Parish Proclaimer Autumn 2017 Edition

Parish Proclaimer

Autumn 2017 edition

Cathedral Parish of Our Lady & St. Philip Howard Canon Tim Madeley - Dean Father Stanislaw Mycek - Assistant Priest Rev. Mr. David Clifton - Deacon Louise Sharp - Parish Secretary* Cathedral House, Parsons Hill, Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9AY Tel: 01903 882 297 Fax: 01903 885 335 Email: aruncath1@aol.com

Web: www.arundelcathedral.org * The Parish Office is open 9am – 1pm, Monday – Friday

Mass Times at Arundel Cathedral Sunday

Weekdays

Saturday

9.30am Family Mass on the third Sunday of the month; Children’s Liturgy available other Sundays. 11.15am Cathedral Choir. 10am Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Saturday: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass. 11am Benediction.

Mass Times at the Convent of The Poor Clares, Crossbush, near Arundel Saturday Sunday

Monday Friday

5.30pm 6.15pm 4.30pm 5.30pm

Vespers. Vigil Mass (entry at 6pm). Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Vespers and Benediction.

8.30am Mass

Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday

Cathedral:

10.30am otherwise by appointment.

Convent :

Before/after the Saturday 6.15pm Mass.

FRONT COVER 2017 Carpet of Flowers during Corpus Christi in Arundel Cathedral. The theme of the carpet is the centenary of the death of Henry, XV Duke of Norfolk. Photograph taken by Focus Photography of Shorehan - www.focusphotography.co.uk

The Parish Proclaimer is printed by Prontaprint Brighton & Hove - September 2017

WELCOME TO OUR AUTUMN EDITION The Power of every Sacrament By Fr. Stanislaw Mycek God’s fatherly love gives His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ who gives his life for us. It is a price for our freedom, for our salvation, for our eternal life. For this reason, for us believers, Jesus is the most precious treasure and pearl. We are called to sell everything in order to be of one mind and one heart with Him. To be honest it is something difficult for our present condition: the Sacrament of Baptism heals the core of our soul, but our mind (ignorance) and passions (their uncontrolled outbursts) are tormented by many temptations, and often disfigured by personal sins (and bad habits). We do need the help of grace. And this help is given to us by the community of the Church: her teaching and the sacraments contain Jesus’ words and life. The teaching of the Church says what is necessary for our salvation, that is, in what we have to believe (the Creed), what we have to do (The Decalogue - The Ten Commandments), and what we have to desire (Our Father). The power of every Sacrament helps us to fulfil it and put it in practice. It infuses the gift of healing grace: it is the Holy Spirit who pours the love of God within us that we may live, like Jesus, on the law of the Gospel. Continued overleaf +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTICLES FOR THE WINTER EDITION OF THE PARISH PROCLAIMER: Deadline for receipt - Tuesday, 3 October 2017 Please email your written piece and photos to clouter@mac.com or send by post to The Editor, Cathedral House, Parsons Hill, Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9AY including your name/address to enable us to return the photos. 3

That is why we pray with the whole Church: our Father thy kingdom come. We are given the safe way, Jesus’ way to educate our desires and to ask with Him, God our Father for a wise heart to discern His will; to discern between good and evil and to cooperate with his fatherly love - will be turning everything to His glory, to the edification of the Church, and to our personal sanctification.

Fr. Stanislaw +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Corpus Christi By an English Dominican Novice Between 14-16 June 2017, the Dominican novices of the English Province visited Arundel for the annual celebration of Corpus Christi, together with their Master of Novices, Fr. Bruno Clifton OP, the son of Deacon David and Monica Clifton. The English novitiate consists of five men between the ages of 23 and 27, joined by one novice from the Dutch Province, who for the last few years have sent their novices to England. The novitiate house is the Dominican Priory of St. Michael in Cambridge, where the total community size is currently 12. The Master of Novices is responsible for their formation over the novitiate period. Arriving on the Wednesday afternoon, the novices spent some time exploring Arundel, including the ruins of the old Dominican priory by the river. It was indeeed a pleasant surprise to bump into Fr. Vivian Boland OP, a friar from the Province currently stationed in Rome, who happened to be visiting for the day! Later the novices sang Vespers in the Howard Chapel, courtesy of Canon Tim, complete with a procession to the statue of Our Lady to sing the Salve Regina. Dominican friars are bound to say the whole of the Divine Office every day, and as much of it is celebrated in common as is practical in each community. On the morning of Corpus Christi Thursday, after Lauds in the Cathedral, there was work to be done as Deacon David needed a large quantity of wood shifted to the 4

bottom of the garden! In Cambridge, the novices have tasks to perform to aid in the running of the priory, such as cleaning the kitchen, running the sacristy, and preparing the guest rooms. In addition every Saturday afternoon there is a time of community work, where the novices perform various other tasks, like maintaining the garden. The rest of Thursday was spent at leisure until the Mass of Corpus Christi at 5pm, which was celebrated by Bishop Richard. There were many clergy and lay people from the Diocese and further afield. As usual there was a large contingent from the Knights of Malta, St. Gregory and Holy Sepulchre; the Knights of Saint Columba were also present. Following the Mass the procession took place, with the Blessed Sacrament proceeding down the Carpet of Flowers to the baldachin outside. The novices had the honour of carrying six torches flanking the Sacrament on its journey to the Castle for Benediction, and then back to the Cathedral. After the conclusion of the beautiful celebration of this great mystery of the faith, the novices joined Lady Tessa Balfour and Bishop Richard for dinner in the Castle, where they were treated to a superb meal. The Feast of Corpus Christi owes its origin to the 13th Century Praemonstratensian Canoness St. Juliana of Liège, who had visions over a 20-year period instructing her to strive for the creation of a feast of the Blessed Sacrament outside Lent. The Institution of the Eucharist is commemorated in a sombre fashion on Maundy Thursday, but St. Juliana longed for a joyful celebration of the reality and effects of the Real Presence of Christ in the Sacrament. Instrumental in this was the French Dominican Cardinal Hugh of St. Cher, who was petitioned by St. Juliana to institute a new celebration. In 1251, therefore, he 5

established the Feast of Corpus Christi in all the areas under his jurisdiction. The Feast was promulgated to the whole Church in 1264 by Pope Urban IV, who had known St. Juliana when he was Archdeacon of Liège. This great Solemnity is highly relevant to the mission of the Dominican Order, which had been founded in 1216, in order to combat the Albigensian heresy, also known as Catharism. The Albigensians believed that all material things were intrinsically evil, and so did not believe, amongst other things, in the reality of Christ’s Presence in the physical matter of the Eucharist. Much of the early Dominican preaching was therefore focused on the goodness of God’s physical Creation. Indeed in 1215, only one year earlier, the Fourth Lateran Council had affirmed the truth that the species of bread and wine become the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, in order to refute various incorrect beliefs prevalent at the time. It was fitting, then, that the Church should institute the Solemnity of Corpus Christi to celebrate this great truth. Urban IV commissioned another great Dominican, Saint Thomas Aquinas, to write the liturgy for the Feast, and we still use large parts of his work today, including the hymns Pange Lingua, Tantum Ergo and O Salutaris Hostia, and the sequence Lauda Sion Salvatorem. On the morning of the Friday following Corpus Christi, the novices travelled to Chichester for Mass in the Anglican Cathedral, for the Feast of St. Richard, Bishop of Chichester. This Mass was attended by pupils from the local Catholic schools, and a choir of pupils and teachers provided the music. It was a great privilege to celebrate the feast of St. Richard in the Cathedral, which he would have known over 750 years ago. After lunch back in Arundel, the pilgrims returned to Cambridge on Friday afternoon. The novitiate is a time of familiarising oneself with the religious life, learning to live as a community, and, of course, deepening one’s own relationship with the Lord Jesus. Novices do not yet take vows but are clothed in the habit of the Order, and live according to the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience. As such the novitiate is a time for continued discernment of vocation. After a year novices make their first vows, and move to Oxford to begin their studies for ordination to the priesthood. The current novices will take their vows on 23 September, and four new novices will be clothed for the English Province on the same day, along with two more for the Dutch Province. Please keep all of these Continued on page 8 6

