, Another Eucharistic Service
  • Laurence England: Hero
  • Middlesbrough Diocese: A Crisis of Spiritual Deafness
  • Cannonball Blog Awards: Best Church Militant Blog
  • Dr Death goes to Brighton
  • Middlesbrough Diocese: A Culture Unfavourable to Vocations
  • St Joseph the Worker
  • Mark and Monica come to visit

April 2009

  • Saint Pius V, Pope
  • Take a Pew With Me
  • New Age and the Enneagram
  • Atheists target UK schools
  • SPES in Hull
  • Archbishop of Nigeria on Condoms and Aids
  • St Georges Day
  • Teamwork in Japan
  • The Pope and Condoms in Africa
  • Papal Seal
  • How a Baby is Made
  • Tilting at Windmills
  • The Big Questions
  • God People and People People
  • The Death of the Catholic Church
  • Easter
  • Mr Horses...
  • Do we want to link?
  • Busy Busy Busy!
  • Arrival of SPES

March 2009

  • Who do you say I am - Finale
  • Feast of the Annunciation
  • Chameleon Guitar
  • Mothering Sunday
  • Will you come and follow me - week 3
  • The feast of St Joseph
  • Fit for Mission: Marriage Preparation
  • Two!
  • Who Do You Say I Am? - Week 2
  • Who Do You Say I Am? - Week 1

February 2009

  • Family Day Brigg
  • Passover pondries
  • The Year of St Paul
  • Lenten Blogfast
  • Clearing out the Attic
  • Reform of the Reform...
  • Head Spin Trick
  • Clearing out the Cupboards
  • Spreading the word...
  • I hope you like Jammin too...
  • Right and Wrong is Relative
  • Getting out of Hand
  • The Public Conversation
  • Lent, The Bishop of Lancaster and the Web
  • National Marriage Week
  • The Venerable Bede
  • Zelda, Zelda, Zelda, Zelda, Zelda
  • Speaking of Latin...
  • Being Catholic Today
  • Valentines Day
  • Who Do You Say I Am? - Preparation
  • Marriage and Family Life
  • Bloody Valentines Day
  • Paul Inwood walks in to a bar...
  • The Unix Epoch
  • A Grief Observed
  • Baby? What baby?
  • Fun on the Swings
  • How did it come to this?
  • Blog Watching
  • What Young People Really Want
  • The Bad Vicar
  • PHP5
  • Ninja Cat
  • British Juggling Convention
  • Hull Faith Forum - Spring 2009 [UPDATED]
  • I am Husband
  • Roar of the Lion
  • Devastated
  • Bacon Explosion
  • Liturgical Dancing in York Minster
  • What we do in life...
  • Sunday Mass as Hospitality
  • Freedom
  • Watermelon Carving
  • Engaging Young People

January 2009

  • The Pope and the Lion
  • Award...
  • Sunday Mass - An Event in Christ
  • What to do if you have a Severe Laceration?
  • Delinquent Haddock
  • Prayers for Frederick
  • Naval Blog
  • Connexions
  • Sunday Mass - As an Experience of God...
  • Jesus is My Friend
  • Beyond Parody
  • Two churches?
  • Taking Sides
  • Dinosaur Comics
  • Sins Only the Pope Can Forgive?
  • Human Squirrels
  • G.K. Chesterton - A Piece of Chalk
  • Is There Any Future for the Church?
  • Decline in Marriage Vocations
  • Crisis Averted
  • Father Richard John Neuhaus, 1936-2009
  • Cause and Effect
  • Amazing Grace
  • Sea Ice
  • Viking Game
  • Epiphany Blessing of Chalk
  • Active Participation
  • The Raving Atheist
  • Jesus asks: "Who do you say I am?"
  • Onslaught
  • Awestruck, Fascinated, Thrilled and Saddened
  • The Couple Penalty
  • A pigging good joke...
  • New Year Update

December 2008

  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 25
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 24
  • The Christmas Cake
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 23
  • Christmas Tree Game
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 22
  • A 50/50 marriage = 100% misery
  • Pope Benedict on 'Utility' Music
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 21
  • Erudite
  • Christmas Gift Guide
  • Bishop Kieran Conry on Young People
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 20
  • The Antikythera Mechanism
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 19
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 18
  • World Youth Day Themes
  • St Martin's Little Tykes Group
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 17
  • What the Pope wants...
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 16
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 15
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 14
  • Poorly Sick
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 13
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 12
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 11
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 10
  • An Open Letter to Praise and Worship Musicians
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 9
  • Pod Cast in a Good Light
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 8
  • The Priests
  • Notburga on Children at Church
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 7
  • This Aint No Disco, This Aint No Country Club Either...
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 6
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 5
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 4
  • Not Cherie Good - How Blair they?
  • Apostasy and Advent
  • Mystery Fuzion - Fused Glass and Beaded Jewelry
  • Rorate Caeli
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 3
  • Don't know much about it...
  • National Youth Sunday
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 2
  • Advent Adventure!
  • Monstrous Regiment of Women
  • Hark! The Herald...
  • Bishop Drainey's Pastoral Letter for Advent
  • Humanae Vitae Advent Calendar - Day 1

