East Anglia Directory 2025 by CathCom

DIOCESE OF EAST ANGLIA

(Province of Westminster)

Charity No. 278742 Website: www.rcdea.org.uk

Twinned with The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and The Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang, Cambodia

PATRONS OF THE DIOCESE

Our Lady of Walsingham, September 24

St Edmund, November 20

St Felix, March 8

St Etheldreda, June 23

BISHOP

Rt Rev Peter Collins

Bishop’s Residence: The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, Norfolk NR14 7SH. Tel: (01508) 492202, Fax: (01508) 495358

Email: bishop@rcdea.org.uk

BISHOP EMERITUS

Rt Rev Alan Hopes

Address: St Simon Stock Suite, The Catholic Rectory, Hills Road

Cambridge, CB2 1JR

Tel: 01223 356890

Email: bishopemeritus@rcdea.org.uk

Cover picture: Bishop Peter Collins with the Papal Nuncio to Great Britain, His Excellency Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich.

DIOCESE OF EAST ANGLIA

2025 Yearbook and Liturgical Calendar

EDITOR Keith Morris Director of Communications

Email: communications@rcdea.org.uk

Updates to: Bishop’s PA c/o The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, Norfolk NR14 7SH. Tel: (01508) 493956 Email: laurat@rcdea.org.uk

Published annually – 42nd edition

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BISHOP PETER’S FOREWORD

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

As we begin this Holy Year of 2025, let us reflect on the Jubilee’s theme, “Pilgrims of Hope”, which will greatly nourish our Diocesan family. The wealth of various celebrations, pilgrimages, and our young people’s participation in Rome for the Jubilee for Youth, will not fail to strengthen bonds between us, and secure us yet more surely on the foundation of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the hope that comes from Him alone, we look to our own Diocesan Jubilee of 2026 and beyond.

We know that, continuing to walk together on our pilgrimage in the years to come, we shall encounter opportunities as well as trials for our mission; to bring the Gospel, by witness and word, to those around us. This is why we will undertake the next steps of the Consultation on Future Pastoral Provision.

Our Commission for the New Evangelisation is already at work, collating submissions from clergy and parishes alike, and I wish to thank all who have engaged so openly. Through this consultation, we are all able to better exercise our responsibility, in cooperation with the Holy Spirit, for responding with generosity and holiness to the calls and challenges of our time.

However, if this synodal process is to bear spiritual fruit, something more than the sum of our own plans and ideas, we must continue, each day, to allow God’s transforming

grace to work within us, and to engrace our human relationships. With hearts then ablaze with divine love, the Holy Spirit both illumines our path ahead to an abundant harvest and enkindles that flame which we can share with others.

Pope Francis has recently reminded us, in his encyclical Dilexit nos, that humanity today seems to be losing its heart, its source of love, truth and compassion. Without those divine gifts, our civilisation is becoming ever more superficial, unable to recognise the beauty and dignity of all human life, and so the forces of evil, greed, despair and hatred are able to put down deeper roots. Our prayers for peace and justice must, therefore, be made fruitful by ensuring we are truly awake to our own hearts and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and so shine as a light to those around us.

This task begins here and now, and we are assured of our hope as the working of the Spirit is ever-visible within the boundaries of East Anglia. Our clergy, religious, and lay faithful continue to bear witness to faith and hope, serving in the spirit of the great commandment of love. The expansive review of diocesan life over the past year contained in these pages bears powerful testimony to that fact, and I take this opportunity to highlight the great blessings I received on the Camino to Santiago accompanying some of our young people. The blisters have faded but abundant grace remains.

My sincere gratitude goes to Keith Morris and his team for their work in producing this publication, which remains an essential source of information.

Please be assured of my prayers, and I ask that you keep me ever in yours.

Rt Rev Peter G Collins, Bishop of East Anglia

A challenging but rewarding 120km Diocese of East Anglia youth Camino in July, led by Bishop Peter Collins, followed the Way of St James from Portugal to Santiago de Compostela in NW Spain.

DIOCESE OF EAST ANGLIA CONTACTS

BISHOP’S OFFICE

Bishop’s Private Secretary – Rev Peter Wygnanski

Tel: 01508 492202

Email: peter.wygnanski@rcdea.org.uk

Bishop’s PA – Mrs Laura Hastings

Tel: 01508 493956 Fax: 01508 495358

Email: laurat@rcdea.org.uk

Director of Operations & Finance – Dcn Paul Raynes

Tel: 01508 492540 Fax: 01508 495358

Email: paul.raynes@rcdea.org.uk

Email: finance@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Offices: Open Monday to Friday 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm

Tel: 01508 492202 Fax: 01508 495358

Email: laurat@rcdea.org.uk

Vicars General – Rev Canon David Bagstaff

Tel: 01728 452782

Email: david.bagstaff@rcdea.org.uk

Rev Dr Sean Connolly

Tel: 01284 754358

Email: sean.connolly@rcdea.org.uk

Marriage Tribunal and Vicar Judicial – Rev Canon Simon Blakesley

Monday - Friday 9am to 1pm

Tel: 01508 495168

Email: tribunal@rcdea.org.uk

Chancellor – Rt Rev Mgr Provost Eugène Harkness

Tel: 01223 350787

Email: chancellor@rcdea.org.uk

Vice Chancellor – Rev Canon Mark Hackeson

Tel: 01760 721418

Email: mark.hackeson@rcdea.org.uk

Vicar for Religious – Rev Karol Porczak MS

Tel: 01733 562528 ext 5

Email: karol.porczak@rcdea.org.uk

Vicar for Clergy Welfare: Rev David Finegan

Email: david.finegan@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 01353 662759

Permanent Diaconate Director – Rev Andrew Eburne

Tel: 07587 153298

Email: andrew.eburne@rcdea.org.uk

Vicar for Finance: Dcn James Hurst

Email: james.hurst@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 07736 146401

Vocations Director – Rev Christopher Smith

Tel: 01502 723207

Email: vocations@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Safeguarding Co-ordinator – TBA

Email: safeguarding.coordinator@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Director of Communications – TBA

Email: communications@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Web Manager – Mr Gavin Dvelys

Tel: 07956 916948

Email: dvelys@aol.co.uk

Diocesan Director of Music – David Grealy

Tel: 01603 957650

Email: david.grealy@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Schools’ Service Director – Dr Andy Stone

Tel: 01508 495509 Fax: 01508 495358

Email: andy.stone@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Youth Services Director – Mr Hamish MacQueen

Tel: 07812 004934

Email: dys@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Clergy Welfare Officer and Data Protection Officer – Mrs Sarah Truman

Tel: 07851 258999

Email: welfare@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Archivists – Michael and Gill Hill

Email: archive@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Data Protection Lead – Dcn Paul Raynes

Tel: 01508 492540

Email: finance@rcdea.org.uk

Stewardship & Fundraising Co-ordinator – Mrs Sandra Portas

Email: stewardship@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 07821 876170

DEPARTMENTS & COMMISSIONS

Department for the New Evangelisation

Rev Karol Porczak MS

Mrs Rebecca Bretherton

Chaplain for each Constabulary:

Tel: 01733 562528 ext 5

Email: evangelisation@rcdea.org.uk

Peterborough: Dcn John Bedford

Cambridge: Rev Canon John Minh

Norfolk: Dcn Nick Greef

Suffolk: TBA

Commission for Catechesis

Dcn Huw Williams

Commission for Dialogue and Unity

Dcn Geoffrey Cook

Commission for Justice and Peace

Dcn John Bell

Commission for Marriage and Family Life

John D’Mello – chair

Tel: 07733 441620

Tel: 01223 832397

Tel: 01603 715066

Tel: 07399 163718

Tel: 01223 351650

Tel: 07502 560610

Dr Antonia Braithwaite – Co-ordinator

Email: mﬂcoordinator@rcdea.org.uk

Commission for the Sacred Liturgy

Chairman: Rev Christopher Smith

Caritas East Anglia: Chair - TBA

Email: caritas@rcdea.org.uk

PARISHES

Norwich Cathedral of St John the Baptist

Cathedral Shop

St George’s Parish

University Chaplaincy

Aldeburgh Our Lady and St Peter

Beccles St Benet

Brandon St Thomas of Canterbury

Buckden St Hugh of Lincoln

Bungay St Edmund King & Martyr

Bury St Edmunds St Edmund King & Martyr

Cambridge Our Lady of the Assumption & The English Martyrs

St Laurence

St Philip Howard

Blackfriars

St Edmund’s College

Fisher House - Cambridge University Chaplaincy

Cambridge Polish Mission

Clare Mother of Good Counsel

Costessey Our Lady and St Walstan

Tel: 01502 723207

Tel:

Tel: 01603 624615

Tel: 01603 728937

Tel: 01603 426971

Tel: 01603 592168

Tel: 01728 452782

Tel: 01502 713179

Tel: 01842 812200

Tel: 01480 810344

Tel: 01986 893355

Tel: 01284 754358

Tel: 01223 350787

Tel: 01223 704640

Tel: 01223 211235

Tel: 01223 741251

Tel: 01223 336250

Tel: 01223 742192

Tel: 01223 368539

Tel: 01787 277326

Tel: 01603 742812

Dereham Sacred Heart & St Margaret Mary

Diss The Most Holy Trinity & St Henry Morse

Downham Market St Dominic

Ely St Etheldreda

Fakenham St Anthony of Padua

Felixstowe St Felix

Gorleston St Peter

Tel: 01362 694066

Tel: 01379 642914

Tel: 01366 382353

Tel: 01353 662759

Tel: 01328 853481

Tel: 01394 282561

Tel: 01493 301013

Great Yarmouth St Mary

Haverhill St Felix

Hunstanton Our Lady of Perpetual Succour & St Edmund

Huntingdon St Michael

Ipswich St Pancras

St Mary

St Mary Magdalen

St James

St Mark

Polish Mission

King’s Lynn Our Lady of the Annunciation

Lowestoft Our Lady Star of the Sea

March Our Lady of Good Counsel

Tel: 01493 842001

Tel: 01440 702156

Tel: 01553 772220

Tel: 01480 453257

Tel: 01473 252596

Tel: 01473 728115

Tel: 01473 741975

Tel: 01473 726701

Tel: 01473 684963

Tel: 07486 880441

Tel: 01553 772220

Tel: 01502 572453

Tel: 01354 650788

Newmarket Our Lady Immaculate and St Etheldreda

Tel: 01638 662492

North Walsham The Sacred Heart

Peterborough St Peter and All Souls

St Luke

Sacred Heart and St Oswald

Polish Mission

Poringland Our Lady of the Annunciation

St Ives The Sacred Heart

St Neots St Joseph

Sawston and Cambourne

Tel: 01692 403258

Tel: 01733 562528

Tel: 01733 230464

Tel: 01733 321512

Tel: 01733 552726

Tel: 01508 494770

Tel: 01480 462192

Tel: 01480 472587

Our Lady of Lourdes and St John Fisher

Sheringham and Cromer Our Lady & St Joseph

Southwold Sacred Heart

Stowmarket Our Lady

Sudbury and Hadleigh

Tel: 01223 832397

Tel: 01263 822036

Tel: 01502 723207

Tel: 01449 612946

Our Lady and St John the Evangelist

Swaffham Our Lady of Pity

Thetford St Mary

Tel: 01787 372703

Tel: 01760 721418

Tel: 01842 752266

Walsingham and Wells-Next-Sea

The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Catholic National Shrine

Whittlesey and Ramsey St Jude the Apostle

Tel: 01328 713044

Tel: 01328 820495

Tel: 01733 203411

Wisbech Our Lady and St Charles Borromeo

Woodbridge St Thomas of Canterbury

Wymondham Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury

CONVENTS

CAMBRIDGE

Congregation of Jesus

Dominican Sisters

Daughters of Divine Charity

Email: srfrancis8@hotmail.co.uk

DEREHAM

Community of Our Lady of Walsingham

FELIXSTOWE

Religious of Jesus and Mary

GREAT BARTON

Benedictine Sisters of Our Lady of Grace and Compassion

MARCH

Franciscan Missionaries of Mary

PETERBOROUGH

Working Sisters of the Holy House of Nazareth

QUIDENHAM

Carmelite Sisters

SWAFFHAM

Poor Clares

WALSINGHAM

Little Sisters of Jesus

Marist Fathers

Marist Sisters

Sisters of Our Lady of Reconciliation

Tel: 01945 583466

Tel: 01394 383551

Tel: 01953 603104

Tel: 01223 272910

Tel: 01223 353730

Tel: 07469 004087

Tel: 01362 692574

Tel: 01394 282386

Tel: 01284 787321

Tel: 01354 652266

Tel: 01733 561314

Tel: 01953 887202

Tel: 01760 722158

Tel: 01328 820422

Tel: 01328 711025

Tel: 01328 820246

Tel: 01328 820001

SCHOOLS

ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC MAT

A Multi Academy Trust (MAT) covering Norfolk, North Suffolk and Peterborough.

CEO – Mrs Kim Payne

Currently 10 Primary Schools and one High School are part of the MAT:

St Augustine’s Primary, Costessey

St Benet’s Primary, Beccles,

St Edmund’s Primary, Bungay

St Francis of Assisi Primary, Norwich

St Mary’s Primary, Lowestoft

St Mary and St Peter Primary, Gorleston

Sacred Heart Primary, Peterborough

St Thomas More Primary, Peterborough

St Martha’s Primary, King’s Lynn

Sacred Heart Primary School, Swaffham

Notre Dame High, Norwich

The administrative base of the MAT is at Surrey St, Norwich, NR1 3PB

Tel: 01603 611431

Email: secretary@sjbcmat.org.uk

Web: www.stjohnthebaptist-cmat.org.uk

OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM CATHOLIC MAT

A Multi Academy Trust (MAT) covering Suffolk and Cambridge.

CEO – Mr Flavio Vettese

Currently six Primary Schools and two High Schools are part of the MAT:

St Felix, Haverhill

St Louis, Newmarket

St Mary’s, Ipswich

St Laurence Primary, Cambridge

St Pancras Primary, Ipswich

St Alban’s Primary, Cambridge

St Alban’s High, Ipswich

St Benedict’s High, Bury St Edmunds

The MAT administrative base is at Sussex Lodge, Fordham Road, Newmarket, CB8 7AA

Tel: 01638 676420

Email: contactus@olow.org.uk

Web: www.ourladyofwalsingham.co.uk

See below for individual school details:

NORWICH

St Francis of Assisi Primary School

Notre Dame Preparatory School

Notre Dame High School

BECCLES

St Benet’s Primary School

BUNGAY

St Edmund’s Primary School

Tel: 01603 441484

Tel: 01603 625593

Tel: 01603 611431

Fax: 01603 763381

Tel: 01502 712012

Tel: 01986 892502

BURY ST EDMUNDS

St Edmund’s Primary School

St Benedict’s High School

CAMBRIDGE

St Alban’s Primary School

St Laurence Primary School

St Bede’s Inter-Church School (Secondary)

St Mary’s Independent Senior School

St Mary's Independent school (Junior)

COSTESSEY

St Augustine’s Primary School

GORLESTON

St Mary and St Peter Primary School

HAVERHILL

St Felix Primary School

IPSWICH

St Mark’s Primary School

St Mary’s Primary School

St Pancras Primary School

St Alban’s High School

KING’S LYNN

St Martha’s Primary School

LOWESTOFT

St Mary’s Primary School

MARCH

All Saints Inter-church Academy (Primary)

NEWMARKET

St Louis Catholic Academy (Primary & Nursery)

PETERBOROUGH

Sacred Heart Primary School

St Thomas More Primary School

St John Henry Newman Primary, Peterborough

St John Fisher High School

SUDBURY

St Joseph’s Primary School

SWAFFHAM

Sacred Heart VA Primary & Nursery School

Tel: 01284 755141

Tel: 01284 753512

Tel: 01223 712148

Tel: 01223 712227

Tel: 01223 568816

Tel: 01223 353253

Tel: 01223 311666

Tel: 01603 743317

Tel: 01493 445117

Tel: 01440 703775

Tel: 01473 601748

Tel: 01473 728372

Tel: 01473 742074

Tel: 01473 726178

Tel: 01553 774829

Tel: 01502 565384

Tel: 01354 659000

Tel: 01638 662719

Tel: 01733 262449

Tel: 01733 566005

Tel: 01733 304533

Tel: 01733 343646

Tel: 01787 373365

Tel: 01760 721330

Jubilee 2025 - Pilgrims of Hope

DECEMBER 2024

29th (Sunday): The Holy Family: JUBILEE YEAR OPENING MASS

Bishop Peter to celebrate Mass at the Cathedral.

FEBRUARY 2025

1st (Saturday): ANNUAL MEETING OF RELIGIOUS

-Bishop Peter to celebrate Mass at the Cathedral as part of Jubilee celebrations.

-On the Jubilee of Consecrated life (8-9th of October), celebrations will be encouraged in Parishes where religious are located.

22nd (Saturday): The Chair of St Peter JUBILEE FOR DEACONS

-Bishop Peter to celebrate Mass at the Cathedral, to which all deacons, including retired, and their families are invited to attend.

MARCH 2025

28th (Friday): Third Friday of Lent: 24 HOURS FOR THE LORD

-Time of Adoration to be encouraged in parishes, with a significant celebration to be arranged at the Cathedral which Bishop Peter will lead.

APRIL

2025

5th (Saturday): JUBILEE OF THE SICK AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS

-Bishop Peter to celebrate Mass with Anointing of the Sick at the Cathedral, as a translation of the celebration customarily held near the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.

20th of APRIL: EASTER SUNDAY

MAY

2025

31st (Saturday): The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: JUBILEE OF FAMILIES, GRANDPARENTS AND THE ELDERLY

-Bishop Peter to lead the Diocesan Children’s Pilgrimage to Walsingham, with additional Jubilee elements.

JUNE

2025

8th of JUNE: PENTECOST

26th (Thursday): The Dedication of the Cathedral: JUBILEE OF PRIESTS

-Bishop Peter to celebrate Mass at the Cathedral, at which all Priests are encouraged to concelebrate.

JULY/AUGUST 2025

July 28th to August 3rd : JUBILEE OF YOUTH

-Bishop Peter to lead a group of Young People to participate in celebrations in Rome.

SEPTEMBER 2025

26th (Friday): SCHOOLS’ MASS

-Bishop Peter to celebrate School’s Mass at the Cathedral

27th (Saturday): JUBILEE OF CATECHISTS

-Bishop Peter to invite Catechists to a gathering and celebration in Newmarket.

OCTOBER 2025

4th (Saturday): St Francis of Assisi: JUBILEE OF MIGRANTS

-A celebration organised in collaboration with Caritas East Anglia at the Cathedral.

10th (Friday): START OF WALKING PILGRIMAGE TO WALSINGHAM FROM CATHEDRAL

-This walk would commence in the morning from the Cathedral, to overnight in Great Witchingham/Lenwade, to arrive in Walsingham for the following day’s celebration.

11th (Saturday): JUBILEE OF MARIAN SPIRITUALITY

-Bishop Peter to lead a diocesan pilgrimage to Walsingham.

12th (Sunday): JUBILEE OF CONSECRATED LIFE

- Parishes will be encouraged to celebrate any Institutes of Consecrated Life/communities of religious in their boundaries, to acknowledge their contribution to parish life.

NOVEMBER 2025

22nd (Saturday): Feast of St Cecilia: JUBILEE OF CHOIRS

-A ‘come and sing’ day at the Cathedral, culminating in a Vigil celebration of a Mass of Christ the King.

DECEMBER 2025

28th (Sunday): The Holy Family: CLOSING MASS

-Bishop Peter to celebrate Mass at the Cathedral for the closing of the Jubilee year.

DIOCESE OF EAST ANGLIA JUBILEE 2026

Opening: January 25th: Sunday of the Word of God

Close: November 22nd: Christ the King

KEY DIARY DATES FOR 2025

Annual Meeting and Mass for the Religious of the Diocese: Saturday, February 1, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich.

