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December 12, 2018

Glow Day youth retreat at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich

The Ignite Team and members of the Ignite Lite Team ran a day-long Glow Day retreat at St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich on November […]
December 11, 2018

How to…Pray with the Bible

Lectio Divina is a centuries-old tradition of praying with passages from the Bible. Here’s one way you can give it a go: Scripture is from God, […]
December 11, 2018

Norwich duo see Network for a Better World in action

Two St John’s Cathedral parishioners have spent a fortnight visiting Malawi with development charity Network for a Better World (N4BW). Mary Clarke reports. At the end […]
December 10, 2018

Cambridge theology institute celebrates silver jubilee

Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge has been celebrating its Silver Jubilee this year and remains faithful to its founding aims of theological education of […]
December 10, 2018

Blessed Martyrs of East Anglia

On 10th December we celebrate the Blessed Martyrs of East Anglia. But who were these local men who died for their faith? Blessed Brian Lacey was born […]
December 9, 2018

Advent Week 2 – Disciple before it was cool

This week’s Ignite Team Advent blog post thinks about what we can learn from John the Baptist and the way he pointed the way for the […]
December 8, 2018

How to… Pray the Rosary

How to Pray the Rosary: 1) Perhaps go somewhere quiet where you don’t think you’ll be interrupted, sometimes it’s nice to light a candle! Or, if […]
December 6, 2018

East Anglia Synod focuses on youth hot topics

Over 60 people from across the Diocese of East Anglia came together on November 4 at a Synod to talk about current hot topics in the […]
December 5, 2018

St Felix pupils get creative as they protect environment

Pupils at St Felix Catholic Primary School in Haverhill applied what they have learnt about their responsibility as stewards of the earth when making new Christmas […]
December 3, 2018

East Anglia Diocesan Yearbook 2019 now available online

The Diocese of East Anglia 2019 Yearbook and Liturgical Calendar is now available online and is already available in parishes. The annual printed publication, which this […]
December 3, 2018

Cambridge pupils have cracking time with Enigma

Pupils at St Mary’s School, Cambridge were set to working cracking codes after seeing a World War II Enigma cipher machine at the school. The machine, […]
December 2, 2018

Advent Week 1 – Happy New Year!

In the first of the Ignite Team’s weekly Advent blog posts, Team Leader Catherine Williams reflects on how Jesus can come to us every day Happy […]
November 29, 2018

Priest is inducted in March

Fr Michael Ryan was inducted as Parish Priest at Our Lady of Good Counsel and St Peter, March by Bishop Alan Hopes on November 27. Pictured […]
November 29, 2018

New look for Cambridge faith school teacher course

A Cambridge-based course which helps train faith school teachers in Catholic thought and practice has been redesigned to incorporate online study and discussion to better fit […]
November 29, 2018

Samuel’s journey of faith from Pentecostal to Catholic

Australian former Pentecostal, Samuel Randall, was ordained to the Catholic Diaconate by Bishop Alan Hopes at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Norwich on […]