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young men in your prayers, and continue to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life! After a year a novices make their first vows, and move to Oxford to begin their studies for ordination to the priesthood. The current novices will take their vows on 23 September, and four new novices will be clothed for the English Province on the same day, along with two more for the Dutch Province. Please keep all of these young men in your prayers, and continue to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Carpet of Flowers at Arundel By Mark Woods & David White, A&B News, August edition

Henry, XV Duke of Norfolk, 1847 - 1917

The Feast of Corpus Christi is celebrated at Arundel Cathedral with its world-famous Carpet of Flowers. This year it was prepared from 12 - 14 June ready for the celebration of the Feast on 15 June. The highlight is the full length of the aisle decorated with flowers in a design of the Cathedral’s founder, pictured at the age of 21 (above) when he commissioned Arundel Cathedral. The designs on the carpet reflect his life and public ministry and so include symbols of his ducal authority (the Duke of Norfolk is the premier non-Royal Duke in the country) and his role as Earl Marshall. Henry, although a quiet and unassuming man, used his talents and wealth for the benefit of others. As a devout Catholic, he commissioned what is now Arundel Cathedral to celebrate his coming of age. Later to commemorate his marriage to Lady Flora Hastings he had St. John’s Cathedral in 8

Norwich built. Amongst other projects, to further the education of young people, he co-founded St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge. The Cathedral Dean, Canon Tim Madeley said, “It is a great privilege this year to celebrate the life of this extraordinary man who in all manner of ways has influenced the life of people in Sussex and beyond for many generations. Going around the displays gives the visitor ample opportunity to explore more deeply the life of Duke Henry and to admire the incredible skill of those who put together the floral creations.” The completed carpet is featured on the front cover of this magazine and the photo above, featuring the ladies and gentlemen of Arundel preparing the carpet. Shortly after the picture of Jim Myerscough sitting on the floor was taken, Jim suffered a dislocated hip and was transported to hospital where he was treated. By Thursday, the Feast Day, Jim was back in the Cathedral for the Mass. It was concluded by the procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the Castle and we returned to the Cathedral for Benediction.

+ Dear Lord Jesus, You made the ultimate sacrifice so that You could wash away the sins of the whole world. You have left us the great gift of your body and blood through the Holy Eucharist. We thank You and praise You every day for renewing in the daily sacrifice the actual sacrifice of the cross offered on Calvary, in which You gave divine justice and love for all of us sinners.

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A privileged visitor to Arundel Cathedral By Michael John Rycroft

It was in June 1950 that I first visited the church of St. Philip Neri in Arundel, and I remember being overawed by the size of this beautiful church, not to mention the huge castle nearby! I was with my parents and we came to visit an old friend of theirs, Fr. Philip Dickerson, who had recently been sent there after his ordination by Bishop Cowderoy (later Archbishop). I had already met Fr. Philip and attended his first Mass at St. Peter’s Church in Hove, the same church that was also his last parish as Parish Priest. It was to be many years before I came back to Arundel. At that time (1950) I was a pupil at Cottesmore St. Mary’s School in Hove, and I remember well, being in the choir and singing the school song, which was led by my teacher at the time, Miss Joan Hobden. A year or so later, I found myself at The John Fisher School in Purley, as a boarder, one of 60 among 600 pupils. One of the pupils, who was a few years ahead of me, was a certain Tony Whale - who needs no introduction to the people of Arundel. It was while I was a pupil at this school that I first met a newly ordained priest, Fr. Bernard Thom, who had been posted to St. Alphege’s Church in Wallington, where a few of us boarders sang at the Missa Cantata each Sunday. It was in June 1975 when I passed my driving test, and living in Lancing, that I returned to Arundel. It was a time when the Church in England was experimenting with the liturgy, which, as one who was brought up with the beauty, dignity and prayerfulness of the solemn sung Mass, I found difficult to cope with. Therefore,

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now having a car and with the knowledge that my father confessor, teacher and friend at St. Joseph’s College, Mark Cross, Fr. (later Canon) John Grant was the Administrator of the Cathedral of Our Lady and St. Philip Howard (as it became) I started to attend the 11am Mass on Sundays. It was also then that I met another priest who became a good friend of mine - Fr. Mark Elvins. This weekly Mass was often a solemn sung Mass, with one of the priests acting as the deacon and a server as the subdeacon. It was not long after I started attending the 11am Mass that I became a reader at Arundel under the guidance of Colonel Neville Roussell, and also a server. Then in December 1980, I was given the greatest honour of my life, when Fr. (later Canon) Thom, who succeeded Canon Grant as Administrator, nominated me as an Extraordinary Minister for Holy Communion. This has, for many years, enabled me to take The Lord to the sick and housebound in the parishes that I have lived in. The joy and pleasure that this has given me continues. After a year or so of commuting to Arundel from Lancing, my friends John and Judy Brazier asked if they could join me one Sunday. As many will know, it changed their lives - and mine. Also, my dear old friends Peter and Betty Godfrey joined us at the

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11am Mass on a Sunday and together with John and Judy, John’s brother Gerry, his wife Pat, with Canon Tony Whale, we spent happy hours watching the cricket in Arundel. Nearly all my friends have attended Mass at the Cathedral over the years, including Joe Casey, who always joined me on the Sanctuary whenever he stayed with us. One other lovely thing about serving at the Cathedral, apart from serving so many varied and beautiful services, is that one gets to meet many priests, and not just of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, which makes one realise what a large and varied family the Church is. I feel very fortunate as the last 20 years of my working life were spent at Bishop’s House in Hove. I greatly enjoyed working there for my own Diocese, but for ten happy years before that I worked at Church House, the Administration Offices of the Diocese of Chichester. At that time I was proud of having two bishops as ‘bosses’, one spiritual and one temporal! I started work at Bishop’s House in 1987, and that summer I booked to join the Arundel & Brighton Pilgrimage to Lourdes – an event that was to change my life for ever! Although I had been on pilgrimage to Lourdes many times, partly with jobs at Burns & Oates, Spes Travel and The Catholic Touring Association I had not been with the A & B Pilgrimage. While on the pilgrimage, I had the chance to get to know Shelagh Hogan, who also worked at Bishop’s House. We married the following April. Shelagh went on to work for the Lourdes Pilgrimage with Lady Sarah Clutton in 1990, and I succeeded my great friend, Fr. Laurence Quin-Morris as Master of Ceremonies to the Diocesan Pilgrimage for ten years in the 1990s. Over the years I have served at most of the services at the Cathedral from boat boy to Master of Ceremonies,and sometimes not knowing which job one is required to do until just before a service begins! Serving also involves a lot of preparation beforehand and clearing up afterwards. Having said this, I have always enjoyed the work that is required and enjoyed the company of the many people that I have worked with over the years. If asked what my favourite moments at the Cathedral are, I would have to say that it is being alone in the early morning of Corpus Christi before the doors are opened; something that the late Eddie Harrison also enjoyed. I have been able to do this when staying overnight in more recent years, thanks to Mgr. Jeff Scott and Canon Tim Madeley. In the early 80s I discovered the Cathedral Inventory and I also discovered that it had 12

Myself with Bishop Richard and on his left, Georges Joucerand, server at the Sacred Heart Church in Hove

not been updated since it was written in 1883! I therefore decided to update the inventory, and my first attempt was to add to Canon Keating’s handwriting, and the taking of photographs of the major items. This I found very informative and exciting, and so much so that by 1984 the servers and myself were in a position to be able to mount an exhibition in the Sacristy of some of the beautiful vestments and plates that the Cathedral possessed. The exhibition (held during the Corpus Christi ‘Carpet of Flowers’ celebrations) was a success and we continued this for a further two years. By charging 20p per person we managed to save at lot of money to help pay towards the restoration of several of the beautiful Victorian banners that were carried during the Corpus Christi procession each year. With the help of some of the servers we also mounted a large exhibition in the Cathedral in the 90s. The last exhibition that I mounted, with displays of vestments and plate, was in July 2015 for the Golden Jubilee of the Diocese, celebrated at the Amex Stadium in Brighton. Over the years from the mid eighties I continued to add to the inventory. In 2013, with technology moving forward so fast, I made the decision to transfer everything, including new photographs, to the computer. This way, items could easily be added to from time to time. This huge project was not without its frustrations - for me and my wife! I finally finished the inventory in time to present it to Bishop Richard later in 2015, in the hope that it will not be another 100 years before someone brings it up to date! It has long been a dream of mine to house some of our better treasures in a museum built under part of the garden and under the car park, with a meeting /tea room above ground. Unfortunately, it would depend on finding a very large amount of 13

money. Any suggestions? At the end of 2014, after very much thought, I informed Canon Tim that I would be ‘retiring’ from the serving team after the Golden Jubilee celebrations the following year. Having commuted for 40 years, and for many of these years deserting my wife for hours every Sunday and many weekdays, I thought it better to make this decision while I was fit and able to drive. Fortunately, I could not bring myself to depart so soon from my beloved Cathedral and I still enjoy helping out occasionally when needed. My prayers for the Cathedral are that many more people will come to find their spiritual home in the parish and fill the ranks of Friends of the Cathedral, servers, sacristans, readers, greeters, choristers and many other jobs that every parish needs Finally, I would like to thank the people of Arundel, past and present, for all the friendship and hospitality shown to me over the years and to say that this is not a goodbye from me YET! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Ambrose Phillipps De Lisle - a whole life of devotion By Jo Briscoe

