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Masses and Services during the Week

Collections – Thank you
Last Sunday: £645.83 CAFOD: £19.00
Special Collection - Home Missions: £232.24

Next Friday (3rd) is CAFOD’s Harvest Fast Day. Please take an envelope and share what you can with poor communities in the developing world.
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A Brief History of St Marie's

Before the Protestant Reformation in 1559, Catholics worshipped in the medieval parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul – now Sheffield’s Anglican Cathedral.
After the Reformation, Catholic worship was outlawed and it became law to attend the new weekly Protestant services.
Only rich families, people working on their estates or people living quietly in the countryside could continue in the Catholic faith. Priests were hunted down, imprisoned and martyred.
Until the 18th century, Catholics faced fines, loss of property and social exclusion.
In Sheffield, Mass was celebrated in a few houses of gentry, including in a house in Fargate which belonged to the Duke of Norfolk and had a hidden chapel in its roof.
Anti-Catholic laws were relaxed early in the 19th century and Catholics were allowed to build modest churches.
Sheffield Catholics bought the ageing house, which stood where the Next shop is today. They built a small chapel in its back garden on a site which is now between the Mortuary and the Blessed Sacrament Chapels.
The names of the priests who served Sheffield before the Cathedral was built and the dates of their deaths are on the wall of the Mortuary Chapel.
The rest of the land where the Cathedral now stands became a cemetery.
By 1846 the chapel was too small and the young priest, Fr. Pratt, was keen to build a church for the expanding town.
A leading local architect called M.E. Hadfield designed St Marie’s, based on a 14th century church at Heckington in Lincolnshire.
The church was expensively decorated with the aid of generous donations from the Duke of Norfolk, his mother and parishioners.
Bodies from the cemetery were moved to the new Catholic cemetery at St. Bede’s in Rotherham and work on St Marie’s began.
Fr. Pratt died while the church was being built and was buried at St. Bede’s. However, a stonemason, who had often heard him say he wanted to be buried in St Marie’s, dug up the coffin and re‑buried Fr. Pratt in a tomb he had prepared near the altar. Fr Pratt’s body still lies there and a plaque marks the spot, but his effigy has been moved to beneath the altar in the Mortuary chapel.
St Marie’s was completed in 1850 and opened on September 11th. Building the church cost more than £10,500 – a huge sum in those days – and it was not until 1889 that the church was free from debt.
The Parish of St Marie’s, which covered the whole of Sheffield, became part of the Diocese of Beverley when Catholic diocese were re-established for the first time since the Reformation in 1850.
In 1902 a new presbytery, now known as Cathedral House, was opened. During the Second World War a bomb blew out stained glass windows in the Blessed Sacrament chapel. The remaining windows were removed and stored in a shaft at Nunnery Colliery.
The mine flooded during the war, the glass sunk in mud and drawings for re‑creating the windows were destroyed, but it was still possible to re-install the windows in 1947.
When St Marie’s was re-ordered in 1970, following Vatican II, dark woodwork was removed and new lighting and benches were installed. In 1972, a new altar, facing the people, was consecrated by Bishop Gerald Moverley, auxiliary Bishop of Leeds.
On the May 30 1980, the new diocese of Hallam was created and St. Marie’s became a Cathedral. Bishop Moverley was installed as its first bishop and served until his death in 1996, after which Bishop John Rawsthorne became the second Bishop of Hallam.

Biography of Bishop John

Follow this link: http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/dioc/biogs/rawsthorne.htm

Cathedral Information

CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARIE
Cathedral House, Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB
Tel: 0114 272 2522 / Fax 0114 276 3861

e-mail: office@stmariecathedral.org
website: www.stmariecathedral.org/drupal

Fr Chris Posluszny, Cathedral Dean and Parish Priest
Fr Craig Fitzpatrick

Charities

Links to charities

CAFOD

http://www.cafod.org.uk
CAFOD believes that all human beings have a right to dignity and respect, and that the world's resources are a gift to be shared equally by all men and women, whatever their race, nationality or religion.

