Our Priesthood - we are called to rise up with our new Bishop, state of priesthood in Ireland, evolving role of the priest; settlement with Inland Revenue, we should all pay our taxes, all expenditure requires a receipt, "I could seldom be content in what we were and always longed for shared vision of what we should be. I don't think we have done too badly"
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)EA 1994 - the disciplining of our own, a need for wisdom, ingenuity and vision; You? - ; "Hurting" - would not say "he is hurting with Christ", need to re-order the geography of our parishes, response from the laity is overwhelming; Me - I have had to drive you hard, you have been kind to me; Death; Present Difficulties - new priests come next year, refer matters of serious child abuse to Philip Shryane; Postlude, St Nicholas Day - death of Fr Charles Howarth SM in a road accident, pray for Fr Tony Seely who slipped and tore a ligament
Inserted page: "Strictly Confidential to the Priests of East Anglia" - provision to cover legal fees for good lawyers and Accountants
The Lenten Letter - from the Holy Father, fear that events may impose a yet mopre rigorous call to fidelity; This Lent 1994 - not so an"awful" Lent as some think, concious of distress and pain of living true to our vocation; 14th May 1994 - 50th anniversary for the Diocese, 50 years of priesthood; Our Priests - Harry Wace, Peter Cansdale, ordinations at OLEM Cambridge, currently no candidates for the priesthood; Maundy Thursday Letter - Eucharist is the heart of the priestly life
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)The Great Triduum; Walsingham and Easter TV Mass, parish participation in Diocesan Pilgrimage; The Permanent Deacon - guidance of Mgr J Drury and Mgr Tony Philpot, 3 year training programme being established; The Place of Women in the Church - promotion of women in the life of the Diocese and parishes, woman priests a last straw for our anglican brothers; Anglican Reconciliation - not easy for either side; New Financial Responsibilities; We, the Priests - brutal attack on Fr Michael Clothier in Beccles, Paul Hypher ordination in 1994, Mgr Michael Cassidu as Emeritus Chancellor; The Diocesan 'Team' - next Bishop will be reassured by the 'service to the Diocese'; More? - Bill Mason to be ordained as our second former anglican priest
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)preparation for lent; Reconciliation sacrament - "New Rite of Penance". Archbishop Dwyer's message [not present] - giving to CAFOD; Priests' Education Fund - To train 5 or 6 priests at £1,000 per annum each man.
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Pg 2-8: Pastoral Letter - apostles; priesthood; duty; sacraments; long and costly training of priests;
Pg 9-21: Ecclesiastical Fund, 1951 - table listing named donations within each parish
Pg 22: A Prayer for Priests; A Short Indulgenced Ejaculation
Pg 23: Notices
Pg 3-7: Pastoral Letter - need for priests; 30 new churches; Vocation; 35 sturdents, 27 boys; Nuturing Catholic Families
Pg 7: Notices
Pg 8-34: Ecclesiastical Fund, 1961[sic] - table listing named donations within each parish
Pg 37: A Prayer for Priests; A Short Indulgenced Ejaculation
Pg 2-6: Pastoral Letter - Need 6 priests per year, 36 in seminary, 21 in Colleges; Ordination; schisms; China - Peking; John XXIII
Pg 7: Notices
Pg 8-27: Ecclesiastical Fund, 1958 - table listing named donations within each parish
Pg 28: A Prayer for Priests; A Short Indulgenced Ejaculation
Pg 2-5: Pastoral Letter - Baptism; Christianity; darkness/evil in the world; St Christopher (American "Christophers") ; 39 students in seminaries
Pg 6-21: Ecclesiastical Fund, 1954 - table listing named donations within each parish
Pg 22: Notices
Pg 23: A Prayer for Priests; A Short Indulgenced Ejaculation
16-22: Pastoral letter - death of Benedict XV and the new pope Pius XI, Our Lady and English Martyrs a generous gift of Mrs Lyne Stevens, three years before new young priests