“If England is converted to Christ, it will be as much due, under God, to you as to anyone.” Words of John Henry Newman (Nineteenth Century Roman Catholic Cardinal) in a letter to Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle, dated 30 July 1857. 14

“I should call De Lisle an Israelite indeed, in whom was no guile.” Words of William Ewart Gladstone (four times Prime Minister of Great Britain) in a letter to Edmund S. Purcell (Author) dated 23 June, 1896. Ambrose de Lisle was considered, subsequently, to be a prophet and certainly an ecumenist; he was a man of great staying power with a driving force to search for the holy, and he felt it could be found most perfectly represented within one source, institution and system of doctrine, that of the Roman Catholic Church. Ambrose de Lisle founded a Cistercian Abbey and Roman Catholic missions, chapels and schools in the villages of Leicestershire and kept a constant watch over them; he promoted a crusade of prayer for the conversion of England which became widespread on the Continent; he helped to import foreign missionaries. Through his determination to associate himself with the extension of Roman Catholicism in England, and to wave aside the growing body who objected to his so doing, he had a greater share in the developments which took place than most other lay persons. In a real sense the history of the changes within the Roman Catholic community, and reactions to those changes, in the 1850s and 1860s, was his personal history also and can be seen through his eyes and experience. Ambrose de Lisle had a great feeling for the mediaeval through which he played a part in the reintroduction of Gothic Architecture (with his close friendship with Pugin, “God’s Architect”!); Gregorian chant and the Church ceremonial of earlier ages; he wrote a score of books and pamphlets. He was familiar with members of the Oxford Movement and his articles in L’Univers brought the attention of Frenchmen to it. His correspondence was prodigious and his house seldom empty of guests. Ambrose March Phillipps, born in 1809 at Garendon Park close to the Grace Dieu estate, the family home in beautiful rural Leicestershire, was the eldest son of a Member of Parliament in an old Leicestershire land-owning family, Charles March Phillipps. The family of Lisles came into the March Phillipps family through marriage. The De Lisles were descended from Fitzazor, a valiant knight who came over to England with William the Conqueror, and was rewarded for his deeds in arms by a considerable grant of land in the Isle of Wight, which remained until the present century in the possession of the family. The De Lisle history during the Middle Ages filled Ambrose’s imagination: there had been a Knight of the Garter and Lord High Admiral of England and a barony which had become extinct in the reign of Edward IV but it was the Lisles with their chivalrous connotations, whose memories Ambrose chose to cherish and perpetuate. By middle life the profound influence of

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his inheritance was plain to see. An example was his change of name to De Lisle in 1862, when the estate came into his hands. Following Ambrose’s boyhood upbringing as a member of the Church of England in an extended family incorporating several Church of England Clergymen as relatives, including the Rev. George Hodson, The Bishop of Gloucester (his uncle by marriage), Ambrose had the advantage of spending Sundays and holidays at the Bishop’s Palace. At school he met for the first time a Catholic, the Abbé Giraud, a French émigré priest, whose holy life struck the boy as inconsistent with what he had always heard of Catholics. On one of his journeys to Gloucester he took the opportunity of questioning the priest as to the real belief of Catholics. The answers he received so excited his interest that he began to read all the books on the subject he could find in his father’s library. A visit to Paris in 1823 gave him his first acquaintance with Catholic liturgy. The effect on his mind was shown on his return home when he persuaded the Anglican rector to place a cross on the communion table, but this first effort to restore the cross to English churches was promptly suppressed by the Bishop of Peterborough as savouring of Popery. The constant setbacks for Ambrose, now 13 years old, were hard to bear. His headmaster became alarmed on account of his obvious interest in the Church of Rome. Some books by learned Anglican authors were put into his hands, the object of which was to prove that the alleged corruptions of the Papacy were foretold in the prophecies of the Bible, particularly those concerning the predicted Anti-Christ was to contest the dominion of Jesus Christ over the nations, to persecute the Church. The conflict in the mind of young Ambrose filled him with sadness and dejection. One day he felt sadder than ever as he walked alone by the banks of the Severn and he wished that someone would tell him who indeed was the great Anti-Christ. His eyes were looking into the sky, when a shaft of light came through what seemed like an opening in solid substance, while his ears heard the words ‘Mahomet was AntiChrist because he denied the Father and the Son and he denied them in those words of the Koran where he says “God neither begetteth nor is he begotten”’. A history of the primitive church helped temporarily to restore Ambrose’s equilibrium. He was delighted with the piety of the early Christians - he was searching for certainties. It was about this time when Ambrose’s schooling, under Mr. Hodson, was moved to Edgbaston near Birmingham and it was there that the boy, now sixteen years old, had a remarkable dream “in which Our Lord seemed to reproach him with not having Continued on page 18 16

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fully complied with the light he had received.” Moved by this, he wrote to a Catholic priest, the Rev. Thomas Macdonnell, asking him to meet him at Loughborough and receive him into the Catholic Church. Mr. Macdonnell met him and was surprised to find him so thoroughly instructed in Catholic doctrine, and after a few days he considered him sufficiently prepared to be received into the Church. At the age of 16, Ambrose became a Roman Catholic. Ambrose informed both his father and his schoolmaster, with the result that he was immediately removed from Mr. Hodson’s school, at that gentleman’s desire, and returned home with his father, who arranged for him to continue his preparation for Oxford University - which had always been the intention - under the private tuition of the Rev. William Wilkinson. He was obliged every Sunday to attend the Protestant Church, but did not join in the service. Ambrose went into residence at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1826. He found at the university a congenial friend in Kenelm Digby, an author, and, like himself, a recent convert. There was no Catholic chapel then at Cambridge and every Sunday for two years these two young Catholics used to ride over, fasting, to St. Edmunds College, Old Hall, a distance of twenty-five miles, for Mass and Communion. It was on one of these visits that Ambrose was seized with a serious illness, having broken a blood-vessel in the lungs. Doctors recommended his father to take him to Italy for the winter. He had to leave the university without taking his Degree. On his return to England in 1829, he became acquainted with the Hon. and Rev. George Spencer, then an Anglican clergyman and son of the 2nd Earl Spencer (ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales) - their conversation was largely instrumental in leading to Spencer’s conversion. In Spencer’s own account of his conversion, written at the English College in Rome in 1831, he says: “Near the end of the year 1829, I was introduced to young Mr. Phillips, eldest son of a rich gentleman of Leicestershire, whom I had often heard spoken of as a convert to the Catholic religion. I had for a long time been curious to see him, that I might observe the mode of reasoning by which he had been persuaded into what I still thought so great an error. We spent five hours together in the house of the Rev. Mr. Foley, Catholic Missionary in my neighbourhood, with whom I had already had much intercourse. I was interested by the ardent zeal of this young man in the cause of his faith. I had previously imagined that he must have been ignorant on the subject of religion, and that he had suffered himself to be led blindly by others; but he answered all my objections about his own conversion with readiness and intelligence I could not but see that it had been in him the result of his own diligent investigations. I was much delighted with what I could observe of his character. 18