Day of Prayer for Engaged Couples: Sunday February 9

Rite of Election: Sunday March 9, 3pm, St John’s Cathedral Norwich. For all Catechumens and Candidates being baptised and confirmed at Easter.

Lenten Station Masses: 6pm Exposition and Confession, 7pm Mass, 8pm Supper:

Peterborough Deanery - St Peter & All Souls – March 13; Cambridge Deanery – Our Lady and the English Martyrs – March 18; King’s Lynn Deanery – Holy Family, Gaywood – March 20; Ipswich Deanery – St Mary – March 25; Bury St Edmunds – St Edmunds –March 27; Coastal Deanery – St Mary’s Great Yarmouth – April 1; Norwich Deanery –St John’s Cathedral Norwich – April 3

Annual Meeting of the College of Deacons: Saturday March 15, 3pm, Walsingham

Annual Mass to celebrate Our Lady of Lourdes with Anointing of the Sick: Saturday April 5, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich.

Chrism Mass: Tuesday April 15, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich.

Ignite Diocesan Youth Festival: May 3-4, St Benedict’s, Bury St Edmunds.

Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham: Monday May 5, 12 noon to 4.30pm. One of the major annual events of the year in the life of the Diocese. National Shrine, Walsingham

Diocesan Children’s Pilgrimage to Walsingham: Tuesday May 31, 10.45am start with walk from village, then at National Shrine, Walsingham (also Jubilee of Families, Grandparents and the Elderly).

Annual Celebration of Priesthood: Thursday June 12, 10.30am for 11am start, White House, Poringland.

Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Mass: Saturday June 14, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich. Mass for couples celebrating special wedding anniversaries.

Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate: Saturday July 19, 11.30am, St John's Cathedral, Norwich

Altar Servers Mass and BBQ: Saturday July 26, 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral, Norwich, followed by a barbeque.

Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes: August 22-29

Dowry of Mary Pilgrimage: Sunday September 7, 12 noon - 4.30pm, National Shrine, Walsingham.

Meeting of the Retired Priests of the Diocese: Thursday September 18, 10.30am coffee, 11.30am Mass at Our Lady of the Annunciation, Poringland.

Annual Gathering of Deacons, wives and students and wives in formation for the Diaconate: Saturday Sept 20, St John’s Cathedral, Mass at 11.30am and buffet lunch.

Also see Year of Jubilee dates on pages 14-15.

POPE FRANCIS

Successor of the Apostle Peter

Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome

Servant of the Servants of God

Supreme Pontiﬀ of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Born: December 17, 1936

Made vows: March 12, 1960 in the Society of Jesus

Ordained Priest: December 13, 1969

Consecrated Bishop: June 27, 1992

Appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires: June 3, 1997

Installed as Archbishop of Buenos Aires: February 28, 1998

Created Cardinal: February 21, 2001 Cardinal-Priest of St Robert Bellarmine

Elected Pope: March 13, 2013

Inaugurated: March 19, 2013

His Holiness is represented in many countries by Nuncios or by Internuncios; and many Governments are in turn represented at the Vatican by Ambassadors or Ministers. The British Government has an Ambassador to the Holy See. The Cardinals constitute the Senate of the Church and with Congregations of the Roman Curia are the Pope’s assistants in the universal government of the Church

The Apostolic Nunciature in Great Britain

Nuncio: His Excellency Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendia

Address: 54 Parkside, Wimbledon, London SW19 5NE

Tel: 020 8944 7189

CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES

THE PROVINCE OF WESTMINSTER

The Archdiocese of Westminster

Archbishop: His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols (1992, 2009)

Address: Archbishop’s House, Ambrosden Avenue, Westminster, London, SW19 1QJ.

Tel: 020 7798 9033 Web: www.rcdow.org.uk

Auxiliaries: Rt Rev John Sherrington (2012)

Rt Rev Nicholas Hudson (2014)

Rt Rev Paul McAleenan (2016)

Rt Rev James Curry (2024)

The Diocese of Brentwood

Bishop:

Rt Rev Alan Williams SM (2014)

Address: Cathedral House, Ingrave Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 8AT

Tel: 01277 232266

Web: www.dioceseofbrentwood.net

Emeritus: Rt Rev Thomas McMahon (1980)

The Diocese of East Anglia

Bishop:

Rt Rev Peter Collins (2022)

Address: The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Tel: 01508 492202 Web: www.rcdea.org.uk

Emeritus: Rt Rev Alan Hopes (2003, 2013)

The Diocese of Northampton

Bishop:

Rt Rev David Oakley (2020)

Address: Bishop’s House, Marriott Street, Northampton, NN2 6AW

Tel: 01604 715635 Web: www.northamptondiocese.org

Emeritus: Rt Rev Peter Doyle (2005)

The Diocese of Nottingham

Bishop:

Rt Rev Patrick McKinney (2015)

Adress: 27 Cavendish Road East, The Park, Nottingham, NG7 1BB

Web: www.dioceseofnottingham.uk

THE PROVINCE OF BIRMINGHAM

The Archdiocese of Birmingham

Archbishop: Most Rev Bernard Longley (2003, 2009)

Address: Archbishop’s House, 8 Shadwell Street, Birmingham, B4 6EY

Tel: 0121 2369090 Web: www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk

Auxiliary: Rt Rev David Evans (2020), Rt Rev Timothy Menezes (2024)

Rt Rev Richard Walker (2024)

Emeriti aux: Rt Rev Philip Pargeter (1990), Rt Rev William Kenny CP (2006)

The Diocese of Clifton

Bishop: Rt Rev Bosco MacDonald (2024)

Address: St Ambrose, North Road, Leigh Woods, Bristol, BS8 3PW

Tel: 0117 973 3072 Web: www.cliftondiocese.com

Emeritus: Rt Rev Declan Lang (2001)

The Diocese of Shrewsbury

Bishop: Rt Rev Mark Davies (2010)

Address: Curial Oﬃces, 2 Park Road South, Prenton, Wirral, CH43 4UX

Tel: 0151 652 9855 Web: www.dioceseofshrewsbury.org

THE PROVINCE OF CARDIFF

The Archdiocese of Cardiﬀ

Archbishop: Most Rev Mark O’Toole (2022)

Address: Archbishop’s House, 43 Cathedral Road, Cardiﬀ, CF11 9HD

Tel: 02920 220411 Web: www.rcadc.org

Emeritus: Most Rev George Stack (2001, 2011)

The Diocese of Menevia

Bishop: Most Rev Mark O’Toole (2022)

Address: 27 Convent Street, Greenhill, Swansea, SA1 2BX

Tel: 01792 644017 Web: www.menevia.org

Emeriti: Most Rev George Stack (2001, 2011), Rt Rev Thomas Burns SM (2002, 2008), Rt Rev Mark Jabalé OSB (2000)

The Diocese of Wrexham

Bishop: Rt Rev Peter Brignall (2012)

Address: Bishop’s House, Sontley Road, Wrexham, Clwyd, LL13 7EW

Tel: 01978 262726 Web: www.rcdwxm.org.uk

Emeritus: Rt Rev Edwin Regan (1995)

THE PROVINCE OF LIVERPOOL

The Archdiocese of Liverpool

Archbishop: Most Rev Malcolm McMahon OP (2000, 2014)

Address: Archbishop’s House, 19 Salisbury Road, Liverpool, L19 0PH

Tel: 01514 940686 Web: www.liverpoolcatholic.org.uk

Auxiliaries: Rt Rev Thomas Neylon (2021)

Emeritus: Most Rev Patrick Kelly (1984, 1996); Rt Rev Tom Williams (2003)

The Diocese of Hallam

Bishop: Rt Rev Ralph Heskett CSsR (2010, 2014)

Address: Bishop’s House, 75 Norfolk Road, Sheﬃeld, S2 2SZ

Tel: 01142 787988 Web: www.hallam-diocese.com

Emeritus: Rt Rev John Rawsthorne (1997)

The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle

Bishop: Rt Rev Steven Wright (2020, 2023)

Address: St Vincent’s Diocesan Oﬃces, St Cuthbert’s House, West Road Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 7PY

Tel: 0191 243 3300 Web: www.rcdhn.org.uk

Emeriti: Rt Rev Seamus Cunningham (2009), Rt Rev Robert Byrne, CO (2014, 2019, 2022)

The Diocese of Lancaster

Bishop: Rt Rev Paul Swarbrick (2018)

Address: Bishop’s Oﬃce, Pastoral Centre, Balmoral Road, Lancaster, LA1 3BT

Tel: 01524 596050 Web: www.lancasterdiocese.org.uk

Emeritus: Rt Rev Michael Campbell OSA (2008)

The Diocese of Leeds

Bishop: Rt Rev Marcus Stock (2014)

Address: Hinsley Hall, 62 Headingley Lane, Leeds, LS6 2BX

Tel: 01132 304533 Web: www.dioceseoﬂeeds.org.uk

Emeritus: His Eminence Cardinal Arthur Roche (Rome) (2001, 2004)

The Diocese of Middlesbrough

Bishop: Rt Rev Terence Drainey (2008)

Address: 16 Cambridge Road, Middlesbrough, TS5 5NN

Tel: 01642 850505 Web: www.middlesbrough-diocese.org.uk

Emeritus: The Rt Rev John Crowley (1986, 1993)

The Diocese of Salford

Bishop: Rt Rev John Arnold (2014)

Address: Wardley Hall, Worsley, Manchester, M28 5ND

Tel: 01617 942825 Web: www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk

Emeritus: Rt Rev Terry Brain (1991, 1997)

THE PROVINCE OF SOUTHWARK

The Archdiocese of Southwark

Archbishop: Most Rev John Wilson (2016, 2019)

Address: Archbishop’s House, 150 St George’s Road, Southwark, London, SE1 6HX

Tel: 020 7928 2495

Web: www.rcsouthwark.co.uk

Auxiliaries: Rt Rev Paul Hendricks (2006), Rt Rev Philip Moger (2023)

Emeriti: Most Rev Kevin MacDonald (2001, 2003), Rt Rev Patrick Lynch SCCC (2006), Rt Rev John Hine (2001)

The Diocese of Arundel and Brighton

Bishop: Rt Rev Richard Moth KC*HS (2009, 2015)

Address: High Oaks, Old Brighton Road North, Pease Pottage, RH11 9AJ

Tel: 01293 526428

Web: www.abdiocese.org.uk

The Diocese of Plymouth

Administrator: Rev Canon Paul Cummins

Address: Bishop's House, 45 Cecil Street, Plymouth, PL1 5HW

Tel: 01752 224414

Web: www.plymouth-diocese.org.uk

The Diocese of Portsmouth

Bishop:

Rt Rev Philip Egan (2012)

Address: Bishop’s House, Bishop Crispian Way, Portsmouth, PO1 3HG

Tel: 02392 820894

Web: www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk

Emeritus: Rt Rev Crispian Hollis (1989)

The Bishopric of the Forces

Bishop:

Rt Rev Paul Mason (2016, 2018)

Address: Wellington House, St Omer Barracks, Thornhill Road, Aldershot, Hants, GU11 2BG

Tel: 01252 348234

The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family in London

Bishop: Rt Rev Ken Nowakowski (2020)

Address: Bishop's House, 22 Binney St, London, W1K 5BQ

Tel: 02076 291073

Catholic Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Great Britain

Bishop: Rt Rev Mar Joseph Srampickal (2017)

Address: Bishop's Oﬃce, St Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, St Ignatius Square, Preston, PR1 1TT

Tel: 01772 396065

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Bishop Ordinary: Rt Rev David Waller (2024)

Web: www.ordinariate.org.uk

Address: The Presbytery, 24 Golden Square, London W1F 9JR

Tel: 020 7440 5750

Emeritus: Rev Mgr Keith Newton, Prot Ap (2010)

CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF ENGLAND AND WALES

President: Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster

Vice-President: Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP, Archbishop of Liverpool

Membership: Diocesan, Auxiliary and Emeritus Bishops of England and Wales

The Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London

The Eparchial Bishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Great Britain

The Bishop of the Forces

The Prefect of the Falkland Islands and Ecclesiastical Superior of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha

The Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Standing Committee: The Metropolitan Archbishops, the Chairs of the Departments of the Conference and two other elected members of the Conference

Directorates: Directorate for Mission incorporating Department for Christian Life and Worship Department for Dialogue and Unity Department for Evangelisation and Discipleship incorporating the National Oﬃce for Vocations

Directorate for Policy & Research incorporating: Department for International Aﬀairs Department for Social Justice

Directorate for Partnerships & Public Aﬀairs incorporating: Department for Catholic Education and Formation The Catholic Education Service

Catholic Communications Network

The Catholic Education Service incorporating: Department for Education and Formation

General Secretariat: 39 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1BX

Tel: 020 630 8220

Web: www.cbcew.org.uk

General Secretary: Rev Canon Christopher Thomas KHS

Email: christopher.thomas@cbcew.org.uk

PA to the General Secretary and Head of Administrative Support: Miss Lorraine Welch

Email: lorraine.welch@cbcew.org.uk

Executive Director: Mr Greg Pope

Email: greg.pope@cbcew.org.uk

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Director of Mission : Rev Jan Nowotnik

Email: jan.nowotnik@cbcew.org.uk

Director of Partnerships and Public Aﬀairs: Ms Marie Southall

Email: marie.southall@cbcew.org.uk

Director of Policy & Research: Mr Philip Booth

Email: philip.booth@cbcew.org.uk

Director of Communications: Mr James Abbott

Email: communications@cbcew.org.uk

Director of the Catholic Education Service: Mr Paul Barber

Email: director@catholiceducation.org.uk

Director of Finance: Ms Allyn Zulver

Email: allyn.zulver@cbcew.org.uk

CATHOLIC TRUST FOR ENGLAND AND WALES

Company Number 4734592

Registered Charity Number 1097482

The Catholic Trust for England and Wales was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee on 15 April 2003 and is registered as a charity in England. It took on the assets, liabilities and operations of various predecessor bodies that existed before incorporation including the National Catholic Fund, the Catholic Media Trust, Catholic Missionary Society and the Lisbon Trust.

Its governing document is the Memorandum and Articles of Association. Its principal aim is to promote the Catholic religion principally, but not exclusively, in England and Wales and its purpose is to support the legal, ﬁnancial, and charitable activities of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, its agencies and oﬃces. It has a number of subsidiary companies, namely Colloquium (CaTEW) Ltd., CaTEW Events Ltd., Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency, Catholic Insurance Service Ltd. (80% share), and The Walsingham Trust. It is also the Corporate Trustee of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford.

Members: The Bishops of England and Wales

Trustee Board:

Chair: Bishop Peter Brignall

Trustees: Ms Cathy Corcoran; Ms Tamsin Eastwood; Mr John Gibbs; Mr Kees Kempenaar; Ms Sarah Kilmartin; Archbishop Bernard Longley; Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP, Ms Lyn Murray; Archbishop Mark O’Toole; Rev Canon David Roberts; Dr James Whiston

Company Secretary: Rev Canon Christopher Thomas KHS

Registered Oﬃce: 39 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1BX

DIOCESE OF EAST ANGLIA

The Diocese of East Anglia is a suﬀragan diocese within the Province of Westminster, erected on 13 March 1976 by the decree Quod Ecumenicum of Pope Paul VI, using territory taken from the Diocese of Northampton, which was created in 1850. After the Reformation, the area of East Anglia was soon placed under the care of the Vicars Apostolic of the Midland District, and later of the Eastern District, until the hierarchy was restored by Pope Blessed Pius IX. Today, the Diocese incorporates the English counties of Norfolk, Suﬀolk and Cambridgeshire and the city of Peterborough.

THE BISHOP

V The Rt Rev Peter Gwilym Collins was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Cardiff on July 14, 1984. He served in Cardiff and Bridgend and was appointed as Vice Rector at the Royal English College, from 1989-94. In 2001 he became Dean of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Cardiff. He was appointed as Bishop of East Anglia in October 2022 and ordained at St John’s Cathedral on December 14, 2022.

The Bishop’s Predecessors

IV: The Rt Rev Alan Stephen Hopes BD AKC converted to Catholicism in 1994 and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Westminster the following year. He was ordained to the episcopate by Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor in 2003, as Titular Bishop of Chester-leStreet, and serving as auxiliary bishop in Westminster. He was appointed Bishop of East Anglia in 2013 and was installed in Norwich on July 16.

III The Rt Rev Michael Charles Evans was ordained Bishop of East Anglia by Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor in 2003 and served the Diocese until his death in 2011. His corporal remains are buried in St John’s Cathedral in Norwich.

II The Most Rev Peter David Smith was ordained Bishop of East Anglia by Cardinal Hume in 1995 and served as bishop until 2001, when he was translated to the See of Cardiﬀ. In 2010, he became Archbishop of Southwark, until his retirement in 2019. He died in 2020 and is buried in Southwark Cathedral.

I The Rt Rev Alan Charles Clark was the ﬁrst bishop of the new Diocese, from its creation in 1976 until his resignation in 1995. He was previously Titular Bishop of Elmham and Auxiliary Bishop of Northampton. He died in 2002 and is buried in Walsingham.

THE DIOCESAN TRUSTEES

The Diocese is a registered charity (Charity Commission number 278742). The trustees of the charity are: Bishop Peter Collins, Rev Canon David Bagstaﬀ (VG), Ms Christine Quinn (Safeguarding Link Trustee), Dcn James Hurst (Vicar for Finance), Mrs Moira Goldstaub, Mrs Lauretta Pilch, Mrs Marie Roberts, Rev Dr Sean Connolly (VG), Secretary – Dcn Paul Raynes

Sub-Committees of the Trustees

Finance: Dcn James Hurst (chairman), Ms Christine Quinn, Mr David Verney, Dcn Paul Raynes, Mr Paul Wilson, Mrs Sandra Portas

Buildings: Dcn James Hurst (chairman), Mrs Moira Goldstaub, Mr Jeremy Wager, Dcn Paul Raynes, Mrs Helen Bates, Mr Matthew Champion, Mr Paul Wilson

Investment: Dcn James Hurst, Mrs Moira Goldstaub, Mrs Marie Roberts, Mr Jonathan Ellis, Dcn Paul Raynes, Mr Paul Wilson

Diocese of East Anglia

Safeguarding: Ms Chris Quinn (Chair and Trustee), Rev Canon Patrick Cleary, Rev Canon David Bagstaﬀ VG (Trustee), Mr Anthony Hedges (Parish Safeguarding (Rep).

THE BISHOP’S COUNCIL

Bishop Peter Collins; Rev Canon David Bagstaﬀ; Rev Dr Sean Connolly,

Rev David Finegan; Secretary: Rev Peter Wygnanski

DIOCESAN CHAPTER OF CANONS

A consultative body appointed by the Bishop to advise him on various matters with the clergy and laity. The Canons are:

Rev Mgr Canon Eugène Harkness – Provost

Rev Canon Simon Blakesley – Penitentiary

Rev Canon Emeritus Pat Cleary (Honorary) – Secretary

Rev Canon Peter Rollings – Treasurer

Rev Canon David Bagstaﬀ

Rev Canon Mathew George

Rev Canon Mark Hackeson

Rev Mgr Canon Peter Leeming

Rev Canon John Minh

Rev Canon Emeritus David Paul (Honorary)

Rev Canon Emeritus John Barnes (Honorary)

THE COUNCIL OF PRIESTS

A consultative body of priests partly appointed by the Bishop, and partly elected by his presbyterium. Their role is to consider any serious matters raised by the Bishop, by the council or by other priests.

Secretary: Rev Peter Wygnanski

Address: The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Tel: 01508 492202 Fax: 01508 495358

THE CURIA

A group of oﬃcials (clergy and laity) which forms the principal organ of the Bishop’s government. The Curia is overseen by the Director of Operations & Finance on behalf of the Bishop. All enquiries can be made to: The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH.