Caritas Internationalis

http://www.caritas.org/
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories.
Caritas works without regard to creed, race, gender, or ethnicity, and is one of the world’s largest humanitarian networks.

Caritas provides a beacon of hope for tens of millions of women, men and children in times of hardship and contributes to the development of social justice in times of peace. Caritas’ mandate includes integral development, emergency relief, advocacy, peace building, respect for human rights and support for proper stewardship of the planet’s environment and resources.

Traidcraft

http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/

Traidcraft fights poverty through trade, helping people in developing countries to transform their lives.
Established in 1979 as a Christian response to poverty, we are the UK’s leading fair trade organisation and we run development programmes in some of the poorest countries in the world, and campaign in the UK and internationally to bring about trade justice.

City of Sanctuary

City of Sanctuary is a movement to build a culture of hospitality for refugees and asylum-seekers. In 2007, with the support of Sheffield City Council, Sheffield has become the UK’s first ‘City of Sanctuary’ for asylum-seekers and refugees - a city that takes pride in the welcome it offers to people in need of safety.

Many people are now familiar with the idea of a 'Fairtrade City', in which a wide range of community groups and organisations make a commitment to using and selling fairtrade goods. In a similar way a 'City of Sanctuary' is a place where a broad range of local organisations, community groups and faith communities, as well as local government, are publicly committed to welcoming and including asylum-seekers in their activities.

We recognise that asylum policy and decision-making must be decided at a national level, and that the power of local communities to defend individuals will often be limited. But within this legal framework there is the opportunity for local communities both to make the existing asylum system more humane for the asylum-seekers who live amongst us, and to counter some of the hostile public attitudes that drive government policy.

City of Sanctuary is supported by over 70 local organisations, including Community Forums, student groups, charities and all of Sheffield’s major faiths. Together we are working to bring together asylum-seekers and local people and to celebrate the contribution of asylum-seekers and refugees to the life of our city.

We want to encourage more local organisations to make a public commitment to welcoming and including asylum-seekers and refugees in their activities. Please contact us if you would like to get involved.

http://www.cityofsanctuary.com/

History of the Diocese of Hallam

Follow this link: http://www.hallam-diocese.com/history.htm

Internet Browsers

I have tried to design this website for all browsers. Unfortunately all browsers are not equal. I have run it on Internet Explorer 5 and 6. The former does not work well at all. I would encourage you to use the Mozilla Firefox browser or Safari as these may be the best available (and free!). If you still want to use IE (well known for errors) then please update to version 7.

David Bellamy

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Map

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?source=ig&hl=en&q=s1%202jb&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF...

Obituary of Bishop Moverley

Follow this link: http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/cn/96/961214a.htm

Office Opening Hours

Parking at the NCP Car Park on Sundays

Please ensure that you have your parking ticket punched before returning to your cars in order to pay the reduced charge of £1.60 for three hours parking. This will be done at the end of Mass by the priest who has been the main celebrant.

Smoking Policy

The Cathedral is a non-smoking area.

The Bells

Find out about the bells.

http://www.yacr.org.uk/towerdetail.php?id=245

The Railings

Find out about the railings outside the Cathedral

http://public-art.shu.ac.uk/sheffield/han157im.html

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Where are we?

St Marie's is situated in Sheffield city centre, between the Crucible and Lyceum theatres and the High Street and Fargate shopping area.
There is an NCP car park nearby, off Arundel Gate, and on-street parking in surrounding streets. The nearest tram stop is the Cathedral, in front of the Anglican Cathedral. The city centre is well served by buses, many of which stop on nearby Arundel Gate, High Street, or at the Sheffield Interchange. If you want more help with finding St Marie's, go to this online map. If you want to use the online map to find directions from your own starting point, you will need to know the postcode of St Marie's, which is S1 2JB.

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Wikipedia Entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_Church_of_St_Marie

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