Suggest Canons Burditt and Frost and Frs Philpot and Wace for Commission on the division of the [Northampton] Diocese.
Downham Market is an issue on which we must stand - "whatever the personal holiness of Ossie (and God alone is the Judge here), he is corrupting a holy thing - and this is the hidden evil." Unwavering leadership is required. Confront Ossie with the obedience he owes, and, that the Pope has formally specified the circumstances in which the rite may be celebrated.
Tony Sketch should be given Downham market as his charge and say a publicised Mass there.
PPs (Aldeburgh, Wymondham, Felixstowe and Ipswich) make change-over on October 7th.
"King's Lynn Parish celebrated first Holy Communions for 40 children over six separate Masses during the last two weekend in September." Story coninues
Image 1: Group of children with priests & deacons
Image 2: Group before altar
"A procession of the Blessed Sacrament took place on the streets around the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Norwich n the Feast of Corpus Christi." Story continues.
image 1: a view of the procession
image 2: Fr Simon Davies carrying the Blessed Sacrament
"The Parish of St Dominic's Church in Downham Market received its first set of children for the Sacrament of First Holy Communion since the Covid pandemic." Story continues.
image 1: group of first holy communicants
Bishop's heraldry on cover
Title is "I Love the Church"; 20 years since Second Vatican Council; Kipling verse - the what, why, when, how and who of the Church; seeking answers to those questions; training of ministers to enable both forms of communion
Epiphany is a focus on who is Jesus really; salvation for all humanity; the presence of Christ in Holy Communion; Four thoughts to reflect on Communion; First Holy Communion children to be invited to go on the Walsingham pilgrimage
Evans, Michael Charles Rev MTh (1951-2011)Bishop's heraldry attached to page 1
London Tube crammed, nobody spoke, all weary; desert and widerness evoked by T S Eliots poem "Choruses from the Rock"; Christmas as a momentry escape in the secular world; insidious doubt created by religion and God as being seen to be irrelevant; Gifts of the Eucharist and Reconsiliation provide renewal and strength