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GB ARCHON 2913 PA02-06-03-4 · Item · January 1943
Part of Our Lady and St Peter Parish, Aldeburgh

Contents:
Front cover: Title; schematic of East Anglia with church/mass centre locations identified.; Price 2d; 3s per annum post free
Inside front cover: Guild objectives & Proposed Schemes; List of Officers; List of local secretaries; editorial to Fr Thomson; Business & advertising to Miss N Mason.
page 1: News & Views: Happy New Year / Opening of Scole Mass centre / Church students / Christmas at the Cathedral /
page 2: Advertisements: Hammond & Son, undertakers / Votive offering for Fakenham / Brundell & Son, undertakers
page 3: Details of coastal bombing impacts / Cathedral notes / Beveridge Report / New Manual of Prayers / Widenst East Anglia
page 4: advertisements
page 5: Scole. A new East Anglian Mass Centre (article)
page 6: Our Diocesan Churches / 3. Kesgrave Suffolk (article)
insert page 1/2: MASS - The Sacrifice of the Mystical Body by Fr Martin Harrison OP (Article)
insert page 2: article page 1 cont'd: Cor Jesu
insert page 3/4: "Naboth's Vinyard" A short Story by A Stevens (story)
insert page 5: Pater Senes Preaches 1 - Indulgences (Article)
insert page 6/7: "An English Franciscan Martyr" Bro. Paul of St Mary Magdalen (Henry Heath)
insert page 7/8: "Miss Perkin's Posy" Fransicana (story)
insert page 8: Book review
page 7: Kesgrave cont'd
page 8: Scole con't; Roman Notes; Our Prize Competition
page 9: Correspondence; News from Parishes [first item cut out (probably Aldeburgh)]- Fakenham & Well-next-the Sea
page 10: Ipswich (St Mary's); Slough; Southwold [unfinished due to cut out]
page 11 to 14: advertisements

Guild of St Felix and St Edmund
GB ARCHON 2913 PA38-a-5 · Item · 5-2-1953
Part of The Sacred Heart Parish, St Ives

First draft of extension for St Francis of Assisi in Papworth Everard. Fr Doupe likes it; architect needs approval before producing detailed plans and specification. Porch rather larger than originally envisaged in response to architect pointing out the extension design only allowed for a four foot wide entrance - not very imposing. SAE enclosed for return of plan.
Plan 1: "Proposed Initial Scheme & Future Development for the Enlargement of the Roman Catholic Church in Papworth Everard" BD981/6, Papworth Industries, Cambridge
Plan 2: "Half Inch & Larger Scale Details for Catholic Church Extension" BD 981/6

Johnson, T C M Rev
GB ARCHON 2913 PA19-01-02-3 · Item · undated c.1959
Part of St Mary's Parish, Great Yarmouth

No author / no date
Text is:
GREAT YARMOUTH
Yarmouth had sheltered Anselm Beach,0.S.B., in the winter of 1603-04 – he had landed here in 1603, perhaps accompanied by Roland Preston, 0.S.B. - and it was visited by the Norwich Jesuits at infrequent intervals from at least as early as the time of Fr. Angier (1774-1788), in whose handwriting is a record: "To Yarmouth to comfort the people, to postchaise, £2-2s." The first intermittently resident priest was Joseph de Pierreville, a French emigre, who was offering Mass at least as early as 1809 in Dene House (a site partly covered now by Woolworths), belonging to the Bedingfelds, and who started a register in 1810 and signed it until he went to Oxburgh in 1815. The emigre Dacheux (doubtless once at Lynn) signs in 1816 and 1817, and d'Eterville, from Norwich, 1817-1820.

The Stewart family, which settled in the town about 1815, placed its house at the priest's disposal. The visits from Norwich took place every Sunday from 1822, and it was not until October l822, when Catholics were a dozen, that Joseph Tate S.J., came to live in the town. He bought a large corn warehouse in George Street and adapted it as a chapel and residence. It is now called Lombard House, and the chapel may be recognised from its two Corinthian pillars and small choir loft. When he left in 1835 the congregation numbered fifty to eighty. James Clough,S.J., succeeded him and was in turn followed, in 1841, by an exiled Spaniard, Charles Lopez, who had offered his services to the Society. On 24th September“1850, he opened the existing church of St. Mary in Regent Road, and a cemetery. When he left Yarmouth he had raised the congregation to 200 and left behind him a reputation for sanctity and friendship for the poor which is still fragrant.

