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annotated agenda - page 1 image

annotated agenda - page 2 image

Side 1
AGENDA FOR PARISH MEETING 8.11.1965. 

1. Opening Prayer 
2. Nature & membership of Consultative Committee 
3. Plans for the Church:
   a. Rewiring & lighting
   b. Organ & organ loft
   c. Method of Heating
   d. Redecorating 
   e. Windows 
   f. Kneelers 
   g. Area outside 
   h. The Shrine 
4. Fairstead Plot 
5. St Martha's 
6. Social activities 
   a. Summer fete 
   b. St Pat's Dance
   c. Whist drives etc 
   d. Talks for Catholics & non-catholics. 
7. The Presbytery 
8. Fund raising. 
   a. Covenants 
   b. Rupert 
   c. Presbytery gift list 
9. Appointment of Committee. 
10. A.0.B. 

Side 2

YOU WANT A FULLER PART IN THE LIFE OF THE PARISH?....? 
THEN WHY NOT..... 
Join one of the Societies 
or 
Help the debt by being a Rupert Agent 
or 
Make a constructive suggestion - and be willing to make it work 
or
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 

PERHAPS THIS FORM WILL HELP YOU TO DECIDE NOW. 

NAME ….....…………………..
Address 

I would like to join the K.S.C. / C.W.L. / S.V.P. 
I would like to help with "Rupert"
I would like more details of the Covenant Scheme 
My suggestion is:- 

Original signed agreement with 6 sections for the governance of the Parish of St Henry Walpole, Burnham Market

Table of journeys, headings:
Civil Parish / Miles from door to door / Mode of transport / Time occupied in journey (door to door) /Fare Cost per term / Who pays?

23 parishes mentioned

"..It is only just to you to hear from me the extent of the reasons why this change in the status of Downham Market has been judged imperative by both the Bishop and myself."

Compliments slip: Bishop Secretary: "Tony Sketch will arrange to deliver the enclosed - less the carbon - to all Downham Market parishioners when he distributes his invitations to the real Mass."
Page 1: letter to the congregation at Downham Market - explaining, now that the legal procedure is over, the sorrow he feels in acting against Fr Baker. Obedience to the Holy Father means accepting the changes away from the Tridentine Mass. Expects support for Fr Sketch. Notes of explanation included.
Page 2-3: Notes headed: "1. Your present position"; "2. The Missal of Pope Paul VI"; "3. The Bishop's dealings with Fr Baker"

Bishop Peter Smith is stood on the steps before the entrance to a small wooden house. Fr Drury stands nearby and watches.
Reverse of the image:

1. "The Bishop blesses on of the new homes built through the donations from the Diocese of E. Anglia. House of Geoje and Elizabeth, recently married but until then homeless"
2. a stamp in purple ink, (blurred) text in Spanish, presumably that of the photographer's organisation (Foto Estudio Juan)

Bishop Smith and Fr Drury stood in a group with a woman and four children.
Reverse: "Bishop Peter & Fr John inside one of the homes"

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 

Bishop Peter Smith and Fr Drury are in middle of a group of mostly children with some women. Background includes small wooden houses on stilts.
Reverse of the image:

1. "The Bishop in a new shanty town area Arbolitos"
2. a stamp in purple ink, (blurred) text in Spanish, presumably that of the photographer's organisation (Foto Estudio Juan)

"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

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

Minutes from the first parish meeting. Addresses structure/compositon of committee and sub-committees. Deals with the agenda. Lists the members of the committee.