Tel: 01508 492202 Fax: 01508 495358

Email: laurat@rcdea.org.uk

Oﬃce hours: 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

THE VICARS GENERAL

Rev Canon David Bagstaﬀ, 15 The Terrace, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5JH

Tel: 01728 452782

Rev Dr Sean Connolly, The Presbytery, 21 Westgate St, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1QG

Tel: 01284 754358

Email: sean.connolly@rcdea.org.uk

THE CHANCERY

Is the oﬃce which handles all matters of procedure, faculty, dispensation and permission, It deals with all enquires related to Canon Law.

The Chancellor is Rt Rev Mgr Provost Eugène Harkness

Tel: 01223 350787

Email: chancellor@rcdea.org.uk

Address: Our Lady of the Assumption & the English Martyrs, Catholic Rectory, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1JR

Vice Chancellor is Rev Canon Mark Hackeson

Tel: 01760 721418

Email: mark.hackeson@rcdea.org.uk

THE TRIBUNAL

The Tribunal comprises a team of experienced and qualiﬁed canon lawyers whose job is the promotion of matters of justice. It is also concerned with the investigation and judgment of marriage cases for nullity.

Tribunal Oﬃce: The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich NR14 7SH

Tel: 01508 495168

Email: tribunal@rcdea.org.uk

Oﬃce Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 1pm.

Please address all correspondence to the Tribunal Administrator Judicial Vicar: Rev Canon Simon Blakesley MCL, JCL, VJ

Promoter of Justice: Rt Rev Mgr Provost Eugene Harkness

Contact through the Tribunal oﬃce.

Tribunal Administrator: Mrs Sharon Ellis

Judges: Rev Simon Blakesley MCL JCL VJ; Rev Gregory Pearson, OP, JCL; Sr Philomena Benedict le Gall, OP; Dr Hilary Finlay

Defenders of the Bond:

Rt Rev Mgr Provost Eugène Harkness, Rev Canon Mark Hackeson; Mr Roger Pritchett, Rev Gregory Pearson, OP, JCL; Sr Philomena Benedict le Gall, OP

Assessors: Mrs Susan Coleman

Advocates: Mr Paul Robbins, Mr Michael Nash LLM, DLS

Lay Auditors: Mrs Diana Banks-Conney; Lady Mary Bedingfeld; Mrs Susan Coleman; Mrs Heather Duﬀy; Dr Hilary Finlay; Mrs Alison Flath; Mrs Bernadette Horton; Mr Gigy James; Mrs Barbara Lamberton; Mr Jim Marshall; Mrs Anne Maskell; Mr James McGarry; Mr Paul McIntee; Mrs Linda Page; Mr Roger Pritchett; Mrs Catherine Stent; Mr James Teixeira; Mr Tony Walmsley; Dr Kevin Walsh; Mrs Alexina Weston

THE COUNCIL OF THE LAITY

A consultative body of lay persons that meets the Bishop twice a year. Its membership is made up of the Chair of each of the parish priest’s parish council or forum.

Chairman: The Bishop

Secretary: Maureen Costello

VOCATIONS AND FORMATIONS

The Vocations Director is responsible for the promotion of vocations to the priesthood in the Diocese, and the direction of individual candidates, and to promote vocations to the priesthood and religious life generally. He monitors the training of the Bishop’s students, liaises with the seminary, and advises the Bishop on these matters.

Vocations Director: Rev Christopher Smith, The Catholic Presbytery, The Common, Southwold, Suﬀolk, IP18 6AH

Tel: 01502 723207

Email: vocations@rcdea.org.uk

Assistant Vocations Director: Rev Peter Wygnanski

Tel: 01508 572453

Vocations Promotor: Rev Jude Belnas

Tel: 01473 728115

Email: peter.wygnanski@rcdea.org.uk

Email: jude.belnas@rcdea.org.uk

The Diocesan Vocations Team advises the Bishop on matters relating to priestly, diaconal and religious vocations.

Members: Rev Christopher Smith, Mr Hamish MacQueen, Rev Peter Wygnanski, Sr Stephanie ODC, Rev Jude Belnas Sr Theresa COLW (secretary)

The Permanent Diaconate

Is responsible for all matters relating to the training and on-going formation of permanent deacons.

Director: Rev Andrew Eburne

Tel: 07587 153298

Email: andrew.eburne@rcdea.org.uk

Assistant Directors: Dcn John Bell, 3 Applewood Close, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, CB1 9NU

Tel: 07502 560610

Dcn Martin L’Estrange, Gables Cottage, 9 Common Lane, North Runcton, King’s Lynn, PE33 0RD

Tel: 01553 840978

Email: martin.lestrange@rcdea.org.uk

The On-going Formation Committee manages the on-going formation of priests. Director: Rev Sean Connolly

Diocesan Catechesis and Formation

The Commission for Catechesis and Formation has a particular responsibility for Sacramental Preparation, and prepares courses, guidelines and training for catechists, as well as catechetical material for those who have drifted away from the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Confession. The Commission supports Adult Education in the Diocese and formation for teachers in Catholic schools, and organises the Newman Lectures on Catholicism and History at UEA each spring.

Chair: Dcn Huw Williams

Members: Rev Andrew Eburne, Mr Hamish MacQueen, Rev Padráig Hawkins Sr Tamsin Geach OP, Mr Alex Savage, Ms Alex Farmer, Mrs Angela Wilson

DIOCESAN RELIGIOUS

Vicars for Religious are the Bishop’s representatives to the various Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life that live and work within the boundaries of the Diocese. The Vicar advises the Bishop of matters pertaining to all forms of consecrated life.

Vicar for Religious: Rev Karol Porczak MS (St Peter & All Souls, Peterborough)

Email: karol.porczak@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 01733 562528 ext 5

DEPARTMENTS

OPERATIONS & FINANCE

Administers the central funds of the Diocese, organises Gift Aid, arranges insurance for property owned by the Diocese, and advises parishes and schools on ﬁnancial and building matters.

Vicar for Finance: Dcn James Hurst

Email: james.hurst@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 07736 146401

Diocesan Finance Oﬃce: The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH.

Tel: 01508 492540 Fax: 01508 495 358

Email: ﬁnance@rcdea.org.uk

Oﬃce hours are 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Director of Operations & Finance: Dcn Paul Raynes

Email: paul.raynes@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Accountant: Mr Paul Wilson

Email: paul.wilson@rcdea.org.uk

Finance and Gift-Aid Co-ordinator: Ms Lorna Young

Email: lornay@rcdea.org.uk

Stewardship & Fundraising Co-ordinator – Mrs Sandra Portas

Email: stewardship@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 07821 876170

ALIVE IN FAITH

Alive in Faith Administrator: Ms Lorna Young

Tel: 01508 492202

Email: aliveinfaith@rcdea.org.uk

Alive in Faith Supervisory Committee Interim Chair: Dcn James Hurst

SCHOOLS

THE DIOCESAN SCHOOLS SERVICE COMMISSION

This commission promotes the highest standards of Catholic education in schools within the Diocese, working in partnership with all of those involved in education. It provides support to schools, governors, staﬀ and parish priests on educational matters and represents Catholic interests with the local educational authorities.

DIOCESAN SCHOOLS’ SERVICE

The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Tel: 01508 495509

Fax: 01508 495358

Chairman: TBA

Director of Schools’ Service: Dr Andy Stone

Email: andy.stone@rcdea.org.uk

Assistant Director: Mrs Helen Bates

Email: helen.bates@rcdea.org.uk

Schools Commission Administrator: Mrs Jane Delph

Email: ssc@rcdea.org.uk

Commission members: Bishop Peter Collins, Mr Fred Corbett, Mr Sean Hayes, Rev Canon David Bagstaﬀ VG, Mrs Maria Kemble, Mrs Kate Pereira, Dcn Paul Raynes

HIGHER EDUCATION

University of Cambridge

Chaplain: Rev Paul Keane, Fisher House, Guildhall Street, Cambridge CB2 3NH.

Email: pjk1001@cam.ac.uk

Tel: 01223 742192

Web: www.ﬁsherhouse.org.uk

Assistant Chaplains: Rev Albert Robertson OP, Sr Ann Swailes OP University of East Anglia

Chaplain: Rev Peter Wygnanski, Catholic Chaplaincy, Multifaith Centre, University of East Anglia

Tel: 01603 592168

Email: peter.wygnanski@rcdea.org.uk

Assistant Chaplain: Sr Theresa Weight COLW

Web: ueacathchap.org.uk

Anglia Ruskin University

Chaplain: Sr Mary Gonçalves FDC

Tel: 01223 224865

Email: olemangliac@rcdea.org.uk

Margaret Beaufort Institute Cambridge

An academic institution that works within the Roman Catholic church and its principle of human ﬂourishing through God’s grace. It sets out to oﬀer transforming experiences for women, the community and the church through theological education, professional pastoral practice and personal formation, assisting women to discern God’s call and preparing them for lay ministries and Christian discipleship in today’s world.

Contact: Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BJ

Tel: 01223 741039

Email: info@mbit.cam.ac.uk

Web: www.mbit.cam.ac.uk

Catholic Certiﬁcate in Religious Studies (CCRS)

The Catholic Certiﬁcate in Religious Studies (CCRS) is managed and awarded by the Board of Religious Studies on behalf of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. Any person who is or wishes to be involved in Catholic education and formation may apply for this course. This includes those involved in Religious Education in schools, Parish Catechesis and other ministries in the Church and anyone who wishes to follow the course for faith development or personal interest. The course seeks to ensure that participants have at least a basic knowledge and understanding of the beliefs of the Catholic Faith. It also provides a basis for further study.

The course is designed for teachers in Catholic schools; that they may have a basic understanding of the Church, its teaching and way of life to enable them to contribute to the maintenance of the ethos of the Catholic school. It is also for catechists in order to give them a basic understanding of the faith of the Catholic Church as a foundation for their catechetical ministry, and for adult members of the Church to enable them to continue to grow in understanding as they live their Catholic faith.

Contact: CCRS Registrar, Catholic Education Service, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX

Tel: 020 7901 1900 Fax: 020 7901 1939

Email: ccrs@catholiceducation.org.uk

Web: www.catholiceducation.org.uk

YOUTH

DIOCESAN

YOUTH SERVICE

The Diocesan Youth Service run a variety of events and pilgrimages across the Diocese. We work with youth leaders to support parish and schools based youth ministry in our parishes. Part of the Youth Service is the Ignite Team which shares the Gospel Message with young people through music, drama, games, multimedia, social media and personal testimony.

The Diocesan Youth Service consists of:

Director: Mr Hamish MacQueen

Email: dys@rcdea.org.uk Mob: 07812 004934

The Ignite Team (Mission Team) Team members: Alex Thanickal (Team Leader), Alex Curly-Warren and Luc Wallace

Email: igniteteam@rcdea.org.uk. Tel: 07769 315031

Ignite Lite (volunteer Youth Mission Team)

Youth Chaplaincy Team

Rev Dr Mark Ashwood, Rev Anthony Asomugha, Rev Alvan Ibeh SMMM, Rev Pablo de Lima, Rev Bienn Carlo Manuntag, Rev Peter Wygnanski

Youth Service Commission members:

The Bishop, Rev Canon Pat Cleary, Sr Theresa Weight, Dcn Paul Raynes, Dr Andy Stone, Rev Peter Wygnanski, Helena Judd, Joe Perna

Contact: The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH.

Tel: 01508 486236

Web: www.rcdea.org.uk/youth

Facebook: facebook.com/igniteyea

Twitter/X: @Igniteyea

Instagram: igniteyea

We are always keen to hear from people who would like to be involved in youth ministry, especially if you would be interested in joining the Ignite Team (often as a 'gap' year) or Ignite Lite (volunteer part-time mission team).

COMMUNICATIONS

The Diocesan Communications Oﬃce is responsible for press relations and communication matters.

Director of Communications: TBA

Email: communications@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Newspaper: Catholic East Anglia

Editor: TBA

Weekly e-newsletter: Sign up at: www.rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Yearbook Editor: TBA

Diocesan Web Manager: Mr Gavin Dvelys

Mobile: 07956 916948 Email: dvelys@aol.co.uk

Website: www.rcdea.org.uk

Twitter/X:@RCEastAnglia

Facebook: www.facebook.com/CatholicEastAnglia

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@rcdea

Flickr: www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dioceseofeastanglia

COMMISSIONS

NEW EVANGELISATION

COMMISSION FOR THE NEW EVANGELISATION

This department is responsible for ensuring that Evangelisation is at the heart of the mission of every parish and organisation within the Diocese.

“The parish is the presence of the Church in a given territory, an environment for hearing God’s Word. For the growth of the Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration. In all its activities, the parish encourages and trains its members to be evangelisers.” (Evangelii Gaudium 28)

Episcopal Vicar for the New Evangelisation and Chair: Rev Karol Porczak MS, The Catholic Presbytery, Geneva St, Peterborough, PE1 2RS

Tel: 01733 562528 ext 5

Email: karol.porczak@rcdea.org.uk

Co-ordinator: Mrs Rebecca Bretherton BA, B.Div

Email: evangelisation@rcdea.org.uk

Members: Bishop Peter Collins, Elizabeth Barker, Rebecca Bretherton, Philip Kemp, Mel Ward, Rev Karol Porczak MS, Michela MacNally, Hamish MacQueen, Thomas Jones.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

All our churches need to be treated with the greatest of respect. Of course, there will be times when the same churches will require work done on them, and, in the event that there are changes to a church building which do not involve simple maintenance, consultation must take place in the ﬁrst instance with the Art and Architecture Commission. This new body will help the parish achieve a result of dignity and craftsmanship by liaising with the Liturgy Commission and when necessary with the Historic Churches Committee.

Chair: Rt Rev Provost Eugène Harkness

Members: TBA Professor Nigel Morgan (Art), Rev Bienn Carlo Manuntag (Liturgy Commission), Canon John Barnes (Art and Historic Churches), David Grealy (Music – Cathedral Organist), Marie-Thérèse Mavel – (Textiles), Mr Nicholas Warns – (Architecture –Cathedral Architect), Rt Rev Mgr Eugène Provost Harkness (Chairman).

MUSIC AND LITURGY

The Liturgy Commission encourages the worthy celebration of the Sacred Rites and advises on liturgical matters, and musical, artistic and architectural matters pertaining to the sacred liturgy.

Chairman: Rev Christopher Smith

Diocesan Master of Ceremonies: Rev Peter Wygnanski

Assistant Master of Ceremonies: Rev Bienn Carlo Manuntag

Members: Bishop Peter Collins, Director of Music, Mrs Stella Fox, Rev Alan Hodgson, Dcn Martin L’Estrange, Mrs Fran Ludden

Diocesan Director of Music: David Grealy

Tel: 01603 957650

DIALOGUE AND UNITY

Email: david.grealy@rcdea.org.uk

THE DIOCESAN COMMISSION FOR DIALOGUE AND UNITY

Advises the Bishop on matters relating to ecumenical dialogue and inter-faith relations, and has two members from each deanery. Members of the Commission represent the Diocese on national and county ecumenical bodies.

Chairman: Dcn Geoﬀrey Cook (contact details below under Cambridge)

Secretary: Mrs Mary Hunt, Oulton Lodge, Borrow Road, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, Suﬀolk, NR32 3PW

Email: johnandmaryhunt@gmail.com

MEMBERS:

Bury St Edmunds: TBA

Cambridge: Dcn Geoﬀrey Cook, 20 Brierley Walk, Cambridge CB4 3NH

Tel: 01223 351 650

Email: gmc1000@cam.ac.uk

Mrs Priscilla Barlow, Silverlands, Church Street, Litlington, Royston, Cambs, SG8 0QB

Email: priscilla.barlow@keme.co.uk

Great Yarmouth: Mrs Mary Hunt, Oulton Lodge, Borrow Road, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, Suﬀolk, NR32 2PW

Email: johnandmaryhunt@gmail.com

Mrs Laurette Burton, Lodders, Frostenden Corner, Beccles, NR34 7JA

Email: mlsburton@btinternet.com

Ipswich: TBA

King’s Lynn: Mrs Julia Walton, Oddfellows Cottage, 112, Burnham Road, South Creake, Fakenham, NR21 9JG

Email: juliawalton54@gmail.com

Norwich: TBA

Peterborough: Mr Brian Keegan, 8 Glamis Gardens, Peterborough, PE3 9PQ

Tel: 01733 265769

Email: brian@keeganpeterborough.com

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE

THE DIOCESAN COMMISSION FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE

The Marriage and Family Life Commission aims to promote and support marriage and family life throughout the Diocese. It looks to help families to live the Christian life and to promote good marriage preparation as well as provide support for those already married. It also has a care for those whose experience of marriage and family proves diﬃcult. The Commission includes married couples, clergy and religious appointed by the Bishop, and individuals from schools and specialist services as needed for consultation at the request of Commission members and with the approval of the Bishop.

Chairman: John D’Mello

Marriage and Family Life Co-ordinator: Dr Antonia Braithwaite

Email: mﬂcoordinator@rcdea.org.uk

Fertility Awareness Methods Co-ordinator: Dr Antonia Braithwaite

Email: famc.eastanglia@rcdea.org.uk

Pro-Life Rep: Mrs Katy Torcat

School Rep: Mr Damian Wallace

Email: katytorcat@gmail.com

Email: kephas01@yahoo.co.uk

Members: Rev Leo Marianu, Rebecca Clarke; John and Hedwige D’Mello; Helvi Moore; Sister Camilla Oberding; Mae and Raul Parreno; Arturo Fanciulli and Silvia Ferrini.

LISTENING AND PRAYER MINISTRY

This is a lay-led service for parishioners in need. Helpers are trained to handle situations such as bereavement, health issues, family and relationship problems, faith issues, depression, abuse, anxieties, workplace diﬃculties and life problems, amongst others. Over 18s only. Pairs of trained Helpers listen to and pray with those in need, either in local parish rooms or online on Zoom, to talk through their personal concerns in a Catholic context. All Helpers have undergone training in prayer, listening, spiritual guidance, safeguarding and GDPR.

To book an appointment with our team please ﬁll in the Booking Form online at: www.rcdea.org.uk/diocesan-listening-and-prayer-ministry

Chaplain: Rev Leo Marianu

Email: leonard.michael@rcdea.org.uk

CARITAS EAST ANGLIA

Caritas East Anglia supports the poor and the marginalised in three ways: by promoting Catholic Social Teaching; through project grants and emergency aid; and by supporting those involved in social outreach. Our diocese is a member organisation of Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN) which is an agency of the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales.

Catholic Social Teaching is the teaching of the Church on social responsibility, based on Papal Encyclicals and other documents. These reflect upon Jesus’ command to ‘love your neighbour as yourself’ (Mk 12:31) and show us how to share God’s love by our actions towards all our sisters and brothers. Articles exploring CST can be found in the diocesan paper and on our website: www.rcdea.org.uk/catholic-social-teaching

Financial assistance is available in two forms to those in need. The St Edmund’s Fund provides crisis grants to individuals or families. Alive in Faith grants are awarded to support local social outreach projects within parishes, examples of which can be seen on the diocesan website: www.rcdea.org.uk/caritas-east-anglia For details of both funds, please contact your parish priest.

Chair: TBA

Administrator: Dr David Livesey

Email: caritas@rcdea.org.uk

Members of the Commission: Rev Tony Felton, Rev John Bell, Dcn Paul Raynes, Teresa Wiseman, Jane Crone, Bernard Shaw, Gerald Fox, Peter Godfrey, Hamish MacQueen, Anthea Connors, Anne Emblem.

SAFEGUARDING

THE DIOCESAN SAFEGUARDING COMMISSION

A professional body that implements national procedures regarding the safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk within the Diocese.

