[Letter found in the Encyclical]
"Dear Fr Peacock, The dog cart will do very well. I shall arrive on Saturday at 4.30. I am willing to dine on Sat. at Mrs Sander's [?] if the dinner do [sic] not interfere with confession work. I will hear confessions on Sat. 8 to 9. I will say the first Mass on Sunday at 8.30. You need not erect a throne. Yr in J.C. +Arthur B of Npton"
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)1992; The Ageing Process - retirement; The Hugging Diocese; Ars December '92 - retreat organised by Tony Philpot; Tomorrow - what are we returning to; Women's Ordination - Church of England decision, enlargement of the ministry of women within its own specific and necessary role in the community; The New Situation consider the way ahead for the Anglican clergy who are ill at ease; Visitation - value of this programme; Death and Retirement - Frs. Hacon, Lynch, Houghton, Brophy, Howlin, Diamond, Bustin; Diocesan Development - developments in remote areas of the diocese, enormous expenditure in schools
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Just You!; Ecumenism; Schools; Religious Apostolates; The Sisters Day; The Pro-Nuncio's Day 27 June at 10am in Newmarket; Easter Greetings
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Guilty Conscience - neglected you; Trials and Tribulations - Little Sisters closing convent; The Diocesan Assembly July 18 '87 - the strategy; The Nuncio's Visit 27 June '87 - to meet at Newmarket convent; Expansion; Address at Inauguration of the National Retreat Centre 8 November 1986 [extract]
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)1983/1984 - Pope's visit; Redemption; The Indulgence - Jubilee Indulgence; DEsignated Palces - for gaining an indulgence; Not Either/Or - form of absolution; Holy Week in Holy Year; The Diocese - departures, Bishop in Peru asking for more "John Drury's"; Peru - his visit; Peter Leemi is Asst. Sec, to Diocesan Schools Committee; Gary Dowsey is Diocesan Information Officer; Rome - pilgrimage being organised by Fr Philip Shryane; Sick Brethren - Hugh Capper, Joe Sweeney, Jim Smith, Brendan Peters, Gerry Quigley
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Pg 2: Bury St Edmunds only parish to give more than £100; developing townships; completing an audit of finance
Pg 3-4: Church Collections 1968 (Table with Parishes listed, heading: Diocesan Poor Missions (1967)); Individual donations
"Now about to celebrate the historic event of one hundred years completed of the existence of bishoprics restored in England, 1950. Deo gratias!"; Centenary Souvenir booklet; history of the diocese from 1800; the Cathedral; Fund stands at £14,000 and could grow to £20,000; list of celebrations planned.
Parker, Thomas Leo Rev (1887-1975)Sudbury Parish address embossed on cover
110: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Papal Documents (accompany [not present] this Pastoral Letter: 1. The Decree on First Communion, 2. "Professio fidei Tridentinae"),
111-129: Advent Pastoral letter: Social Question, Leo XIII social policy, plea for non-interference, competence of the Church, position, City of God, No abdication, alleged failure of Catholicism as a social force, the Catholic Social Guild, non-Catholic movements; Northampton Dicesan Mission Fund: missions in March, Bletcheley, Brantham, Dunstable - church consecrations in Slough, Bungay, Sherringham - completed fabric and planned opening for St John's Norwich - new mass centres at Stoke Holy Cross, Chalfont St Peter.
130: Report and Statistics, S. Peter's Pence, Association for the Propagation of the Faith (Rev Francis Ross, Organizing Secretary.)
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
From Ipswich. Recognising the poverty of this Diocese, he asks that priests to collect for the aid of the Holy Father. Collections to be with the bishop before Low Sunday.
Amherst, Francis Kerril Rev (1819-1883)Lenten Pastoral Letter given in Ipswich
Dispensations for Lent 1860
"A parishioner from St Edmund's parish in Bungay and Harleston made a walking pilgrimage from her home in Suffolk to Walsingham, battling blizzards as she went, as part of CAFOD's Big Lent Walk to raise funds for the charity." Story continues.
image of Mary Kirk with map in countryside.
"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
Pupils and staff at St Mary's RC primary school in Lowestoft spread kindness and love throughout the community this Christmas, helping families who are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis." Story continues
image: Children with their supplies
"SPECIAL PROTECTION has been given to a church in rural Suffolk that until recently was cared for by the Benedictines of Downside Abbey. St Benet's Minster, Beccles, has been listed as Grade II* by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The listing, announced on 19 January by Historic England, means that the church is now protected, and will be eligible for government grants." Story continues
image caption: "St Benet's Minster, Beccles"
"A two-day festival featuring scores of cribs from all round the world was held at St Felix Catholic Church, Felixstowe, and raised £660 in aid of the seafarers' charity Stella Maris." Story continues
image caption: "..attending the crib festival are form the left, Fr John Barnes, mayor of Felixstowe Sharon Harkin and Barbara Lamberton"
"The bells at Our Lady, Stowmarket have not been rung for over 20 years." Story continues
image caption: "pictured above one of the Stowmarket bells."
"A group of ten organ players from the Organ Society of Great Britain recently enjoyed a musical visit to Our Lady Star of the Sea parish church in Lowestoft. Having been frustrated by Covid disrupting performances over the past yeas, a group from the society visited our Lady, along with several other local churches, on 16th July to play and listen to the churches organs." Story continues.
image 1: Audience in pews
"Fr Bineesh Elanjikkal OCD will be moving back to India in September and St Mark's parish in Ipswich gave him a great send-off. The parish, which has been run for the past three vears by the Carmelites, held a three- day festival to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of
First Holy Communion at a concelebrated Mass with Fr Tijo
Mount Carmel, patron of the Carmelite order, from 15th-17th Jul." Story continues.
image 1: Fr Elanjikkal
image 2: parishioners singing in garden