Thirty five people from our Diocese, including a number from the Brentwood Catholic Youth Service, travelled earlier this year to World Youth Day in Panama and Costa Rica. Here, some young pilgrims tell their stories.
Patrick Reardon, along with three other British Royal Navy veterans, received the medal from French Ambassador in recognition of their part in helping to liberate France during the D-Day Landings.
Steven Webb is to join others from across the diocese in spending a night outside at Abbotswick, raising funds and awareness of homelessness and the housing crisis.
The car-sharing convoy of volunteers will be spending the weekend of 21-13 June helping Care4Calais sort aid before meeting refugees to hear their stories. Would you like to join them?
In the wake of the terror attacks on Muslims in New Zealand, Bishop Alan has asked people in the diocese to pray for the victims this Friday and Sunday.
A series of Passion paintings by Andrew White will be on show at Brentwood Cathedral during Lent. Fr Martin Boland will be reflecting on each painting on successive Sundays on BBC Essex. You can listen to his reflections here.
Don't miss the chance to hear Fr Alban McCoy, Dean of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, talk about how Pope Francis has fostered the renewal of the Catholic Church - and ask how that renewal might be sustained.
