Fr Gerald Gostling, who worked with orphaned children and vulnerable people in our twinned Diocese of Dundee for many years, recently returned to the UK. Here he gives his view on what is happening in South Africa.

Many prayers and blessings for Callum Young, Joseph Bailham, Michael Barwick, Damien Wade, Anthony Grant and Anthony Rowley.

The Relay 100 event aims to link up every parish church and mass centre in the Brentwood Diocese by recruiting individual supporters to walk, run or cycle one of 100 routes, raising much-needed funds through sponsorship.

New video presentations from Fr Adrian Graffy demonstrate the skill with which Mark put his gospel together and how others built on it.

As a global maritime charity, Stella Maris has been playing a crucial role in supporting seafarers and fishers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is continuing to offer spiritual and practical help to those most in need.

Abbot Geoffrey, who lectures in Church History at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, said Colchester should enhance its status in the same way as Reading has with its ‘Abbey Quarter’.

A Mass will be celebrated each morning at 11am at different churches around the diocese, with Anointing of the Sick and joyful music from talented young musicians, followed by coffee and refreshments.

Abbot Geoffrey Scott will be the first Benedictine to say Mass on the site of the Abbey on its patronal feast day since 1539. Watch live online.

The group is offering practical ways in which we can all take action and make changes in our lives to take better care of our world.