Education Sunday is marked this year on 8 September - just after the new academic year starts. The theme for 2024 is “He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak” taken from St Mark’s Gospel (7:31-37).
Sunday, 8 September 2024
Education Sunday falls on the second Sunday of September (8 September, in 2024) just as the new academic year starts and is one of the oldest Days of Special Prayer in England and Wales, established 175 years ago in 1848. It provides an opportunity to celebrate and give thanks to all involved in making Catholic schools places of enlightenment, as well as to look forward in anticipation of the year ahead.
To help celebrate, the CES has provided a range of resources:
Education Sunday offers an opportunity for us to pray to Almighty God for all people involved in Catholic education, to celebrate the achievements of the past and to ask Our Lord to bless the work of the year ahead.
We have a number of resources available for download to help you engage with this year’s Education Sunday in addition to a series of Bidding Prayers.