.I was more than ever inflamed with a desire to be united in communion with persons in whom I saw such clear signs of the Spirit of God. “A few weeks later, after preaching in my church, in the evening I took leave of my family for the week, intending to return on the Saturday following to my ordinary duties at home. But our Lord ordered better for me. During the week I spent many hours daily in conversation with Phillipps and was satisfied beyond all my expectations with the answers he gave me to the different questions I proposed about the principal tenets and practices of Catholics. During the week, we were in company with several other Protestants, and among them some distinguished clergymen of the Church of England, who occasionally joined in our discussions: I was struck with observing how the advantage always appeared on his side in the arguments which took place between them, notwithstanding their superior age and experience; and I saw how weak was the cause in behalf of which I had hitherto been engaged; I felt ashamed of arguing any longer against what I began to see clearly could not be fairly disproved.” In July 1833 Ambrose Phillipps married Laura Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Thomas Clifford, son of Hugh, fourth Lord Clifford of Chudleigh. The marriage proved a most happy union, and on this occasion Charles March Phillipps gave his son possession of the second family estate, the beautiful manor of Grace-Dieu in Leicestershire, which before the Reformation had been a priory of Augustinian nuns. Marriage made no difference to the ardour with which he devoted himself to the interests of the Church and the spread of Catholicism and this at a time when the great influences of later days had not made themselves felt. Writing a few years before his death to the Rev. W.R. Brownlow, (who eventually became Bishop of Clifton) he thus summed up the chief aims of his own life: “There were three great objects to which I felt, after my own conversion as a boy of fifteen, specially drawn by internal feeling for the whole space of forty-five years which have since elapsed. The first was to restore to England the primitive monastic contemplative observance, which God enabled me to do in the foundation of the Trappist Monastery of Mount St. Bernard. The second was the restoration of the primitive ecclesiastical chant, my edition of which is now recommended by the Archbishop of Westminster for the use of churches and chapels. The third was the restoration of the Anglican Church to Catholic Unity.” Of course, following the reformation, the Roman Catholic church, which forms the largest body of Christians in the world, had a comparatively minor role in 19

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nineteenth-century England, Wales and Scotland. Ever since Henry VIII founded the Church of England (or Anglican Church) the Catholic minority, who had remained faithful to the Church of Rome, often found themselves looked upon with suspicion and denied many civil rights, including that of serving in Parliament, owning certain kinds of property and attending Oxford, Cambridge and other major universities, which existed in large part to train Church of England clergy. However, in 1829 Parliament granted British Catholics full civil rights, including the right to serve in the legislature. This situation established The Oxford Movement or Tractarianism an organisation which began as a reaction to what Keble, Newman, Pusey and others (including Ambrose) believed was an illegal and unchristian interference by government in the affairs of God’s Church. Ironically, it ended by defending many Catholic practices and rituals, such as the other Tractarians attempted to distinguish Protestant from Catholic positions on the basis of church history and traditions, they found themselves drawn to the faith they had initially attacked and ended by converting to a religion many in Britain considered subversive and fundamentally anti-British. When in 1850 Pope Pius IX reinstated the Roman Catholic church organisation, including parishes and dioceses, many Protestants feared the worst, and their fears only increased when the Vatican Council of 1869-70 declared the Pope’s pronouncements on morals and doctrine infallible, or incapable of error. In the foundation of the Cistercian Abbey Ambrose received generous support from his friend John, Earl of Shrewsbury, but it was he himself who conceived the idea, believing it necessary that the ascetic aspect of Catholic life should be presented to the English people. He gave both land and money, even crippling his own resources Continued on page 22 20

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in providing the necessary buildings, while, during the same period, he founded missions at Grace-Dieu and Whitwick (where Mount St. Bernard was established). Besides the material assistance thus given to the spread of Catholicism, he devoted himself with persistent energy and faith to spiritual means in which he believed even more strongly. In 1838 he joined his friend, Rev. George Spencer in establishing and propagating the Association of Universal Prayer for the Conversion of England. This remarkable crusade, the results of which cannot be estimated, met with deserved success due to the untiring efforts which Spencer and Phillipps put forth. The sanguine hopes which both entertained of a speedy, if not immediate, return of England to the Catholic Faith lent force to the vehemence with which they urged their point, and accounts for the co-operation they met with everywhere. In a Continental tour they made together, accompanied by Mrs. Phillipps and two of her children (they had sixteen children), in 1844, they passed through Belgium, Germany, and North Italy, meeting many distinguished Catholics and everywhere enlisting the sympathy of prelates and clergy in the cause. Cardinal Wiseman was co-operating in Rome, and soon the movement spread widely through the Catholic world. Ambrose became the lay apostle of prayer for the conversion of England. The progress of events raised his hopes so high that he regarded the reconciliation of the Anglican Church to the Holy See as imminent, and to hasten its fulfilment entered on a new crusade of prayer, in which the co-operation of non-Catholics was desired. “The Association for Promoting the Unity of Christendom” (APUC) was founded in 1857 by fourteen persons including Ambrose and several priests, together with some Anglicans. He gave the number of members as nine thousand. However, the formation of this association was regarded with distrust by Dr. Manning (afterwards Cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster) and other Catholics, who also took exception to Ambrose’s treatise “On the Future Unity of Christendom”. The matter was referred to Rome and the Association was condemned and the Bishops were directed to take steps to prevent Catholics from joining it. This was a great blow to Ambrose who considered that “the authorities had been deceived by a false relation of facts”. He did, however, withdraw his name from the APUC “under protest, as an act of submission to the Holy See”. The grounds on which the association was condemned was that it subverted the Divine Constitution of the Church. The condemnation of the APUC was regarded by Ambrose as the death-blow of his hopes for the reunion of Christendom during his own lifetime. But his own belief in it persevered and influenced his views in other Catholic affairs. Thus he warmly supported the attendance of Catholics at the English Universities. 22

The rest of his life passed without any very special incident, though he continued ever to take an interest in public affairs as affecting the fortunes of the Church, and in the same connection he carried on intimate and cordial correspondence with men so different as Newman, Gladstone, and Montalembert (a French Count and stalwart of Catholicism). He counted among his friends John, Earl of Shrewsbury, Cardinal Wiseman, Pugin, Faber, and many other well-known Catholics and though he differed on many points from Cardinal Manning and Dr. W.G. Ward, he remained on friendly terms with both. He died a holy death at Garendon, leaving his saintly wife and eleven of his sixteen children surviving him. It seems that Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle devoted his whole life to the Catholic faith which had appeared within him from childhood. We should be eternally grateful for all he achieved and which we practise every day of our lives and thank God for him and his devotion and fortitude, and pray for his soul. FOOTNOTE The window on the West wall of the Cathedral is in memory of Lt. Alexander de Lisle, who died in action with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. He was the grandson of Ambrose. The connection with our Cathedral and the Norfolk family is that one of Ambrose’s daughters, Winifred married Edward, 1st Hon. Howard of Glossop in 1863. (I, personally, was Executive Secretary to Edwin de Lisle, Great Grandson of Ambrose, for several years; an enthusiastic, positive, and very kind man). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The Canonisation of Edward the Confessor By Richard Cavendish, History Today Volume 61 Issue 1 January 2011 The king died early in 1066 and was interred in the church of the abbey at Westminster, which he had refounded and to which he had devoted much time, energy and money. His piety is not in doubt, though the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle portrayed him not as a saint but as a strong king. The late Professor Frank Barlow in his classic biography pointed out that the accepted picture of the king for centuries afterwards was entirely different. He was remembered as a devout weakling, too obsessed with the matters of the spirit to cope with the real world. This was probably because his death led directly to the Conquest and to the fact that, despite 23

The body of Edward the Confessor is carried to Westminster Abbey, a detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1082.

being married to one of the most beautiful women in the country, he had no children by her. It was assumed he had been too holy to have any inclination for the matters of the flesh. There were reports of miraculous cures at Edward’s tomb soon after his burial. In 1102 the tomb was opened and it was found that his corpse had not decayed. The English were reasserting themselves by this time and the Westminster monks may have started to claim Edward as a saint. In the 1120s William of Malmesbury wrote of miracles Edward had performed during his lifetime, including the case of a blind man who regained his sight after his eyes were touched with water in which the king’s hands had been washed. Osbert of Clare, Prior of Westminster in the 1130s, wrote the lives of several Anglo-Saxon saints and a biography of Edward which presented him as a holy man who could heal people suffering from scrofula by touching them: hence the subsequent tradition of ‘touching for the king’s evil’, which lasted until the accession of George I in 1715. Osbert believed that he had been cured of fever by the dead king and in 1138 or 1139 he led a deputation from Westminster to Rome to ask Pope Innocent II to canonise Edward. The suggestion was declined. When Henry II became king in 1154, however, he lent his weight to the cause and after Alexander III was elected Pope in 1159 with the aid of English votes, Henry congratulated him and asked for Edward’s canonisation. A petition was organised by Abbot Lawrence of Westminster which testified to Edward’s miracles, his merciful disposition and his devotion to the Church, and stressed that he had remained a virgin all his life. A delegation travelled to Rome in the winter of 1160 and discussed the matter with the new pope, who accepted the English arguments. Continued on page 26 24

