‘Pilgrims of Hope’ 2025

As part of the celebrations for the Jubilee Year, all Catholics are invited to become ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. When Pope John Paul II announced this Jubilee year back in 2000, he told young people that they would be “the leading players” in spreading the message of hope. Across the Diocese, our students are taking a leading role in passing a banner as a symbol of hope between our schools and parishes. Each school adds their school logo or a symbol of their school community to the banner before passing it on. In February, we received the banner from our neighbours at St Urban’s and our Year 7 students celebrated mass with visiting Year 5 and 6 pupils and staff. Our school badge was drawn by Year 7 student Zelinna. We then passed the banner along to Notre Dame Sixth Form College as it continued its pilgrimage across the Diocese. This journey from St Urban’s to Cardinal Heenan and onto Notre Dame echoes the path taken by many of our students on their journey through Catholic education. We then passed the banner along to Notre Dame Sixth Form College as it continued its pilgrimage across the Diocese. This journey from St Urban’s to Cardinal Heenan and onto Notre Dame echoes the path taken by many of our students on their journey through Catholic education.