More than 400 people came together to celebrate their faith, including children who had just made their first Holy Communion and representatives from schools in the town.
The Celebrating Young People awards, which took place on 3 July, saw hundreds of young people nominated in six categories, each celebrating a different aspect of Catholic social teaching lived out in action.
Pope Francis will canonise Blessed John Henry Newman on Sunday 13 October in St Peter's Square, making him the first English saint recognised since the 17th century.
On Sunday 14 July, please support the vital work of AoS, whose port chaplains and volunteer ship visitors provide practical help and pastoral care to seafarers - without whom, all our lives would be poorer.
At a Mass in Westminster Cathedral on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, Cardinal Nichols gave thanks for gift of diocesan priesthood and offered his thoughts on renewal of hearts and minds.
Parishioners from Colchester and further afield attended Mass at the Abbey Gatehouse on the feast of St John the Baptist - a day very special to the Benedictine monks of five centuries ago.