When the decision was made is uncertain, but the tradition was to canonise a new saint with effect from the anniversary of his death. In Edward’s case this was 5 January, which became his Feast Day. Pope Alexander informed the authorities in England in a letter dated 7 February, 1161. Edward became known as ‘the Confessor’, a saint who had died a natural death, to distinguish him from St. Edward the Martyr. In 1163 Lawrence and his monks made a new inspection of the king’s remains. They found Edward’s body wrapped in gold cloth with a gold embroidered mitre on his head and purple shoes on his feet, his white beard curling on his chest. They gently lifted the corpse out, wrapped it in a silk cloth and put it in a wooden coffin. After King Henry and other notables had been shown the body it was transferred to a new tomb in a ceremony presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The sermon was preached by Abbot Ailred of Rievaulx, who wrote a revised life of the king based on the biography by Osbert of Clare. The date, 13 October, became the Confessor’s new Feast Day. The body was moved again, to its present position in Westminster Abbey behind the High Altar, when Henry III built a new tomb in 1269 in the course of rebuilding the church. Henry, himself deeply pious, held the Confessor in special reverence and had named his first son Edward after him. Appropriately or not, the Church made the Confessor the patron saint of difficult marriages. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Pastoral Letter for Good Shepherd Sunday By Bishop Richard, 7 May 2017 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On 5th January this year, Pope Francis said in an address to the Bishops of Italy: “The doors [of vocation] are opened through prayer, through good will, through risk,” he said. “Jesus told us that the first way to have vocations is prayer, but not all are convinced of this... Pray with the heart, with your life, with everything” Today, Good Shepherd Sunday, the Church throughout the world is called to reflect on the theme of Vocations to Priesthood and the three themes given to us by the Holy Father - prayer, good will and risk - provide an ideal path for our reflection. As we look to the future of our Diocese and the ways in which the Mission given to 26

us by Christ will be continued, the Eucharist will always be the centre of our lives. The encounter that we have with the person of Jesus, the Word who is Life, is the pinnacle of our worship and the source of our activity in His Name. While the Diocese is blessed with many wonderful priests, I call on each and every person in this Diocese to join me in prayer for vocations - for we need priests. Pope Francis’ insistent words - “pray with the heart, with your life, with everything’ - must find a home in us in every aspect of our lives, and our prayer for vocations to the priesthood is no exception. To assist us in this work, a new Vocations Prayer Card has been produced and is available in every parish today and will be available in our schools. I ask you to join with me in praying this prayer each and every day. The praying of the Rosary is a part of many people’s lives of prayer. I invite parishes to form groups of people who will commit to praying the Rosary for Vocations to Priesthood. The practice of Eucharistic Adoration is an aspect of parish life in many parts of the Diocese. Times of Adoration provide excellent opportunities for prayer for Priestly Vocations and I ask every parish to hold a Holy Hour each month for this intention. Materials to assist in this are available on the National Vocations Website. The Holy Father speaks of good will and risk. For the one whom God calls to Priesthood, both of these are necessary. Good will leads to an openness of mind and heart that enable us to listen to the stirrings of the Holy Spirit. The call to Priesthood 27

more often than not, comes in quiet ways: the example of a priest; the example of parents and family members as they persevere in Faith; a thought about service to the Church; a renewed experience of God’s presence when on retreat or at a day of prayer and celebration; a reawakening of awareness of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharest. These are some examples, but good will is a prerequisite if we are to open our minds and hearts to the voice of the Holy Spirit. There is also the element of risk - for the decision to reflect further on Priestly Vocation and to offer oneself for Formation and Ordination is a step into life-long commitment and service; of “following Christ the Head and Shepherd, not seeking any gain, but moved only by zeal for souls.” To those of you who sense these stirrings of the Holy Spirit, calling you to service of Christ and his Church, I say this: be open to the call, pray, take the risk. Be a part of the Mission of this Diocese as a Priest. You are needed and valued by the whole of our Diocesan Family and can be assured of the prayers and support of all. With every blessing ! Yours sincerely in Christ

! Bishop of Arundel & Brighton

PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD The harvest is rich but the labourers are few Lord, grant to our Diocese the gift of priests Filled with zeal for your Word, And with dedication In the service of your people, That your Church may be nourished Through the Sacraments And strengthened for the Mission To which you have called us. For you are Lord for ever and ever Amen 28

My own Call to the Priesthood By Fr. Simon Dray Put simply, my vocation to the priesthood developed because a priest (during World Youth Day 2005) asked me whether I had ever considered priesthood. I had not but, looking back, the seeds were there: the quiet witness of my own parish priest; a love for Holy Mass; the privileged access to the Altar that I had been granted as an Altar Server; along with a growing recognition that life was a question of not ‘what did I want to do with my life’ but ‘what did God want me to do with my life.’ The first question was what might make me ‘happy’ and the second was what would allow me and others to be blessed! As the prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi (our patron in Crawley) says, ‘it is in giving that we receive.’ As is understandable, I had a natural desire for fatherhood, but, after prayerful consideration, I realised that God wished to fulfil that fatherhood supernaturally, to a particular community of his in the body of Christ. Seeing other Seminarians ordained, I could see that I wasn’t giving up a family, but was gaining one in a different way, a brotherhood of priests. Perhaps the most moving moment of my ordination was the sign of peace with my brother priests. It was amazing to have their spiritual support this year when my mother died. Although difficult, it was a blessing to celebrate her Requiem Mass knowing that I and my brother priests were knocking on Heaven’s door that she be admitted swiftly among the mansions of the saints. This year I celebrate my fourth anniversary. Please pray for me, my brother Priests, and for vocations within your own families. THE PRIEST By Kate Watkins Furman The Priest, the portal in this world through which the Christ will pass, Unfolding like a snow white rose in priestly hands at Mass. Our Lady’s consecrated son, one chosen from all men To baptise, marry, lay to rest and heal us of our sin. His sacrifice no equal knows, his value beyond cost, For with him we have everything, without him we are lost.

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One of the latest people to join the Parish Core Team, Margaret has been involved in the Parish for a good deal of her life. Although her parents were living in Bond Street at the time of her birth, Margaret cannot call herself a ‘Mullet’ as she was actually born in Southland’s Hospital in Shoreham. She was baptised, made her first Holy Communion, confirmed and then married in the Cathedral when it was Our Lady and St. Philip Neri Church. Margaret, whose name was Gidman at that time, started her schooling at St. Philip’s then, because she did not attain her exam to go on to ‘High School’ she went to Littlehampton Secondary School for girls, as St. Philip School at Barnham had not been built. Margaret was unaware of any other Catholic children at the school in Littlehampton, and remembers when during RE lessons having to sit, with her friend, in the corridor until the lesson was over. Because of this lack of RE Study, they had to attend Catechism classes with the nuns at the convent in London Road – now the Priory Care Home. Margaret left school at 16 years of age and went straight to work at the Midland Bank in Chichester. At 20 years old, Margaret married her police officer boyfriend and they moved to Crawley to start their married life. She joined British United Airways as a PA to the Cost Accountant, where she worked until she started her family - sons Gavin and then Graeme. Being married to a policeman meant moving around a lot - Barnham, then Bexhill where she worked for HM Customs and Excise 32

