National Youth Sunday is looming fast, taking place on 26th November. The theme this year is ‘Something to Say’, in line with the synod next year on ‘Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment’. We are encouraging priests, chaplains and catechists to meet up with young people to hear what they have to say. Please visit www.nationalyouthsunday.org.uk for resources and to watch a short video of five young people who went to dinner with their parish priest.

An initiative to encourage older men to think about the possibility of a vocation to the Roman Catholic priesthood or religious life is taking place in September next year.

The Beda College in Rome, together with St Beuno’s Spirituality Centre in north Wales, have organised the weekend 14-16 September 2018 for men between the ages of 30 and 55 who want to discern whether God may be calling them to Catholic priesthood.

Party-loving millennials are sent to live in a Norfolk convent in an eye-opening TV social experiment. Channel 5’s new series Bad Habits: Holy Orders hits screens on 19th October. Read more at www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article.

Congratulations to Bro. Michael O’Grady OFM (pictured on the left), who recently was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Alan Williams, Bishop of Brentwood Diocese.  The ordination took place at St. Francis Franciscan Church in Stratford, East London.

Abbot Christopher Jamison has been elected as Abbot President by the English Benedictine Congregation in succession to Abbot Richard Yeo. Abbot Christopher was Abbot of Worth from 2002-2010 and since then has been Director of the National Office for Vocation.