"It was with joy that a large group from the diocese of East Anglia retired to Lourdes for the last aeek of August after a three-year gap." Story continues
image caption: "East Anglían pligrims at the grotto."
Pilgrimage
256 Archive Record results for Pilgrimage
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)Christmas Greetings; Busy, Busy - ProNuncio visit, Assembly in Cambridge, Council for Religious in process; The Day-to-Day Relgious Life - variety of gifts in the congregation, staff and pupils of Notre Dame ring-road protest; Diversity; A Special Intention - invitation to the Away Week with the Bishop; The Holy Land - thinking about a diocesan pilgrimage ; Staying, Not Going - Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary staying at Overstand; Christian Unity
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Easter; Walsingham - the Shrine, Pilgrimage of 1948; The Meeting of the Religious; Council or Commission - discussion on the religious life; On the Road - visitations; The DPC
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Director's Report
Amenities area
Tabernacle re-siting
manuscript additions:
"W. A Constitution. Tea in Elmham House
Growth in number of Pilgrims
Sound System £2,800 - loop
Wals Trust (Stan & Michael)"
9 in attendance [note: first time names provided of meeting attendees]
Walsingham Pilgrimage - programme awaited; coach to be booked; Mr Smith to do posters
Quiet Day - contact Fr Elias; November date
Ecumenical Centre - churches to be viewed on 20 April at 3pm
AOB - Statue to be made of oak and be hollow; letter of thanks to Mr Mellamphy; Ecumenical Society of BVM requested a talk about the Guild - July 4 at Tolleshunt Knight.
Walsingham Association National Mass is in Birmingham on 19 April at St Chad's Cathedral. At the Bi-annual meeting Anne Milton summarised places branches visit - if copies are required then please ask. Many on pilgrimage wish to visit the Church of the Annunciation in King's Lynn where the first post-reformation Shrine to Our Lady was established in 1897. The King's Lynn branch will held with arrangements.
Milton, Anne MissWriting to Mr S J Aldus. Just found out Pat Scrutton is in hospital - wondering where that leaves managing the pilgrimages. As this is a Foot & Mouth free area it should not cause any trouble. Abel to steward this year? The pilgrimage numbers can be quite large (1,100 from Northampton Diocese schools) so need to spread the net wider. Hence will be writing to parishes in the Deanaries to ask for volunteers.
Milton, Anne MissSide 1: "Annual Pilgrimage Walk 5th September 1989"; image; "Theme: Seekers after Truth"
Side 2 & 3 : Itinerary
Side 4: Prayer; Blessing; image
Page 1: "Commemorating and celebrating the procession ordered by His Grace, Cardinal Wolsey, which took place on the same day in 1528 Our Lady's Eve exactly four hundred and fifty one years ago"; "Unity through Grace" prayer
Pages 2&3: Itinerary -
Page 4: Walk/shrine history
A handover letter describing what to expect in the running of the branch. Headings: The Branch, The Advent weekend, Day visit to Walsingham, Oxburgh Hall Visit.
Scrutton, Barbara MrsInvitation to join the 1989 Parliamentary Pilgrimage now being organised.
Griffiths, BarryForwarding a letter from Rev Vassily James, whose anthropologist father (Rev Professor O E James) the Bishop knew. The letter is described as being critical of a Catholic pilgrimage to Walsingham. This, he passes on to Bishop Clark for his action, with the author's permission.
Butler, Basil Edward Christopher Rev OSB (1902-1986)"My dear Fr. Abbot
I did not want to put it in a formal document, but I wish in justice to withdraw or amend, what I wrote to you the other day about the origin of the trouble between Bp. Riddell and the Benedictines of Downside over the gift by Miss Charlotte Boyd of the Slipper Chapel to Downside.
I have been going through the correspondence, and it appears from that that Miss Boyd from the commencement desired to make it over to the Benedictines.
She wrote to Bp. Riddell in this sense wishing to get his consent to this action. Bp. Riddell, however, did not take too kindly to the idea, and said he would like to place a missionar Priest at the Slipper Chapel as a centre from which he could, in time establish little Missions at Fakenham, Dereham and Wells. This was in August, 1895.
In July, 1897, she writes that the Chapel has been transferred and invested in the names of three of the Downside Benedictine Fathers.
In May, 1920, Abbot Ford asked leave to organize a Pilgrimage from Beccles and its neighbourhood to Walsingham in August, “but I am told that your Lordship would not approve of it. Will you please send me a line to say if this is so, for I should not move any farther in the project unless I was sure of your approval.”
To which Bp. Riddell answered, on May 28 1900 :
“There is only one Pilgrimage approved by me, that to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham at Lynn. I cannot approve of any other.”
I only give you these extracts to clear myself of a misrepresentation of the facts which I made, and to show how the unfortunate friction began."
The policy on this was formulated by Bp Riddell. The seat of the old Walsingham shrine was utterly destroyed - nothing remains except for some ruins in Protestant hands. King's Lynn was where Leo XIII placed the shrine. What the Anglicans do is their affair. Some Catholics think differently and advertise their pilgrimages in the Tablet - until he contacted the Tablet. Continue to remind enquirers that the shrine is at King's Lynn, an old port through which the bulk of pilgrims from the Continent made their way to the famous old Shrine.
Apologies for the shortness of the letter as still in bed with pneumonia.
Celebret and faculties included [not present]. Young Farr can remain another year - he is making a good go at it. Send a copy of the document outside the shrine, I may refer to it in my speech, with my memories. Remind you that there are better speakers. "Sudbury in Middlesex must take a back seat or go to pot!"
Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)Glad that the convent question is settled. Got the statistics, but not the Retreat Form. Will join the procession but can you not get a more brilliant speaker than himself? Congregation in Rome very particular about chapel room.
Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)You should not make arrangements without first obtaining permission and being sure of conflicts. You may go - arrangements for celebret and faculties for supply.
The Sisters wish to paper the room for the chapel and have been allowed to do so. Honorarium is normally £26 /annum for mass once a week. The bath will have to come out.
Holmes affair has worked out well - however, the approach you had proposed would not have done so. Do not be too kind to them at first - they had been very naughty!
Note that Fr Filmer is trying to reschedule some of his pilgrimages to Sundays.
Has received the Walsingham document and will decipher and copy it. Pleasant to stay at Presbytery. Looking forward to the pilgrimage as not attended for a long time.
Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)Jenny Standing, Secretary replying that the Bishop cannot attend the 1989 Parliamentary Pilgrimage.
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