then transferring to Worthing. When that office in Teville Gate closed, she moved to the Lord Chancellor’s Department in Worthing before being transferred on promotion to the Crown Court at Chichester. Margaret retired some ten years ago having moved back to Arundel in 1993 but attended Mass at the Cathedral since 1983 whilst living in Worthing. Her leisure activities when she was young included, as a four-year-old, being the first pupil at the Arundel School of Dancing in 1948. Margaret continued with ballet and tap dancing, attaining certificates to Grade 5 for ballet and up to Gold Medal for tap dancing until she was sixteen, but studying for her GCE exams (and boys!) changed her leisure activities. In 1990, Margaret became a volunteer at the Samaritans in Worthing where she still does one duty a week. She is a member of the Arundel Players, which included a three-year spell as Chairman. Nowadays, Margaret works at the Castle as a guide and also has her grandmotherly duties with her grandson of 20 months. She does routine work in the Cathedral and, since the mid-1980’s, has helped prepare the Carpet of Flowers for Corpus Christi celebrations. Margaret has also visited Lourdes with the annual Diocesan Pilgrimage as a helper since 1995 with only three breaks, one being this year. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Diocesan Catholic Parish Churches - 3 Church of St. Edward the Confessor, Sutton Park By Canon Colin Wolczak A Continuous Catholic Tradition 1521 - Present Catholicism became almost extinct in Surrey in the 17th and 18th centuries as a result of the penal laws enacted in Elizabeth I's reign. It was kept alive in and around the houses of a few landed families who had remained loyal to the old faith. The Westons of Sutton Place, between Woking and Guilford, were such a family. The story of Sutton Place was as that of other Catholic country houses - periods of harassment and priest-hunting searches, and quiet periods when the authorities turned a blind eye to the private practice of religion. By the 18th century the more 34

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ferocious penal laws had generally ceased to be enforced; peripatetic priests, hiding in danger of their lives and saying Mass in secret, had been succeeded by resident chaplains with a room set apart for use as a chapel, where family, servants and tenants could worship without fear of prosecution. The Westons and their descendants, the Webbes, Westons and the Salvins, continued Catholics down the generations, and it can be claimed that the Mass has never ceased to be said in this district since Saxon times. THE CHURCH After the emancipation of Catholics, more people were able to gather openly for Mass, and a larger chapel was needed. At Sutton Place a long gallery had been made by joining rooms together in the east wing, and in the 1820s part of this was made into a public chapel. Sutton Place was let, but the tenants were required to allow Catholics to meet in the chapel on Sundays. Understandably, this caused difficulties. Mass on weekdays would be said in Vine Cottage, which has been used as the presbytery since 1827. On 4 December 1874 Elizabeth Mary Salvin died leaving money for the building of a church. The church was solemnly opened on 27 September 1876 and dedicated to Saint Edward the Confessor, King of England. Saint Edward the Confessor, son of King Ethelred and Queen Emma, was born between 1002 and 1005. He succeeded to the throne in 1042. In the following year he was crowned in Winchester Cathedral on Easter day by Eadsige, Archbishop of Canterbury. Sutton was already a royal Continued on page 36 34

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150 YEARS AGO In 1857 the chaplaincy at Sutton Place was formed into a mission, the priest becoming a missioner apostolic. Around 1859 the district boundaries were approved by the first Bishop of Southwark in the newly established Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales. The centre of worship was still the chapel in Sutton Place. 100 YEARS AGO In 1911 the Parish Priest was Dr. Arthur Hinsley. The focus of Catholic worship had moved from the Manor House Sutton Place to the present Church which was opened on 27 September 1876. Dr. Hinsley was a vigorous parish priest, he instituted the Corpus Christi procession (which still takes place here every year), moved the school to larger premises, set up the displays of relics which can be seen in the Church today, and cycled two or three times a week to teach history and sacred scripture at St. John’s Seminary, Wonersh. During his tenure the reredos, with the tabernacle and exposition throne were given by Lord Howard of Glossop. Hinsley listed the known parishioners, estimating them at about one hundred and twenty, including children. Average participation was about seventy, rather less than the regular attendance of 130 today. After six years at St. Edward’s he moved on in 1911. In 1935 he was appointed Archbishop of Westminster and in 1937 appointed a Cardinal. He died in office in 1943 and was buried in Westminster Cathedral. 50 YEARS AGO In 1962 the Parish Priest was Gordon Albion. During his tenure the church was consecrated by Bishop Cyril Cowderoy on 31 May 1950. The relics sealed in the altar were of St Grata, probably one of the forty-eight martyrs of Lyons, AD 177, and St. Lucutisman. Canon Albion (as he later became) was also nurturing missions in Bellfields and Burpham. They became the parishes of Merrow with Burpham and St. Mary’s, Rydes Hill in 1973 and 1978 respectively. THE PRESENT The church of St. Edward the Confessor, Sutton Park is part of the Catholic Parish of Guildford with the communities of St. Joseph’s, Eastgate Gardens, St. Mary’s, Rydes Hill and St. Pius X, Merrow. The parish is served by 3 Priests and 2 Deacons. Currently the Moderator is Canon Colin Wolczak to be succeeded in September by Mgr. Tony Barry. Fr. Alan Sharpe to be succeeded in September by Fr. Roy Waters; Fr. Sabastian Paul is on loan from the Diocese of Radom, Poland. The Deacons are John Lamb and Michael Phillips.

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Currently Mass is celebrated in St. Edward’s on Sundays at 9.00am and Fridays at 8.00pm. The church is open every day from 9.00am till dusk. The church is fortunate to have its own Catholic Graveyard, consequently families visiting relatives’ graves visit the Church and light a candle. If you do visit please take time to view our small museum containing items relating to the history of Sutton Park. Being a small building, only seating 120, it is always full for Sunday Mass. Coffee is served after Mass and visitors are ensured a warm welcome. During the summer we hold a several social events ranging from classical music to family barbecues Please visit our website: www.cpg.church/st-edwards +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Humour with the Clergy - Western Canada Style By Graham Rodmell On a recent visit to Alberta and British Columbia, my wife Pauline and I took full advantage of Mass opportunities to experience another aspect of this rich and diverse society. For one of the weekends, we were in Vancouver in the downtown Guardian Angels Parish. We had decided on a Saturday Vigil Mass. This Saturday coincided with the 150th birthday of Canada as a nation. Later that night there would be fireworks, numerous parties, celebrations, concerts, gigs etc. The Pastor of Guardian Angels was Fr. Rudolf V D'Souza OCD (which indicated that he was a member of the Order of Discalced Carmelites - if discalcing is a 'process', it sounds stressful!). He applied his homily to extolling the virtues of this great nation. and building up to wishing his parishioners a very Happy National Birthday. He seemed to be wrestling with the decision whether or not himself to apply for Canadian citizenship, but was still hesitating. As a special birthday treat, he offered the congregation 3 jokes in quick succession. 38

The first was some wordplay of the Christmas cracker variety, which I do not recall. The second concerned Deacon Basil who had been asked by his PP to preach his first homily in the parish during a special Holy Week series. The outline had been approved, but as the day drew close, he was growing increasingly nervous and asked to be relieved of the duty. The PP assured Basil that nerves were quite normal and would help him to deliver sensitively. However, he suggested that as this was a first, he might like to try an approach that had helped him years earlier: a clear transparent tumbler of vodka, which looked to all appearances like water, of which he would take just an occasional sip. Basil pressed on taking an occasional gulp and astonished himself with his marked increase in fluency. He even felt he was beginning to enjoy the experience. After the liturgy, Basil asked his PP what he thought of the delivery. The PP assured Basil that he had shown remarkable self-confidence, but he wondered whether he had perhaps overdone the vodka treatment - Basil should certainly remember that Our Lord was crucified at Calvary and not Calgary! The third joke was short and I missed the point. Was this an example of two nations divided by a common language? Hopefully Fr. Rudolf allows his congregation more frequent humour than each national birthday! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Moving to Norfolk By Pat Hay-Will Yes, it was a big decision to leave after 52 years, and now 80 years since the Hay-Wills came to Burpham, my husband and his two sisters growing up there. However, I could no longer cope with reduced mobility, no public transport and should not expect my children to travel from London, Norfolk and Eastbourne to help or dear Parish friends to take me to Mass indefinitely. So my daughter Jane suggested the building of an annex to her house in Norfolk where I could be more independent. So the long distance building began in April 2016 at the same time as Jane and her partner began raising funds for refurbishing the Seething village playground. I was sent photos of work in progress but was not well enough to take decisions on the plans, just knowing the house would change from a rectangle to an L-shaped 39