Independent Chairman: Mr Denis White. (Family Law Solicitor)

Vice Chairman: Mrs Alison Flath (formerly Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service)

Police Representative: Ms Ali Barham (Suﬀolk Police)

Probation Service Representative : Mr Stephen Brickley (Cambs & Peterborough/ Probation Trust)

Social Services (Children Services) Representative: Ms Fiona Osbourne (Norfolk County Council)

Social Services (Adult Services) Representative: TBA (Peterborough City Council

Clergy representative: Rev Canon Pat Cleary, St Mary, Thetford

Religious representative: Sr Philomena Morris (Sisters of St Louis, Newmarket)

Clerk to the Commission: TBA

Diocesan Safeguarding Co-ordinator: TBA

Email: safeguarding.coordinator@rcdea.org.uk

Diocesan Safeguarding Administrator: TBA

Email: safeguarding.administrator@rcdea.org.uk

JUSTICE AND PEACE

THE JUSTICE AND PEACE COMMISSION

Advises the Bishop and Council of Priests on Justice and Peace issues. The Justice and Peace Commission provides forum for those in parishes with an interest in Justice and Peace issues, and encourages the exchange of information and appropriate action. Issues addressed in parishes include support for peace, the protection of creation, help for refugees, support CAFOD campaigns and the promotion of Fairtrade.

Chairman: Dcn John Bell, 3 Applewood Close, Cambridge, CB1 9NU

Tel: 07502 560610

Email: john.bell@rcdea.org.uk

Secretary: Mr Bernard Shaw, 98 Brampton Road, Cambridge, CB1 3HL

Tel: 01223 240207

Email: bshaw98uk@yahoo.co.uk

OTHER OFFICES

CONSULTATION ON PASTORAL PROVISION STEERING COMMITTEE

Chairman: Fr John Warrington

Email: john.warrington@rcdea.org.uk

JUBILEE CO-ORDINATOR

Rev Peter Wygnanski

Email: peter.wygnanski@rcdea.org.uk

HISTORIC CHURCHES COMMITTEE

All correspondence should be addressed to the Honorary Secretary Mr Charles Gillott, c/o Diocesan Oﬃce, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH.

Email: sechcc@rcdea.org.uk

Historic Churches Support Oﬃcer: Mr Matthew Champion

Tel: 07904 803577

Email: historicchurches@rcdea.org.uk

Members: Mrs Moira Goldstaub, Chairman; Rev Canon David Bagstaﬀ VG; Dr John Maddison; Dcn Paul Raynes; Mr Richard Halsey; Rowan Easter, Rev Alan Hodgson.

DIOCESAN PASTORAL SERVICE FOR THE DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED

Rev Mgr Philip Shryane, Catholic Rectory, 82 Hartford Road, Huntingdon, PE29 1XG

Tel: 01480 453257

Email: philip.shryane@rcdea.org.uk

THE DIOCESE OF EAST ANGLIA DEPENDENT PRIESTS’ FUND

This Fund is a Registered Charity and has its own Charity Registration Number: 1102707. Its purpose is to assist the Bishop in the care of Secular Priests of the Diocese who are permanently or temporarily incapacitated by old age, inﬁrmity, illness or accident. The Fund exists to assist Priests as regards needs that may arise that are not met by their retirement income and/or because of illness, etc prior to retirement. The income of the Fund comes from parish collections, donations, legacies and investment income. Applications for grants are submitted to Fund Trustees, who meet quarterly.

Chair: Rev Canon Simon Blakesley

Email: simon.blakesley@rcdea.org.uk

THE ST EDMUND’S FUND

Dcn Tony Felton, 6 Borough End, Beccles, Suﬀolk. NR34 9YW

Mob: 07985 228397

Email: atfelton@lineone.net

PORT CHAPLAINCY

Felixstowe: Rev Michael Smith, St Felix’s Presbytery, 8 Gainsborough Road, Felixstowe IP11 7HT

Tel: 01394 282 561

Lay chaplain: Julian Wong (Stella Maris) Email: julian.wong@stellamarismail.org

King’s Lynn: Rev Canon Peter Rollings, Catholic Presbytery, North Everard Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 5HQ

Tel: 01553 772220

Lowestoft: Rev Pádraig Hawkins, The Presbytery, Gordon Road, Lowestoft, IP33 2DA

Tel: 01502 572453

REGISTRAR FOR DECEASED CLERGY

Rev Peter Wgnanski, The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Tel: 01508 492202

EAST ANGLIA DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES

Director: Dcn Huw Williams, 6 Westward Deals, Kedlington, Suﬀolk, CB9 7PN

Tel: 01440 708273

Email: huw.williams@rcdea.org.uk

ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF ST STEPHEN

Director: Rev Canon Peter Rollings, The Catholic Rectory, North Everard Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 5HQ

Tel: 01553 772220

Email: parishpriest763@gmail.com

EAST ANGLIA DIOCESAN ARCHIVES

Archives - documents, books and artefacts – recording the life and history of the Catholic Church in East Anglia are lodged at the Cathedral. Parishes are encouraged to commit their records to the Archives, and new material is always welcome. Researchers please contact the Archivist.

Diocesan Archivists: Michael and Gill Hill

CATHOLIC POLICE CHAPLAINS

Email: archive@rcdea.org.uk

Cambridgeshire: Rev Canon John Minh, 135 High Street, Sawston, CB22 3HJ Tel: 01223 832397

Norfolk: Dcn Nick Greef, 18, Levine Close, Norwich, Norfolk, NR13 5RH

Suﬀolk: TBA

Tel: 01603 715066

Peterborough: Dcn John Bedford (All Souls, Peterborough). Tel: 07733 441620

CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN TO THE TRAVELLING COMMUNITY

Chaplain: Rev Pádraig Hawkins

Email: padraig.hawkins@rcdea.org.uk

Sacramental Catechist: Sr Tamsin Geach

Email: tasmsingeachop@gmail.com

FRIENDS OF THE VENERABILE

(The Venerable English College in Rome). Registered Charity No 1075141

Founded in 1985 and supports the students of the College with prayers, encouragement and ﬁnancial help. From these students come some of our future priests. To ﬁnd out more or to join the Friends contact:

Chairman: Mike Lang

Tel: 01364 644811

Email: mikelang537@btinternet.com

BISHO P'S C ONFERENCE SPIRITUALITY COMMITTEE

Diocesan Representative: Dr Margaret Mary McFadyen, 6 St Ethelbert’s Close, Thurton, Norfolk, NR14 6BA

Tel: 07984 530650

Email: mmmcfadyen@gmail.com

THE CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST TRUST

The Cathedral Trust is a separate charity, with a small number trustees, from across the Diocese, appointed by the Bishop.

DIOCESE ENVIRONMENTAL LEADS

Chair: TBA Leads: Barbara Burnett, Rhona Lewis, Judith Tooth

Contact: eco@rcdea.org.uk

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A year in the life of the Diocese

Here is a pictorial record of memorable events during late 2023 and 2024 across the Diocese of East Anglia.

NOVEMBER 2023: Caritas in East Anglia celebrated its inaugural deanery festival in Cambridge, with Bishop Peter Collins leading Mass and highlighting the pivotal role of Catholic volunteers.

NOVEMBER 2023: Sr Maryjohn Kamps renewed her temporary vows, and Sr Mary Gonçalves FDC made her final vows at OLEM, Cambridge, in a Sacred Liturgy led by Bishop Peter Collins, marking a significant spiritual milestone.

NOVEMBER 2023: His Eminence Cardinal Virgilio do Carmo of East Timor visited Catholic

NOVEMBER 2023: Headteachers from across the Diocese of East Anglia met at the Conference Centre at the White House in Poringland for the Autumn Conference hosted by the Diocesan Schools Service.

DECEMBER 2023: Bishop Peter Collins celebrated a special gathering with Diocese of East Anglia seminarians at Christmas, highlighting the unity and spiritual journey of East Anglia’s future priests.

YEAR IN THE LIFE

DECEMBER 2023: Creating local media and faith communities in Norwich was the aim of the Creating Connections Conference at Norwich Anglican Cathedral, organised by the Religion Media Centre, which heard from Bishop Peter Collins and communications director Keith Morris.

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Please see our website: clarepriory.org.uk where our programme of events is regularly updated.

DECEMBER 2023: In an eco-conscious move, Hunstanton’s Our Lady of Perpetual Succour & St Edmund church invested £27,000 in solar panels, demonstrating a commitment to sustainability and long-term economic savings.

YEAR IN THE LIFE

DECEMBER 2023: Over 1000 people packed into St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich on Christmas Eve for the Nativity of the Lord Family Mass.

JANUARY 2024: Around a dozen East Anglian Catholic churches, including Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge, were among 5,000 across the United Kingdom that have benefitted from a £42 million Government conservation fund in the past year.

JANUARY 2024: Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury commissioned pairs of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from across the world at the Basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome, including Bishop Peter Collins.

JANUARY 2024: Over 40 Anglican and Catholic bishops convened in Norwich, in a joint meeting for services and group discussions about the ways in which the two denominations can work together more closely, as well as understanding each other better.

JANUARY 2024: Bishop Peter Collins met Pope Francis at the Basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome at the IARCCUM gathering.

YEAR IN THE LIFE

FEBRUARY 2024: Priests and deacons working in the Diocese of East Anglia attended Safeguarding training events across the diocese.

FEBRUARY 2024: At the Rite of Election in St John’s Cathedral in Norwich, Bishop Peter Collins welcomed over 80 catechumens and candidates from across the Diocese of East Anglia who will be received into the Church at Easter.

FEBRUARY 2024: A second Caritas Festival in East Anglia was held at St Mary’s in the Ipswich deanery festival.

FEBRUARY 2024: The Sisters of the Community of Our Lady of Walsingham led a mission for three churches across two parishes in Ipswich.

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FEBRUARY 2024: Bishop Peter Collins celebrated Lenten Station Masses at the seven deaneries across the Diocese of East Anglia, including at All Souls in Peterborough.

FEBRUARY 2024: The Diocese of East Anglia introduced a Day of Prayer for Engaged Couples, inviting them to receive a special blessing, emphasizing the spiritual foundation of marriage amidst their preparations, including at Our Lady of the Assumption and the English Martyrs Cambridge.

YEAR IN THE LIFE

FEBRUARY 2024: Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church in Cambridge hosted His Excellency Archbishop Savio Hon SDB, Papal Nuncio to Malta and Libya, to conduct a Lunar New Year Thanksgiving Mass.

FEBRUARY 2024: The Diocese of East Anglia held its third Commissioning Mass for the Listening and Prayer Ministry, during which Bishop Peter Collins commissioned another seven Helpers to join the current team,

2024: The annual Diocese of East Anglia safeguarding event saw Parish Safeguarding Reps and other delegates from across the diocese gather at Wymondham to share experiences; to listen to safeguarding experts and to pray together.

YEAR IN THE LIFE

MARCH

MARCH 2024: Bishop Peter Collins led the annual Chrism Mass in Norwich, attended by hundreds, emphasising our baptismal calling and the sacredness of the holy oils.

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MARCH 2024: Students from St John Fisher Catholic High School, Peterborough, enjoyed a visit from Bishop Peter Collins and Diocesan Schools Director Dr Andy Stone.

MARCH 2024: The Diocese of East Anglia’s permanent deacons met for their annual retreat in Walsingham, focusing on divine friendship, with discussions led by Fr Alban McCoy and Bishop Peter Collins.

YEAR IN THE LIFE

MARCH 2024: The Mass of the Lord’s Supper was celebrated by Bishop Peter Collins at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich on Maundy Thursday, where he ceremonially washed the feet of 12 parishioners.

MARCH 2024: Following an energetic and encouraging retreat day led by Derrick Williams aimed at adults, St John Fisher in Cambourne church then hosted a children and youth enrichment day.

APRIL 2024: The St John’s Cathedral Choir welcomed the Girls Choir of St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, and their director, Blánaid Murphy, to sing at Mass and Vespers in Norwich.

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MAY 2024: The Diocese of East Anglia held its annual pilgrimage to the Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady, Walsingham, attended by around 1100 people.

MAY 2024: This year’s Ignite Festival took place at St Benedict’s High School, Bury St Edmunds, gathering around 250 young people from around the Diocese, one of the largest attendances ever.

MAY 2024: At a joyous celebration, Deacon Anthony Asomugha was ordained to the priesthood at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Norwich.

MAY 2024: Around 600 children and parents joined the Diocese of East Anglia’s annual Children’s Pilgrimage to Walsingham led by Bishop Peter Collins.

MAY 2024: The third Caritas East Anglia deanery festival took place in Gorleston and brought together organisations involved in social outreach from across St Peter’s Coastal deanery.

JUNE 2024: Over 1,500 parishioners packed out Peterborough’s Anglican Cathedral for the biennial Catholic One Mass.

JUNE 2024: The Parish of The Sacred Heart and St Oswald in Peterborough celebrated the arrival of the relics of St Jacinta and St Francesco, and the National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima with a vibrant two-day event featuring a procession and open air Mass.

JUNE 2024: The Papal Nuncio to Great Britain, His Excellency Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, paid a three-day visit to the Diocese of East Anglia and visited Newmarket, Poringland, Norwich, Quidenham, King’s Lynn, Oxburgh Hall and Walsingham meeting priests, pupils and parishioners.

JUNE 2024: Over 200 people gathered for the annual Marriage Celebration Mass at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich to celebrate the joy of holy matrimony and significant anniversaries, including Terry and Rodger Germany who were married 64 years ago at OLEM in Cambridge.

JULY 2024: Bishop Peter Collins marked the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood by celebrating Mass in St John the Baptist Cathedral in Norwich.

JULY 2024: Bishop Peter Collins visited St Alban’s High School in Ipswich for the first time and was given a tour and celebrated a Mass, attended by 750 students.

JULY 2024: A challenging but rewarding 120km Diocese of East Anglia youth Camino, led by Bishop Peter Collins, followed the Way of St James from Portugal to Santiago de Compostela in NW Spain.

AUGUST 2024: More than 50 pilgrims from across East Anglia joined with 400 others for the Catholic Association annual pilgrimage to Lourdes.

SEPTEMBER 2024: Almost 700 pupils, representing each of the 28 diocesan schools, gathered together at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich for the Annual Schools Mass.

SEPTEMBER 2024: A 40-strong group from the Diocese of East Anglia participated in the National Eucharistic Congress, Adoremus, held at St Mary’s College, Oscott.

SEPTEMBER 2024: A record 500 devotees attended the 14th annual pilgrimage and fluvial procession for the Feast of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, based at St Helen’s Church in Hoveton, Norfolk.

SEPTEMBER 2024: The Catholic National Shrine in Walsingham hosted the Dowry of Mary Pilgrimage. Led by Archbishop of Liverpool Malcolm McMahon, accompanied by Bishop Emeritus Alan Hopes, the event drew a crowd of around 3,500 people

OCTOBER 2024: At the start of the Ignite Year, Bishop Peter Collins led a special commissioning service for the new team in his private chapel at the White House in Poringland. Bishop Peter prayed over each of them and blessed them, sending them out to share the good news of Jesus across the diocese.

YEAR IN THE LIFE

Fr Anthony Asomugha

On Saturday May 18, in a joyous celebration, Dcn Anthony Asomugha was ordained to the priesthood at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Norwich. Joshua Clovis reports.

n The ceremony was led by Bishop Peter Collins, with Bishop Emeritus Alan Hopes, also in attendance. Many other clergy members, family, friends, and parishioners joined in the celebration.

Fr Anthony Asomugha’s family moved to the UK in 2006 and settled in South East London. He initially applied for priestly formation in the Southwark Archdiocese but was unsuccessful.

Following advice to pursue a university degree, he joined the diocese in 2011 as an undergraduate student in Economics at the University of East Anglia. Towards the end of his time at UEA, he reapplied for priestly formation and was accepted by Bishop Emeritus Alan. In the year of his graduation, 2014, he joined Allen Hall Seminary in Chelsea, London.

Bishop Peter delivered the homily during the Mass, emphasizing the true calling of a priest. He said, “Understand clearly, from the outset, that the project and the intention that you are called to embrace is not that which is fashioned by yourself but rather that which is fashioned by Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. A priest is called to offer himself, to sacrifice himself, in communion with Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. In the midst of his fellow disciples, in the midst of all his brothers and

Fr Anthony Asomugha is ordained by Bishop Peter Collins.

sisters, the priest is called to empty himself to the point where he has nothing to offer up other than Christ himself.

“In allegiance to the teaching of St Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, which presents the earliest account of the institution of the Holy Eucharist, the priest must serve the “project and intention” of Christ himself and proclaim: this is what I received from the Lord, and in turn pass on to you – this is my body, which is for you – this cup is the new covenant in my blood.” After the homily, Fr Anthony Asomugha took his sacred vows, marking the start of his priestly journey.

Fr Anthony’s journey began very young. “I knew I wanted to be a priest from a very young age – about 6 or 7 years old,” he recalls. “As a child, I was fascinated with God, and I had (and still have) an appetite for philosophy and theology. I regard this appetite as a gift – to be interested in the truth, and in the meaning of life. Jesus said “no one can come to Me unless the Father draws him” (John 6:44) – this curiosity, fascination, or interestedness, was me being drawn to the mystery of God. The liturgy with its drama and awesomeness fed my fascination with the transcendent. And it was upon seeing my parish priest ascend the sanctuary vested in his chasuble that I knew that I wanted to pray in that way – and so I did, with my altar, crucifix, Bible and (makeshift) chasuble – and I was genuinely praying, not acting.”

Reflecting on the day, and his first Mass the following day, Fr Anthony said: “The ordination ceremony was like a dream, as was the first Mass on Pentecost Sunday. Many thanks to all who attended, and to those who work to make these occasions a success. I am grateful to Bishop Emeritus Alan for his steadfast support of my vocation and to Bishop Peter for his confidence, support, and for the gift of Holy Orders. I am also grateful to all my friends for their support, to my family who never doubted my vocation, and to my parents who nourished my faith as a child. I look forward to being that definite instrument through which the mystery of the Eucharist draws more people unto eternal life.”

Following the Mass, there were photos, a large shared buffet, and an opportunity to receive a blessing from Fr Anthony.

Fr John Morrill

World-renowned historian, Cambridge professor and Newmarket Deacon, Rev John Morrill, was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich on September 21.

n A 250-strong congregation of clergy, family, friends, former students and university colleagues saw Dcn John, aged 78, ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Peter Collins.

In his homily, Bishop Peter said: “This man has heard the voice of God calling to him on so many occasions, a man who has willingly and generously responded to the call of Jesus in so many ways across a lifetime. John has a global academic reputation and has earned accolades and fellowships too many to mention. He has written a tottering tower of books and produced a cascade of learned papers and more projects approach completion even now. I cannot fail to mention how poignant it is that the world’s most renowned Cromwellian scholar is about to be ordained as a Catholic priest.

“This man has loved much and is loved much. It was your wife Frances who was your true tutor in the Catholic faith,” said Bishop Peter. “She looks on and is holding you steady this day. Your beloved children are here today – Rachel, Ruth, Naomi and Clare. They all rejoice in bearing witness to the integrity of your life as a husband, as a father, as a friend and to the integrity of your ministerial service as a deacon. We all delight to behold your future sacrificial ministry as a priest.

“As your Bishop I implore you to lead a life worthy of your vocation – continue to do all you can to preserve the unity of the spirit by the peace that binds us together. The voice of the Lord, as addressed to St Matthew, now addresses you: ‘follow me, follow me now and for ever, amen’.”

Addressing the congregation, after his ordination, Fr John said: “Most of my debt for being here today, apart from God Himself and the Holy Spirit, goes to the people of the church, and I should say the churches, because my ecumenical life is so rich and important to me. God is a God of surprises and the challenge of ordination was for too long only a matter of the head not the heart, until the last three years. God has sharp elbows and you can resist but you know that he is digging you in the ribs.

Speaking before the ordination, John said: “I was born into a deeply loving Anglican family.” He grew up in a parish in Hale, Cheshire, where he was confirmed and received his first communion at the age of 16. However, his faith journey was not always smooth. After starting at Oxford University in 1964, he admits, “my faith wavered”. By the time he married his late wife, Frances, in 1968, he was practising his faith, but soon after, he entered a period of “anguished agnosticism”, describing himself as “paradoxically being angry with God for not existing.”

