1 Four Dominican students, Brother Toby Lees, Brother Luke Doherty, Brother Samuel Burke and Brother Jordan Scott, make their solemn profession at Oxford before Fr Martin Ganeri, Prior Provincial of the English Province of the Order of Preachers.
2 Students from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, have taken part in a Race for Life, raising funds for cancer research.
3 Calum MacFarlane-Barrow, 83, will begin a 60-mile walk this Saturday from the village of Dalmally in Argyll to the island of Iona. The walk has three aims: to raise money for Craig Lodge Retreat, to increase the profile of the route he calls St Conan’s Pilgrim Way, and to make a pilgrimage in the Year of Mercy.
4 Michael Palin addresses Pact, the Prison Advice and Care Trust, at its fundraising dinner at HMP Brixton.
5 The volunteer team of St Cassian’s, Kintbury – a Lasallian retreat centre for young people in Berkshire – at their commissioning service with the De La Salle Brothers.
6 Archbishop Bernard Longley with Missionaries of Charity at a Thanksgiving Mass for the canonisation of Mother Teresa in St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham.
7 Grant Fenton was one of more than 150 students who took part in a Celebration of Achievement for students at Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy in Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire. He won the Terry Murphy award for the student who made the most progress in Key Stage 3.
8 More than 3,500 people take part in the annual Dowry of Mary Pilgrimage at the National Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham.
9 Patrick Groves has been named an assistant head of St Ambrose College in Hale Barns, Altrincham.
10 Pupils at the newly opened Prior Park School in Gibraltar.
11 Children on their first day at Our Lady and St Werburgh’s Catholic primary in Newcastle-under-Lyme celebrate the start of the school’s Golden Jubilee year.
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