A chapel was added to the cemetery on 5th September, 1867, whilst Rev. W. Clifford,S.J. was rector. The same year a few Notre Dame Sisters of Namur left after only a short stay, though the schools, built by Father Lopez continued in use as such until 1881, afterwards being used for other purposes. The Dames of St. Louis run a primary and high school. Lowestoft and Gorleston in Suffolk are both offshoots of Yarmouth, whilst Rev. Stephen Webb,S.J. saw three further Mass centres started, one of St. Thomas More, Hemsby, in 1947, that of Our Lady and St. Michael in 1948 in the Catholic Cemetery chapel on Caister Road, and that of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus at Acle in 1956.

When Fr. Lopez built the church, which is of ‘dressed’ flint, the site was on the sand hills, and people thought it quite out of place. Did they think his foresight foolish when on 22nd August 1950, a hundred years later, Bishop Parker consecrated it? A new site for a church has just been purchased at Caister. Fr. Dennis,S.J. has had the church beautifully restored recently, and has added a new window to St. Teresa.

Unknown
GB ARCHON 2913 PA28-03-01-1 · Item · 11 August 1947
Part of Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish, King's Lynn

"The Bishop of Northampton (Mgr. Leo Parker) (centre) at the Red Mount Chapel yesterday during the jubilee celebrations of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom, which coincided with those of King' Lynn Roman Catholic church. On the Bishop's left is Canon E H Stokes, who, before going to Cambridge, was for many years at Lynn."

Eastern Evening News (1882-)
GB ARCHON 2913 NTM-02-03-2 · Item · May 1970
Part of Northampton Diocesan Travelling Mission - Fr McCormick

Copy of a page from PACE May 1970. Text:

The Land Rover Priest at Work
“Old Faithful” makes the Mission's wheels turn

The miles between in a far-flung diocese such as Northampton is one of the reasons why – as we enter the 70s – a Travelling Mission is still so necessary.

In this article, Father R L McCormick tells something of his work over the past 12 years.

Nearly ten years ago I sat down to write the first edition of 'Travelling Mission News' which turned out to be a qualified success. I use the word "qualified" intentionally because I was soon to discover the difficulties and limitations attached to the production and circulation of a one man news sheet. It was due to these difficulties that I had to give up the production of the news sheet in 1966.

The editor of Pace however is now hoping that I will be able to provide him with some Travelling Mission news for each monthly edition of the paper.

At the end of 1958 Bishop Parker appointed me to the work of the Travelling Mission and at the beginning of 1959 I started on this work. I recall that Bishop Parker gave me a fortnight in which to make up my mind whether to accept the job or not. He said he hoped my answer would be yes, but that if I felt that I would “go off the rails" on this kind of work then he hoped I would tell him so. I am glad to say that I am still on the job, and as far as I know, still “on the rails"!

I joined Canon Hulme on the job which he had started at the end of the 1940's We worked together for about a year. Then Canon Hulme was appointed to Bedford, since which time I have been on my own in this work.

But what is the work of the Travelling Mission which I have talked about? Surely, you say, there is hardly any need for mission work in England?

REALLY RURAL
Much of the diocese is rural, parishes are relatively few which means that many villages and small towns not only do not have their own parish church, but that they are frequently a number of miles from the nearest one. The mission work is aimed at doing something for the Catholics who live in the villages and towns of these rural areas, in conjunction with the work and wishes of the parish priests. The work revolves round a rota of what I call 'quarterly Mass centres'. A quarterly Mass centre is a village or town in which I offer Mass each quarter and at the same time give the local Catholics the opportunity of having their children baptised if they so desire. Each Sunday I offer Mass in two and very often three such centres. I can only come once every three months because of the large extent of the diocese.

Some people who very often live on the doorstep of their own parish church, question the usefulness of having Mass on such an infrequent basis. My answer is that it is always beneficial and therefore useful to get the local Catholics together in their own home villages or towns for the purpose of offering the sacrifice of the Mass. The quarterly Mass also gives the people the opportunity of getting to know each other as members of the same community. It gives them the opportunity of talking to a priest and it gives them a realisation them with the means to be the visible church in their own localities.

VERY CURIOUS
I live in the villages where I work and usually stay with a local family. A point of interest which has always intrigued me is that I very often receive much more spontaneous hospitality from non-Catholics than I do from Catholics. I have never quite worked out why! I suspect that perhaps some Catholics think that a priest lives off a golden platter and so are somewhat afraid to offer hospitality in case they might not come up to standard, whereas the non-Catholic looks upon the priest as just another human being in need of bed and board. I hasten to add that once I am known in the district there is no shortage of hospitality.

Where do I have Mass? Until relatively recently I have used village halls, British Legion halls, public house rooms, private sitting rooms, stately homes, theatres, a boxing ring, and the open air. Now that I can use the Church of England parish churches in quite a few places the question of where to have Mass is becoming less of a problem than it has been.