Frances, his wife, remained a quietly faithful Catholic throughout this period. Dcn John often sought solace by speaking with Fr Geoffrey Preston, a Dominican priest who had officiated at their wedding. “I always felt better after our conversations, but I still could not experience the presence of God,” he reflects. In 1977, Fr Geoffrey died young, and Dcn John attended his Requiem Mass in Leicester during Holy Week. It was here that everything changed. “I found the whole church full of the peace I had experienced when I was with him, and in an instant, I realised that when I was with Fr Geoffrey, I was with God. I had been thinking too much and opening my heart too little.”

From that moment, Dcn John felt God enter his heart, and his faith was restored. Six months later, on December 8, 1977, he was received into full communion with the Catholic Church at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. Over the next 15 years, Dcn John became more involved in parish life in Newmarket, while also working as a history lecturer and later as a professor at Cambridge University. His role as a pastoral guide to students, combined with his growing involvement in taking Holy Communion to the housebound, deepened his faith further. “Nothing did more to deepen my faith than this,” he says of his time visiting a care home for those with advanced dementia. It was during this time that he sensed a new calling. “In prayer, it became clear that God was calling me to link these two things – pastoral care of the young and the old.”

After three years of formation, Dcn John was ordained a deacon in 1996. Reflecting on his 28 years of service, he said: “I had no idea what being a deacon would entail, nor how I could find the time for that service as well as being a good husband, father to our four daughters, and a hands-on academic.” Yet, he humbly acknowledges, “It turns out God can do with time what he does with loaves and fishes!”

Over the years, Dcn John has been privileged to be part of significant moments in people’s lives, from baptisms and funerals to marriages, and has provided pastoral care for the housebound, dying, and bereaved. His experience as a teacher also found a place within the Church, as he taught future deacons for 15 years at the seminary.

In 2007, Dcn John faced personal loss when his wife Frances died of cancer. On her gravestone, he placed the words his mother had chosen: “you have showed us the way.” Reflecting on Frances’ life and death, Dcn John said: “Her confidence in God’s love and mercy was a new source of inspiration.” While Bishop Michael Evans encouraged him to consider the priesthood after Frances’ death, Dcn John felt no call at that time but remained deeply committed to his vocation as a deacon.

As he celebrated the silver jubilee of his ordination as a deacon, just after his 75th birthday, Dcn John began to reflect on retirement. “I was just beginning, for the first time, to feel a little stale,” he admits. However, three significant pastoral events occurred in quick succession, all relating to sacraments he could not administer as a deacon. He describes these moments as “three mighty shoves in the ribs”, recognising them as direct calls from God, just like those he had received in 1977 and 1991.

After much prayer, retreats, and study, and with the support of his spiritual director and Bishop Peter, Dcn John embraced this new call to priesthood. “Calling me after the mandatory retirement age of 75 (I am 78) suggests both that God has a sense of humour and that He thinks outside the box,” he said.

Dcn John has held several senior positions in the Diocese of East Anglia, such as Lourdes Pilgrimage Diocesan Director, Chair of the Commission for Evangelisation and Assistant Director for Diaconal Formation, and he taught Church and pastoral history between 2005 and 2020 at St John’s Seminary, Wonersh.

Fr John Morrill with his four daughters and Bishop Peter at his ordination to the priesthood in Norwich in September.

Sister Rachel Gregory OCD

Quidenham-based Carmelite nun and former Prioress, Sister Rachel Gregory OCD, renowned author of more than a dozen books on prayer and the spiritual life, died on November 10, aged 100. Sister Teresa Keswick ODC gives an appreciation.

n Sr Rachel (better known to her reading public by her pen name Ruth Burrows), entered the Carmelite Monastery at Mansfield in Derbyshire at the age of 18; for 82 years of her life she was an enclosed Carmelite contemplative nun. As a young prioress of 36, she realised that the small Carmel over which she presided had no realistic future, so she organized an amalgamation with the monastery at Quidenham in Norfolk: a much bigger community in a much bigger house in the countryside, full of potential for expansion. She arrived here in 1960 and stayed.

Rachel was my novice mistress and then my prioress, which means that this appreciation of her many qualities is personal. Her profound understanding of people, whether young or old, meant that she was an extraordinary listener, who combined sympathy with a highly practical way of thinking and also of expressing herself. She knew from within, and without ever dodging them in herself, the frailties of human nature.

Rachel was the author of more than a dozen books on prayer and the mystical life, under her pen name of Ruth Burrows. On the back cover of one of her later books, a blurb described her as “one of Britain’s greatest spiritual guides.”

Rachel was a scripture and theology scholar in her own right, entirely self-taught, and a born teacher. The conferences she gave to her novices were the basis of the books she was subsequently to write.

One felt that not only did she know the Gospels, but that she lived them. Following Jesus in her everyday and humdrum life was essential to her and encouraging others to do the same was the mainstay of her existence.

Once her first books were published, her scholarship and grasp of the human situation

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began to attract people. One of her greatest fans was a young Passionist priest, who was later to become a bishop in both Sweden and Britain and who is the best preacher I have ever heard. He remained a close and faithful friend to Rachel until she died. Another young priest, a Jesuit from the United States, wrote a long thesis on one of Rachel’s shorter books. He came to Quidenham to interview Rachel, somewhat alarmed by the very rural surroundings of the monastery and its general air of austerity. He was to become the president of a large and prestigious Roman Catholic university in America and he too remained a friend until Rachel died. These two, among many others, were a huge asset to the community: they would share their informed and intelligent knowledge with the sisters, to the advantage and pleasure of the latter.

One of Rachel’s many skills – some would say her greatest – was in the area of reform. She revelled in the documents that came from the Second Vatican Council, and was conscious, from the outset, of the necessity of the conclusions that they were drawing. She particularly welcomed the insights regarding the reforms to the religious life. Thanks to her, many out-ofdate and sometimes oppressive customs were swept away.

Rachel’s books remain in print, thanks to her publisher who considers their importance to be of enduring value.

One of the strangest and most rewarding aspects of her life was her close friendship with Sister Wendy Beckett. They made an impressive team, and Wendy’s constant encouragement and understanding gave Rachel the confidence to put her insights into practice. Sister Wendy became a household name thanks to her television programmes, where her extraordinary ability to convey to others her appreciation of art in all its forms and throughout the ages made her a huge success. Rachel was proud of this, but warned her of the dangers of becoming a celebrity.

Rachel herself never became a celebrity. There was a time when she was much in demand: to appear on television, talk on the radio, and give lectures as far away as America. To my knowledge, she turned them all down, on the basis of her valuing a perfectly ordinary Carmelite day above most things, and certain above fame and adulation. The only time she left the enclosure, in order to give a talk, was to help the women religious in East Anglia: they were local and she felt they deserved any support she could give them.

Rachel’s last two years were particularly hard; it was with relief and a feeling of liberation that I heard of her death. Now those who knew and loved her are entrusted with carrying on the good work she achieved in us. Her path to God was one of no consolation. She once told me that this was a royal road.

Fr Neville McClement

The Bishop of Northampton has paid tribute to Fr Neville McClement, who retired to Beccles in Suffolk, and who died in February, aged 91, as a consequence of being involved in a road traffic collision.

n A Requiem Mass was held for Fr Neville at Our Lady Star of the Sea in Lowestoft back on March 19, following his death in February. Fr Neville was ordained in 1958 and he retired in 1997.

The Northampton Vicar General, Canon Michael Harrison, spoke at the funeral saying: “Half a coachload of parishioners have come from St Martin de Porres Parish in Luton the final active parish of Fr Neville, where he served for 17 years. He was very much appreciated by the people there and they still remember him. He used to come back to do supply and for funerals and Luton was very much in his heart.”

Canon Michael also read a message from the Rt Rev Dr David Oakley, Bishop of Northampton, who wrote: “Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to meet Fr Neville but my heart has been touched by the many people who have spoken to me about him, since his death was announced.

“He is remembered with great affection by so many people. They speak of his pastoral solicitude and commitment to the people he was sent to serve. It is good to know that he was able to enjoy a long retirement in Beccles, and with a community he knew and loved.”

Fr Neville was born in Wisbech where he grew up and later returned many years later to care for his 90-year-old mother until her death. He had an early vocation and entered Usher Seminary, aged 16, along with Frs Philip and Tony Shryane.

His first appointment was as a curate at Great Yarmouth and later Lowestoft where his gentle but robust ministry especially to the youth won him many friends. He returned to Our Lady Star of the Sea in his retirement where, with his older brother Eric, he enjoyed many Sunday roast with parishioner Jenny Dowson and daughter Catherine, who kept a caring eye on them, along with other parishioners

The Diocese of Northampton was the one he chose to remain in when the Diocese of East Anglia was formed from the eastern counties .

Dcn Stephen Pomeroy said: “My personal memory of him in his retirement in Lowestoft is of a wise and experienced priest but one with firm action should the situation demand it. Beloved by so many, including children to whom he had a special gift in the sacrament of reconciliation. When attending Mass he always wore the most elegant and highly polished black shoes.”

The Suffolk Coroner’s Court inquest heard on September 9 that Fr Neville had spent his final months taking care of his older brother Eric, who had been diagnosed with bladder cancer. They were involved in a head-on car crash days after Christmas. The court heard that Fr Neville, of North Cove, had retired to Suffolk where he lived with Eric.

Fr Neville was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with fractures to his ribs and sternum. He was transferred to the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston where he died on February 6.

Assistant coroner for Suffolk, Dr Daniel Sharpstone, concluded that he had died as a consequence of being involved in a road traffic collision.

Fr Stephen Ortiger

Former Abbot of Worth Abbey and Titular Abbot of St Edmund’s Abbey, Bury St Edmunds, the Rt Rev Stephen Ortiger, died on January 27, after a period of ill health.

n Fr Stephen, aged 83 years, former Abbot of Worth, Sussex, was widely known in Catholic circles and renowned for his wisdom and knowledge. Educated at Downside, he went on to study history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

He was active in the Cambridge University chaplaincy at Fisher House and became president of the university’s student-run Catholic society.

From university he entered Worth as a novice, taking his religious name of Stephen. He was ordained a Benedictine priest in 1967 and taught in the Abbey’s secondary school, eventually becoming headmaster.

His links to East Anglia were rekindled when he became titular Abbot of St Edmund’s Abbey, Bury St Edmunds.

Local historian John Saunders explained, “A titular abbot is one who holds the title of abbot derived from a destroyed or suppressed abbey. In this instance Abbot Stephen was offered the title of an ancient abbey and happily chose Bury St Edmunds. A man of humour, Abbot Stephen defined the difference between a ruling abbot and a titular abbot as the latter having no trouble with his monks! In this case the monks departed the town in 1539.”

Retiring as Abbot in 2002, he returned to Fisher House in Cambridge before resuming his monastic life at Worth and becoming Episcopal Vicar for Religious Life in the Arundel & Brighton Diocese. In 2020 he became priest in charge of Our Lady Star of the Sea in East Preston, West Sussex. His funeral took place on February 17 at Worth Abbey.

FINANCIAL REPORT

The Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia – Summarised Accounts for 2023

Statement of Financial Activities

Total expenditure

£ 7,793,187 + 4% o/w parishes

£ 4,832,468 +13% diocese

Total revenue

Operating deficit

Investment gains (“paper gains”)

Total deficit

£ 2,960,719 - 9%

£6,758,812 + 8%

£ 1,034,375 -18%

£ 609,936

£ 424,439

Notes to the accounts

The Diocesan charity is principally funded by the freewill offerings of the faithful to the Church, about half of which comes through the offertory at Mass. Increasingly cash donations are giving way to standing orders and electronic payments.

Over the financial year 2023, the charity’s total income rose 8 per cent to £6.8 million. This means that cash income has now recovered to its level of 2017, but remains lower than the pre-pandemic peak and is some £2.5 million lower than in 2017 in inflationadjusted terms (see chart below)

Parish income accounted for 82 per cent of the total; the parishes’ offertory income rose 12 per cent over the year.

While this outperformed inflation significantly, the number of Mass attendances is also rising as the Church grows. Per-head donations fell in real terms, likely reflecting the increasing preponderance among Church members of families with children, and the less well-off.

Expenditure rose by 4 per cent, with parishes accounting for 62 per cent of the total. In inflation-adjusted terms, this means spending has been cut by £1 million compared to 2017. Staff costs rose 3.6 per cent, within which wages and salaries rose 1 per cent.

Central Diocesan ( Curia) spending is financed principally by a levy on parishes. The Curia supports the Bishop in his governance role and provides collective shared services to parishes and schools.

The chart below shows the proportion of Curia spending on each function budgeted for 2024.

Diocesan Unrestricted Funds Spending

Before investment gains, the charity continued to run at a deficit, although the shortfall reduced by 18 per cent during the year. After taking account of investment gains, the overall deficit was £0.4 million; this compares to a 2022 surplus that resulted from one-off gains from revaluing property assets. Total funds at the year-end fell by 1.1 per cent to £35.1 million.

Diocesan unrestricted funds fell by £1.5 million to £1.1 million. Parish unrestricted funds rose by £0.1 million to £27.2 million.

The Trustees’ investment policy has historically been that the charity’s investment portfolio should perform in line with the relevant market indices. During 2023, the value of quoted investments rose 6 per cent, which represented an outperformance of the FTSE -100 index over the same period. The Trustees at the end of 2023 decided to move their quoted investments to an ethical portfolio consistent with Catholic Social Teaching, while also meeting demanding targets for capital growth and income. This transfer of the investments to a provider and a portfolio which meet Catholic ethical standards is being put into effect during 2024.

The charity employed 51 staff on average during the year, a reduction of 2, of whom 32 were employed by parishes.

The charity’s cash consumption was £1.4 million, an increase from the previous year of £0.6 million. The rate of cash consumption attributable to operating activities doubled. £0.6 million of cash was used to purchase fixed assets, in particular accommodation for retired clergy. Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period stood at £4.8 million. This is compliant with the Trustees’ policy to maintain liquid reserves at least equal to 24 months’ budgeted expenditure.

Overall, the charity met the Trustees’ objective of keeping the rate of growth of expenditure below the rate of increase of income, and so maintaining a path of reducing the operating deficit. Further action will be necessary, however, to accelerate progress in deficit reduction and stem the drain on the charity’s cash reserves. As they set future budgets, the Trustees maintain and review a deficit reduction plan.

Plans for the Future

The Diocesan charity will have four key areas of focus in the near future:

n The Bishop has begun a process of consultation about the pastoral provision which the Diocese will be able to offer, given the known demographic constraint on the number of priests available to provide the sacraments; the challenge of providing enough priests is likely to increase over the next ten years; the process of consultation will continue during 2024 and into 2025;

n The Diocese will continue to work with schools and Multi- Academy Trusts, in line with the Trustees’ settled policy, to rapidly complete the academisation of all statefunded Catholic schools;

n The day to day operations of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist Trust will transfer to the Diocese and parish;

n The Diocese will continue to take the steps necessary to implement the Trustees’ deficit reduction path and put the charity’s finances on a long-term sustainable footing.

Full details of the Diocesan accounts for 2023 and the Trustees’ Annual Report are available on the Diocese’s website at: www.rcdea.org.uk/annual-report-and-accounts

SECOND COLLECTIONS FOR 2025

RACIAL JUSTICE

Sunday February 16 – Racial Justice Sunday

An optional collection. Send money to Catholic Trust for England and Wales (CaTEW) via Diocesan Finance Office. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

CAFOD

Sunday March 16 – Family Fast Day Friday March 14

An optional collection of donations raised on Family Fast Day. Send money to: CAFOD Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JB

HOLY LAND SHRINES

Good Friday – April 18 – Holy Places of Palestine

A mandatory collection. Send money to the Diocesan Finance Oﬃce. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

VOCATIONS

Sunday May 11 – Vocations Sunday

A mandatory (Local Ordinary) collection, for the formation of our diocesan seminarians. Send money to Diocesan Finance Office. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

Sunday June 1 – World Communications Sunday

A mandatory (Holy See) collection. Send money to the Diocesan Finance Office. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE LIFE CHARITIES

Sunday June 15 – Day for Life

A mandatory (CBCEW) collection. Send money to CaTEW via Diocesan Finance Oﬃce. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

PETE R’S PENCE

Sunday June 29 – Peter’s Pence

A mandatory (Holy See) collection. Send money to Diocesan Finance Office. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

STELLA MARIS

Sunday July 13 – Sea Sunday

A mandatory collection. Send money to: Freepost RTKT-KCYH-BBYA, Stella Maris, 39 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1BX

CATHOLIC EDUCATION SERVICE

Sunday September 14 – Education Sunday

An optional collection. Send money to Diocesan Finance Office. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE

Sunday September 21 – Evangelii Gaudium (Home Mission) Sunday

A mandatory (CBCEW) collection. Send money to CaTEW via Diocesan Finance Office. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

CAFOD

Sun, October 5 – Harvest Fast Day Friday October 3

An optional collection of donations raised on Family Fast Day. Send money to: CAFOD Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JB

MISSIO ( THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH )

Sunday October 19 – World Mission Sunday

A mandatory (Holy See) collection. Send money to: Mgr Canon James Cronin, National Director Missio, 23 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1NU

CARITAS EAST ANGLIA/ST EDMUND’S FUND

Sunday November 2 – Diocesan Social Outreach

An optional collection. Send money to Diocesan Finance Office. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICE

Sunday November 23 – Youth Sunday

An optional collection. Send money to Diocesan Finance Office. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

DIOCESAN DEPENDENT PRIESTS’ FUND

Sunday December 14 – Dependent Priests

A mandatory (Local Ordinary) collection. Send money to Diocesan Finance Office. Please make cheques payable to RCDEA.

MISSIONARY ORDERS

There is an annual mission appeal by one or more religious orders dedicated to missionary work overseas.

Key:

PARISH DIRECTORY

(+) Indicates registered for marriages

Indicates wheelchair access

Indicates loop system for hearing-aid users installed

Many parishes are now live-streaming at least some of their Masses. Please see their own websites for current details.

Parish 1

(+) CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

Address Earlham Road, Norwich, NR2 2PA. (1722; 1894; 1910; cons 1957)

Tel 01603 624615

Email parish@sjbcathedral.org.uk

Web www.sjbcathedral.org.uk

Clergy

Rev Alan Hodgson (Cathedral Dean)

Rev Dr Mark Ashwood (Assistant Priest)

Address Cathedral House, Unthank Road, NR2 2PA

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 9am, 11am, 5.30pm (first Sun of the month, 3pm, 1962 Latin Rite). Sunday Vespers: 4.30

Hds: 7.30am, 10am, 12.30pm, 7pm

Daily Mass: 10am. Please check weekly newsletter on website.

