Forthcoming Events

For details of parishes, Masses, Prayer Resources and other events online see: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/39170

2026

JUNE

Now until 21 June - Tuesday -Saturday 10am-6pm Fridays 10am-9pm
Michaelina Wautier
The Royal Academy of Arts
£15 Admission, concessions available.
For more information see: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54906

9 May - 29 June
Chester: Threads through the Bible | Creation + Cross + Revelation
CHESTER CATHEDRAL

Thursday 4 June 7pm
Spiritual Classics Book Club
See: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/55097

Saturday 6 June 11am - 4.30pm
London: Pax Christi AGM
Are you concerned about the world situation today?
Join like-minded people - get involved
Everyone welcome
Maria Fidelis School, Euston, NW1 1LY

Saturday 6 June 5pm
London: Holy Land Roundtable
London Jesuit Centre Cana Lounge.

Sunday 7 June (Corpus Christi Sunday) 4.45pm.
Southwark - St George's Cathedral Corpus Christ Procession
The procession will commence from the Cathedral, and take a circular route encompassing Lambeth Road, Westminster Bridge Road and St George's Road, concluding inside the Cathedral with Benediction.

Sunday 7 June 11am
London: Pontifical Mass of Corpus Christi, followed by Procession
Solemn Mass led by Bishop Paul Mason, followed by a Eucharistic procession through Central London to Warwick Street. After Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 2 to 3.30pm, the annual procession resumes towards Spanish Place via the Ukrainian Cathedral.

Sunday 7 June 1-4pm
Birmingham: Corpus Christi Procession
See: www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk.

Sunday 7 June 3pm (gather at 2.30pm)
Cardiff: Corpus Christi Procession
The procession will start from Nazareth House, with arrival by 4.30
See: www.stpeterscardiff.org.uk.

Sunday 7 June 10.30am
Sunderland: Corpus Christi Procession
The Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle will have a public procession after the 10:30 am Mass from St Mary's Church, Sunderland See: www.diocesehn.org.uk.

Sunday 7 June 3pm
Galashiels: Corpus Christi Procession
Join Archbishop Cushley and people from across the Archdiocese for the annual Corpus Christi Procession
At Our Lady & St Andrew's, Stirling Street, Galashiels

Monday - Friday 8 - 14 June
Musical Pilgrimage on the Augustine Camino
See: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54840

Wednesday 10 June 2026, 7pm-8.15pm
Woking: FROM THE FRONT LINE TO THE HIGH STREET
Two powerful talks on military service and community care come to Woking in support of Woking Street Angels.
St Dunstan's RC Church, Woking GU22 7DT, hosted by the Guildford & District Knights of St Columba.
Tickets £5 - hear Colonel Graham Jones (Retd) and Mark Potter share fascinating military frontline and street level service stories. Advance booking is at www.ticketsource.com (search 'Woking'): www.ticketsource.com/guildford-district-knights-of-st-columba

Thursday 11 June to Sunday 14 June
London: 'Marking: An Alternative World Cup Football Sticker Exhibition'.
To mark and commemorate the 6,500 workers who died in construction and servicing during the decade-long construction period for the Qatar World Cup, we have designed a 6,500 run limited edition commemorative football sticker. These will be displayed together over the five walls of The Grey Gallery for four days at the start of World Cup '26.
Visitors will be encouraged to take stickers home and distribute them.
Venue: The Grey Gallery, 4 Helmsley Pl, London E8 3SB
The exhibition is free and you can stay as long or short at a time as you like, we recommend anywhere between two minutes and half an hour. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/marking-alternative-world-cup-football-stickers-exhibition-tickets-1989399562645

Friday, June 12 - Sunday, June 14
Stroud: Tools for The Journey Towards God, Monastery of Our Lady and St Bernard
Jesus offers us tools to help us make our journey towards God lighter and easier. Join us this weekend as Fr Gerard Magee shares his exploration on Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline and Abandonment.
See: www.bernardine.org/brownshill-programme/2026/6/12/tools-for-the-journey-towards-god

Friday 12 June - Sunday 14 June 2026
Somerset: Living Theology Beauty & the Arts: Encountering the sacred from Von Balthasar to CS Lewis'
At the Ammerdown Centre, Radstock, near Bath
F. Sean Connolly PhD; Sr Carolyn Morrison RA, PhD
Please email: ltammerdown@gmail.comwith enquiries & for booking form
or book online at: https://livingtheology.co.uk/

12 June - End of Year Celebration 2026 (In-person Event)
At Margaret Beaufort Institute
For more information see: www.mbit.cam.ac.uk/events/

Saturday 13 June
20th Anniversary Open Day at Catholic Worker Farm
Lynsters Farm, Old Uxbridge Road, West Hyde, WD3 9XJ

Saturday - Sunday 3-14 June
St Ethelburga's Ecology and Spirituality Festival
For more information see: https://events.stethelburgas.org/events/stethelburgascentreforreconcilliationandpeace/1974219?
and www.indcatholicnews.com/news/55142

Tuesday, 16 June
Stroud: Quiet Day
Inviting you to spend some time with God through prayer and reflection at Monastery or Our Lady and St. Bernard
See: www.bernardine.org/brownshill-programme/2025/1/29/quiet-day-19th-jun-2025-4dfg2-5j6zn-m5z4b-ndg43-k5s2h

16 - 20 June
Wintershall: The Life of Christ
There are limited tickets left for Friday 19 June and good availability for Saturday 20 June currently. The other days are virtually full.
Tickets can be booked here: www.wintershall.org.uk/event/life-of-christ/
See a promotional video here: https://youtu.be/bhvEV8zxhe8?si=c1tHoTfOOEP6VHP9
See also: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54942.

