"Home learners and pupils in class from St Felix's School in Haverhill joined a Walk for Water this Lent." Story continues.
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The Catholic Universe (1860-2021)"Home learners and pupils in class from St Felix's School in Haverhill joined a Walk for Water this Lent." Story continues.
image of pupils with buckets
The Catholic Universe (1860-2021)"Bishop Alan Hopes joined bishops across Europe on Tuesday 2nd March in a chain of Masses to pray for the victims of the Covid pandemic. Bishop Alan's Mass was livestreamed from St John the Baptist Cathedral at 10am." Story continues.
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The Catholic Universe (1860-2021)"The desire to learn about God has been the glue bonding an RCIA group at Our Lady and English Martyrs in Cambridge. Mgr Eugene Harkness reports." Story continues.
image caption: "Pictures above is one of RCIA sessions at Our Lady and the English Martyrs"
The Catholic Universe (1860-2021)"A church restoration project is offering a new perspective on its town and the streets that surround it.
"Pictures taken documenting repairs to the roof of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Regent Road show its crowded urban setting, hemmed in by houses and Great Yarmouth's main tourism thoroughfare of Regent Road." Story continues.
3 images, caption: "Drone pictures offering a bird’s eye view of urgent restoration work going on at St Mary’s RC Church in Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, and its place in the town"
"HAMPTON, a town to the south of Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, is on the up. Thirty years ago it was nothing but abandoned brick pits; since then thousands of homes have sprung up. Three primary and two secondary schools have followed, along with a shopping centre, restaurants, lakes and open spaces.
"But all is not well within this Eden of purpose-built convenience. Since it was announced in 2019 that a fourth primary could be Catholic, fierce opposition has been unleashed that has left many local Catholics feeling intimidated and bruised.
"The 630-pupil St John Henry Catholic Primary School (SJHN) and 26-place nursery, to be built in part of the development called Hampton Water, will be the first Catholic school in England to open in almost ten years. The Diocese of East Anglia established that there was a high level of need for a new Catholic primary school several years ago, says Helen Bates, the diocese’s deputy of education." Story continues.
Image caption: An impression of the proposed school"
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Morris, KeithStory 1: "The Community of Our Lady of Walsingham will be running a series of online retreats through the rest of the year, and then hopefully gradually opening for visitors in person as the year goes on," Story continues. Image 1 view of reception room.
Story 2: "Touching family tributes have been paid to nurse, mother and Cathedral steward Estrella Catalan, at her funeral Mass at St John the Baptist Catholic Cathedral in Norwich." Story continues.
image of coffin standing before the high altar.
"Tributes have been paid to devoted Norwich nurse, mother and Catholic Cathedral steward Estrella Catalan, who died last Friday at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital where she worked, after a month-long battle against Covid-19." Story continues.
Image 1 Estella Catalan
"Tributes were paid to a 'kind and generous' Norwich nurse, who died of CVoronavirus, during a Roman Catholic service" with a 'bursting energy and smile' has been remembered at an emotional service. Story continues.
Image 1 caption: "The funeral of nurse Estrella Catalan at St John's Roman Catholic Cathedral"
Image 2 caption: "The coffin leaves St John's Cathedral after her funeral"
Image 3 caption: "Family and friends after the funeral at St John's Cathedral"
Image 4 view of inside of the Cathedral and the funeral mass
"A 'kind and generous' Norwich nurse with a 'bursting energy and smile' has been remembered at an emotional service. Estrella Catalan, a nurse at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital died on February 5 at the age of 52 after a battle with coronavirus." Story continues.
Image 1 caption: "The funeral of nurse Estrella Catalan at St John's RC Cathedral"
"Respects are being paid to a Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital nurse who died after a long battle with coronavirus. Emergency department staff nurse Estrella Catalan died at the age of 52 on February 5 having joined the trust in September 2002." Story continues.
Image 1 caption: "Nurse Estrella Catalan's coffin inside StJohn'sRC Cathedral for the vigil"
Image 2 caption: "Flowers representing the NHS a tthe vigil for Estrella Catalan"
Image 3 caption: "The hearse arrives at St John's RC Cathedral"
Image 4 flowers forming the word "MUM" being carried
Image 5 caption: "Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital staff nurse Estrella Catalan died in early February after a long battle with the coronavirus."
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Morris, Keith"St Mary's parish in Great Yarmouth is planting a time capsule to capture a moment in history. 'It's 60 years since we had the roof off,' explained Brian Lafferty, chair of the parish finance committee, whose idea the cansule was. 'It will be 60 or 100 years before it needs re-placing. so I thought, why not put a
time cansuke in there?'" Story continues.
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Story 1: "Lottery windfall helps St Mary's mend leaking roof"
"St Mary's parish in Great Yarmouth has received a grant of £148,598 from the National Lottery Heritage for repairs to a leaking roof." Story continues.
Image of church roof with scaffolding
Story 2: "Diocese takes stock of architectural heritage"
"A comprehensive architectural and historical review of Catholic churches across the diocese of East
Anglia has been published online as part of the major Taking Stock project. Taking Stock is an architectural and historical review of Catholic churches and chapels in England and Wales. The project is a partnership between the Patrimony Committee of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, individual dioceses, and Historic England." Story continues.
Image caption: "Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge."
Story 3: "Diss parishioners celebrate their heroic saint's feast day"
"Parishioners in Diss gathered on 1st February for a virtual celebration of the feast day of St Henry Morse, known as 'The Priest of the Plague'. Judith Tooth reports. " Story continues.
images caption: "Fr Alex Anaman outside the church and below, an etching of St Henry Morse which hangs in the church."
"With the help of the diocese of East Anglia, St Peter and All Souls in Peterborough has won a grant of £20,000 for vital repairs on the church." Story continues.
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"A church restoration project is offeringa new perspective on its town and the streets that surround it. Pictures taken documenting repairs to the roof of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Regent Road show its crowded urban setting, hemmed in by houses and Great Yarmouth's main tourism thoroughfare of Regent Road." Story continues.
Image caption: "Drone pictures offering a bird's eye view of urgent restoration work going on at St Mary's RC Church in Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, and its place in the town"
"A church restoration project is offeringa new perspective on its town and the streets that surround it. Pictures taken documenting repairs to the roof of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Regent Road show its crowded urban setting, hemmed in by houses and Great Yarmouth's main tourism thoroughfare of Regent Road." Story continues.
Image caption: "Drone pictures offering a bird's eye view of urgent restoration work going on at St Mary's RC Church in Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, and its place inthe town"
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Morris, Keith"Suffolk Catholic prisons chaplain, and former pastoral assistant, Antoinette Askin, died recently at the age of 73. Fr Tony Rogers, Tonie's colleague at both Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge and at HMPs Warren Hill and Hollesley Bay, pays tribute. Antoinette (or 'Tonie' as she was known), was Catholic chaplain at HMP Warren Hill and HMP Holles-ley Bay on the Suffolk coast. She had been in post for nearly seven years, and was a wondertul and canng friend to the residents." Story continues.
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"Work is progressing on the new St John Henry Newman Catholic Primary school, set to open in Peterborougn in September 2022, and the diocese of East Anglia is now consulting on proposed admission arrangements in its first year of opening. The schoo will be the first state funded Catholic school in England for more than 10 years and will be run by the diocese of East Anglia." Story continues.
Image caption: "An architect's drawing of the new school."