Forthcoming Bar Convent & Jubilee 400 Events...

Easter Concert - Mar 27, 2010 Fundraising event on behalf of the Bar Convent Trust Jubilee 400 Project registered charity no 294320 The Chanticleer Singers with accompanist Geoffrey Coffin are pleased to present an Easter Concert in the beautiful neoclassical surroundings of the Bar Convent Chapel. The evening starts at 7.30pm and the concert will be followed by light refreshements in the Victorian Entrance Hall. Tickets £12 including a glass of wine and savouries. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets are available in advance only by calling Lynn Gale on 01904 643238 or email reception@bar-convent.org.uk. Payment can be made by cash, cheque or credit card.

Jubilee 400 Pilgrimage to Mount Grace - May 22, 2010 There will be a Jubilee Pilgrimage from the village of Osmotherley to the Lady Chapel ( 2 mile uphill walk) in thanksgiving for Mary Ward and all the favours her sisters have received from God in the last 400 years. In 1642, Mary Ward and a few sisters were living in the small village of Hutton Rudby, near Northallerton in North Yorkshire while the Civil War raged around her. Winifred Wigmore, one of her companions at this wrote an account of Mary Ward's own pilgrimage to Mount Grace at this time of upheaval and suffering for the community: 'About the middle of October she fell very Sicke as her life was held in great danger and her recovery attributed to a pilgrimage made for her to the above said Mountgrace, a place to this day of great devotion and where many graces are granted, though so destroyed and defaced and only the bare four walls remaine without roofe or cover, and in regard to the great height of the Mountayne on which it stands exposed to very great winds. Yet shall you find Catholics praying there howers together, and this Pilgrymage herself made when recovered from the above sayd sickness.' The Lady Chapel has been a place of pilgrimage to this day and is now the Diocesan Shrine for the Diocese of Middlesbrough. For more information or to book your place please contact Sister Mary Walmsley at the Bar Convent York Tel: 01904 464919 or email her at marywalmsley.cj@bar-convent.org.uk.