Confessions Sat 10.30-11am, 5.15-6pm; Sun 4.45-5.30pm; Tues 6-6.30pm, or by appointment

Duckett Library Tel: 01603 724383

Open Tues & Thurs 10.30am-12.30pm, Sun after 9am Mass

Email: duckettlibrary@sjbcathedral.org.uk

Cathedral Shop Tel: 01603 728937 (During opening hours)

Narthex Tel: 01603 724380

Schools

Hospitals

Email: admin@sjbcathedral.org.uk

St Francis of Assisi Primary School

Notre Dame High School

Notre Dame Prep School

Colman Hospital

Priscilla Bacon Lodge

Norwich Community Hospital

Julian Hospital

Norwich BUPA Hospital

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Other places of worship in the Parish:

(+) WEST EARLHAM, Holy Apostles,

Tel: 01603 441484

Tel: 01603 611431

Tel: 01603 625593

Tel: 01603 255720

Tel: 01603 776600

Tel: 01603 776776

Tel: 01603 421421

Tel: 01603 456181

Tel: 01603 286286

Address Scarnell Road, West Earlham. (1953, 1996)

Tel 01603 624615

Email parish@sjbcathedral.org.uk

Clergy from the Cathedral

Mass Sat 5pm Syro Malabar (Anticipatory), Sun 10am, 4pm - Syro Malabar, Wed 6pm (UEA Chaplaincy) Night Vigil 1st Fri 7-10pm

Confessions After Sun Mass

ACLE - see Great Yarmouth (Parish 20)

ALCONBURY (RAF Station)

Address

Huntingdon, Cambs, PE28 4DA

Tel 01480 843343

Clergy Rev Alexander Labacevic, Catholic Chaplain Capt USAF (Catholic Chaplain, 501 CSW/HC, RAF Alconbury AB)

Email ihar.labacevic.1@us.af.mil

Mass Sun 9am (Alconbury)

Tues and Thurs 11.15 am (RAF Molesworth)

Confessions By appointment

Parish 2 ALDEBURGH, Suffolk. (+) OUR LADY AND ST PETER

Address 15 The Terrace, Aldeburgh, IP15 5HJ (1906; 1924)

Clergy Rev Canon David Bagstaff

Tel 01728 452782

Email david.bagstaff@rcdea.org.uk

Web ourladyandstpeteraldeburgh.com

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 11am; Hds 10am

Confessions Sat 5.30pm

Hospitals

Aldeburgh and District Community Hosp Tel: 01728 443850

Care Homes Aldringham Court

Chantry House

Garrett House

Leiston Old Abbey

Norwood House

Other places of worship in the Parish:

LEISTON, Suffolk (+)

Tel: 01728 832191

Tel: 01728 733833

Tel: 01728 453249

Tel: 01728 830944

Tel: 01728 668600

Address All Saints, Seaward Avenue, Leiston IP16 4BA. (1919; 1964)

Services Sun 9.15am; Hds 7pm

Confessions Sun 9am

ATTLEBOROUGH, Norfolk. See Wymondham (Parish 52)

AYLSHAM, Norfolk. See North Walsham (Parish 33)

BAR HILL, Cambs. See Our Lady and English Martyrs, Cambridge (Parish 8)

Parish 3 BECCLES, Suffolk. (+) ST BENET’S MINSTER

Address St Mary’s Road, Beccles, NR34 9NR (1898; 1901; cons 1908)

Tel 01502 713179

Email stbenetsparish@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.saintbenetsbeccles.org

Clergy Rev Canon Simon Blakesley (Parish Priest)

Email simon.blakesley@rcdea.org.uk

Deacons Rev Anthony Felton

Mass Sun 11am

Hds times vary, see newsletter/website

Confessions By appointment

School St Benet’s Primary School Tel: 01502 712012

Hospital War Memorial Hospital Tel: 01502 719800

Other places of worship in the Parish:

GILLINGHAM, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour,

Address Gillingham, Norfolk, NR34 0AE

Web www.gillinghamcatholicchurch.com

Services Fri 6pm, Hds times vary, see newsletter/website

BLAKENEY, Norfolk. See Walsingham (Parish 48)

Parish 4 BRANDON, Suffolk. (+) St Thomas of Canterbury

Address

Brandon Rd, Weeting, Brandon, IP27 0PT (1923; 1976: cons 1993)

Tel 01842 812200

Email bmrcparish@priest.com

Web www.stthomas-stjohnparish.com

Clergy Rev Anil Zachary, 18 Stuart Close, Brandon, IP27 0HB

Mass Sun 9am (Polish), 11am

Hds times vary, see newsletter/website Confessions After Sunday Mass and by appointment

Nursing Home

Brandon Park Tel: 01842 812400

Other places of worship in the Parish:

MILDENHALL, St John the Evangelist,

Address St John’s Close, Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 7NX

Mass Sun 9am

Hds times vary, see newsletter/Web Confessions Before Sunday Mass and by appointment

Residential Homes Mabbs Hall Tel: 01638 712222

Mildenhall Lodge Tel: 01638 778537

BRANTHAM, Suffolk. See St Mark’s, Ipswich. (Parish 25)

BRETTON, Peterborough. See Peterborough (Parish 37)

Parish 5 BUCKDEN, Cambs (+) St Hugh of Lincoln

Address The Towers, Buckden, St Neots, PE19 5TA (1957) (Claretian Missionaries (CMF)

Tel 01480 810344

Email: sthugh.buckden@gmail.com

Web: www.facebook.com/St-Hugh-of-Lincoln-church-105174025184970

Clergy

Rev Jim Kennedy CMF (Superior)

Rev Paul Smyth CMF (Parish Priest)

Rev Jude Arinze CMF

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 8am, 10am; Hds 12noon, 7pm

Confessions Sat 9.45-10.15am

Prison

HMP Littlehey Tel: 01480 335000

Chaplain Dcn Prameel Joseph, Tel: 01354 602726

Parish 6

BUNGAY, Suffolk. (+) St Edmund, King and Martyr

Address 1 St Mary’s Street, Bungay, NR35 1AX (1657, 1823, 1891, cons 1910)

Tel 01986 893355

Email simon.blakesley@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.stedmundsrcbungay.org.uk

Clergy

Rev Canon Simon Blakesley (Parish Priest)

Mass Sun 9am

Hds vary - see parish website/newsletter

Confessions Sat 9.30am and by appointment.

School St Edmund’s Primary School

Other places of worship in the Parish:

HARLESTON, Norfolk. St Thomas More,

Address Jays Green, Harleston, IP20 9HH

Mass Sat 6pm, Hds - see newsletter

BURNHAM MARKET, Norfolk. See Walsingham (Parish 48)

Parish 7

Tel: 01986 892502

BURY ST EDMUNDS, Suffolk. (+) St Edmund, King and Martyr

Address 21 Westgate St, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1QG (1685; 1791; 1837)

Tel 01284 754358

Email st.edmunds@btinternet.com

Web www.stedmundkm.org.uk

Clergy

Deacons

Rev Dr Sean Connolly (Parish Priest)

Rev Anthony Asomugha (Assistant Priest)

Rev Alan McMahon

Rev Brett Gladden

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 8.30am 10.30am

Hds 9.30am, 12 noon, 7pm

Syro Malabar Rite Mass: First Sat 3pm, Third Sun 1.30pm

Polish Mass: Sun 4.45pm

Confessions Sat 10.30-11am; Wed 10.30-11am

Schools

St Edmund’s Primary School Tel: 01284 755141

St Benedict’s Upper School Tel: 01284 753512

Hospitals West Suffolk Hospital Tel: 01284 713000

Nuffield Hospital

St Nicholas’ Hospice

Other places of worship in the Parish:

Tel: 01284 701371

Tel: 01284 766133

COLDHAM COTTAGE, Suffolk, Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph, Address Bury Road, Lawshall, IP29 4PL

Mass Sun 10.30am, Hds Vigil M 7pm

Confessions On request

GREAT BARTON, Suffolk, Benedictine Sisters of Our Lady of Grace and Compassion,

Address East Barton Road, Great Barton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2RF

Tel 01284 787321

Fax 01284 788012

Email admin@montanacarehome.com

Web www.montanacarehome.com

Sister Superior: Sr Thaya Moses OSB

Mass Sun 10.30am, Mon to Fri 10.30am

Facility Residential and Sheltered Accommodation for the Elderly

CAISTER-ON-SEA, Norfolk. See Great Yarmouth (Parish 20)

CAMBOURNE, Cambs. See Sawston (Parish 41)

Parish 8

CAMBRIDGE, Our Lady of the Assumption & the English Martyrs (+)

Address Hills Road, CB2 1JR (1890)

Tel 01223 350787

Fax 01223 314843

Email olemoffice@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.olem.org.uk

Chancery Email: chancellor@rcdea.org.uk

Clergy Rt Rev Mgr Provost Eugène Harkness VF, OSB Obl, KCHS, GCStG, MA, STB, MCL, JCL (Chancellor)

Very Rev Dr Canon Giuseppe Rizzi (Assistant Priest)

Deacon Rev Dr Gianluca Savini

Pastoral Assistant Sr Mary Gonçalves FDC

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 8am, 9.30am, 11am; 1pm (Polish); 4.30pm; 6.30pm (Latin) Hds 6.15pm; 8am, 10am, 12.15pm; 7pm (Sung)

Confessions Sat 9-9.30am, 10.30-11.15am, 4.30-5.15pm

Religious Congregation of Jesus: 7/8 Brookside, CB2 1JE

Sr Maryluke Addyman CJ Tel: 01223 272910

Dominican Sisters: 155 Huntingdon Rd, CB3 0DH

Tel: 01223 353730

Schools

St Alban’s Primary School

St Mary’s School (Independent)

Tel: 01223 712148

Tel: 01223 353253

Other places of worship in the Parish:

BAR HILL, Cambs. (+) Church Centre, Hanover Close, Bar Hill, Cambridge. CB23 8EH

Clergy

Rev Adrian Gates (Priest-in-Charge)

Services Sun Vigil M Sat evng 6pm

DITTON LANE, Cambridge, St Vincent de Paul, 30 Ditton Lane, Cambridge. CB5 8SP

Clergy

Rev Adrian Gates (Priest-in-Charge)

Services Sun M 10.15am

BLACKFRIARS, Priory of St Michael, Archangel

Address Buckingham Road, Cambridge, CB3 ODD (1238, destroyed 1538, restored 1938)

Tel 01223 741251

Email cambridge@english.op.org

Web www.blackfriarscambridge.org.uk

Clergy

Very Rev Robert Verrill OP (Prior)

Rev Euan Marley OP

Rev Albert Robertson OP (Bursar)

Rev Gregory Pearson, OP (Sub Prior, Master of Novices)

Rev Robert Eccles OP

Rev Colin Carr OP

Rev Paul White OP

Mass Sun 8.15am, 9.15am (Latin), 11am (sung conventual); 6pm Sunday morning prayer, 7.45am. evening prayer 7pm

ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY

Chaplain: Sr Mary Gonçalves FDC

Tel: 01223 224865

Email: olemangliac@rcdea.org.uk

MARGARET BEAUFORT INSTITUTE, (Roman Catholic member body of the Cambridge Theological Foundation, offers qualifications in pastoral theology)

Address Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BJ

Tel 01223 741039

Email info@mbit.cam.ac.uk

Principal Dr Anna Abram

ST EDMUND’S COLLEGE CHAPEL (Cons 25th October 2000) (A constituent College of the University of Cambridge)

Address Mount Pleasant, Cambridge, CB3 0BN

Tel 01223 336123

Master: Prof Chris Young

Dean: Rev Ed Hone CSsR

Other Clergy:

Rev Prof Allen Brent MA, DD, PhD, MA (Educ) (Fellow Commoner); Rev Prof Alban McCoy OFM Conv BA, MLitt, MLitt (Emeritus Fellow & Praelector); Rev Deacon Dr Geoffrey Cook, MSc, PhD, (Life Fellow)

Mass Sun 10.30am, Hds 6.15pm

UNIVERSITY (See Cambridge University Chaplaincy)

Parish 9

CAMBRIDGE, St Laurence (+)

Address

91 Milton Road, CB4 1XB (1938; 1958; 2006

Tel 01223 704640

Email office@saintlaurence.org.uk

Web www.saintlaurence.org.uk

Clergy TBA

Email pp@saintlaurence.org.uk

Deacon

Rev Geoffrey Cook

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun M 8am, 9.30am, 11am

Hds M 9.30am, 7.30pm

Confessions Sat 10.15-11am; 5.30-5.55pm

Religious Canonesses of St Augustine: 58 St Matthews Gardens, CB1 2PJ

School

Hospital

Sr Jennifer Dines CSA

St Laurence Primary School

Spire Hospital

Milton Children’s Hospice

Parish 10

CAMBRIDGE, St Philip Howard (+)

Address

Tel: 01223 712227

Tel: 01223 266900

Tel: 01223 800800

33 Walpole Road, Cherry Hinton, CB1 3TH

Tel 01223 211235

Email sphcambridge@gmail.com

Web www.sphcambridge.org.uk

Clergy

Rev Philip John SM

Email philip.john@rcdea.org.uk

Deacon

Rev John Bell, 3 Applewood Close, Cherry Hinton, CB1 9NU Tel: 07502 560610

Mass Sat 5.30pm; Sun 10am, 12noon

Hds: 9.30am, 5.30pm

Syro Malabar Rite Mass – 1st and 2nd Sun at 7.40am, 3rd and 4th Sun at 3.15pm

Night Vigil 3rd Friday 6 – 9pm

Confessions Fri and Sat after Mass

School

St Bede’s Inter-Church Secondary School Tel: 01223 568816

Hospitals All chaplaincy referrals must be made directly to the Chaplaincy Office in the first instance.

Cambridge University Hospital Tel: 01223 217769, Chaplaincy

Rosie Maternity

Brookfields

Arthur Rank Hospice

Fulbourn Hospital

Ida Darwin Hospital

Tel: 01223 217769, Chaplaincy

Tel: 01223 603051

Tel: 01223 675777, Chaplaincy

Tel: 01223 726789

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CATHOLIC CHAPLAINCY

Address Fisher House, Guildhall Street, CB2 3NH

Tel 01223 742192

Web www.fisherhouse.org.uk

Email: pjk1001@cam.ac.uk

Staff

Rev Paul Keane MA, STL (Chaplain)

Rev Albert Robertson OP (Assistant Chaplain)

Sr Charlotte Cummins OP (Assistant Chaplain)

Mass Term time: Sun 9.30am (Sung Latin); 11am (Sung English); 5.30pm

Vacation: Sun 10.30am (Sung English)

Confessions 12 to 1pm Saturday

CAMBRIDGE POLISH MISSION

Address Polonia House, 231, Chesterton Road, Cambridge, CB4 1AS

Tel 01223 368539

Clergy

Rev Waldemar Niewinski

Mass Sun 12.45 at Our Lady and English Martyrs (Parish 8)

Mass in Polish also available in Huntingdon Parish.

CHATTERIS Cambs. See March (Parish 31)

Parish 11

CLARE, Suffolk. (+) Mother of Good Counsel

Address Clare Priory, Ashen Road, CO10 8NX (Founded 1248; restored 1953) Augustinian (OSA) Retreat and Prayer Centre

Tel 01787 277326

Email clarepriory@clarepriory.net

Web www.clarepriory.org.uk

Clergy

Rev Stefan Park OSA (Prior)

Rev George Donaghy OSA (Parish Priest)

Rev David Middleton OSA

Mass Sat (Vigil) 5.30pm, Sun 8am, 10am Hds Vigil 7pm, 10am

Confessions Sat 4.30 - 5.15pm and on call

Prison HMP Highpoint North Stradishall, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9YG Tel: 01440 743595

COLDHAM COTTAGE Suffolk. See Bury St Edmunds (Parish 7)

Parish 12

COSTESSEY, Norfolk. (+) Our Lady and St Walstan

Address The Presbytery, Townhouse Rd, Costessey, NR8 5AA (1564; 1841; 2006)

Tel 01603 742812

Email david.ward@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.stwalstans.com

Clergy Rev David Ward

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 10.30am Hds 9.15am, 7pm

Confessions Weds, 6-6.30pm; Sat 10.30-11am

Hospital Spire Hospital Norwich Tel: 01603 456181

School St Augustine’s Primary School Tel: 01603 743317

CROMER Norfolk. See Sheringham (Parish 42)

Parish 13

DEREHAM, Norfolk. (+) Sacred Heart and St Margaret Mary

Address

35 London Road, East Dereham, NR19 1AS (1912; 1925; 1951)

Tel 01362 694066

Email edsacredheart@gmail.com

Web www.sacredheartdereham.org.uk

Clergy Rev Jaylord Magpuyo

Deacon Rev Martin Sanderson

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 9am, 11am Hds 10am, 7.30pm

Confessions Sat 5.30pm and by appointment.

Religious House: Community of Our Lady of Walsingham House of the Divine Will, Neatherd Moor, Dereham NR20 6AZ

Tel: 01362 692574

Email: office@walsinghamcommunity.org Web: www.walsinghamcommunity.org

Hospital Dereham Hospital Tel: 01362 655236

Prison HMP Wayland, Griston, Thetford, IP25 6RL Tel: 01953 804080

Chaplain Rev Martin Sanderson, Rev Denis Gallagher

DERSINGHAM, Norfolk. See Hunstanton (Parish 22)

Parish 14

DISS, Norfolk. (+) The Most Holy Trinity & St Henry Morse

Address

Church of St Henry Morse, Shelfanger Road, Diss, IP22 4DX (1952; 2012; Cons 2015)

Tel 01379 642914

Email parishpriest@holytrinitydiss.com

Web www.sthenrymorse.com

Clergy Rev Alex Anaman

Deacons Rev Patrick Limacher

Rev David Croucher

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 10am. Hds 10am.

Confessions Sat 10.30 – 10.45am (after Mass)

Hospital Burston House Hospital

Hartismere Hospital

St John’s House, Palgrave

Tel: 01379 649900

Tel: 0800 2797257

Tel: 01379 7376877

Other places of worship in the Parish: QUIDENHAM, Norfolk. (+) Our Lady of Mt Carmel, Address Carmelite Monastery Chapel. (1949; Cons 24 Sept 1957)

Tel 01953 887202 (Monastery)

Tel 01953 716060 (Chaplain)

Chaplain Rev Stephen Blair, St Michael’s Cottage, Carmelite Monastery, Quidenham, NR16 2PG

Mass Sun 10.30am, Hds 8am

Confessions At call

DOGSTHORPE Peterborough. See Peterborough (Parish 35)

Parish 15

DOWNHAM MARKET, Norfolk. (+) St Dominic

Address 17 Howdale Road, PE38 9AB (1937; 1941; Cons 28th Nov 2006)

Tel 01366 382353

Email thefalcon.erico@gmail.com

Web www.saintdominics.org.uk

Clergy Rev Erico R de Mello Falcao, (Chaplain to the Portuguese-speaking communities)

Mass: Sat 6pm; Sun 9.30am; Hds 9.30am, 7pm

Confessions Sat 5 - 5.45pm

Residential Homes: Ashville House

Downham Grange

Diamond House

High Haven

Oakes Court

Victoria Hall

Tel: 01366 383428

Tel: 01366 308591

Tel: 01366 315461

Tel: 01366 315670

Tel: 01366 386574

Tel: 01366 347525

EARLHAM, Norwich. See Cathedral parish (Parish 1)

Parish 16

ELY, Cambs. (+) St Etheldreda

Address 19 Egremont Street, CB6 1AE (1890; 1903; Con 22 May 1987)

Tel 01353 662759

Email david.finegan@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.elyrcchurch.com

Clergy Rev David Finegan

Deacon Rev Paul Raynes

Mass Sat 6.30pm; Sun 9am, 11am

Hds 9.30am, 7.30pm

Confessions Sat 10.30am and by appointment

Hospital

Parish 17

Princess of Wales Hospital

Tel: 01353 772500

FAKENHAM, Norfolk. (+) St Anthony of Padua

Address

29 Wells Road, Fakenham, NR21 9EG (1905; 1909)

Tel 01328 853481

Email fakenham@stanthonys166.plus.com

Web www.catholicfakenham.org.uk

Clergy TBA

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 10.45am; Hds 10am, 7pm

Confessions Sat 5.15 - 5.45pm

Parish 18

FELIXSTOWE, Suffolk. (+) St Felix

Address

8 Gainsborough Road, IP11 7HT (1899; 1912; 1958)

Tel 01394 282561

Email michael.smith@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.stfelixfelixstowe.uk

Clergy Rev Michael Smith (Parish Priest)

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 10am, Hds 9.30am, 7.30pm

Confessions Sat 5.15-5.45pm and by appointment

Convent of Jesus and Mary 63 Orwell Road, IP11 7PP

Tel 01394 282386

Chaplain The Parish Priest

Mass Sun 12 noon; Hds varies, please check

Hospital Felixstowe General Hospital Tel: 01394 458820

Port of Felixstowe Chaplaincy

Clergy Rev Michael Smith (Chaplain)

Port Chaplain Julian Wong (Stella Maris)

Email julian.wong@stellamarismail.org

FRAMLINGHAM, Suffolk. See Woodbridge (Parish 51)

GAYWOOD, Norfolk. See King’s Lynn (Parish 29)

GILLINGHAM, Norfolk. See Beccles (Parish 3)

Parish 19

GORLESTON, Norfolk. (+) St Peter the Apostle

Address

Lowestoft Road, NR31 6SQ. (1889; 1939; Cons 5 May 1964)

Tel 01493 301013

Email rectorystmarys@gmail.com

Web www.stpetersrc.org.uk

Clergy Rev Anthony Nwankwo SMMM (Dean)

In residence: Rev Alvan Ibeh SMMM (Assistant Priest)

Deacon Rev Stephen Pomeroy

Mass Sun 9am, Hds 7.30pm

Syro Malabar Rite Mass – 1st Sunday of month 3.30pm

Night Vigil 3rd Friday of month 5.30-8.30pm

Confessions Sat 10am during exposition

School

Hospital

St Mary and St Peter Primary SchooL Tel: 01493 445117

James Paget District Hospital Tel: 01493 452452

GREAT BARTON, Suffolk. See Bury St Edmunds (Parish 7)

Parish 20

GREAT YARMOUTH, Norfolk. (+) St Mary

Address

Regent Road, NR30 2AJ (1827; 1859; Cons 22 August 1950)

Tel 01493 842001

Email rectorystmarys@gmail.com

Web www.stmarysgy.org.uk

Clergy

Rev Anthony Nwankwo SMMM VF

Rev Nwabueze Desmond Agomuoh SMMM (Priest in Residence)

Deacon Rev Peter Glanville

Mass Sun 9am, 11am

Hds 10am

Mass in Portuguese - 6pm every Thursday

Confessions Sat 10.30-11am

Hospital

Northgate Hospital Tel: 01493 337652

Other places of worship in the Parish:

ACLE, Norfolk.