My daughter Jane with me

extension on a single storey. I put my house on the market and we all know what that entails! At the end of September daughter Sally and I stayed at St. Cuthman's whilst the belongings I kept moved up to Norfolk. Saying goodbye was not easy; I did not want a farewell party but enjoyed several little gatherings with close friends to say farewell, arriving in Seething, south Norfolk on 1 October to find bunting blowing in front of the ‘Grannex’ and a welcome which continues to this day, Everyone from the postman who lends me books on Norfolk churches and bell ringing, to the village shopkeeper and the kind ladies who decided that the widows of Seething, Mundham and Thwaite needed cheering up and gave a special tea party to do so. 15 of us were able to accept and the tradition continues! You can see from the Internet that Seething “is a small village about 9 miles from Norwich in South Norfolk District with a population of 340.” One can imagine the impact when the USAAF 448 Bomber Group took over the airfield with B24 Liberators on operations from 1943-1944. Many families come from the USA to visit, descendants of those who were on active service and, sadly the memorials to those killed in action. Apart from the county name Arundel has close connections with Norfolk through the Howard family, as with Suffolk just a few miles south. Catherine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII spent her childhood at Horsham St. Faith (which was also home 40

to St. Robert Southwell). An anonymous poem ascribed to Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel (1557-1590) described the desecration of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Kenninghall Place, a farm 2 miles past St. Mary's Church is the remaining wing of the palace built by Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and the birthplace of his son, Henry, the poet and soldier (1517-1547) "Pioneer of the English"sonnet whose portrait we all recognise in the picture gallery of Arundel Castle. Framlingham and Bungay, both in Suffolk are but only a few miles south of Seething. Bungay has the remains of Bigod Castle (1483) which I see from the town pamphlet was presented to the town by the Duke of Norfolk in 1987 with an endowment presumably Duke Miles. Framlingham Castle, late 12th century, built by Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, has been home to the Dukes of Norfolk for 400 years. Mary Tudor was proclaimed Queen of England there in July 1553 and crowned there in October 1553. I visited Norfolk in the 1990's with the late Peggy Myers who spent childhood days near Norwich and Loddon, We enjoyed garden and church tours with a travel firm, but there is much to learn - including the history of the 650 medieval churches the

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Power Of Prayer - How powerful is it? The power of prayer should not be underestimated. James 5:16-18 declares, "‌The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops." God most definitely listens to prayers, answers prayers, and moves in response to prayers. Jesus taught, "‌I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you" (Matthew 17:20). 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 tells us, "The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." The Bible urges us, "And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints" (Ephesians 6:18). Power Of Prayer - How do I tap into it? The power of prayer is not the result of the person praying. Rather, the power resides in the God who is being prayed to. 1 John 5:14-15 tells us, "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we asked of him." No matter the person praying, the passion behind the prayer, or the purpose of the prayer - God answers prayers that are in agreement with His will. His answers are not always yes, but are always in our best interest. When our desires line up with His will, we will come to understand that in time. When we pray passionately and purposefully, according to God's will, God replies powerfully! 44

We cannot access powerful prayer by using "magic formulas." Our prayers being answered are not based on the eloquence of our prayers. We don't have to use certain words or phrases to get God to answer our prayers. In fact, Jesus rebukes those who pray using repetitions, "And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him" (Matthew 6:7-8). Prayer is communicating with God. All you have to do is ask God for His help. Psalm 107:28-30 reminds us, "Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress. He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed. They were glad when it grew calm, and he guided them to their desired haven." There is power in prayer! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Love leaves a Memory By Marion Riley Love Leaves a Memory No One Can Steal. November weighs heavily on my spirit, The month of The Holy Souls. Anniversary of a brother, a grandmother, Night closes in too quickly. Discarded leaves lie scattered at my feet Like the many souls who depart each year. Memories melt my heart, memories… I was baptised and had my First Holy Communion & Confession at my local parish church, St. Joseph’s in O’Connell Avenue. There were many other Catholic churches within walking distance when I was old enough to go to attend Mass as well. When I was growing up in Fifties Limerick, everyone went to Mass on All Souls’ Day to pray for departed family and friends. After attending Mass, people would leave the church and return immediately to say an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for each individual soul. During the rest of the morning there was a constant stream of people leaving and entering the church. Being young I only had my maternal grandparents to pray for, but if it had been nowadays, well, I'd be lucky to get home in three hours.

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Limerick city, founded by the Vikings on the banks of the river Shannon was steeped in the Catholic religion. There was the mystery of Mass said in Latin, the candles lit for special intentions, and us children with trembling tongues receiving Holy Communion at the altar rails. The entire city came to a halt when the Angelus bells rang out at midday and 6pm. Workmen downed their tools, men, women and children stood in the streets, while day to day life stopped for a few brief moments as we all prayed to Our Lady. It was a city of churches. We were blessed with the Redemptorists, Jesuits, Augustinians, Dominicans and Franciscan Orders. The Redemptorists’ fiery sermons were quite exciting. Sometimes I thought the priest was about to leap from the pulpit. The women dressed in black shawls used to kiss the large crosses at the back of the church, while moaning and beating their breasts, particularly fascinated me. The Franciscans gave food and clothes to the poor. These gentle friars wore brown robes and sandals even in the depths of winter. The Jesuits said the quickest Sunday Mass – 30 minutes – according to my father! The Augustinian Church was so packed for 11.15am Mass that you couldn't get past the standing crowd at the back of the church, unless you were well on time. But it wasn't only in the churches where our religion was practised; it was part of every aspect of our lives. The family rosary was the most important event of the day in my paternal grandparents' farmhouse in Co. Limerick. When the cows had been milked and chores attended to, my grandmother gathered her family, like a mother hen with her chickens, around her. There, by the light of the Sacred Heart lamp, her six big strong sons, (often getting ready to go to a dance) and her two overworked daughters, knelt on the hard stone floor, often with me, a little child in their midst. Sadly they are all gone now. The list of our departed family members and friends gets longer each year. Let’s pray for them as we ourselves hope to be prayed for, believing that the promises of Christ will come true.

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News from St. Philip’s Catholic Primary School By Sydney Bridges, Deputy Headteacher

The Year 6 Leavers, from left to right: top row: Lola Ashman-Rowlatt, George Pimm, Joe Lewis, Maude Chubb, Alfie Walden, Reggie Hansell, Nathan McIlwain, Isaac Lavington. Mrs Fairly; 2nd row: Jeremy Carter, Ted Hallam, Archie Denyer, Ellie Nash, Hettie Whiteley, Callum Francis, Jorja Rice, Oscar Bond; 3rd row: Christian Stoodley, Mitchell Merridue, Evie Norris, Freddie Tomlinson, Joshua Hodson, Kaat Holte, Maja Mrozik, Georgia Thomson, Fraser Langley; 4th row: William Lloyd, Edwin Smith

As we come to the end of a busy year at St. Philip’s, we are sad to say goodbye to our incredibly kind and vibrant class of Year 6 children. The children have had many wonderful experiences during their time at St. Philip’s but also some sad times. In 2013 they sadly lost their classmate Miles Gall to a terminal illness. To mark his memory, the parents and children in Year 6 have commissioned a specially engraved bench to be placed at the front of the school to provide people with a place to reflect and pray for Miles and his family. The Year 6 leavers had the chance to share their memories during their End of Year show. It was a time to talk about their precious times at St. Philip’s and perform some wonderful songs, dances and comedy sketches. As well as their End of Year show, the whole school also attended our End of Year Thanksgiving Leavers Mass at the Cathedral. Led by Canon Tim, the Mass gave children the opportunity to pray for those who have helped them during the years, as well as asking God to give them strength and courage when transitioning to secondary school. Before the end of the year, we also had our Section 48 Ofsted Inspection (the inspection of Catholic schools). The Report will be made public by the end of the school year. Two Ofsted inspectors spent the day with us, observing lessons, being part of our whole school Collective Worship, looking through books and chatting to pupils, staff, governors and parents. Their day began with a tour of the school by two of our pupils. They observed lessons across the school, the outstanding quality of which has been noted in the report. They met with the School Council and our RE Ambassadors to discuss the spiritual life of the school. The Inspectors praised how articulate, reflective and welcoming all of the children were and this is something we are extremely proud of. Canon Tim and Father Charles also kindly gave their time to 48

come and talk to the Inspectors and it was noted that the strong relationship between classes and parish priests was very obviously well embedded and beneficial, impacting on all of the children in the school. We were particularly pleased that the Ofsted Inspectors praised how the school’s Mission Statement and Golden Rule are lived out by every child in the school. Many parents of children, who attend our school, spoke with passion and enthusiasm to Inspectors and contributed very positively to the parents’ questionnaire. We are extremely pleased with the outcome of our inspection and would like to say a huge thank you to the parents, governors, priests and members of the parish who helped us to achieve the welcomed outcome. Please visit www.stphilipsarundel.org.uk to read more about our school. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Parish Diary SEPTEMBER Saturday 23rd

