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May 30, 2022
Families and couples across the Diocese of East Anglia are being invited to take part in the 10th World Meeting of Families via an online app […]
May 10, 2022
Bishop Alan Hopes is inviting all married people in the Diocese of East Anglia to bring their families and celebrate at the annual Marriage and Family […]
April 8, 2022
A group of young East Anglia Catholics have completed a 30-mile sponsored walk to raise funds for Abortion Resistance, a brand-new pro-life initiative. On March 26 they […]
March 22, 2022
Bishop Alan celebrated a Mass for the Blessing of Families at St John’s Cathedral to mark the end of the Year of St Joseph. During the […]
March 15, 2022
After a year as Diocesan Fertility Awareness Methods Co-ordinator, Dr Jessica Beckett is moving away because of her husband’s job. She shares her parting reflections on […]
February 1, 2022
A dozen engaged couples have started a preparation for marriage in the Catholic Church course in the Peterborough Deanery. Oliver Wessex reports. Pope St John Paul […]
October 29, 2021
During Baby Loss Awareness Week in October Bishop Alan Hopes celebrated a Mass for couples who had experienced miscarriages. The national week enables those affected by […]
October 21, 2021
With a Mass for those affected by infertility being held in Newmarket in November, Lucy from East Anglia tells her own story of ‘unexplained infertility’ and […]
September 12, 2021
Bishop Alan Hopes plans to celebrate two special Masses this autumn to support couples affected by miscarriage or infertility. Dr Jess Beckett reports. The two Masses […]
August 4, 2021
Couples celebrating anniversaries after being married for many years recently took part in a Mass organised by the Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Commission. Bishop Alan […]
August 2, 2021
Jolanta Mokrzycka from St Luke’s in Peterborough has launched a branch of Couples for Christ in the city. Here she explains how it came about. Couples […]
July 6, 2021
Twenty-six men from across the diocese and beyond joined Fr Henry Whisenant for a men’s retreat at Walsingham on Saturday. They were drawn from a variety […]
June 9, 2021
The Marriage and Family Life Commission is putting on a retreat day at Walsingham for Catholic Men entitled ‘a life of prayer and virtue’. Fr Henry […]
May 25, 2021
Sarah Ward, pro-life representative on the Marriage and Family Commission, will be representing the diocese at an online March for Life. She will be taking part […]
April 22, 2021
In the Year of the Family, Newmarket parishioner couple, Juliet and Richard Burnford, write about the most enriching experience of their life together – the Cana […]