One thousand three hundred pupils and staff from St Benedict’s Junior and Senior Schools marked the start of the Year of Faith and a new school year on the first day of Michaelmas term with a special Mass in the Abbey, concelebrated by Abbot Martin Shipperlee and other members of the Monastic Community working in the School. The Year of Faith is being celebrated by the whole Catholic Church and formally begins on Thursday, 11th October and concludes on the Solemnity of Christ the King in 2013.