The Lenten Letter - from the Holy Father, fear that events may impose a yet mopre rigorous call to fidelity; This Lent 1994 - not so an"awful" Lent as some think, concious of distress and pain of living true to our vocation; 14th May 1994 - 50th anniversary for the Diocese, 50 years of priesthood; Our Priests - Harry Wace, Peter Cansdale, ordinations at OLEM Cambridge, currently no candidates for the priesthood; Maundy Thursday Letter - Eucharist is the heart of the priestly life

Brother Reinhold Zielinski, a Dominican student at Cambridge, recently ordained to the Diaconate has asked if Bishop Clark would ordain him as a priest at Trinity College.

Explains arrangements for safeguarding Chapel & Blessed Sacrament at Sawston Hall. Commander Eyre Huddleston feels it to be unsafe to allow unrestricted access & suggests opening arrangements but does he retain the right to close Chapel? Canon Marshall believes he has. Manuscript note: "I shall be glad to hear that you consider these proposal satisfactory."

Requesting faculty to administer Sacrament of Confirmation on Miss Jean Teague. She has been accepted for the Visitation Sisters in Walden , Essex, but, before she can enter the convent on 14 January 1998 she must be confirmed. P.S. The pastoral letter was well received and deeply appreciated, many people asked that he write to thank the Bishop for the words of encouragement.

Regard the Chapel at Sawston as a public chapel and sends a faculty for blessing it. Allows retention of the Blessed Sacrament there if he feels safeguards are satisfactory. Asks him for formal notification (as Vicar Capitular) when he has blessed Chapel. Meanwhile, Msgr. Payne is off for a rest - don't be in touch.

Situation is described and as a consequence Rev Matthews is asking the Bishop to allow the confirmation of a child outwith normal practice of doing this during a visitation. Fr Michael Cassidy has been spoken to about this