Xmas Cards; Hugs - megahug; The Synod - significant in 1994, the religious life; Ordination - woman's ordination does disturb and unsettle, quote from Fr John McDade SJ in the December issue of the Month; The New Situation - best way ahead for anglican clergy; taking Moro (the dog) for a walk, robins, wrens, canadian geese

Form letter from Bishop Clark - anticipating celebration of Christmas; 6 months "on the road"; 1977 bringing changes; St John's, a massive burden and cost, needs £250,000; need for more priests.
manuscript annotation: "I admire your pastoral zeal and energy at Lynn - and thank you greatly for what you do. It must be somewhat frustrating not to get any go-ahead for planned developments, etc. However, I sense that all flourishes under your guidance. All blessings, Yours devotedly +Alan".

Pastoral letter [not present]
Bishop's Christmas message to be read at all churches in the diocese on Sunday, December 8th.

Christmas a month away; 6 months together - 1977 an important year - new dispositions and reallocation of responsibilites - more later; plan to manage the big project at St John's Cathedral in Norwich; priests for the future - 16 seminarians - Fr Chris White and Fr Anthony Shrane there to help find vocations; an enclosure mentioned [not present]

now established Diocesan Council, Senate of Priests - clarity in what is to be done; first Christmas together makes this Advent special; enabling services of Reconciliation - no arrogance in giving God's forgiveness - not for us to judge adapt to the new rite of confession; many Chistmas presents in the Diocese in the form of cathechists, students for the priesthood, teachers, families; writing form Rome, not far from the Pope - both wanting peace and unity.

Images taken Christmas time around the time of the last Mass at Christ the King, Lakenham

Programme for Christmas Eve to St Stephen's Day

Into 1985; The Christmas Proclamation; Pastoral Programme - Council of Priests ministry; Identify Check - "our relationship to one another and to our people"; ARCIC 1 - Agreed statement on Ministry and Ordination; Overlappping Tasks - Youth, Social Welfare, Schools; The Mission 'Ad Extra' - needs of overseas missions; Greetings and Gratitude

ink manuscript insertion "Dear Gary [Dowsey]"
Greetings - Julian of Norwich, staff at Poringland; Hierarchy meeting in London, British Council of Churches, BBC; Papal Visit of Pope John Paul - National Ecumenial Committee, lobby for Papal visit to Walsingham; Four Papers; Nuclear Deterrent; Unemployment; South Africa; Eastern Europe; Diocesan Priorities - Adult Education, We are not about the Tridentine issue, Diocesan Pastoral Council.
manuscript in ink annotation: "+Alan As you have begun (so generously), please continue... Thank you"

ink manuscript salutation "Dear Gary [Dowsey]"
Christmas Greetings; Strains and Tensions; Abiding Joy and the Surprises of Achievement; Walsingham; The Cathedral; Liturgy; Dress; Prayer; Entertainment venues
signed "+Alan" with annotation "Heigh-ho! Amen!"

Christmas Greetings 1983; 1983; 1984; Combined Parishes / Lay Ministry - shortage of priests; Growth - Walsingham, Bernard Warwick, Slippper Chapel, grave of Charlotte Boyd; Sickness and Death; Sadness; Greetings; Mission Awareness

East Anglia 1985 - my 40th anniversary; Personal Profile - what emerges from our Convocation Day; Diocesan Instrument - Social Welfare Commission, Justice and Peace Commission, Youth Officer, Pastoral Council; The Cathedral - one million pounds raised to restore St John's; The Bad and the Ugly - a self-financing diocese, what we misguidedly call 'our money'; Diocese Ten Years Old - John Drury's re-entry into diocesan life

1986-1987 - the diocesan agenda, Provisional Pastoral Council, Finance Office, Fiscal Vicar; The Other Half - disconnected, visitations; Manning - clusters of churches, confederation similarity, Ministry to Priests Programme; Continence - ; Curial Capers; Ugandan Bug; South America; Report from National Conference of Priests, September 1986 [an extract]

Daughters of Jesus in Thetford, Fr Tony Shryane, Julian of Norwich, "be holy, holy, and yet more holy", Quidenham, working togther although not as members of the British Council of Churches; nuclear deterrant, unemployment, South Africa and apartheid, National Pastoral Congress, the Next Ten Years.