Day two is the longest stage of all: St Austin’s, our Jubilee Pilgrimage Church in central Wakefield, all the way to St Michael and All Angels in Wombwell, Diocese of Hallam – a 17+ mile walk away! Pilgrims who had stayed at the nearby Holiday Inn –...
1 September to 4 October is the Catholic Church’s ‘Season of Creation’ – but in this Holy Year of Jubilee and tenth anniversary of the Laudato Si’ Encyclical, here in the Diocese of Leeds, we are celebrating God’s creation in all...
Happy Feast Day of St James the Great, the Patron Saint of all Pilgrims! During this Holy Year of Jubilee we are all exhorted to be ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, however we decide to journey to sacred sites, either in person or in prayer. The age-old tradition of...
Aimee Grieve, a teacher at Holy Rosary and St Anne’s Catholic Primary School in Chapeltown, has just returned from a pilgrimage to Rome where she was fortunate enough to have an audience with Pope Leo and was chosen to present the Holy Father with a gift from...
St Mark’s Way, the northern ‘arm’ of the 2025 National Jubilee Walking Pilgrimage of Hope, starts at Leeds Cathedral on Saturday 6 September – and its first two days pass through our Diocese! There’s still time for Diocese of Leeds Day Pilgrims to sign up...
On 15 June at the 9.15 mass at St Mary and St Monica’s, Cottingley, there was a 10th birthday party for the Papal Encyclical Laudato Si’. There was music and a celebration afterwards, including a short talk. The children produced prayers and delighted in some...
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