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Pastoral Letter - Lent 1959
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-6-14 · Part · January 1959
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

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

Parker, Thomas Leo Rev (1887-1975)
Pastoral Letter - Lent 1955
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-6-13 · Part · January 1955
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

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

Parker, Thomas Leo Rev (1887-1975)
Pastoral Letter - Lent 1953
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-6-9 · Part · January 1953
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Pg 2-8: Pastoral Letter - Holy Eucharist practices in recent history; preparations for receiving Communcion
Pg 9-22: Ecclesiastical Fund, 1952 - table listing named donations within each parish
Pg 23: Notices
Pg 24: A Prayer for Priests; A Short Indulgenced Ejaculation

Parker, Thomas Leo Rev (1887-1975)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-10-2 · Part · 3 December 1995
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Bishop's heraldry on cover
Trees beginning the long wait for Spring; Advent a time of preparation; welcome by the dicocese; restore our dignity and sense of worth through the Sacrament of Reconcilitation

Smith, Peter David Gordon Rev LLB JCD (1943-2020)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-10-8 · Part · November 1997
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

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

Smith, Peter David Gordon Rev LLB JCD (1943-2020)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-11-7 · Part · 6 January 2008
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

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)
Pastoral Letter - Bp Grant
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-7 · Item · 28 July 1968
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Pastoral Letter from Bishop Grant on Holy Communion and, whilst only the priest can consecrate the host, delivery by others to those unable to attend the Mass. Pope Paul has just removed the requirement for only a priest to deliver the host. Lay people commissioned by the Bishop can now do this.

Grant, Charles Alexander Rev LCL BA (1906-1989)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-6-8 · Part · November 1952
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Pg 2-9: Pastoral Letter - Poor Missions; Diocesan Nursery in Sheringham; Baptism;
Pg 10-12: Church Collections 1952 (Table with Parishes listed, headings: Peter Pence / Diocesan Schools / Holy Land / Diocesan Poor Missions (1951))

Parker, Thomas Leo Rev (1887-1975)
Pastoral Letter - Advent
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-9-22 · Part · 25 November 1985
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

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

Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-9-1 · Part · 27 February 1977
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

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)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-9-18 · Part · November 1983
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Christmas; this year different - violence, longing for peace; surrounded by sin; awareness of the forgiveness of God; grace of Redemption; need for response, need to repent; Pope in Synod in Rome - "The dimension of penance is missing in Christian Communities"; Advent is the time to fill this void; witness to those in despair; become a "fasting people" - penance, sacrifice, forgive; Reconciliation & absolution

Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)
Pastoral Letter
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-10-1 · Part · 1 July 1995
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Bishop's heraldry on cover
Anglicans received into Catholic Church i East Anglia; approval of Holy See for some to become Catholic priests; married men and celibacy; not same situation as Catholic priests who left to be married - not accepted to become married after being ordained; be generous; pray for vocations

Smith, Peter David Gordon Rev LLB JCD (1943-2020)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-02-14 · Item · Christmas 1982
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Ad Lima - an outline of an audience with the Pope; English College - students (Stephen Porter, Robin Hawes, Eugene Harkness, Robert le Tellier, John Hynd, Jonathan Cutting at Oscot, Dermot Fenlon's ordination; Students -All Hallows (Brendan Moffatt, David Finegan), Oscott (Paul Maddison), Innsbruck (Nicholas Kearney); The Year 1982; The Diocese; The Parishes; 1983 - Cathedral debt

Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-01-09-02-11 · Item · c 18 January 1984
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Celebration of Faith at St John the Baptist involving leaders from Catholic, Anglican, United Reform Church, Salvation Army, Methodists. Bishop Clerk to preach.
Chapel, in the North Transept, to be dedicated as a place of prayer for Christian Unity.
Start of the Centenary Year of St John the Baptist Cathedral Church.

Dowsey, Gary Rev (1955-)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-3-60 · Part · 6 August 1864
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

heading: "The Cardinal Archbishop communicates to the Clergy of the Archdiocese for their guidance the following documents received from the Holy See"
Cardinal Barnabo writes from 8 York Place, London to Cardinal Wiseman, Westminster, a letter in Italian [not all translated] [opening sentence: "The abuse taking place in England, which a few months later was denounced to the Holy See, of mixed marriages in which the catholic party usually is dragged to renew consent before the heretical minister...]
An "Instructio" follows written in Latin [not translated]

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