Address In St Edmund’s CofE Church, NR13 3BY

Mass Sat 5pm

Confessions On request

CAISTER-ON-SEA, Norfolk. St Ignatius Loyola, Address Ormesby Road, NR30 5LJ

Mass Sun 5pm

Confessions On request

HADLEIGH, Suffolk. See Sudbury (Parish 45)

HALESWORTH, Suffolk. See Southwold (Parish 43)

HARLESTON, Norfolk. See Bungay (Parish 6)

Parish 21

HAVERHILL, Suffolk. (+) St Felix

Address

Princess Way, CB9 9BP (1938; 1964, 2014)

Tel 01440 702156

Email john.warrington@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.stfelixchurch.org.uk

Clergy

Rev John Warrington VF

Deacon Rev Huw Williams

Mass Sat 6.30pm; Sun 10am

Holy Days 10am; 7.30pm

Syro Malabar Rite Mass – 2nd Fri 5.30pm and 4th Sat 2pm.

Confessions Sat 5.45-6.15pm and by request

School

Prison

St Felix Primary School

HMP Highpoint, Stradishall

Tel: 01440 703775

Tel: 01440 743100

HELLESDON, Norfolk. See Norwich, St George (Parish 34)

HOVETON, Norfolk. See North Walsham (Parish 33)

Parish 22

HUNSTANTON, Norfolk. (+) Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund

Address Sandringham Road, PE36 5DR (1903; 1905; 1958)

Parish office 01485 534675

Email hunstantonparish@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.hunstantoncatholicparish.org.uk

Clergy Served from King’s Lynn (Parish 28)

Tel 01553 772220

Mass Sun 11am Holy Days 10am

Confessions At call

Nursing Homes

Millbridge Nursing Home

Rebecca Court

Norfolk Lodge

Beach View

Driftwood House

Other places of worship in the Parish:

DERSINGHAM, Norfolk. (+) St Cecilia

Tel: 01485 570349

Tel: 01485 570421

Tel: 01485 532383

Tel: 01485 535328

Tel: 01485 532241

Address Mountbatten Road, PE31 6YE (Cons 22 March 1991)

Tel: 01553 772220 (priest)

Mass Sun 9am Hds Vigil 7.30pm

Confessions After 10.15am Mass on Wednesday

Parish 23

HUNTINGDON, Cambs. (+) St Michael the Archangel

Address 82 Hartford Road, PE29 1XG (1872; 1900; Cons 2000)

Tel 01480 453257

Email: stmichaelshuntingdon@yahoo.com

Web www.stmichaelrc.org

Clergy

Rev Mgr Philip Shryane

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 9am, 11am; 3.30pm (Polish)

Holy Days 10am, 8pm

Syro-Malabar Mass 4th Sat, 2.30pm at St Michael’s Huntingdon. 2nd Sun, 5.30pm at Anglican Church, Papworth Everard.

Confessions Saturday 10am

Hospital

Hinchingbrooke Hospital

Tel: 01480 416416

Parish 24

IPSWICH, (+) St James

Under the canonical jurisdiction of St Mary’s Ipswich (Parish 26)

Address

482 Landseer Road, IP3 9LU (1949; 1952; 1999)

Tel 01473 726701

Email stjames-ipswich@btconnect.com

Clergy Rev Jude Belnas (Parish Priest)

Clergy in residence Rev Tomy Chirackalmanavalan (Syro Malabar Chaplain)

Mass Sun 9.30am

Hds: 10am and 7pm

Weekdays: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 10am

Confessions After every weekday Mass and on appointment.

Parish 25

IPSWICH, (+) St Mark

Address 180 Hawthorn Drive, Chantry Estate, IP2 0QQ (1959)

Tel 01473 684963

Email office@stmarksparish.org.uk

Web www.stmarksparish.org.uk

Clergy

Rev Luke Goymour VF (Parish Priest)

Rev Paul Chanh (Assistant Priest)

Mass Sat 5.30pm; Sun 11am

Hds 9am St Mark’s School (in term time), 7.30pm

Confessions Fri 11.50–12.10pm, Sat. 5-5.20pm

School

St Mark’s Primary School

Hospital and Nursing Homes

The Ipswich Hospital

Parkview Home Ipswich

Prince of Wales Drive Home

St Mary’s Holbrook

Avocet Court

Other places of worship in the Parish:

BRANTHAM, Suffolk. (+) Holy Family (1920)

Tel: 01473 601748

Tel: 01473 712233

Tel: 01473 228890

Tel: 01473 687129

Tel: 0800 0852811

Tel: 01473 943001

Address Holy Family Church, Brantham Hill, Brantham, Manningtree, Suffolk, CO11 1TB

Mass Sun M 9am

Hds Vigil M 7.30pm

Confessions After Mass on request

Parish 26

IPSWICH, (+) St Mary

Address

322 Woodbridge Road, IP4 4BD (1827; 1838; 1960)

Tel 01473 728115

Email secretary@st-mary.org.uk

Web www.stmarysipswich.org.uk

Clergy

Deacon

Rev Jude Belnas (Parish Priest)

Rev Dominic Amoah (Assistant Priest)

Rev Christopher Brighten

Mass Sun 9am, 10.30am; 6pm

Hds 9.15am, 6pm

Syro Malabar Rite Mass – 2nd and 4th Sunday, 3pm

Confessions Sat after 9.30am M and Friday 5pm and 1st Friday 6pm

Schools

St Mary’s Primary, Woodbridge Road, IP4 4BA Tel: 01473 728372

St Alban’s High, Digby Road, IP4 3NJ Tel: 01473 726178

Hospital and Nursing Homes

St Elizabeth’s Hospice

Nuffield Hospital

Treehouse Children’s Hospice

Woodlands

Other places of worship in the Parish:

KESGRAVE, Ipswich. (+) Holy Family and St Michael

Tel: 01473 727776

Tel: 01473 279100

Tel: 01473 271334

Tel: 01473 891700

Address Main Road, Kesgrave, IP5 2QP. (1931, 1955, 1993)

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 9.15am

Hds Vigil 6pm

Confessions Sat 5.15-5.45

IPSWICH POLISH MISSION

Address 82 Wellesley Road,, Ipswich, IP4 1PH

Tel 07486 880441

Web www.parafiaipswich.pl

Polish Chaplains Rev Pawel Nawloka

Mass Sun (in Polish) 12 noon at St Mary’s (Parish 26 above)

Hds (in Polish) 7pm at St Mary’s.

Parish 27

IPSWICH, (+) St Mary Magdalen

Address

468 Norwich Road, IP1 6JS (1954; 1956; 1979)

Tel 01473 741975

Email parishpriest@marymagdalens.org

Web www.marymagdalens.org

Clergy

Rev Luke Goymour VF (Priest Administrator)

Rev Paul Chanh (Assistant Priest with pastoral care)

Mass Sun 8am, 10am, 6pm

Hds 9.30am (either in Church or School), 7.30pm

Confessions Sat 10am or after daily 9.30am Mass on request

School

Nursing Homes

St Pancras Primary School Tel: 01473 742074

Sherington House Tel: 01473 464106

Shamrock House Tel: 0300 123 3511

Parish 28 IPSWICH, (+) St Pancras

Address 1 Orwell Place, IP4 1BD (1861; Cons 12 October 1961)

Tel 01473 252596

Email parishpriest@stpancraschurch.org.uk

Web www.stpancraschurch.org.uk

Clergy

Rev Joseph Welch (Parish Priest)

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 9:30am, 11am. Mon 10am; Tues 8am (TLM); Wed 6pm; Thurs 12:15pm; Fri 10am; Sat 10am. Hds 8am (TLM), 12:15pm, 7pm

Confessions Before all Masses, Mon – Sat

Rosary

After Mass, Mon – Fri

KESGRAVE, Suffolk. See Ipswich, St Mary (Parish 26)

Parish 29

KING’S LYNN, Norfolk. (+) Our Lady of the Annunciation

Address

Catholic Rectory, North Everard Street, King’s Lynn, PE30 5HQ, (1778; 1897; Cons 6 August 1947)

Tel 01553 772220

Email parishpriest763@gmail.com

Web www.catholicparish-kingslynn.org.uk

Clergy

Deacons

Canon Peter Rollings (Parish Priest)

Rev Gordon Adam (OOLW) (Assistant Priest)

Rev John Belfield

Rev Martin L’Estrange

Rev Shaun Morrison (OOLW)

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 11.30am, Vespers and Benediction 4pm

Hds 7.30pm

Lithuanian Mass 1st Sunday 1.30pm, 3rd Sunday 5pm

Confessions Sat 5-5.30pm

School St Martha’s Primary School Tel: 01553 774829

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Tel: 01553 613613

Fermoy Psychiatric Unit Tel: 01553 736 318

Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House Tel: 01485 601700

Other places of worship in the Parish:

GAYWOOD, King’s Lynn, Holy Family,

Address Field Lane, Gaywood, PE30 4AX. (Cons 22 April 1985)

Mass Sun 9.30am, Hds 9.30am

Syro Malabar Rite Mass – Sat 4.30pm

Confessions After Sat 10am M

KING’S LYNN Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (1897)

Services Rosary on Fridays at 11.30am

Devotions on Sundays after Benediction

RAF LAKENHEATH, Suffolk

Address USAF Base Chapel

Tel 01638 523711

Clergy Rev Khoi Tran

Address Base Chapel Bldg 990, RAF Lakenheath, Brandon, Suffolk. IP27 9PN

Email khoi.tran2@us.af.mil

Mass Sun 11.15am

Hds as announced Daily Mon - Thurs 11.30am

LAWSHALL (Coldham Cottage), Suffolk. See Bury St Edmunds (Parish 7)

LEISTON Suffolk. See Aldeburgh (Parish 2)

Parish 30

LOWESTOFT, Suffolk. (+) Our Lady Star of the Sea

Address Gordon Road, NR32 1NL (1880; 1902; Cons 22 October 1952)

Tel 01502 572453

Email frpmfoh@gmail.com

Web www.ourladystarofthesealowestoft.wordpress.com

Clergy Rev Pádraig Hawkins (Parish Priest)

Address The Catholic Presbytery, 19 Gordon Road, Lowestoft, NR32 1NL Mass Sat 10.30am, 5pm; Sun 11am

Hds as announced

Confessions Sat after the morning Mass and by appointment. Port Chaplain Rev Pádraig Hawkins School St Mary’s Primary School Tel: 01502 565384

Other places of worship in the Parish:

PAKEFIELD, Lowestoft. St Nicholas,

Address 2 Morton Road, Pakefield, NR33 0JQ (1996) Mass Sun 9am

Hds as announced

Parish 31

MARCH,

Cambs. (+) Our

Lady of Good Counsel and St Peter

Address 8 St John’s Road, PE15 8RJ (1911; 1953)

Tel 01354 650788

Web www.catholicchurchmarch.co.uk

Email marchcatholicpriest@gmail.com

Clergy Rev Nicholas Kearney

Deacon Rev Martin Wells

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 11am, Hds 10am

Confessions On request after every Mass and other times by appointment.

Religious Houses Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Tel: 01354 652266

Assisi Convent, 11, Princes Walk. PE15 8AH

School All Saints Inter-Church Academy Primary Tel: 01354 659000

Prison HMP Whitemoor

Chaplain: Dcn Jacob Cheriyan Tel: 01354 602726.

Other places of worship in the Parish:

CHATTERIS, Cambs Cof E Church of St Peter and Paul,

Address High Street, Chatteris, PE16 6BA

Mass Sun 9am

MARHAM Norfolk. St Margaret’s Church

Tel: 01354 602726

Address RAF Station Church Centre, RAF Marham, King’s Lynn, PE33 9NP

Clergy No resident Chaplain

For pastoral needs please contact Downham Market (Parish 15)

MILDENHALL Suffolk. See Brandon (Parish 4)

RAF MILDENHALL, Suffolk. Our Lady of Walsingham,

Address 100 ARW/HC, RAF Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 8NF

Tel 01638 542822

Clergy Rev Cyriacus Onyejegbu

Email cyriacus.onyejegbu.1@us.af.mil

Mass Sat 4pm, Mon - Thur 12 noon

Confessions Sat before Mass or by appointment

Parish 32

NEWMARKET, Suffolk. (+) Our Lady Immaculate and St Etheldreda

Address 14 Exeter Road, CB8 8LT (1857; 1863; 1966: 2011)

Tel 01638 662492

Email stetheldreda@btinternet.com

Web www.olise.co.uk

Clergy

Rev Leonard Michael Marianu (Parish Priest)

Rev John Morrill (Priest in Residence)

Deacons Rev James Hurst

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 11am

Hds 9.30am, 7pm

Confessions Sat at 11am and 5.30pm

School

St Louis Academy (Primary)

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Newmarket Hospital

Kingfisher House

Exning Court

Gracewell of Kentford

Other places of worship in the Parish:

Tel: 01638 662719

Tel: 03330 433966

Tel: 01638 445300

Tel: 01638 578020

Tel: 01638 599998

KIRTLING, Suffolk. (+) Our Lady Immaculate and St Philip Neri, Address Newmarket Road, CB8 9PA (1872; 1877)

Mass Sun 9am, Hds: 12noon

Confessions On request

Parish 33 NORTH WALSHAM, Norfolk. (+) The Sacred Heart

Address Kings Arms Street, NR28 9JL (1925; 1935; 1990)

Tel 01692 403258

Email rcnwalsham@gmail.com

Web www.sacredheartnorthwalsham.com

Clergy

Rev Peter Raj (Parish Priest)

Address 4 Norwich Road, North Walsham, NR28 9JP

Mass Sun 11am

Hds 10.30am

Confessions Sat 12-12.30pm

Hospital North Walsham Hospital

Prison HMP Bure, Scottow

Other places of worship in the Parish:

Tel: 01692 408000

Tel: 01603 326000

AYLSHAM, Norfolk. (+) St John of the Cross, Address White Hart Street, NR11 6HG. (1899; 1961)

Mass Sun 9am

Hds 9am

HOVETON, Norfolk. (+) St Helen, Address Horning Road West, NR12 8QJ. (1959)

Mass Sat 5.30pm

Hds 6pm

NORWICH, St John’s Cathedral See Cathedral (Parish 1)

Parish 34

NORWICH, (+) St George

Address 223 Sprowston Road, NR3 4HZ. (1869; 1964; Cons 24 May 1966)

Tel 01603 426971

Email admin@stgeorgenorwich.com

Web www.stgeorgenorwich.com

Clergy

Rev Walter Chenyika (Priest in Charge)

Deacons Rev Ian Hatfield, Rev Nicholas Greef

Mass Sun 10.30am

Hds 12noon and 7.30pm

Confessions Sat 10.30-11am and by appointment

Religious Sr Mary Richard Prendergast, CJ, Flat 3, Prior Court, The Great Hospital, Bishopgate, Norwich NR1 4EJ

Hospital Hellesdon Hospital Tel: 01603 421421

Other places of worship in the Parish:

HELLESDON, Norwich. (+) St Boniface,

Address Brabazon Road, Hellesdon. (1950; 2001)

Mass Sun 8am

Hds Check with St George’s – above THORPE ST ANDREW, Norwich. (+) Our Lady, Mother of God,

Address St William’s Way, Thorpe St Andrew

Mass Sun Sat 5.30pm

Hds Check with St George’s - above

NORWICH, University of East Anglia Chaplaincy

Address The Catholic Chaplaincy, Multifaith Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park Plain, NR4 7TJ

Tel 01603 592168

Email peter.wygnanski@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.ueacathchap.org.uk

Chaplain Rev Peter Wygnanski

Assistant Chaplain Sr Theresa Weight COLW

Mass Sun 6pm (term time only)

OXBURGH, Norfolk. See Swaffham (Parish 46)

PAKEFIELD, Suffolk. See Lowestoft (Parish 30)

Parish 35

PETERBOROUGH, (+) St Peter and All Souls

Address Park Road. (1847; 1896; Cons 24 October 1961)

Presbytery Geneva Street, Peterborough, PE1 2RS

Tel 01733 562528

parishoffice@stpeterandallsouls.org.uk

Web www.stpeterandallsouls.org.uk

Clergy

Deacons

Rev Karol Porczak MS (Parish Priest)

Rev Waldemar Smialek MS

Rev Claudio Chiappinelli

Rev John Bedford

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 8.30am, 9:30am, 10.45am, 12.30pm (Portuguese), 6pm. At OLOL Sun 9.15am

Hds 9.30am, 12.30pm, 7.30pm and OLOL at 6pm

Syro Malabar Rite Mass every Sunday at OLOL at 3.30pm

Mass in Lithuanian 1st Sunday of the month at 3.30pm at All Souls and 3rd Saturday of the month at 7.15pm

Confessions Sat 10-11am, 5-6pm and by appointment; at OLOL 1st Sunday of the month at 8.45am

Religious Houses Working Sisters of the Holy House of Nazareth, 275 Gladstone Street, PE1 2BX

Schools St Thomas More Primary School

St John Fisher High School

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Peterborough City Hospital

Thorpe Hall Hospice

Prison HMP Peterborough

Chaplain: Rev Karol Porczak

Other places of worship in the Parish:

Tel: 01733 561314

Tel: 01733 566005

Tel: 01733 343646

Tel: 01733 678000

Tel: 01733 225900

Tel: 01733 217500

Tel: 01733 561314

DOGSTHORPE (+) Our Lady of Lourdes, Welland Road, Dogsthorpe, PE1 3SP (1965)

Clergy

Rev Karol Porczak (Parish Priest)

Polish Catholic Mission: Rev Marek Ogorzaly SChr Email: marekog@post.pl

Rev Sebastian Ludwin SCh

Polish Mass: Sunday- 7.30am, 10.45am, 12.30pm, 7.15pmTues – Sat 7.15pm

Confessions: 30 minutes before each Holy Mass

Syro Malabar Chaplain: Rev Dany Abrahams SM

Syro Malabar Rite Mass: Sun 3.30pm

Mass: In English: Sun 9.15am, Hds 6pm (from All Souls)

Confessions: 1st Sunday of the month at 8.45am (English) Parish 36

(+) St Luke

Address

26 Benyon Grove, Orton Malborne, PE2 5XS (Cons 20 Sept 1989)

Tel 01733 371129 (Office) 01733 450743(Presbytery)

Email office@saintlukesparish.org.uk Web stlukesorton.org

Clergy Rev Jeffrey Downie (Dean)

Deacon

Rev Bienn Carlo Manuntag (Assistant Priest)

Rev Prameel Joseph

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 9am, 10.30am, 12 noon, Mon to Fri 10am Hds 10am, 7pm

Mass in Slovak each month. Please check with parish Monthly Masses for the Zimbabwean and Nigerian communities.

