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Pastoral Letter for 1st Sunday of Advent 2015
Dear Sister and Brothers,As we listen to the words of the readings at Mass they help us to reflect on God’s overwhelming, merciful love for us. Like Judah and Israel of old, he will save us and make us...
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Feast of the Holy Family 2015
Dear Brothers and Sisters,They say that marriages are made in heaven. I tried to find the origin of this quote but did not get very far. However, I thought that on the Feast of the Holy Family and in...
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Pastoral Letter for The First Sunday of Lent 2016
Dear Sisters and Brothers,How many times have I heard myself saying something like, “If only I had listened properly in the first place, I wouldn’t find myself in such a mess?” I could be halfway...
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World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2016
Dear Brothers and Sisters,It is not unusual today to hear people profess that although they are spiritual they are not religious. Or to declare that they have faith but do not have anything to do with...
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Pastoral Letter of Terence Patrick Drainey, Bishop of Middlesbrough – 1st...
Dear Brothers and Sisters,This year we have a good long Advent, as long as it can be; four whole weeks representing, so we are told, the four thousand years that passed between the Fall of Adam and Eve...
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Bishop’s Pastoral Letter for the 1st Sunday of Lent 2017
Dear Sisters and Brothers,At this time of the year we often talk in terms of beginning our Lenten Journey. It is good to make a simple point that by beginning a journey we hope that when we finish it...
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Bishop’s Letter for World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2017
Dear Brothers and Sisters, When we are given some good news, it is hard to keep it a secret. You have just found out that you have got the job you have been seeking for a long time; you have just been...
View ArticleGeneral Election 2017 – Letter of Bishop Drainey to the Secretary of State...
Bishop Terry recently sent a letter to Sir Michael Fallon expressing his great concern that the UK have not been taking part in the Vienna talks regarding the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. It...
View ArticleBishop Terry’s September 2018 Voice Column
Probably as you are reading this the National Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool is taking place or has just taken place. As Catholics, the Eucharist should be the centre of our lives. The Eucharist...
View ArticleBishop Terry’s October 2018 Voice Column
I offer you a thought for the Month of October, the month of the Holy Rosary dedicated to Our Blessed Mother. I sin not because of what I do or don’t do, but because of what I am – a sinner, a deep...
View ArticleBishop Terry’s November 2018 Voice Column: Facing Our Future With Hope
Some of you may be aware that I have been on a visit to the Tombs of the Apostles (ad limina Apostolorum), which every bishop has to do every five-to-seven years. Part of the visit is to celebrate Mass...
View ArticleBishop Terry’s December Voice Column
Coming just before the Ad Limina visit to Rome and my meeting with the Holy Father, the experience of Adoremus in Liverpool last September was shunted into a lower slot in the memory banks! So I would...
View ArticlePastoral Letter for the Third Sunday of Advent
Dear Sisters and Brothers, “Merry Christmas”, “cheers mate”, “have a good one”. We hear a lot of that around this time of the year. Well, “’Tis the season to be merry” and all that. But truly, what is...
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Bishop Terry’s January 2019 Voice Column
Happy New Year, and perhaps more importantly, happy Epiphany! The celebration of Christmas and Epiphany only came about in the Fourth Century. Until then the need to celebrate the Incarnation, the...
View ArticleBishop Terry’s February 2019 Voice Column
I had the great privilege, as chair of Caritas Social Action Network, an agency of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, to present and launch a report entitled Abide With Me, in the Churchill...
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