November 2008

  • CDA Recollection Day
  • Making the Avent Wreath
  • Who do you say I am?
  • The Terminator
  • KazooKelele!
  • Gone Phishing
  • Christ the King - National Youth Sunday in West Hull
  • Gay Married Priests Advert
  • Questions You Don't Ask
  • Christ the King
  • Footprints in the Snow
  • Bishop Drainey's Message to Young People to Mark Youth Sunday 2008
  • Snow!
  • Looking at Youth Ministry
  • Catholic Youth Services
  • Church Sex Challenge
  • Tilt Shift
  • LiveChastely - Reminder...
  • Fanning the Flames
  • Catholic Hero of 10
  • More Dignity to the Liturgy
  • Advent Family Day
  • Dylsexia
  • Feeling Lucky?
  • ¿Dónde está Young People?
  • Independence Day
  • Happy Nuns
  • Behind Closed Doors...
  • Truth Cannot Lose
  • Legal Help Needed!
  • If it looks like a duck...
  • Vatican Crackdown on Slackers
  • Always look at the evidence
  • Legal Questions
  • Go Go Mum of 10
  • Questions about the Middlesbrough Diocesan Youth Service
  • Papercraft Heart
  • The Puke on the Wall: Alternative Suggestions
  • Scripture and Liturgy in the Theology of Benedict XVI
  • Hard Times

October 2008

  • Our Humanity is Our Divinity...
  • Descarrots
  • Midnight Approaches
  • Ross and Brand and Relativism
  • Halloween
  • Live Chastely - Update
  • Faith Youth Day - The Disaster of Sin
  • Sposi Novelli
  • X-rays from Sticky Tape
  • Skip-petty-doo-dah!
  • Fishers of Men
  • BBC = Morons
  • LiveChastely - Banners
  • Sheen it all before?
  • The Sun
  • Baby on board...
  • LiveChastely
  • It's all relative...
  • Here's one for Leona...
  • Over-filling my kettle...
  • No Question Left Behind
  • Reclaiming the Future
  • Special Offer!
  • The Greatest Wedding (of the Eco Warror?)
  • Benedictine Programme of Liturgical Continuity
  • Blogger's Choice Awards
  • Brideshead Revisited
  • Luminous Mysteries
  • How to Cook like a God
  • Heretic!
  • Our Lady of the Rosary
  • Something in the Water?
  • Say a Prayer - Light a Candle
  • Excluded
  • Things you really aught to know...
  • Now THIS is what Science is for...
  • Invisible Man
  • Rowling Upstream...
  • Now THATS a conference...
  • He did us proud...
  • Lost Innocence
  • It get's worse...
  • More Money for Nothing
  • Pope's Prayer Intentions for October
  • Letter Writing FAIL
  • On Giant Cosmic Bubbles
  • What he said...
  • Universe

September 2008

  • House Prices
  • More Lies
  • Bad Examples
  • Subtle Moves
  • Altar Rails
  • The Study Day
  • Maglev Toy Trains
  • Going on a Journey
  • Skulls
  • Fun with 'Math'
  • Another Reminder
  • Ember Days
  • Dad Thoughts...
  • Hull Faith Forum - Autumn 2008
  • When is a Mass not a Mass?
  • Hoist the Mainbrace!
  • Talk Like a Pirate
  • Fr Daniel O'Leary
  • The Liberal Agenda
  • Judging a Book by it's Cover
  • Inspirational Study Day
  • Pope Speaks to the Youth
  • Learn to Sing
  • For the Record
  • Lightsaber Mashups
  • Inevitable Choices
  • More Man Stuff
  • Public Criticism
  • Wot new blog?
  • Yfaith
  • "Forty Years of Ecumenism"
  • The Tablet Survey - Good Catholics
  • Evolution
  • The One Handed Blog Entry
  • Pope Benedict's Prayer Intentions for September