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Monday 25th

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Wednesday 27th Saturday 30th

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OCTOBER Friday 6th Saturday 7th Sunday 15th

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Wedding Travel Editions Visiting Group Guided Tour Equipes Notre Dame Conference Mass with Bishop Richard Mass to celebrate 50 years of the Cathedral Chapter English Martyrs School Year 5 Visit Knights of the Holy Sepulchre Southern Section Mass

CAFOD Harvest Fast Day Diocesan Marriage Anniversaries Mass Ecumenical Animal Blessing Service St. Philip Howard Mass with Bishop Richard followed by tea in the Centre and ‘Friends of Arundel Cathedral’ AGM Arun Choral Society Concert tickets from www.arunchoralsociety.co.uk or ACS Box Office 01243 866469 49

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ALL SAINTS DAY Mass in the Convent Mass in the Cathedral with Bishop Richard & St Philip’s School Mass in the Cathedral ALL SOULS DAY Mass in the Fitzalan Chapel Blessing of Graves followed by tea in the Cathedral Centre Chapter Mass followed by meeting REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY in the Convent of the Poor Clares (Saturday 11th) Mass in the Cathedral Mass in the Cathedral (not 11.15am) Remembrance Service in the Town Square Deanery Mass for Deceased Clergy Mass for Deceased Members of the Knights of St. Columba with Bishop Richard Diocesan Youth Event in the Cathedral Mass in the Fitzalan Chapel The Angmering Chorale Concert - tickets from www.theangmeringchorale.org.uk

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Cathedral Deanery Schools Advent Service Castle Chapel Mass Arun Choral Society Carol Concert with local schools - tickets from ACS Box Office 01243 86646 or via website: www.arunchoralsociety.co.uk SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT Friends of Arundel Cathedral Advent Vespers (all welcome) Worthing Deanery Schools Advent Service 50

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Congratulations & Commemorations Baptisms 8th July - Madeleine Maria Church 22nd July - Cali Joyce Louse Bagshaw 5th August - Jasmine Teresa Lewington-Morris 13th August - HÊctor Leo Christopher Anthony Hall Reception into Full Communion & Confirmation 9th August - Dorothy Cundall Marriages 17th June - Frederick Henshaw & Francesca Batchelor 24th June - Thomas Stanley & Jessica Challen 8th July - David Burgess & Anna Aalto 15th July - Martin Horney & Lucia Macari-Grover 12th August - Benjamin Andrews & Claudia Welbourne 12th August - Anthony Hamer & Agnes Salmon 17th August - Patrick Quigley & Rachel Davies Deaths 11th June - Richard Alan Vokes (77 years) 19th July - Frederick James Purdy (92 years) 31st July - Jan Piecuch (92 years) 1st September - Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor (85 years) 1st September - Priscilla Noble-Matthews (90 years) 4th September - Mary Corbyn (91 years)

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Parish Notice Board WELCOME! If you are a new parishioner, we hope that you will quickly feel at home with us... Please make sure that you have completed one of the special forms kept at the back of the Cathedral (to the left of where the newspapers are displayed) so that you can be registered on our Parish Database.

ALTAR SERVERS NEEDED FOR 9.30/11.15am MASSES Female or male, young or old, all are most welcome to apply as long as you have made your communion or enrolled in the first communion group. We need servers for both Sunday Masses and for other services for the Diocese. Experience is not required as training will be given. If interested please speak to Graham or Ian (Sacristy) or Louise Sharp at the Cathedral Office on 01903 882297 or email aruncath1@aol.com

HOUSEBOUND? If you or a family member is unable to come to Mass due to illness or infirmity please call us on 01903 882 297 NOW YOU’VE READ OUR MAGAZINE HOW ABOUT WRITING FOR US? Our Parish Proclaimer is only as good as what’s put into it from people who like to share their faith, thoughts and experiences. We are grateful to receive anything of interest, no article too big or too small. So whether you want to write about a visit to a place of interest, going to a concert or another event, a reflection on an aspect of faith or anything else you would like to share, please send it to the Editor whose contact details you will find on page 3 in this magazine. Thank you in advance!

ECUMENICAL ANIMAL BLESSING SERVICE 7 October 2017 at 2.30pm in the Cathedral Please bring along your pets on this special occasion!

JOIN THE CATHEDRAL MUSIC GROUP Our music group sings once a month at the 9.30am Children’s Mass on Sunday Rehearsals take place in the Cathedral at 7.15pm on Wednesday evening prior to the appointed Sunday. All ages are welcome! Please call 01903 882 968 to find out more.

WELCOME PEOPLE AS THEY ARRIVE FOR MASS! Can you help one Sunday within 9 weeks to welcome parishioners as they arrive for 9.30am or 11.15am Masses? If you can please contact: 9.30am Mass Mike Webster - 01798 812764 leonierowan@btinternet,com 11.15am Mass Jennifer Robinson - 01903 713050 filumenacat@yahoo.co.uk

CHURCH CLEANERS URGENTLY WANTED To join an enthusiastic team of volunteers on Friday mornings or if you prefer another day no problem at all! Please call the Parish Office: 01903 882 297

And finally... All about Edward the Confessor Edward the Confessor was the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy. He was born at Islip, England, and sent to Normandy with his mother in the year 1013 when the Danes under Sweyn and his son Canute invaded England. Canute remained in England and the year after Ethelred's death in 1016, married Emma, who had returned to England, and became King of England. Edward remained in Normandy, was brought up a Norman, and in 1042, on the death of his half-brother, Hardicanute, son of Canute and Emma, and largely through the support of the powerful Earl Godwin, he was acclaimed King of England. In 1044, he married Godwin's daughter Edith. His reign was a peaceful one characterised by his good rule and remission of odious taxes, but also by the struggle, partly caused by his natural inclination to favour the Normans, between Godwin and his Saxon supporters and the Norman barons, including Robert of Jumieges, whom Edward had brought with him when he returned to England and whom he named Archbishop of Canterbury in 1051. In the same year, Edward banished Godwin, who took refuge in Flanders but returned the following year with a fleet ready to lead a rebellion. Armed revolt was avoided when the two men met and settled their differences; among them was the Archbishop of Canterbury, which was resolved when Edward replaced Robert with Stigand, and Robert returned to Normandy. Edward's difficulties continued after Godwin's death in 1053 with Godwin's two sons: Harold who had his eye on the throne since Edward was childless, and Tostig, Earl of Northumbria. Tostig was driven from Northumbria by a revolt in 1065 and banished to Europe by Edward, who named Harold his successor. After this Edward became more interested in religious affairs and built St. Peter's Abbey at Westminster, the site of the present Abbey, where he is buried. His piety gained him the surname "the Confessor". He died in London on 5 January, and he was canonised in 1161 by Pope Alexander III. Courtesy of www.catholic.org

Views expressed in the Parish Proclaimer are not necessarily the views of The Catholic Church, the Catholic Diocese of Arundel & Brighton, its affiliated companies and charities, employees thereof or persons otherwise associated directly or indirectly. The content of the Parish Proclaimer is provided by parishioners and advertisers, published in good faith, without guarantee. The Arundel and Brighton Diocesan Trust is a Registered Charity - Reg. No. 252878 The Editor of the Parish Proclaimer is Alexander R. Clouter, a parishioner who happens to be a writer, proofreader and graphic designer. Email: here@rite4u.biz

Edward the Confessor Patron Saint of Difficult Marriages Feast Day: 13 October

Lord, you raised Saint Edward, king and confessor, to excel in good government and faithful service. May these ideals survive and flourish among us through his prayers. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.