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Appeal for the Church and School Building fund. Table of [Westminster province] parish collections for 1850

An appeal for the annual collection for the Catholic Poor School committee.

Appeal for the Poor- Church committee.

An appeal contributions from the Faithful. "The paucity of our numbers, and the diminished and diminishing means of the few among us who formerly rendered us assistance, make it prudent and necessary in me to give up the idea of founding new missions, or undertaking the erection of large chapels." School of Divinity established with six; Seminary of St Felix resuscitation discontinued.

The good Shepherd knows his sheep. The Bishop declares that from 2nd Sunday after Easter ("Bonus Pastor Sunday") he will start a Visitation which will remain open until he declares it closed. "The Bishop will therefore diligently visit the Church, the Presbytery, the Schools, the Cemetery and everything therein contained, and will examine the sacred vessels and furniture, the Altars, tabernacles, and whatever belongs to the worship of God or the administration of the sacraments." Visitation will be announced and confirmations should be arranged for then.
To the clergy: have ready two sheets of foolscap containing - a return for 1958 of Marriages, Baptisms, Conversions, Easter Communions, Deaths; list of details of mass obligations; List of all documents relating to the Mission; Statement of Mission . School property; Account of all debts and liabilities; Mission 1958 income/expenditure balance sheet; same for Schools; exact inventory of Church, Sacristy, House and Schools.

Collection for the Poor School Committee.

"For the third time we have the consolation of addressing you in a joint synodical letter." An increase in representation of religious orders, ancient and recent, a great encouragement to see these. New churches have arisen to replace old and wretched Chapels; schools have multiplied and enlarged; convents accommodate retreats; the zeal of all Catholics.
Work is not yet complete, in securing religious support and services; three issues:

• securing similar services for the Catholics in the Fleet, to those available in the army.
• Catholic prisoners to be on the same footing as protestant prisoners in access to religious support.
• Similar justice for the wretched inmates of the workhouse.

Other major areas for work/improvement are:

1. Education of the poor
2. Catholic schools
3. Clerical education - good colleges abroad; support from individuals and organisations; but, more needs to be done locally
4. The new Divorce Court - an evil to be deplored
5. New Catechism has been approved
6. Maintenance of peace following "the war upon the fair plains of Italy".

Long desired to provide the poor children without visible means of subsistence (orphaned, parent(s) in prison, destitute, begging). The law requires that they are sent ot an Industrial School - but now can be transferred to a Catholic school certified by the Poor Law Board. Can now commence the foundation of a School for Boys at Shefford in Bedfordshire. Appeal for support via subscription for at least three years.

490 Notanda: Collection, Extraordinary Confessors, Easter Communion, Quarant Ore, Holy Oils, Peter's Pence, Ecclesiastical Fund and Poor School's Fund, Poor School Committee
491-503: Lent Pastoral letter - Statement on schools in the Diocese - student numbers are 2584 with accomodation for 5161 elementary scholars; comments on the impact of the 1870 Act and the Department for Education; comments on the plans for education by the Bishops
504: Dispensations for Lent 1895
505: Notanda continued: Collection for the Holy Places, appointed Treasurers, Catholic Teachers' Superannuation Fund
506-512: Confraternity of St Peter's Pence / Ecclesiastical Education Fund / Diocesan Poor Schools - receipts for year 1894

Sudbury Parish address embossed on cover
252: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Report and Statistics, Midnight Mass, The Abstinance, S. Peter's Pence, Propagation of the Faith, Remittance of Moneys
253-262: Advent Pastoral letter - [Catholic schools], Non-Catholic Schools, Lack of Religious Instruction, "Forcible Feeding", Appeal to Religious Superiors, Poor Missions

John Paul II & The Redemption - JP II writings; Our Own Diocesan Year - Jesus and Mary Sisters, Notre Dame School sports hall; The Sisters' Day in January - 3 dtaes of consequence, Langham, Massingham

Bishop's heraldry on cover
Diocesan Youth Agenda - Youth Leadership course in Newmarket; strong feelings in young people about the church; cannot go back 25 years; circustances are so differernt today; appointment of a Youth Officer; whole of life is an ever-changing faith journey; major and imaginative change is needed; parishes to work with their commuities; responsibility for the young and their faith; joint workign between parishes and schools; make demands of the church - but not self-centred ones

In-Service - homily: start, complications, interpret; evaluate the homily (structure provided); Ten Years ; Vocations; Programmes and Projects; Schools' Closure? - St Bede's School; How to meet a Problem - Council of Priests; Lay Ministries - training

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Image: 2 pupils (Emma Gormley & Ivan Keeler) from Notre Dame High School.
text: Both are representing the Diocese of East Anglia and will meet the Pope in Assisi on Friday.

Young people from throughout the diocese of East Anglia, representing some of the diocese's 40 schools, will gather to celebrate the feast of Christ the King. A programme of events at Notre Dame High School is followed by a procession to St John the Baptist Cathedral.

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image: a procession from Notre Dame School in Surrey Street, Norwich
text: National Youth Sunday celebrated around England and Wales. In the diocese of East Anglia, Bishop Clark watched presentations by 400 youngsters at Notre Dame High School, Norwich; Bishop Emery of Portsmouth addressed 400 people at Portsmouth Cathedral.

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]

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Sub-heading: "Catholics and council shocked".
"The re-organisation of Gorleston High School is back in the melting pot after the Bishop of Norwich rejected a plan for a joint church school." Some background to the project provided

The news release is a statement from Bishop Clark in "response to the decision by Rt Re Peter Nott, Bishop of Norwich, not to proceed with the setting up of an Inter-Church High School in Gorleston".
pg1: Bp Clark statement/press release
pg2: Copy of Bp Nott statement withdrawing from the joint project