August 2008

  • Severe Laceration
  • How can we live the gifts of the Holy Spirit in practice?
  • Mini Cows
  • Feast of the Assumption - Part Deux
  • Feast of the Assumption
  • Simpler Times
  • Advice for Priests
  • Feeling Peachy?
  • The Tablet Survey - Music and the Community
  • Leo XIII
  • LORD I know you are near...
  • Seating Plans
  • Hull falls off the Internet
  • Culture of Death
  • World Youth Day - The Diocesan Youth Service View
  • The Deafening Silence of Dissent
  • Bullying Bishop?
  • The Tablet Survey
  • Foremost UK Gay Activist Admits there is No Gay Gene
  • This little pickle of mine...
  • New Mass Texts
  • Woldingham
  • Feast of St Oswald
  • Marriage is for Girls
  • Commitment by Condom Removal
  • Humanae Vitae: The Letter to Bishops
  • Pope's Prayer Intentions for August
  • The Fr Z Problem

July 2008

  • Yorkshire Congregation Chain Themselves to Church
  • Bugs in the Old Testament
  • Archery
  • Babies analogous to Patio Heaters
  • Nerd Heaven
  • The Bullies of 1968
  • 40th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae
  • St Wilfrid and World Youth Day
  • Feeling Welcome Yet?
  • Building Blocks
  • Happy Bastille Day!
  • Everybody's Welcome
  • Where do you buy the mould?
  • Bonekickers
  • The Postgate Rally
  • Handy Links for Young People
  • Haltemprice Priory
  • Man Stuff
  • Website for Blogs
  • Confirmation

June 2008

  • A Reminder...
  • The High Altar at St Charles
  • Why go to Lourdes?
  • Babies
  • Should I have bothered?
  • Shocking
  • Catholic Dad of 1
  • Shooting my Longbow
  • James' Top Tips
  • Digital Pope?
  • Feel the Stag
  • Peter Levy on St. Charles...
  • Eucharist
  • Rejected
  • Effing Hell
  • The Upper Room?
  • Money for Nothing and your Cheques for Free...
  • Why Bother? - The Musical
  • All Lies
  • Yay for Juggling Clubs!
  • Why Bother? - Part 4
  • You don't sound convinced...
  • Tron
  • Hull Faith Forum - Summer 2008

May 2008

  • Carless
  • Let's Go Fly a Kite!
  • Eurovision 2008
  • Hull City
  • Do you realize you live in England?
  • Fruity!
  • Bickerstaffe Bows
  • Commisioned
  • SMILE
  • Har Har...

April 2008

  • Priests for Life
  • Notes on Evangelisation...
  • Backup your Photos!
  • St Georges Day
  • Why bother? Part Three
  • Professor Edward Norton Lorenz 1917-2008
  • Strong Words
  • Cooperate by oneself ?!
  • Why bother? - Part Deux
  • Never Dull
  • Why be Catholic?
  • Why bother?

March 2008

  • One Year Old!

February 2008

  • House!
  • What's going on?

January 2008

  • Explaining Myself
  • Bishop Drainey's Ordination
  • Generational Divide
  • The Things Kids Say
  • Harry Potter?
  • Necessary Conversations
  • Bidding Prayers
  • A New Direction?
  • Memento Mori?
  • 100 Drummers Drumming
  • Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network
  • Coming soon to a Parish near you...
  • Loving your neighbour is easy?
  • Faith Winter Conference 2008
  • The Altar and the Direction of Liturgical Prayer
  • Doomsayers
  • How to inspire confidence...
  • Wot no blogging?

December 2007

  • Wigilia
  • The 'O' Antiphons
  • St Mary's Carol Service
  • Now that's what I'm talking about...
  • Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel!
  • Not Cool
  • Has Middlesbrough Cathedral shrunk in the wash?
  • Advent - Waiting for a theme...
  • Arinze on Evangelisation
  • Advent and Christmas Scripture at St. Stephen’s, Hull
  • Nine Months Old Today!
  • Happy Birthday Rachel!
  • Leo XIII
  • Street Evangelism
  • Disembodied hands to keep infant feeling secure
  • One Year of the St. Mary's Prayer Group
  • Phillip Who?
  • Christmas Concert 2007
  • How to Fold a Towel Elephant
  • They haven't read it then...
  • Vinegar: Uses and Tips
  • Temples of Damanhur
  • My First Woodcarving

