"As part of the Season of Creation celebration, Mgr Tony Rogers from the parishes of Aldeburgh and Leiston has helped to plant 120 oak trees. The Catholic community celebrated the Season of Creation from 1st September to 4th October in response to Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si." Story continues.
Image caption "Mgr Tony Rogers with Glen Ogilvie and two of their young oak trees"
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"As reported in the 30th October issue of The Catholic Universe, 29 Grade I and Grade II* listed churches and cathedrals in England are to receive £3m funding for repairs and restoration projects from the Government's Culture Recovery Fund. The grant programme is part of the Government's Heritage Stimulus Fund, administered by Historic England and is aimed at supporting major repair projects which either stalled earlier this year because of Covid-19, or where loss of income due to many months of closure put urgently needed projects on hold." Story continues.
Images: "St Peter's Gorleston", "St. Mary's Great Yarmouth. Below, the mural at St Mary's has been suffering water damage due to a failed valley gutter." , Preston's Cathedral of St Alphonsa - formerly the Jesuit church of St lgnatius where the priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once served, and now the Cathedral of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy - is another to benefit from the grants."
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Morris, Keith"At a Capitular Mass at St John the Baptist Cathedral, Bishop Alan Hopes installed Fr Pat Cleary as a Canon of the diocese. Canon David Paul, Dean of St John's Cathedral, said: 'Canon Pat Cleary brings with him wisdom and great experience of the diocese. In addition, his tremendous work in encouraging vocations has been invaluable in the mission of the Church in East Anglia.'" Story continues.
Image caption: "Fr Pat vested in a Mozetta (short cape) with Bishop Alan Hopes at the service that saw him installed as a Canon of the "diocese
"Re 'How the EDP won the right to name cathedral fraudster' (EDP, October 26). It's hard to believe that nobody in authority at St John the Baptist Cathedral has apparently been called to account for the lack of supervision in the case of Rene Mugenzi who stole £220,000 whilst volunteering to be its treasurer." Letter continues.
image caption: "St John the Baptist Cathedral"
"A former treasurer of St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich, has been sentenced to 27 months in jail for defrauding the cathedral of just over £222.000." story continues.
The Catholic Universe (1860-2021)"Fr Luke Goymour from St Thomas of Canterburv in Brandon has been arranging adoration and Benediction in the gardens of some of hIs panishioners. Not someone to be wrong-footed by Covid restrictions, Fr Luke has been taking the Blessed Sacrament to the homes of his parishioners, and blessing them after a short prayer time, either at the front door or In their garden. Some of his parishioners prepared an altar in their garden and he came to their back door for the ceremony. Fr Luke is pictured right with the Blessed Sacramentant and the garden shrine."
The Catholic Universe (1860-2021)"Anthony Tossi, CBE, who designed the award-winning Church of the Annunciation in Little Walsingham, has died at the age of 88." Story continues.
Image captions "Above is Anthony Rossi, and right, the Church of the Annunciation"
"Fr John Barnes, parish contest of Felixstowe, celebrated his silver jubilee of priesthood on 7th October. the feast of Our ladv of the Rosary" Story continues.
Image: Fr Barnes celebrating Mass with Bishop Hopes
"A HUMAN rights activist who fled the Rwandan genocide stole more than £220.000 from a Catholic cathedral while volunteering as its treasurer. Rene Mugenzi, 44, transferred cash from the bank account of St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich into his own account to fund his gambling addiction." story continues.
The Daily Telegraph / The Sunday Telegraph"A gambling addict took more than £220,000 from Norwich's Catholic Cathedral whilst colunteering as its treasurer. Rene Mugenzi was jailed for more than two years at Norwich Crown Court yesterday afternoon for siphoning off the cash from the bank account at St John the Baptist Cathedral and into his own between March 2016 and May 2018." Story continues.
image 1 caption: "Rene Mugenzi claimed his life woudl be under threat if it was revealed that he lived i Norwich, yet he posted public photos on Facebook of his life in the city."
Image 2 caption: "Rene Mugenzi arrives at Norwich Crown Court for sentencing."
"The diocese of East Anglia's Ignite Youth Mission Team has just celebrated its fifth birthday but this academic year, unsurprisingly, poses some unique challenges to their work of evangelisation among children and young people." Story continues.
Image caption: "Pictured are Ciaran Losasso, Hamish MacQueen and Fr Luke Goymour, chaplain to the Youth Mission Team. While much of life has changed, Ciaran said, one thing that certainly hasn't changed is how our Catholic faith can transform the lives of young people."
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"The Filipino community at St John's Cathedral, Norwich gathered in numbers at a Requiem Mass to honour and pray for Ermie Astorga, a much-loved leader." Story coninues
Image caption: "Ermie Astorga picturesd with his family."
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"Fr Dick Healey, who has been serving as parish priest in Fakenham, has retired after a ministry spanning 40 years and moved to Montana in Great Barton, near Bury St. Edmunds." Story continues
Image caption: "Looking forward to a deserved retirement: Fr Dick Healey"
"A volunteer treasurertook more than £220,000 from a cathedral's bank account bank account to fund his gambling addiction." story continues.
image caption: "Rene Mugenzi, who has been jailed"
"King's Lynn Parish celebrated first Holy Communions for 40 children over six separate Masses during the last two weekend in September." Story coninues
Image 1: Group of children with priests & deacons
Image 2: Group before altar
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Morris, Keith"A dusty unwanted statue in a garden centre has become the central feature of a Carmelite grotto. Fr Paul Vincent OCD of St Mark's Ipswich explained: 'It is a Carmelite tradition that wherever we go we encourage the devotion to Our Lady. The diocese of East Anglia gave us a beautiful presbytery with spacious gardens'." Story continues.
Image caption: "Pictured left are Fr John Williamson, Fr Paul Vincent OCD and Fr Bineesh Elanjikkal John OCD blessing the statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Ipswich"
"Bishop Alan Hopes recently celebrated Mass at Poringland for three men in formation for the permanent diaconate. Professor John Morrill reports on the service and their progress. The Mass was held to celebrate the three men in formation in the diocese. They are Gianluca Savini, from St Laurence's parish in Cambridge, who is entering his third year, and Paul Raynes, from St Etheldreda in Ely, and Derek Williams, who lives and works at the Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham, who are both in their second year." Story continues.
Image caption: "Pictured left is Bishop Alan Hopes with the men in formation, with two lectors who are also in training."
"Faced with falling offertory income during the Covid-19 lockdown, sadly, many dioceses are looking to close churches. However, the diocese of Bast Anglia has bucked that trend by opening a beautiful new chapel, at Withermarsh Green. This previously little used private chapel will now be open for public worship and Masses." Story continues.
Image caption: "The privately owned Chapel of Our Lady Immaculate and St Edmund, near Ipswich."