Programme (includes buffet, meeting staff, meeting, concelebrated mass) and Agenda
Phillips, Murial MrsWalsingham
154 Archive Record results for Walsingham
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)"
Director's report
Budget 1986/87
Building plans for Service area
Reservation of Blessed Sacrament at Chapel of Reconciliation
Shrine Council Agenda
Programme and agenda for meeting on 3 November 1987:
Agenda: Director's report; Repository shop (Messrs. Goodliffe Neal - due for review); Devotion at the Shrine
Program and annotated agenda
Phillips, Murial Mrs1980: Confirmation that the Appeal Committee has been established for the Shrine Council on 24 July 1980
1982: Completed work? Bishop thanks Appeal Committee for raising £465,000.
Forming an Executive Committee empowered to undertake such developments in the Slipper Chapel and Friday Market area as have received Shrine Council approval.
Shrine Council, chaired by the Bishop, decides Policy; Executive Committee (chaired by the Shrine Director) takes decisions which put policy into practice; Director takes care of day-to-day business.
Bishop of East Anglia is ultimately responsible for major developments - but in partnership with the Marist Congregation, to who he has committed the care and management of the Shrine.
This letter invites the addressee [none in this case] to become a member of the Executive Committee.
List of roles:
Chairman of ECEW
Member of Theological Commission
Chairman of CTS (suspended - but David [Norris?] is pressing me not to make this final)
Walsingham commitments
ARCIC - still rolling on
Enclose accounts for trip to Denmark - fares, conference fees, lodging and food
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Suggesting that an individual should go to Oscott or Innsbruck for "deepening". manuscript annotation by Bishop Grant - "I think Oscott - as a convert he still has a lot to learn about the Church in England"). Long explanation about why Bishop Clark circumvented his own processes to spend money on a strip of land which joins up Elmham House to the boundary of the Church and which came up a short notice. He and Fr Connelly paid for it out of income.
All this makes it more desirable to establish a management committee at Walsingham:
himself; Roland [Connelly]; Michael Ward (Solicitor, King's Lynn); Col. Cary-Elwes (Thurton); Philip Browning (Poringland); Mr Jameson (N. Elmham).
Turnover at Walsingham is too large for one man. Expenditure must include an annual repayment to the Diocese to offset the debt.
Following their conversation today, Mgr McBride will be getting in touch. Three points:
- The Executive's decision regarding the Blessed Sacrament is "ad experimentum" for this season. They will re-think if needed.
- Walsingham Statue Honour Guard - see Mgr Stark's letter - decision remains with the Executive.
- Will discuss audit with Fr Wilson
For clarity: the Bishop is not a member of the Executive; he thought he'd made that clear from the beginning. Mgr McBride as Vicar General acts in the Bishop's name and that of Fr Peter Wilson. All efforts are to raise funds and channel them into the basic building and basic equipment for the Chapel of Reconciliation. There is no money to finance any other project e.g. the railway track and the organ - we are in a "poverty trap" to some extent.
This should not undermine morale - lesser items come later, if we can't pay for them and consequently lose them, so be it. It is not too late to send an appeal reminder to parish priests.
Mgr Tony Hulme approached the Bishop about being an honorary member of Shrine Council. Need to consult Fr Birch, the Council, the two other Bishops. Already spoken to Canon McBride. Feels there is an obligation to acceded to this.
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)- Changes to standard letter head - not quite
- Many demands in the year hence a gap in replacing Fr Tony Sketch
- Muriel Phillips as a member of the Shrine Council - fine
- Eucharistic ministers - Sr Eileen easy to re-commission. Cannot recall Peter Whitlock but there is a wider problem in the Diocese about management of Eucharistic minsters - a register must be kept as in recent Ad Clerums
Acknowledges that Fr Birch is disappointed and irritated, and, the correction to his history. However, there are [outlined] sensitivities in ecumenism, which the bishop as a seasoned ecumenist is aware of, but he cannot agreed to "institutionalise this in the way you wished". Need to trust one another and find joy in that.
Bishop has drafted a preliminary paper for the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference (who decide on the agenda for the Low Week Conference)
p.s. Would Fr Birch serve on the Liturgical Commission's Music Committee?
Writing as Chairman of the Executive Committee, having read the report form Tony Snelling of Dunlop Heywood. The Shrine should operate within its means and not get into a position of indebtedness to the Diocese in the foreseeable future. This proposal would cost at least £300,000m, which would have to be borrowed and paid for. He recalls saying that funds should be built up for maintenance and hopes his position is clear and that he carries the Administrator and the Shrine Executive with him.
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Does not rule out the twinning idea but emphasises that Walsingham is the National Shrine. No decision until the Shrine Council is consulted and perhaps the Hierarchy Meeting. It is an excellent idea but the Bishop has reservations unconnected with a shrine in the Holy Land.
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Confirmation of invitation for post and your acceptance of it. The Executive Council will consult with you over the responsibilities and powers as well as salary. You known expertise will be required to halt the alarming drift into insolvency and you will have commensurate authority.
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Approaching retirement and inviting Bishop Clark to consider his membership of the Shrine Council - necessary to resign. Looks back to the early days of the revival of Walsingham and the part played by Oscott with Mgr Laurie Emery and Bruno Scott James with pride.
manuscript annotation: "Wrote personally and accepted resignation"
Inviting Canon Anthony Hulme to serve on the Shrine Council in the light of service given by him and his brother, Gerard.
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Informing Fr Allen that Bishop Cleary is resigning from the Council and that Bishop McGuiness is likely to go too.
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)