November 2007

  • Like Hogwarts only better?
  • Spe Salvi
  • Secret French Underground Heritage Restoration
  • More on Pullman
  • His Dark Materials
  • National Youth Sunday - The Feast of Christ the Universal King
  • Saved by Hope
  • Top 10 Unknown Truths about Sacred Music
  • The Holy Cards Blog
  • The Dawkins Delusion
  • Top 10 Ways to Sleep Better...
  • Digital Evangelization
  • Catholic Youth Services - Christ the King (or maybe Ghandi?)
  • Bridge to Terabithia
  • Benedict XVI: It's not the end of the world...
  • New Bishop a Digital Teacher?
  • We have a Bishop!
  • Handbook of Short Courses
  • Digital Diocese
  • Peter Kreeft: The Existence of God
  • Benedict XVI: Evangelization a Fundamental Duty
  • What's wrong with the World? (It's you, stupid...)
  • Norris Bradley 1982-2007
  • Mark Shea's Talk
  • Going to York with Mark Shea
  • Meeting Mark Shea
  • Youth Sunday

October 2007

  • Archery
  • Youth Sunday 2007
  • A Day in York
  • Hull Fair
  • Senior Choir
  • How to Evangelise Today
  • Thankyou for the Music
  • The B-Movie Catechism!
  • Faces in Places
  • 2007 - As predicted by french people in 1910
  • Houses in Poland
  • Re: Jesus loves you
  • Guardian Angels

September 2007

  • Michaelmas Weekend
  • Michaelmas
  • 150 years of the sisters of mercy
  • Moody and Miserable
  • Who is responsible?
  • How to be a good priest in England
  • Fransiscan Friars of the Renewal
  • Hull Youth 18-30
  • That Catholic Show
  • Communication
  • Paul Inwood
  • Looking for Middlesbrough Diocese?
  • Rory's Recollections
  • Fr William Massie - Digital? Not always...
  • Keeping up to Date
  • Catholic Beer Review
  • How to clean your home in 19 minutes
  • Chabanel Psalm Project
  • Not so Innocent!
  • Digital Sign Language Interpreter
  • John Paul II Relics
  • Crack Open the Lego Technic
  • Robot Replacements
  • British Musicians iPod the Pope (prats)
  • Six Months Old Today!
  • More fun with nPower
  • Susan and Wayne's Wedding
  • The Largest most Religious RSS Button in the World Ever!
  • Goats
  • The Faith Movement Exposed!
  • Tips for Visiting England

August 2007

  • Susan's Hen Day
  • Hannah and Ben's Wedding
  • Leona and the Animals
  • Adventures in Devon
  • Exeter Cathedral
  • Leona's Epic Voyage to Exeter (and Banana)
  • Making Assumptions about the Assumption
  • Freeman Dyson, Science, Climate Change, Religion and Heresy
  • Getting started at Wood Carving
  • Worst Domino Rally Ever
  • Bishop Robert Morlino - Digital Bishop
  • Michelle's BBQ
  • Fr. William Massie - Digital Priest

July 2007

  • The North Yorkshire Moors English Heritage Abbey Challenge!


Year for Priests

Recent Comments

victor

Tweren't nothing -- your marriage is worth more than a bazillion songs! And I'm really glad you both appreciated it....

Sarah

How lovely. Wishing you many more happy, holy and healthy years together.

Yorkmum

Wishing you a happy holy, wedding anniversary.As it happens the Eremite and I share an anniversary with you... 16 years for us today.

Ella

The song was great - I loved the catechism reference!

Ella

Congratulations anniversary buddies!16 years - now that is worth celebrating!

When someone gives you a gift reply with Thank You Cards. When our Father God gives you a gift reply by living through his will. And acting with kindness and love.

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To the Blessed Virgin Prayer for England

O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon England thy "Dowry" and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee.

By thee it was that Jesus our Saviour and our hope was given unto the world; and He has given thee to us that we might hope still more.

Plead for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the cross.

O sorrowful Mother! intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the supreme Shepherd, the Vicar of thy Son.

Pray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith fruitful in good works we may all deserve to see and praise God, together with thee, in our heavenly home.

Amen.

Couple's Prayer

O God, our heavenly Father, protect and bless us. Deepen and strengthen our love for each other day by day.

Grant that by thy mercy, neither of us may ever say one unkind word to the other. Forgive and correct our faults, and make us constantly to forgive one another should one of us unconsciously hurt the other.

Make us and keep us sound and well in body, alert in mind, tender in heart, and devout in spirit. O Lord, grant us each to rise to the other's best. Then, we pray thee, add to our common life such virtues as only thou canst give.

And so, O Father, consecrate our life and love completely to thy worship, and to the service of all about us, especially those whom thou hast appointed us to serve, that we may always stand before thee in happiness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Babies Bedtime Prayer

Father, thankyou for all the good things that have happened to me today.

Thankyou for keeping me safe and well, thankyou for fun and laughter with my friends, thank you for what I have learned, thank you for all those that I love.

Help us all to sleep soundly tonight.

Amen.

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