About 100 participants have enjoyed the last “family” Catholic People’s Week (CPW) of their 2010 programme at Downside School in Somerset, writes Ellen Teague.

They explored “Living baptismally: the art of discipleship” during the final week of August at an event chaired by Rebekah O’Keeffe and addressed by Fr Michael Kirwan of Heythrop College and Martin Foster of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.

The Downside week followed the usual CPW formula of a morning of study and reflection for adults, with young people following a lighter programme with young “helpers”. The mornings were rounded off with Mass. Afternoons were free and then there were evening sessions, followed by night prayers involving adults and children. Participants particularly enjoyed painting candles which were then given as gifts to one another.