The magazine was edited by Fr Thomson, a co-founder of the Guild. Originally a monthly magazine, during the war years (and to the Winter of 1948-9) it became a quarterly issue. The format comprised regular items (see contents file) of news from parishes, articles on the Catholic faith and belief, historical items, a series describing Diocesan Churches, clerical appointments, obituaries and an irregular listing of the Bishop's appointments for the month/quarter.
News from the Parishes were free form and depending on the parish may contain references to events (fetes, parties, visitations, confirmations, etc.), comments about clerical comings and goings, references to significant parishioners, births, deaths, marriages, war time restrictions and events, etc.
Er Aedibus Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Aldeburgh; Bedford; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Daventry and Weedon; High Wycombe; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); Olney; Slough; Woodbridge
Elderney the Little - Canon James Flint
Norfolk Annals - H S Squirrell
Baylis House. Catholic School and Catholic Centre, 1830-1907 - Edwin H Burton DD
Rescue Work: St Francis Birthday Society; InterAlia; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Er Aedibus Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles [Sawston Chapel Reopening]
Diocesan News: Aldeburgh and Leiston; Beccles; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Daventry and Weedon; Gorleston-on-Sea; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Laxton; March; Northampton; Norwich (St John's); Olney; Peterborough; Raunds; Slough; Woodbridge
A Legend of the Daisy - Sr Mary Paul OSB [verse]
Cardinal Manning's Oblates - Wilfred C Robinson FRHistS
A Little Miracle of St Therese of the Infant Jesus (Hugh Wycombe)
Norfolk Annals (continued) - H S Squirrell
Baylis House. Catholic School and Catholic Centre, 1830-1907 - Edwin H Burton DD
Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
Advertising
Diocesan News: Aldeburgh; Aylesbury; Beccles; Bedford , Convent of the Holy Ghost; Billing; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Lowestoft; Lynford; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Prince's Risborough; Slough; Swaffham; Wellingborough; Woodbridge; Wymondham
The Cathedrals of Bougers and Chatres - HS Squirrel
The Stork of Saint Francis - A Legend - Victor De Brant
St Felix - Apostle of East Anglia - Henry St Leger Mason
"Father Reginald Buckler OP" (1840-1927) [book review]
Growth in Appreciation of the Truths of God
Rescue Work: Inter Aia; Summer Holidays; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Diocesan News: Aldeburgh and Leiston; Aylesbury; Beaconsfield; Beccles; Bedford; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Daventry and Weedon; Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Lowestoft; Northampton; Norwich (St John's) & (Wymondham & North Walsham); Olney; Peterborough; Rushden; Slough; Woodbridge
History of Bungay Mission
Catholic Needlework Guild (Annual report 1925)
The Early Days of the Monks at Bury St Edmund's
The Blackfriars of King's Lynn
Rescue Work: Bishops Letter; Inter Aia; Summer Holidays; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Aldeburgh and Leiston; Beccles; Bedford; Billing; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Daventry and Weedon; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Lowestoft; Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Peterborough; Slough; Wellingborough; Wymondham
Most Reverend Frederick William Keating - Archbishop of Liverpool - RIP - JF [Obituary]
Beauvais Cathedral - HS Squirrel
The Pearl of Great Price - X
Venerable Thomas Tunstall - English Martyr - Ed
Association for the Propogation of the Faith [Incomefor 1927]
Rescue Work: Archbishop Keatin RIP; Finance; Inter Aia; Summer Holidays; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Beccles; Bedford; Great Billing; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Chalfont St Peter; Daventry and Weedon; Dunstable; Hunstanton; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Peterborough; Slough; Thetford and Brandon; Woodbridge
Words of Wisdom and Common Sense - FB
His Orchestra - Sr MP OSB [verse]
The Burden of the Day - Francis E Sammons
St Ethelbert's, Hessett - JE Ebsworth
Popular Resistance to the New Relgion (continued) - Bishop of Clifton
Rescue Work: Urgent Appeal 1869-1929; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Beccles; Bedford; Billing; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Dunstable; Hunstanton; Ipswich (St Pancras); Leiston; Lowestoft; Luton; Marlow; Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Slough; Thetford and Brandon; Wellingborough; Woodbridge; Wolverton; Wymondham
Our New Canon - Very Rev Thomas Canon Walmsley Carter - JF
Popular Resistance to the New Relgion - Bishop of Clifton
The Proto-Martyr of the Seminarists - F Sammons
Norfolk Wanderings [Churches of Norwich]
Rescue Work: 1869-1929 [Diamond Jubilee]; Inter Alia; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Aylesbury; Beccles; Bedford; Cambridge; Hunstanton; Ipswich (St Mary); Ipswich (St Pancras); Kng's Lynn; Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Olney; Peterborough; Slough; Wellingborough; Woodbridge
The Institution of the guild of St Felix and St Edmund
Old Lamos for New - Viator
SS Peter and Paul, Wenhaston - Janet E Ebsworth
Saint on Our Lady - HG Hughes
Rescue Work: Holiday Fund; Inter Alia; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
The Book - Moya McManus [verse]
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Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Aylesbury; Aylsham; Daventry and Weedon; Gerard's Cross; Great Billing; Hunstanton; Ipswich (St Pancras); Norwich (St John the Baptist); North Walsham; Northampton; Olney; Slough; Thetford; Wellingborough; Woodbridge; Wolverton; Wymondham
