News on 21.01.2008 03:20

OUR LADY OF TINTERN
The latest news on the Statue of Our Lady of Tintern is that CADW has agreed that the statue will be permantly located in the south aisle under the bay nearest the transept where it will be under cover. The aim is to have the statue in position by Saturday 2nd February, The Feast of the Presentation and there will be a small gathering for prayers that day at 12 noon. It will be a very simple occasion.

However on Saturday 19th April there will be a study day at TINTERN VILLAGE HALL and the ABBEY where the principle speaker will be Dr. Fred Cowley on the subject of the Cistercian Vocation in the 12th and 13th Centuries with particular reference to Tintern.

21.01.2008 03:20 []

York Catholic History Day

The 12th. York Catholic History Day took place at the Bar Convent on Saturday, 2nd June 2007. The History Days which are sponsored by the Catholic Record Society, the ECHA and the Postgate Society offer a varied programme of talks which appeal to anyone with an interest in Catholic history.

The date for 2008 is Saturday 7th June.

The day will begin with coffee at 10am and there will be 2 talks in the morning and 1 in the sfternoon. The day will close with Mass in the Convent Chapel at 5pm. The cost will be £12.50 incl tea or coffee payable on the day. Light lunches are available in the Museum restaurant and there will be an opportunity to visit the museum during the extended lunch break.

There is no need to book but further detailsare available from Judith Smeaton on 01904 704525 or email
judith.smeaton@btinternet.com

02.06.2007 14:01 []

Aust .

In the year 603 Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory to urge the British Bishops to cement Catholic unity, and with the aid of King Ethelbert he summoned them to a conference at a place known to the British at the time of the Venerable Bede (673 to 735) as St Augustine's Oak.

Bede's Ecclestiastical History of the English People tells the story in great detail in Book 2, Chapter 2, but briefly, seven bishops and many learned men who came from the famous monastery called BANCORNABURG (Bangor-is-y-Coed, Clwyd) attended the conference. However the meeting did not have a happy ending, and they refused to recognize Augustine as their Archbishop as he had not risen from his chair to greet them.

The meeting place was AUST, and so on the feast of St Augustine of Canterbury each year it is commemorated with a special Mass, usually held in the chapel in the Anglican Church at Aust.

08.05.2006 05:42 []

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