Wednesday 17 June 6pm
Twickenham: Catholic History Walk
Meet at main entrance of St Mary's University, Waldegrave Rd, Twickenham, (nearest railway stn: Strawberry Hill) HILL). We will walk along the river to Richmond
No need to book, just turn up! We suggest a donation of £5 per head.

Thursday 18 June 7- 8.15pm
Stand Together to Tackle Knife Crime - Online meeting
For more information see: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/55138
To register, please visit: https://caritaswestminster.org.uk/events/

Friday 19 June 1-4pm
St Thomas More Church, Manor House: Talk on Setting up a hospice, concerns about ageing, caring and being cared for
Led by Dr Karen Groves MBE, founder of Queenscourt Hospice Southport
All Welcome: Free Event: donations to Queenscourt Hospice
9 Henry Road, N4 Manor House tube, 29, 341, 141, 253,254 buses

Friday 19 June 6pm
Battersea: Catholic History Walk
Meet at Sacred Heart church, Battersea. We will walk along the river a little way and cross to Chelsea, visiting the statue of St Thomas More and learning his story, and then go back and finish at Battersea Park and the Millenium Cross. No need to book - just turn up! We suggest a donation of £5 per head.

Saturday 20 June 20 10am-5pm
St Thomas More Church, Manor House: Parish Retreat on Wholeness and Holiness
Led by Dr Karen Groves MBE, founder of Queenscourt Hospice Southport
All welcome. Free Event: donations to Queenscourt Hospice
9 Henry Road, N4 Manor House tube, 29, 341, 141, 253,254 buses

Saturday 20 June 6pm
London: Mass for New Catholics
At Westminster Cathedral

Saturday 20 June
London: International Conference Against War
Central Hall Westminster

Monday 22 June
The Sisters of Sinai: 100 Years of Women & Wisdom - Margaret Beaufort Institute
See: www.tickettailor.com/events/westminstercollegecambridge/2138187

Thursday 25 June,
'Ingatio de Loyola, soldier, sinner, saint: if you could hear the voice of God, would you keep it a secret?'
At Farm Street Film Club
Arrupe Hall, 114 Mount Street, London W1K 3AH

Saturday 26 June 7.30pm
London: Jesuit Young Adult Ministries present YAM 2026 Concert
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, W1K3AH

June 26 - 28
Stroud: The Midsummer Martyrs
Exploring the lives of the martyrs through art; how the witness of their faith touches our lives through the creativity and masterpieces of the artists and how they can help us to live a holy life in the midst of today's society, led by Amina Wright who is an art lecturer and curator of historic art collections and has an MA in Christianity and the Arts from King's College London.
www.bernardine.org/brownshill-programme/2026/6/26/the-midsummer-martyrs

Sunday 28 June
National Pilgrimage to Holywell
See: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/55122

JULY

4 July - 31 August
Threads through the Bible | Creation + Cross + Revelation
LINCOLN CATHEDRAL

July 24-26
'One heart, one voice' - National Network of Pastoral Musicians Conference
at Highgate House Northampton NN6
For more information see: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54773

24 - 26 July 2026
NJPN Conference at Swanwick
contact admin@justice-and-peace.org.uk for information
See: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54644

AUGUST

Saturday 1 August 12.30pm
London: 120th Anniversary Celebration of the Catholic Women's League
This is where Margaret Fletcher founder of the CWL was received into the Catholic Church.

7-9 August
Minster Benedictine Abbey: Come and See - Discernment Retreat
For single Roman Catholic women 18-35
To register contact Sister Walburga at: minstervocations@gmail.com

Saturday 8 - Saturday 15 August
Catholic People's Week at Kintbury, West Berkshire.
Food for Mind, Body & Soul; the Wider Determinants of Health - an all age, pay what you can event
For more information or to book, go to www.catholicpeoplesweeks.org

SEPTEMBER

Saturday 5th September
London: March for Life
Details to follow. This event promises to be the biggest March for Life UK ever.

6 to 13 September 2026
Ipswich to host weeklong Eucharistic Congress
See: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54813

Sunday 13 - Sunday 20 September
CPW Augustine Camino
Rochester to Ramsgate, Kent. The Augustine Camino - adult only pilgrimage event (walking up to 13 miles each day)
For more information or to book, go to: www.catholicpeoplesweeks.org

OCTOBER

9-11 October
Minster Benedictine Abbey: Come and See - Discernment Retreat
For single Roman Catholic women 18-35
To register contact Sister Walburga at: minstervocations@gmail.com

Thursday 29 October - Sunday 1 November.
Catholic People's Week at Alton, Staffordshire
Our Coats of Many Colours - an all age "taste and see" event with 50% discount for new members
For more information or to book, go to: www.catholicpeoplesweeks.org

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER