Item 109 - Fr Hibbert to Bishop Clark: Student Cross pilgrimage at Easter

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GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-01-06-109

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Fr Hibbert to Bishop Clark: Student Cross pilgrimage at Easter

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  • 1983-3-17 (Creation)

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(1923-2013)

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1983: Students Cross pilgrimage - permission for a mixed Eucharist at Walsingham

His father had been a General and his grandfather an Admiral. He went into the army, and saw service in North Africa and Korea. After a few years, Captain Robert Hibbert of the Royal Engineers went to Cambridge to do a degree in engineering. At Cambridge he had a ‘Damascus Road’ experience and become a Catholic and a Dominican. He studied in Louvain, taught in the studium, was Regent of Studies for a short time, and worked on a long drawn-out doctorate: the doctrine of man in St Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas and St John of the Cross. Round about this time he became involved with the peace movement, and made links with peace groups in East Germany and with the communist party in Britain.

In the 1980s he moved into university chaplaincy at Sheffield and briefly at York, and became a strong supporter of Student Cross. Later he moved to south Manchester, where he began Blackfriars Publications, printing and publishing small theological pamphlets. He was a national chaplain to the Newman Association, and chaplain to its Manchester and North Cheshire Circle.

After the closure of the Manchester house he moved to Chapel-en-le-Frith and continued publishing, until it became too difficult for him to live on his own, and he moved to the London Priory, and later to Cambridge where in December 2014 he died.

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Student Cross pilgrimage to Walsingham. Easter celebration will have Anglican Eucharist (to which the Catholics have been invited) and a Catholic Midnight Mass (to which the Anglicans are invited). Unfortunately Good Friday may involve a single service at which both Anglican and Catholic forms of Eucharist are offered (at either end of the church). Parish priest cannot authorise this - so he is asking for the Bishop's approval and authorisation.

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