Diocesan Calendar for 2024
Morris, KeithDiocesan Parish Directory for 2024
Morris, KeithFirst open assembly; 2,300 attended; open for any to attend and express their views.
UnknownStory 1: "Lottery windfall helps St Mary's mend leaking roof"
"St Mary's parish in Great Yarmouth has received a grant of £148,598 from the National Lottery Heritage for repairs to a leaking roof." Story continues.
Image of church roof with scaffolding
Story 2: "Diocese takes stock of architectural heritage"
"A comprehensive architectural and historical review of Catholic churches across the diocese of East
Anglia has been published online as part of the major Taking Stock project. Taking Stock is an architectural and historical review of Catholic churches and chapels in England and Wales. The project is a partnership between the Patrimony Committee of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, individual dioceses, and Historic England." Story continues.
Image caption: "Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge."
Story 3: "Diss parishioners celebrate their heroic saint's feast day"
"Parishioners in Diss gathered on 1st February for a virtual celebration of the feast day of St Henry Morse, known as 'The Priest of the Plague'. Judith Tooth reports. " Story continues.
images caption: "Fr Alex Anaman outside the church and below, an etching of St Henry Morse which hangs in the church."
pg 1: Bishop Clark to lead 40 delegates to Congress in Liverpool May 2-6
pg 2: Aims of the Congress; The Agenda
pg 3: The Seven sectores; The East Anglia Priority; Sector Presidents
Pg 4-6: Deanery delegates listing
Pg 7: A message from the Bishop; The Diocesan Banner [made by Mrs Cicely Green, description of banner]
Pg 8: Congress Coach; Information Contacts (Fr Emmanuel Sullivan SA, Fr Anthony Rogers)
"Young pilgrims from East Anglia visited Ponte de Lima in Portugal as part of World Youth Day preparations and took part in a flag-waving Mass of 5,000 people - and saw a priest leading a rave. The day started with morning prayer led by Fr Luke Goymour, before we all boarded a coach to Ponte de Lima, the oldest large town in Portugal, to join with 5,000 other World Youth Day pilgrims from across the Viana de Castelo diocese which is hosting us." Story continues.
1 image caption: "A sea of flags from round the world as 5,000 young people attend a celebratory Mass in Ponte de Lima. 'Later Later there was what can only be described as a rave, with lasers, stage lights, dry ice and a local Catholic priest playing loud, thumping techno music."
"Bishop Alan Hopes joined other religious from across the diocese and further afield in celebrating
Mass at the Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham on the first anniversary of the Rededication of England as the Dowry of Mary on 25th March 2020. Six hundred years ago King
Richard II placed England under the protection of Mary. Ever since England has been known as Mary's Dowry." Story continues
Image caption: "Bishop Alan Hopes is pictured left at the Catholic National Shrine"
Description of the pro-nuncio's visit to four shrines - Anglican, Methodist, Russian Orthodox, and Catholic.
Eastern Evening News (1882-)"East Anglia: A Celebration of Priesthood Massand lunch took place at Our Lady of the Annunciation in Poringland and at the Bishop's White House on 13th June." Article continues...
Image with caption: "Pictures above with Bishop Alan Hopes (centre) outside the White House, are from the left, Fr Michael Vulliamy, Fr Roger Spencer, Fr Anthony Shryane and Fr Denys Lloyd."
Signed "A Christian". Takes Bishop Clark to task for the attacks on Fr Baker. Suggest that, as the Anglican Church does, the Catholic Church should tolerate two rites contemporaneously. Such intolerance is a grave disservice to Christian Unity and those who love their tradition.
CorrespondentLenten Pastoral Letter, signed by J Milner Vic Ap
Addresses the nature of a pamplet, and associated thinking, "Reflections addressed to the Rev J Hawkins" published in 1785 and in subsequent editions (e.g. "The Faith of Catholics" and "R. Catholic Princilples in Reference to God and the King").
"... You are fully sensible, Reverend Bretheren, that I should be deeply criminal, were I to permit such pretended Profession of Faith as the above-mentioned to be propogated in the flock committed to my care, without notice and opposition; accordingly I have (but under correction of the Holy See) two several times censured it in the manner above signified, and have required that it shoudl be torn down from the chapel walls where it might still remain, as I myself tore it down from the chapel of my present residence."
Provides further examples of anti-Catholic behaviours which ".. vilifies Popes, Saints and Martyrs..."
Final sentence: "If we are called upon for a mere test of civil allegience, no words can be devised more express for this purpose than those of the Oath we have taken: if more than civil allegience be required of us, we must sooner die that yield it."
Lenten Pastoral Letter, signed by John, Bishop of Castabala Vic Ap
Addresses the late Encyclical of Pope Leo XII; discusses multiplicy of sects, the existence of large numbers of printed documents, transmisison of faith through ritual, increasing crime rates.
Marginalia: "Hence the usual Indulgences are not to be published this year" with respect to the general suspention of Penary Indulgences during the Year of Jubilee at Rome.
addressed to "Rev Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Norwich"
"Bishop Peter Collins enjoyed a wonderful day at St John Fisher Catholic High School, Peterborough, during which he met many of the students and staff. Accompanied by diocesan schools' service director Dr Andy Stone, the bishop toured the school, followed by Mass in the chapel concelebrated with Fr Karol from St Peter and All Souls." Story continues.
image caption: "Bishop Peter with just some of the students and staff he met during his day at St John Fisher."
Quotation from 1 Peter v 6-8; "Was ever Exhortation and Admonition more apposite and proper than in these Times, when Infidelity and Irreligion make such Havock and Destruction?"; exhorts to fasting and avoiding the wrath of God
final para: "In consideration of the Dearness of Provisions, the Allowances for Lent this year (1794) in the Middle District are the same as they were last year."
signed by Bp Thomas Talbot
"In his first Christmas message as the new Bishop of East Anglia, the Rt Rev Peter Collins looks at the good news that enlightens a world threatened by darkness." Story continues
image caption: "The Episcopal Ordination of Peter Collins as the fifth Bishop of East Anglia"
"A parishioner fro St Mary's in Ipswich has written a book about the friendship which has grown up with villages in Cambodia through the Diocesan Building Bridges Scheme." Story continues.
Image caption "Marie-Madeleine Kenning with students in Cambodia"
side 1: "A Warning / from / Peter Simple / of the Daily Telegraph / and an Amplification"
side 2: Article "Sign" by Peter Simple, reproduced from the Daily Telegraph, 16 March 1976
sides 3/4: "An amplification - from one of the faithful" by Margaret S Kenworthy-Browne
"It was with joy that a large group from the diocese of East Anglia retired to Lourdes for the last aeek of August after a three-year gap." Story continues
image caption: "East Anglían pligrims at the grotto."
"An updated version of the standard historical work on pilgrims and pilgrimage to Walsingham, including new research on the possible discovery of the original Our Lady of Walsingham statue, has been published written by Fr Michael rear a priest in the Diocese of East Anglia." Story continues.
Image with caption "Fr Michael Rear with his book at Walsingham.".
Embossed: "Catholic Church / Sudbury / Suffolk"
Benedict XV (1854-1922)