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August 26, 2021
With the challenges of pandemic travel restrictions, the East Anglia Diocesan Youth Service decided to team up with Cambridge-based Radio Maria England for a pilgrimage close […]
July 19, 2021
The Ignite Team have posted a series of First Fridays chat shows which share the inspirational stories of Catholics from around the Diocese and beyond. Each […]
May 25, 2021
Spending a year with the Diocese of East Anglia Ignite Youth Team can be a life-changing experience and applications are now open for those who might […]
May 24, 2021
This year the Diocesan Youth Service is putting on a pilgrimage to one of the Church’s most famous sites – Walsingham. Hamish MacQueen reports. Each year […]
May 6, 2021
Youth groups from Peterborough, Bury St Edmunds and Norwich joined the Ignite Festival online over the weekend, which was livestreamed from south Cambridgeshire. “On the Saturday […]
March 30, 2021
Members of the Ignite Team and Ignite Lite will be leading the Stations of the Cross as a special ‘First Fridays’ YouTube event for young people […]
March 18, 2021
Twenty-five years ago, Hamish MacQueen, Director of the Diocesan Youth Service, founded a full-time Catholic rock band called Revelation. They have just released a new album. […]
March 9, 2021
Hamish MacQueen, Diocesan Director of Youth Services, featured recently on a Radio 4 Programme about a new community for young people at Ditchingam. Hamish read the […]
February 18, 2021
Ciaran Losasso, leader of the Ignite youth mission, spoke recently on Radio Maria’s Songs in the Wilderness about his favourite music and his journey of faith. […]
January 3, 2021
Bishop Alan Hopes has talked about his story of faith, his conversion to the Catholic Church and life as a bishop on the Ignite First Fridays […]
November 24, 2020
The Ignite Youth Team have set up a virtual studio in Norwich and launched an online chat show and youth Mass. Ciaran Losasso reports. ‘Chat show host’ […]
October 12, 2020
The Ignite Youth Mission Team has just celebrated its fifth birthday but this academic year, unsurprisingly, poses some unique challenges to their work of evangelisation among […]
May 12, 2020
From May 8-10 the Ignite Team staged its first online youth festival, with a line-up of speakers and worship leaders from around the UK and beyond. […]
April 9, 2020
As we journey through the Easter season in lockdown, Emily Murphy from the Ignite Team issues a call to prayer for the youth of the Diocese. […]
March 10, 2020
Children from St Mary’s Great Yarmouth and St Peter’s Gorleston Faith Club helped celebrate its first anniversary on February 9 and 16 when Fr Alvan Ibeh […]