The Attempted Rehabilitation of Peter Cauchon - CA Snowden
For Easter Day - MMF [verse]
History without Reading, but not without Tears - WL Arrowsmith
A Byzantine Church - ECW
A New Guild for East Anglia
Rescue Work: Bis dat qui cito dat; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
Advertising
To the Diocese - Provost John Freeland, VG
Diocesan News: Aston-le-Walls; Beaconsfield; Beccles; Bedford; Bury St Edmund's; Cambridge; Ipswich (St Pancras); Norwich (St John the Baptist); Sudbury; Swaffham; Wellingborough
The Church and the Poor (313-900AD) - CA Snowden
Father George H Miles RIP - MJ Geraghty [Obituary]
Rome Fifty-Nine years Ago - Francis Seymour Stevenson
Favours Received at Leighton Buzzard - through the miraculous medal of Our Blessed Lady - Henry Long
Pastons of Appleton, Norfolk - Katharine Paston-Bedingfeld
They that go down to the Sea in Ships III - Harold S Squirrell
Rescue Work: Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
Advertising
Th eRight Reverend Bishop Dudley Charles Cary-Elwes, Bishop of Northampton - RIP - Editor [Obituray]
Diocesan News: Aston-le-Walls; Aylesbury, Beccles; Beaconsfield; Bedford; Bury St Edmund's; Chesham Bois; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); Marlow; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Northampton; Wellingborough; Great Yarmouth; Woodbridge
Fr Bernard McCaul - by one of the Deanery
The Death and Burial of Our Bishop - FB
A Catholic Artist (continued)
The Church and the Poor (The Post-Reformation Period)
The Special Preacher, A True Story - Rev F M Davies
Masses for Benefactors
Rescue Work - Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home
Advertising
From the Vicar Capitular - John Freeland
Diocesan News: Aston-le-Walls; Beccles; Bedford; Cambridge; Felixstowe; Gerrards Cross; Ipswich (St Pancras); Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Peterborough; Sudbury; Woodbridge
Per Crucem ad Lucem - L Smith-Dampier
Fr Andrew Joseph Key RIP
Sacramental Fonts in Norfolk - Very Rev. F C Husenbeth DD
A Catholic Artist (continued)
The Church and the Poor (The Post-Reformation Period)
Rescue Work - Appeal by John Provost Freeland; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home
Advertising
From the Inside first page:
Our Cover
Many readers will no doubt recognise the cover of the first edition of Phoenix, as the Coat of Arms of our own Bishop Alan Clark, and the arms of our Diocese.
The motto, chosen by the Bishop, "Ministerio Christi Addictus" means completely given over to the ministry of Christ.
The shield itself records the historic roots of this diocese. It bears two of the three crowns of the Arms of Ely and one of the three mitres of the Arms of Norwich. Across the top are three lilies on blue, signifying the consecration of this diocese to the care of Our Lady of Walsingham.
Introducing Phoenix
Welcome to our new magazine, which it is proposed to produce bi-monthly. Phoenix will cover the Parishes of St. John's, St. George's, Holy Apostles, Costessy, Poringland, Loddon, Wymondham and Dereham plus the outstations of the Norwich Parishes. This issue will also be sold in Swaffham and depending on their response they may well be joining us on a permanent basis.
The success of the magazine will lie heavily on the shoulders of the parishioners of the above churches because we can only print the news we receive from you.
Phoenix will normally have photos as well as local news and views plus we hope items of interest written by you. We welcome also your letters on any subject you like but please include your name, address and parish when doing so.
We also need help in selling these so if you are prepared to sell Phoenix outside your church please inform the parish priest or the local Phoenix team.
Items and photos, (black and white only), for inclusion in the next edition should be sent to Mrs. Stollery, 60 Avenue Road, Norwich to reach her not later than Friday 5th August.
If you would like to have someone also report your event or have photos taken please let Allen Howes 21 Sandringham Road, Norwich, or, Pat Scrutton, 54 St. Philips Road, Norwich, know and they will try to get someone to cover it.
Lastly we will welcome ideas to improve the magazine so please tell us.
The next edition of Phoenix will be on sale on Sunday 11th September.
A5 booklet, photocopied A4 paper folded, 1 staple in spine, colour paper cover, white inside
- Autumn 1983
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- Spring 1986
A5 booklet, A4 folded, 2 staples in spine, gloss card cover with colour images, gloss print paper, monochrome internal images - Summer 1986
A4 leaflet, 1 page, 2 folds, 6 sides, printed, yellow banner front page, monochrome images - Autumn 1986
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Presumable produced as an educational document.
A commentary, with examples from the media, of a media story relating to Bishop Roderick Wright (d. 2005) of Argyll and the Isles. The story was triggered by his disappearance at the same time as a woman from his parish. The media followed the story relating it to clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church and produced a number of headlines and cartoons.
2 columns of text with an image of Bishop Clark and Fr Wace in Cathedral gardens. Reporting the substance of the news release.
[no date; no newspaper name]
"Fr Andreas Schatzle was appointed as Priest Director of Radio Maria England in September. Here he shares about his lively faith - and how Radio Maria has impacted on nuns, taxi drivers and organic farmers around the world!" Q&A follows.
Universe Catholic Weekly (2021-)