1 Prince Charles meets Archbishop George Stack on a visit to the new Cornerstone building project at St David’s Cathedral, Cardiff. The cathedral has received lottery money to help build a community centre.
2 Bishop John Sherrington and Fr Guy Sawyer concelebrated Midnight Christmas Mass at the Church of Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury in Harrow on the Hill, north-west London. They are pictured with servers led by Master of Ceremonies Peter Sedward.
3 Students at Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derby perform in Bugsy Malone.
4 Two new members, Lee Coomber and David Simcock, are enrolled in the Norwich Circle of the Catenian Association.
5 Year 10 students from Woldingham School in Surrey attend a day of reflection at Aylesford Priory in Kent.
6 Bishop Hugh Gilbert of Aberdeen ordains Fr Andrzej Niski to the priesthood at St Mary’s RC Church in Inverness. It was the first ordination Mass in the city for 12 years.
7 Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham visits the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Bedford on the 35th anniversary of his priestly ordination.
8 Bishop Patrick McKinney of Nottingham is a guest at an awards evening at Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy in Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
9 Former Catholic teacher Pat McBride receives a Teesside Hero Award for organising, for the past 29 years, Christmas hampers for local people living in poverty or short-term crisis.
10 Pauline Groves, news editor for the diocesan newspaper of Arundel and Brighton for 23 years, receives the diocesan medal from Bishop Richard Moth.
11 Bishop Paul McAleenan presides at a Ceremony of Candidacy for eight men preparing for ordination as deacons at St Bartholomew’s in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
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