1 Participants in Cafod’s Step into the Gap scheme include Catholic twin sisters Charlotte and Sophie Bray, who are embarking on charity projects in Ethiopia and Cambodia.
2 Stephen and Linda Calland present the proceeds of a sponsored swim to the March for Life at St Margaret Mary Church, Birmingham.
3 New students at Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, spend two days at The Briars, a residential youth centre run by the Nottingham Diocesan Catholic Youth Service.
4 Solemn High Mass of the Epiphany is celebrated at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church, Wolverhampton (photo: Józef Łopuszyński).
5 Bishop John Wilson presides at the official blessing ceremony of St Anthony’s School for Girls, a new independent Catholic school in north-west London.
6 The Edmund Rice Foundation has appointed former headteacher Roisin Maguire as its new Director of Schools for England.
7 Maria Brennan, Clifton Cathedral parishioner, with her parents and Catenian City of Bristol Circle president Peter Davidson and his wife at a dinner where Maria gave a presentation on her participation in World Youth Day in Kraków, which the Catenians sponsored.
8 Pupils from Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall meet Holocaust survivor Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines.
9 Woldingham School in Surrey has been selected as a performance centre for England Hockey 2017.
10 Luca Lota, a sixth-form student at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, west London, has gained a Gold Award in the British Physics Olympiad.
11 This year’s photography competition at St Ambrose College in Hale Barns, Altrincham, has attracted more than 400 entries. The overall winner was Joseph Wall (centre).
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