manuscript annotation on cover: "Sudbury Mission"
652: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Teachers' Superannuation Fund, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
653-671: Advent Pastoral letter incorporating Pope Leo letter re 1900 being a Holy Year (658-668)
Sudbury Parish address embossed on cover
772: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Teachers' Superannuation Fund, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
773-787: Advent Pastoral letter - educationof children by parents and pastors; Education in and by the State; school managers' appointment; poor missions in the Diocese.
Sudbury Parish address embossed on cover
858: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, S. Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
859-872: Advent Pastoral letter - celebrations for the golden Jubilee; Decree of Pope Pius IX "Ineffabilis Deus"; original sin; quoting a prayer by the Venerable Bede [pencilled annotations alongside]; Education Act 1902
Sudbury Parish address embossed on cover
934: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass and Requiem Masses, Duplication, S. Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
935-945: Advent Pastoral letter -
946: Midnight Mass - "Ex Audientia SSmi Habita Die 14 Augusti 1906" - latin decree
947: Requiem Masses - "Ex Audientia SSmi Die 17 Novembris 1906" - latin decree (nb. "this privilege has been extended to the 17th of November, 1911")
signature on front cover "Aug. P. Peacock"
474 Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
475-487: Advent Pastoral letter - A state of the Diocese report - Mrs Lyne Stephens (benefactoress; at her sole cost built churches at Lynford, Shefford, Cambridge, and a donation for Wellingborough church); since 1880 much has been done; 14 new missions started (mentions oratory in Beccles with Benedictines); land for a further 14 missions acquired; encouraging the good work and maintaining funds to underpin the growth.
Sudbury Parish address stamped in ink on cover
696: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Teachers' Superannuation Fund, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
697-709: Advent Pastoral letter - Jubilee Year 1900; description of pilgrimages; history of Popes in Europe; Napoleon's expedition on Moscow; battle of Waterloo; Italy and the King of Sardinia - the citadel of the Vatican Palace being all that remains; PIUS VII hopes to "regain the partimony of St Peter."; USA (1 Cardinal, 13 Archbishops, 77 Bishops); appeal for the poor missions
Sudbury Parish address embossed on cover
820: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, S. Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics
821-827: Advent Pastoral letter - Death of Leo XIII and election of Pope Pius X; support of ten mission priests
Advent Pastoral letter;
"366 Notanda": Pastoral & Collection, Mid-night mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of monies, appointed Treasurers.
395 Notanda: Pastoral & Collection, Mid-night Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys, appointed Treasurers.
396-405: Advent Pastoral letter
406-408: - Leo XIII letter - 13 centuries since Ethelbert, King of Kent accepted the Christian Religion.
435 Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Mid-Night Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
436-451: Advent Pastoral letter
514 Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
515-527: Advent Pastoral letter - theme of S. Joseph and the Holy Family
Sudbury Parish address embossed on cover
898: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, S. Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
899-907: Advent Pastoral letter - 25 years review; mention of St John's Norwich, Bungay and Cambridge - with which few others can compare ; current situation of the diocese; £40 for earthquake in Calabria
signature on cover page: "Aug. P. Peacock"
545 Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
546-558: Advent Pastoral letter - the beginnings of the Church; the National Churches in England
559: Notanda: Deaf and Dumb Children
617: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Teachers' Superannuation Fund, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys, New office for 1899 (St Anthony Zachary)
618-629: Advent Pastoral letter
Sudbury Parish address embossed on cover
734: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Teachers' Superannuation Fund, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
735-743: Advent Pastoral letter - steady progress being made for the Poor Mission Fund; Olney has a new chapel, Weston Underwood a new presbytery, Stowmarket a new presbytery, High Fen (nr Wisbech) Fr Page needs alms to erect a small chapel for the large Irish colony. Thanks the unknown good lady building at her own expense the church at Lowestoft.
745: "Prayer at the beginning of the year" - 40 day indulgence when said on the first day and first Sunday of the year
Sides 1-3: Alan Smithies (author & poet) writes following hearing the Bishop on the radio discussing the Tridentine Mass, its discontinuation by Rome and the subsequent mass protests. As an Anglo Catholic author he holds no brief for the Tridentine Mass; discusses the 1549 prayer book (a wholly Catholic Mass). Anglicans are in more disarray with their various services, with Series III replacing good English with journalese (as with your English mass). Discusses the nature of the language and its uses, the Bishops of earlier ages; modern bishops too influenced by the popular. People do want good but simple everyday English. Appends some hymns if the Bishop would like to use any of them then he'd be delighted.
Sides 5, 7, 9: "Office for Saint Bede" 5 four-line verses; "For Saint Clare" [written for the nuns of Lynton, on the Feast of St Care, 1975] 8 six-line verses; "Hymn for Saint Nicholas" 6 four-line verses; "Office Hymn for Saint Andrew" 6 four-line verses
"These hymns are written with the intention that they should be sung, wherever possible, in plainchant."
"Around 60 altar servers attended the event, along with family and supporters. The celebration coincided with the ninth
anniversary of the ordination of Bishon Alan Hopes as bishop of East Anglia. Fr Simon Davies from the Cathedral led the altar servers in a round of applause in appreciation of Bishop Alan's service to the diocese." Story continues.
image 1: alter server
image 2: group of altar servers in cathedral garden
Bishop Thomas Walsh is directed by Bishop Milner to issue an amendment in timing for the Jubilee period. Instead of Palm Sunday to Low Sunday, it will now extend for six months to allow travellers, etc. to avail themselves of the Jubilee.
Bishop's Office"Young people from St George's Parish, Norwich, had an adventurous retread together at the Horstead Activity Centre recently." (Article continues...). Image of people gathered around a fire.
The Catholic Universe (1860-2021)"The following letter will be sent to Fr X in the unlikely event of his becoming a Bishop".
Headings:
No excuse for Their Lordships
Time-serving opportunists
Orthodoxy not enough
Men wanted
The significance of Cardinal Beaton
Episcopal Virtues
Masonry's Influence - Yesterday and Today
The Bishop's Cross
What the Cross Implies
Clericalism before Vatican 2...
...And After
The "Renewalist" Thesis
Episcopal Naivete
Pluralising the Sin of Adam