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 JUBILEE 2025    NOVEMBER 2025 Web Newsletter Welcome t o the November edition of the NBCW Diocesan Link newsletter. A lot has happened this month and I’d like to share with you my visit to Rome where I joined over 20,000 catechists at the Jubilee of Catechists. Flying out Friday morning 26 September, I was in my monastery hotel early afternoon. With a quick change I was down in St Peter’s Square by mid afternoon. I walked the length of Via della Conciliazione, the road that gives you the view of the Vatican in the distance, up to Piazza Pia, the meeting point to join the Pilgrimage. Joining a group from Florence I prayed and walked with them on the Pilgrimage to the Holy Door of St Peter’s. Definitely the best way to get into the Vatican as we bypassed all the tourist queue’s. My timing was good as I arrived in good time to remain in St Peter’s   Basilica for the Jubilee prayer vigil at 17.00. Saturday was an early start to attend the Jubilee Audience ...

                                                                                       JUBLEE 2025 October 2025 Web Newsletter Welcome to the October edition of the NBCW Diocesan Link newsletter.   If you were at Ardingly on Saturday September 20 th you will know the diocese hosted an inspiring Festival of Hope. Michelle Moran from the Sion Community spoke of the ‘importance of Baptism’. She repeated the words ‘Enthusiasm’ and ‘ Confidence ’ as she spoke of  what we have to do ‘to bring people into our sacred space’. Dai Woolridge from the Bible Society, who is a spoken word poet, spoke of Words of Hope, asking us to i) Be open to Nudges…is the Holy Spirit nudging you to share your faith; ii) Be open...