I book each place where I have Mass for two hours. I allow myself half an hour in which to get the place ready - setting up the portable altar, putting out chairs and kneelers, setting the large tape-recorder to play ‘holy music’ until Mass begins, setting up the large carved statue of Our Lady in some suitable spot, giving out the Mass leaflets and finally giving the whole place a good whiff of best Prinknash incense to smother any noxious odours left over from any riotous sessions the previous Saturday evening. (Particularly in village halls and pubs). I then hear confessions for half an hour, half an hour for Mass and finally, half an hour to get packed up again and ready to move on to the next centre. This repeated three times on a Sunday makes a fair day's work.

THIRSTY WORK
How do I carry my kit?, and what do I get around the diocese in? - Land Rover. This vehicle whilst having a remarkable thirst for petrol proves to be about the best for the job. (I am not being paid by the Rover Company!). My kit weighs about five cwts and this has to be carried everywhere I go day in and day out, month in and month out. People have to be picked up from the farms and cottages and brought to Mass on many occasions and transported home afterwards (of course). I have found that the Land Rover is about the only vehicle able to stand up to this constant heavy usage without heavy repair bills. In the winter the Land Rover comes into its own because with its four-wheel drive it is able to keep going when most have stopped. I often feel that I do more good with the Land Rover during the winter months pulling cars out of snowdrifts than by several years of preaching!

What do I do during the week? This is a question more often asked by the mere cynical clerical colleagues of mine! About four days are spent in the village areas where I have the Mass centres – finding and visiting the people, arranging for instructions for the children, smoothing out arrangements for using places for Mass. On the weekdays when I am in the villages I have morning Mass at the houses where I stay. One full day (made up of two separate half-days) is spent travelling to and from the work areas. The other two days are spent writing letters and Mass notices - at the moment I have about 75 outgoing mail items per week.

SLOW CHANGE
Do the Mass centres always remain the same? No, there is a slow evolutionary process going on. Each year I hand over about four of my quarterly centres to the parishes so that the centre can be served on a much more frequent basis than my quarterly one. When I hand over a centre then I am able to bring in a district from the waiting list and so the process starts again. Sometimes on the other hand I have to close a centre because of a shift in Catholic population or because of a failure on the part of the local Catholics to respond to the opportunity of having Mass in their locality.

The average attendance at the mission Masses is 34 at the moment. Over half receive Penance and Holy Communion. About one-third who attend go to Mass irrespective of whether I am there or not, and another third could go to Mass regularly despite some difficulty and the remaining third are unable to go on a regular basis.

That then is a sketchy outline of the work of the Travelling Mission. In future editions it will, perhaps, be possible to relate some of this general picture to the detail and colour of particular localities.

McCormick, Robert L. Rev (-2015)
GB ARCHON 2913 NTM-02-01-20 · Item · c1959
Part of Northampton Diocesan Travelling Mission - Fr McCormick

A vehicle loaded with resources for the Travelling Mission Mass.
Reverse: "This is the first of four Land Rovers which Fr McCormick used on his Travelling Mission work ending in August 1975.
It was taken outside what was his base for 10 years at 'Foxden' Burnham Bucks. Bishop Leo Parker thought it was haunted!
Key to Numbers:
1 = Portable Alktar No.2
3 = My carved statue of O. Lady in oak case
4 = Tape recorder & player for churchy music.
5 = Box of piety goods - Prayer Bks, Rosaries, etc."

Northampton Travelling Mission (1948-1975)
GB ARCHON 2913 NTM-02-01-21 · Item · c1959
Part of Northampton Diocesan Travelling Mission - Fr McCormick

A vehicle unloaded with resources for the Travelling Mission Mass placed nearby. The words "Catholic Travelling Mission" are just discernable on the white side of the vehicle.
Reverse: "This is the first of four Land Rovers which Fr McCormick used on his Travelling Mission work ending in August 1975.
It was taken outside what was his base for 10 years at 'Foxden' Burnham Bucks. Bishop Leo Parker thought it was haunted!
Key to Numbers:
1 = Portable Altar No.2
2 = Portable Altar No3.
3 = Carved statue of O. Lady in oak case
4 = Tape recorder & player for churchy music.
5 = Box of piety goods - Prayer Bks, Rosaries, etc."

Northampton Travelling Mission (1948-1975)
True Cross Authentication
GB ARCHON 2913 MIS-02-002 · Item · 17 March 1857
Part of Miscellaneous Deposits

Authentication document signed by Fr Franciscus Marinelli, titular Bishop of Porfyreon; for "sacuas ex Ligno Juig Crucis D.N. Jesu xsbi " held in a "theca argentea ad instar Crucis, unieo"
On reverse manuscript: "Given to St John's for public veneration. +Leo, BofN 14 Julii 1947"