Key Events 2025
These are the main events across the Diocese of East Anglia in 2025.
Annual Meeting and Mass for the Religious of the Diocese: Saturday, February 1, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich.
Day of Prayer for Engaged Couples: Sunday February 9
Rite of Election: Sunday March 9, 3pm, St John’s Cathedral Norwich. For all Catechumens and Candidates being baptised and confirmed at Easter.
Lenten Station Masses: 6pm Exposition and Confession, 7pm Mass, 8pm Supper:
Peterborough Deanery – St Peter & All Souls – March 13; Cambridge Deanery – Our Lady and the English Martyrs – March 18; King’s Lynn Deanery – Holy Family, Gaywood – March 20; Ipswich Deanery – St Mary – March 25; Bury St Edmunds – St Edmunds – March 27; Coastal Deanery – St Mary’s Great Yarmouth – April 1; Norwich Deanery – St John’s Cathedral Norwich – April 3;
Annual Meeting of the College of Deacons: Saturday March 15, 3pm, Walsingham
Annual Mass to celebrate Our Lady of Lourdes with Anointing of the Sick: Saturday April 5, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich
Chrism Mass: Tuesday April 15, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich.
Ignite Diocesan Youth Festival: May 3-4, St Benedict’s, Bury St Edmunds.
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham: Monday May 5, 12 noon to 4.30pm. One of the major annual events of the year in the life of the Diocese. National Shrine, Walsingham
Diocesan Children’s Pilgrimage to Walsingham: Tuesday May 31, 10.45am start with walk from village, then at National Shrine, Walsingham (also Jubilee of Families, Grandparents and the Elderly).
Annual Celebration of Priesthood: Thursday June 12, 10.30am for 11am start, White House, Poringland.
Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Mass: Saturday June 14, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich. Mass for couples celebrating special wedding anniversaries.
Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate: Saturday July 19, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich.
Altar Servers Mass and BBQ: Saturday July 26, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich, followed by a barbeque.
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes: August 22-29
Dowry of Mary Pilgrimage: Sunday September 7, 12 noon – 4.30pm, National Shrine, Walsingham.
Meeting of the Retired Priests of the Diocese: Thursday September 18, 10.30am coffee, 11.30am Mass at Our Lady of the Annunciation, Poringland.
Annual Gathering of Deacons, wives and students and wives in formation for the Diaconate: Saturday September 20, St John’s Cathedral, Mass at 11.30am and buffet lunch.