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Story 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."

"It was a joyful occasion when, for the first time in two years, the people of St Michael's in Huntingdon were able to gather to celebrate their feast day." story continues.
image (no caption)

"Representatives of all the parishes in the Diocese of East Anglia twinned with parishes in the Battambang Prefecture in Cambodia met face-to-face for the first time since lockdown at St Mary and St Wulstan." Story continues
1 image: group of parishioners

much amended bill of sale for a £200 purchase of land by John Duff of Ramsey for plots 26, 27, 28 on (formerly plots 2, 3, 4) Hartford Road.

Bishop Alan Clark with group that he confirmed during a visitation to Sawston in Summer 1977

Bishop Smith with a large group of boys and girls.
Image set inside the front of a handmade card
Inside card: "A remembrance / of your visit to St Audrey's / Convent School"

Dedication: "This book has been researched and compiled in gratitude for the dedicated work, long and difficult, that Father A. E. Whyatt the first priest in the parish gave to St. Neots and to Father Laurence Howlin whose thirty years of unstinted labour remains in the memory of many residents in St. Neots. "
Contents:
A Short History of the Priory of St.Neots 
The Tiny Chapel at Kimbolton 
Blessed William Carter 
All Roads Lead Back 
How history can repeat its story 
The Church of St. Joseph Father Wyatt 
The Continuing Years 
The last Thirty Years - The Arrival of Fr.Howlin 
The Parish 
The End of an Era 

"The desire to learn about God has been the glue bonding an RCIA group at Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge. Mgr Eugène Harkness reports. Here at Our Lady of The Assumption and The English Martyrs, Cambridge, we have turned to the use of Zoom for our weekly sessions of instruction for the RCIA programme." Story continues
Image: screen image of 9 participants in an on-line meeting. Caption: "Pictured above is one of TCIA sessions at Our Lady and the English Martyrs""

"Young people in Cambridge are sustaining a social life through lockdown thanks to the Song School at Our Lady of the Assumption and the English Martyrs. Julia Caddick and Mgr Eugène Harkness report. Our junior choir rehearsals started back in September. We rehearse online via Zoom once a seek for 40 minutes (the duration of a seven vear-old's concentration span on-line so the experts say)." Story continues.
Image: group of choristers

"A first-ever Cantonese Mass has taken place in Sawston following the arrival of a number of Catholies in the area from Hong Kong. Dominic chung reports. As many as 58 Cantonese-speaking Catholics and their friends, took part in a Mass celebrated by Canon John Minh at our Lady of lourdes Sawston (OLOL), on 7th April. Though he does not speak or read the language, Canon John Minh celebrated entirely in Cantonese, which he learned in record time using phonetics." Story continues.
image caption: "The Cantonese congregation outside OLOL in Sawston with Canon John Minh."

"The Cantonese Congregation of Our Lady of Lourdes Sawston, St John Fisher Cambourne and Our Lady of the Assumption and the English Martyrs, Cambridge joined together in an uplifting Solemn Cantonese Mass on Saturday 9th July, to commemorate the 120 Martyrs of China." Story continues.
image 1: group gathered before the altar

"The historic Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church in Cambridge hosted a significant event as His Excelleney Archbishop Savio Hon SDB, Papal Nuncio to Malta and Libya, conducted a Lunar New Year Thanksgiving Mass, uniting the Hong Kong community in a vibrant celebration of faith and cultural heritage.." Story continues.
image: Nuncio stands in nave of church with congrgation.

"His Eminence Cardinal Virgilio do Carmo of East Timor recently visited Catholic communities in Peterborough and Cambridge", story continues
image 1: group with Cardinal

Outer cover made of blotting paper - inside front cover, inside & outside back cover carry advertisements.
Front cover subtitle: "Presented with the good wishes of the Parish Priests / King's Lynn: Wisbech: Hunstanton"
pg1: Image and timetable for Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund, K & M, Hunstanton
pg2: advertisements
pg3: "The Mystery of Suffering" - article
pg4-6: advertisements
pg7: Calender 1938-1939 April to March
pg8-9: advertisements (blotter removed from centre)
pg10: advertisement & "The Girl's Corner" article
pg11: "Blessed Candles" - article
pg12: Obituary & image of Fr GJ Page

"Retired diocese of East Anglia priest, Fr John Fowler, has died after more than 60 years of ministry in the Catholic and Anglican churches. John was ordained as a priest in the Catholic Church for the Diocese of East Anglia by Bishop Peter Smith on the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, 24th September, 1999, at the Church of St Etheldreda's, Ely." Story continues.
image 1: Fr Fowler

Photograph taken from above right, looking across the altar to the North aisle. Archbishop Barbarito (Nuncio) is standing reading ; Bishop Clark and ANOther are sat either side. Choir is behind the altar and servers can be seen either side of chancel

"Held at different churches, it is a great opportunity to meet old friends and new and especially encouraging for those who otherwise would not be able to attend." (Article continues...). Image of Beryl and Cathy

Monochrome image of 8 persons, seated on a stage with backdrop, dressed as clowns [jugglers?], location unknown.
included in this sequence as part of the pages from a photograph album

Monochrome image of head of procession into new Church prior to dedication ceremony.

Monochrome image of procession into new Church prior to dedication ceremony.