23-26: Ecclesiastical Education Fund / Church Collections
Sudbury Parish address embossed on front cover
346: Notanda: Lenten Dispensation, Collections, Special Faculties, Quemadmodum, Easter Communion, Quarant Ore,
347-361: Lent Pastoral letter - Priest-Soldiers, Prohibition of Military Service, The earliest Legislation, Recalcitrants, The Catholic Priesthood, The Priest i Wartime, Military value of the Priest, 1. With the Civil populations, 2. With the Forces, Summary
362-363: Notanda: Holy Oils, Peter's Pence, Ecclesiastical Fund and Poor School Fund, Collections for 1916, Remittance of Moneys
364-368: 1915 - Ecclesiastical Education Fund / Church Collections / Diocesan Poor Schools
Pope Benedict and "Year for Priests"; diocesan theme is "Sacrificial Love"; fewer priests for the future; 53 parishes, 4 without full-time priests, 17 will retire in the next 10 years; 6 seminarians; average age is 59; plans for sharing & using priests; expectations by parishioners of their priests are high; collection for East Anglia Sick and Retired Priests Fund; Report written for 5 yearly Ad Lima visit in Rome - difficulties, but overall positive
Evans, Michael Charles Rev MTh (1951-2011)"Fr Dennis Finbow, a retired priest of served in parishes in Peterborough the diocese of East Anglia, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail after he was convicted for three historic (non-recent) child sexual abuse offences. The sentence was passed down at Cambridge Crown Court and follows his conviction at Huntingdon Crown on 31st January." Story continues.
Universe Catholic Weekly (2021-)"Fr Dennis Finbow, a retired priest of the Diocese of East Anglia, was convicted on 31st January of three historic (non-recent) child sexual abuse offences al Huntingdon Crown court." Story continues
Universe Catholic Weekly (2021-)"Many in the Church are mourning the death of Fr Peter Edwards, who died on 18th December. From 1997 until 2021, Fr Peter was assistant priest at St Philip Howard Church in Cambridge." Story continues
image caption: "Fr Peter is pictured at his daughter's wedding party in July 2022."
"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
"Fr Alban Hood from Douai Abbey has been appointed as the new chaplain at Fisher House, the University Chaplaincy at Cambridge. "I know that Fr Alban will receive a warm welcome from the Diocese," said Bishop Alan Hopes, "and in particular from those working and living in the Cambridge Deanery, whom he is looking forward to meeting in the near future." Story continues
Image caption "Fr Alban is a renowned spiritual director and leader of retreats".
"East Anglian priest Fr Mike Brookes recently gave a radio interview about his work as a chaplain at the West Suffolk Hospital, and how it has changed in the face of the Covid pandemic. Fr Mike Brookes is relatively recently ordained priest; prior to joining the clergy he was a nurse for 25 years. That career has left him with great empathy for both the people he works with in the hospital and a developed understanding of the needs of patients and their loved ones." Story continues.
Image 1: Fr Mike Brookes
Image 2: Ambulances
"Bishop of East Anglia, the Rt Rev Alan Hopes, celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his ordination to the Catholic priesthood with a Mass at St John's Cathedral in Norwich on 4th December. Also celebrating priesthood jubilees, and concelebrating with Bishop Alan, were Fr Dick Healey (40 years), Er John Barnes (25 years) and Fr Luke Goymour (10 years). Other diocesan priests celebrating jubilees this year include Canon Simon Blakeslev (30 years) and Canon David Paul (25 years)." Story continues.
Image showing Bishop Hopes in the Cathedral
"A Catholic priest who 'died' twice' and spent five weeks in critical care battling coronavirus has saluted the medical effots amd religious guidance which helped him pull through." Story continues.
Image caption "Father Michael 'died' twice while battling coronavirus at Queen Elizbeth Hospital in King's Lynn"