Please check with parish

Confessions Sat 5pm or by appointment

School

Parish 37

St John Henry Newman Primary School Tel: 01733 304533

PETERBOROUGH, (+) Sacred Heart and St Oswald

Address

St Oswald’s Church, 933 Lincoln Road, Walton, PE4 6AE (1959)

Tel 01733 321512 (Parish Office) 01733 853201 (Presbytery)

Email parish@sh-so.org

Web www.sh-so.org

Clergy Rev Arockiya (Seelan) Poobalan

Deacon Rev Jacob Cheriyan

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 10am, 12noon (Bretton); Hds 10am, 7pm

Confessions Sat 5pm – 5.30pm and by appointment

School

Sacred Heart Primary School

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Fitzwilliam Hospital

Ashlynn Grange

Werrington Lodge

Other places of worship in the Parish:

BRETTON, Peterborough, Sacred Heart Primary School.

Address Tollgate, Bretton, PE3 9XD

Mass Sun 12noon

Hds No Mass. See parish church above

PETERBOROUGH, Polish Mission

Tel: 01733 262449

Tel: 01733 261717

Tel: 01733 269200

Tel: 01733 324252

Address The Presbytery, 2 Cedar Grove, Peterborough, PE1 3SP

Tel 01733 552726

Clergy Rev Marek Ogorzaly SChr

Rev Sebastian Ludwin SChr

Email: marekog@post.pl

Polish Mass At Our Lady of Lourdes, Welland Road, Dogsthorpe, PE1 3SP

Sunday - 7.30am, 10.45am, 12.30pm, 7.15pm (Wisbech - 3.30pm)

Tuesday - Saturday - 7.15pm

Confessions 30 minutes before each Holy Mass

PETERBOROUGH, St Olga’s Ukranian Greek Catholic Church

Address 67 New Road, Woodston, Peterborough, PE2 9HD

Ukranian Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite

Tel 07974 244581 (office) 07704 912576 (Priest)

Web www.ucc-gb.com/peterborough

Clergy

Rev Bohdan Bilunyk

Mass Sun 10am

Parish 38

PORINGLAND,

Norfolk.

(+) Our Lady of the Annunciation

Address

The Presbytery, 17 Upgate, Poringland, NR14 7SH (1950; 1966; 1973; Cons 7 June 2003)

Tel 01508 494770

Email andrew.eburne@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.ourladyporingland.wordpress.com

Clergy Rev Andrew Eburne VF (Priest in Charge)

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 9am Hds 10am and 6pm

Confessions Sat 10.30-11am during Eucharistic Exposition and by appointment

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Beauchamp House

Brooke House

Saxlingham Hall

Cedar House

QUIDENHAM Norfolk. See Diss (Parish 14)

RAMSEY Cambs. See Whittlesey (Parish 49)

Parish 39 ST IVES, Cambs. (+) The Sacred Heart

Address

Tel: 01508 520755

Tel: 01603 859049

Tel: 01508 499225

Tel: 0808 223 5417

19 Needingworth Road, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 5JT (1843, 1902)

Tel 01480 462192

Email office@sacredheart-stives.org.uk

Web www.sacredheart-stives.org.uk

Clergy TBA

Mass Sat 5pm; Sun 9am, 11am; Hds: Vigil 7.30pm, 10am

Confessions Sat 4.15-4.45pm and at call

Nursing Homes

Rheola Care Home

Field Lodge Care Home

Parish 40 ST NEOTS, Cambs. (+) St Joseph

Address

Tel: 01480 375163

Tel: 01480 879195

The Catholic Presbytery, 39 East Street, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1JU (1918; 1931)

Tel 01480 472587

Email stjosephs.stneots@rcdea.org.uk or stjoseph.stneots@gmail.com

Web stjosephstneots.org.uk

Clergy Rev Tibor Borovsky (Parish Priest)

Mass Sat 5.30pm, Sun 8am, 10am, Tues-Fri 10am. Hds 10am, 7pm

Confessions Half an hour before weekdays Mass and also by appointment

SAWTRY, Peterborough. See Peterborough, St Luke (Parish 36)

Parish 41

SAWSTON

& CAMBOURNE, Cambs (+) Our Lady of Lourdes and St John Fisher

Address 135 High Street, Sawston, CB22 3HJ (1958)

Tel 01223 832397

Email cambourne.sawston@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.ololsawston.org.uk

Clergy

Rev Canon John Minh (Parish Priest)

Mass Sun 8.45am; 11.15am, Sat 9.30am, Wkds 9.30am; Hds vary - See parish website / weekly bulletin

Cantonese Mass Once a month - See parish website / weekly bulletin

Confessions Saturday 10am or by appointment

Nursing Homes Barley Manor, Great Shelford Tel 01223 918100

Cambridgeshire Care Home, Great Shelford Tel 0808 223 5550

Orchard House, Sawston

Tel 01223 663178

Bircham House, Sawston Tel 01223 836069

Melbourn Springs Care Home

Tel 01763 722786

Southwell Court, Melbourn Tel 01763 750006

Maycroft Care Home, Meldreth Tel 01763 260217

CAMBOURNE St John Fisher

Address Cambourne Church Centre, between Jeavons Lane and High Street, Cambs, CB23 6GW

Served from Sawston

Tel 07843 861719

Email cambourne@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.cambournerc.com

Clergy Rev Canon John Minh

Mass Sat 5pm, Sun 5pm, Mon-Wed 12.30pm, Thur - Fri 6.30pm Hds vary - See parish website / weekly bulletin

Confessions By appointment

Nursing Homes Cavendish Court, Cambourne 01954 714406

Home Meadow, Toft 01223 263282

Eltisley Manor, Hardwick 01480 881006

Parish 42

SHERINGHAM, Norfolk. (+) Our Lady & St Joseph

Address (Parish of Our Lady and St Joseph, Sheringham and Cromer), Cromer Road, NR26 8RT. (1908; Cons 2 August 1936)

Tel 01263 822036

Email admin@ourladyandstjoseph.info

Web www.ourladyandstjoseph.info

Clergy Rev Trindade Johnson Monteiro (Priest in Charge)

Email trindade.monteiro@rcdea.org.uk

Mass Sun 11am; Hds 10.30am, 7pm

Confessions Sat after 9am Mass and by appointment

Hospital

Kelling Hospital

Other places of worship in the Parish:

Tel: 01263 710575

CROMER (+) Our Lady of Refuge, Overstrand Road, NR27 0JH

Mass Sat 6pm Sun 9am; Hds 9am

Confessions Sat 5pm and by appointment

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Cromer & District Hospital

Benjamin Court Hospital

Halsey House

Parish 43

SOUTHWOLD, Suffolk. (+) The Sacred Heart

Address

Tel: 01603 286286

Tel: 01263 511856

Tel: 01263 512178

Wymering Road, IP18 6AH. (1897; 1916; Cons 7 June 1956)

Tel 01502 723207

Clergy

Rev Christopher Smith

Email christopher.smith@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.southwoldhalesworthrc.org.uk

Mass Sun 11am, Sat 6pm (Low Sunday to end of Sept)

Confessions Sat 10.30-11am

Other places of worship in the Parish:

HALESWORTH, Suffolk. St Edmund, King and Martyr,

Address Church Farm Lane, Halesworth, IP19 8SY (1950; 1957)

Mass Sun 9am; Hds 10am

Parish 44

STOWMARKET, Suffolk. (+) Our Lady of Seven Dolours

Address

Stricklands Road, IP14 1AW (1878; 1884)

Tel 01449 612946

Email pp@ourladystowmarket.org.uk

Web www.ourladystowmarket.org.uk

Clergy Rev Simon Leworthy BA (UNE), BTh (SCD), STL (PUSC) (Parish Priest)

Mass Sun 8.30am, 10.15am Hds Vigil 7pm, 10am

Confessions Sat 10-10.45am

Other places of worship in the Parish:

WOOLPIT, Suffolk. St Mary’s C of E Church,

Address The Street, Woolpit, IP30 9QG

Mass Sat 6pm

Confessions Sat 5.30pm

Parish 45

SUDBURY, Suffolk. (+) Our Lady and St John the Evangelist

Address 20 The Croft, CO10 1HP (1876; 1893; Cons 9 December 1993)

Tel 01787 372703

Email romancatholicchurch@btinternet.com

Web www.sudburywithhadleigh.com

Clergy Rev Antony Arockiam

Mass Sat 5pm; Sun M 9.15am

Hds Vigil Mass as announced; 10am

Schools St Joseph’s Primary School Tel: 01787 373365

Other places of worship in the Parish:

HADLEIGH, Suffolk, St Joseph

Address 135 Angel St, Hadleigh, IP7 5BY

Mass Sun 11.15am

Hds as announced

Confessions After Sun Mass

WITHERMARSH GREEN, Suffolk, 1962 Rite Community.

Address Our Lady Immaculate and St Edmund, The Presbytery, Chapel Lane, Withermarsh Green, Colchester, CO6 4TA

Clergy

Rev Henry Whisenant

Tel 07869 382973

Email henry.whisenant@rcdea.org.uk

Mass Sun 9.15am, 11am; Mon 10am; Tues 8am; Wed 6pm; Thurs 8am; Fri 6pm, Sat 10am. Hds 10am, 6pm

Confessions Sun 8.45am, 10.30am; Wed (and 1st Fri) 5.30pm; Sat 9.30am, 11am

Parish 46

SWAFFHAM, Norfolk. (+) Our Lady of Pity

Address

31 Station Street, PE37 7HP (1911; 1920; 1960)

Tel 01760 721418

Email ourladyofpity@btinternet.com

Web www.ourladyofpity.org

Clergy Rev Canon Mark Hackeson (Dean)

Deacon Rev Roger Sparks (rtd)

Mass Sun 8.30am, 10.30am (1st Sun is Children’s Mass); Hds 9.30am; 6pm

Confessions Wed and Sat 10-10.30am during Eucharistic Exposition and on request

Religious House Poor Clares: Swaffham, Assisi, 4 Lynn Road, Swaffham, PE37 7AZ

Sr Elaine Cope OSC Email: elfraosc@gmail.com Tel 01760 722158

School Sacred Heart Primary School Tel: 01760 721330

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Swaffham Community Hospital

Holmwood House

Other places of worship in the Parish:

WATTON, Norfolk. in Methodist Church,

Address High Street, IP25 6AB

Mass Sat 5pm; Hds as announced

Confessions On request or before M

Tel: 01760 726550

Tel: 01760 724404

OXBURGH, Norfolk. (+) Immaculate Conception and St Margaret, Address Oxburgh Hall. (1835)

Services 1st Sat of month, 12 noon

Parish 47

THETFORD, Norfolk. (+)

St Mary

Address 73 Newtown, IP24 3AU (1820; 1826)

Tel 01842 752266

Email patrick.cleary@rcdea.org.uk

Web www.stmarysthetford.org

Clergy Rev Canon Patrick Cleary

Deacon Rev Justin Cross

Mass Sat 5.30pm, Sun 8am, 10am

Hds 10am, 7pm

Confessions Sat 10am

Hospitals and Nursing Homes Alexander Court

Ford Place

Manor Court

Other places of worship in the Parish:

Tel: 01842 753466

Tel: 01842 755022

Tel: 01842 824415

LYNFORD, Norfolk. (+) Our Lady of Consolation and St Stephen (1878; Cons 7 October 1884) No regular services.

THORPE ST ANDREW, Norwich. See Norwich, St George. (Parish 34)

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Norwich. See Norwich above

WALSINGHAM, Norfolk. (+) Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady

Address Slipper Chapel, Houghton St Giles, NR22 6AL (14th century)

Administration Pilgrim Bureau, Friday Market Place, NR22 6EG Web www.walsingham.org.uk

Tel 01328 820495

Email Shrine - pilgrimage@walsingham.org.uk

Pilgrim Accommodation - elmhamhouse@walsingham.org.uk

Tea Room – tearoom@walsingham.org.uk

Shop - shop@walsingham.org.uk

Clergy

Rev Dr Robert Billing (Rector)

Rev Sunday Ikpe OSA [Prior]

Rev Charles Chimaobi OSA

Rev Eric Taru OSA

Mass Daily Mon to Sun at 12 noon

Confessions 11am-11.45am each day, unless announced otherwise.

To book a pilgrimage, to have Mass celebrated, or prayers said, for your intentions, to light a candle, to view the pilgrimage programme, to book accommodation, or to visit the online shop please visit: www.walsingham.org.uk

Parish 48

WALSINGHAM, Norfolk. (+) Church of the Annunciation

Address Friday Market, Little Walsingham, NR22 6DB. (1935; 1950; cons 25th March 2007)

Tel 01328 713044

Email annunciation22@gmail.com

Clergy

Rev Keith Tulloch SM (Parish Priest)

Rev Thomas Goonan SM

Rev Desmond Hanrahan SM

Web www.catholicparishofwalsingham.org

Mass Sun 10.30am, Mon to Sat 9.30am; Hds 9.30am

Confessions Sat 10am

Religious

Marist Fathers: Rev Keith Tulloch SM Mob: 07538 130655

Rev Thomas Goonan SM

Rev Desmond Hanrahan SM

Stella Maris, The Buttlands, Wells-next-the-Sea, NR23 1EY

Marist Sisters: Marist Convent, 57, High Street, Little Walsingham, NR22 6BZ

Tel: 01328 820246

Little Sisters of Jesus: 7 Egmere Road, Little Walsingham, NR22 6BT

Tel: 01328 820422

Email: lsjunitedkingdom@gmail.com

Sisters of Our Lady of Reconciliation: St Bernard’s Cottage, 37B High Street, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6BZ

Tel: 01328 820001

Canonesses of St Augustine: Sr Sandra Wellington CSA, 16 Bridewell Street, NR22 6BJ

Hospitals Wells Community Hospital Tel: 01328 711996

Other places of worship in the Parish:

BLAKENEY, Norfolk. (+) St Peter,

Address Back Lane, NR25 7NP (1962)

Mass Sun 11am, Wed 9.30am

Hds 9.30am

Confessions On request

BURNHAM MARKET, Norfolk. (+) St Henry Walpole, The Green, PE31 8HD (1959)

Mass Sun 9.30am, Fri 9.30am

Hds 9.30am

Confessions On request

WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA, Norfolk. (+) Our Lady Star of the Sea (1928), The Buttlands, NR23 1EY

Mass Sat 6pm, Sun 9am; Hds 6pm

Confessions On request

WATTON, Norfolk. See Swaffham (Parish 46)

WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA, Norfolk. See Walsingham (Parish 48)

Parish 49

WHITTLESEY, Cambs. (+) St Jude the Apostle

Address

3 Station Road, PE7 1SA (1963)

Tel 01733 203411

Web www.sacredheartramsey.wordpress.com

Clergy Rev Andrews Arakkal Joseph

Mass Sun 11am; Hds 7pm

Confessions After weekday M

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Aliwal Manor Old People’s Home

The Elms Nursing Home

St Mary’s House

The Gables

Other places of worship in the Parish:

RAMSEY, Cambs. (+) Sacred Heart of Jesus,

Address 37, Newtown Road, PE26 1EQ (1863)

Tel 01733 203411

Mass Sun 9am; Hds Vigil 7pm

Confessions Sun 8.30am

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Manor House NH

Red House NH

Florence House

Cedar Court

Parish 50

WISBECH, Cambs. (+) Our Lady and St Charles Borromeo

Address

Tel: 01733 203347

Tel: 01733 202421

Tel: 01757 6222208

Tel: 01733 351252

Tel: 01487 814333

Tel: 01487 813936

Tel: 01487 812295

Tel: 0800 371860

69 Queen’s Road, PE13 2PH (1840; 1854; 1962)

Tel 01945 583466

Email secretary-catholic-wisbech@outlook.com

Web www.catholic-wisbech.uk

Clergy Rev James Caulfield

Email ppwisbechrc@outlook.com

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 10am

Hds 12.15pm, 7pm

Confessions Saturday 10-11am and by appointment

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

North Cambridgeshire Hospital

Glennfield Care Home

Orchard House

Dove Court

Rose Lodge Care Home

Lynncroft Nursing Home

Somers Court

Parish 51

Tel: 01945 488088

Tel: 01945 581141

Tel: 01945 466784

Tel: 01945 474746

Tel: 01945 588463

Tel: 01945 475229

Tel: 01495 463533

WOODBRIDGE, Suffolk. (+) St Thomas of Canterbury

Address 13-15 St John’s Street, IP12 1EB (1851; 1930; Cons 14 June,1984)

Tel 01394 388828 (Presbytery) 01394 383551 (Parish Office)

Web www.wfrcp.org.uk

Email woodbridge.office@rcdea.org.uk

Clergy Rev Edmund Eggleston, KGCO, MA, FBS

Deacon Rev Michael Vipond, CertEd, BEd, ACP

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 11am

Hds 9.30am

Confessions Sat 5.30 – 5.50pm.

Prisons HMP Hollesley Bay

HMP Warren Hill

Chaplain Mr Simon Ashenden

Other places of worship in the Parish:

FRAMLINGHAM, Suffolk. Saint Clare,

Tel: 01394 412400

Tel: 01394 633400

Address Fore Street, IP13 9DY (1953; Cons 13 July 2003)

Mass Sun 9am Hds 12 noon

Confessions On request

WOOLPIT, Suffolk. See Stowmarket (Parish 44)

WROXHAM, Norfolk. See Hoveton at North Walsham (Parish 33)

Parish 52

WYMONDHAM, Norfolk. (+) Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury

Address 1 Norwich Road, NR18 0QE (1912; 1952)

Tel 01953 603104

Email fr.denisgallagher@wymondhamrcchurch.org.uk

Web www.wymondhamrcchurch.org.uk

Clergy Rev Denis Gallagher (Parish Priest)

Mass Sat 6pm; Sun 8.30am (Attleborough), 10am

Hds 10am, 7pm

Confessions Saturday 5:30pm, or on request after Mass or by appointment.

Hospitals, nursing and residential homes

Melton House

Ogden Court Community Hospital

Windmill House Care Home

Sutherlands Nursing Home

Hethersett Hall

Cheshire Home

Carlton House

Laurels Nursing Home

Brooklyn House Care Home

St Edmund’s Nursing Home

Other places of worship in the Parish:

ATTLEBOROUGH, Norfolk. In the Methodist Church

Address: London Road, Attleborough, NR17 2BX

Tel: 01953 603104

Mass: Sun 8.30am

Tel: 01953 606645

Tel: 01953 605060

Tel: 01953 607651

Tel: 01953 600900

Tel: 01603 810478

Tel: 01508 570279

Tel: 0117 321 5597

Tel: 01953 455427

Tel: 0808 223 5412

Tel: 01953 452011

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DEANERIES

BURY ST EDMUNDS ( ST EDMUND )

Dean: Rev John Warrington VF

Parishes: Brandon, Bury St Edmunds, Clare, Diss, Haverhill, Mildenhall, Newmarket, Stowmarket, Sudbury and Hadleigh, Thetford.

CAMBRIDGE ( ST ANDREW )

Dean: Rt Rev Mgr Provost Eugene Harkness VF

Parishes: Buckden, St Neots, Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives, Sawston and Cambourne

GREAT YARMOUTH ( ST PETER )

Dean: Rev Anthony Nwankwo V

Parishes: Beccles, Bungay, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Southwold.

IPSWICH ( ST EDWARD )

Dean: Rev Luke Goymour VF

Parishes: Aldeburgh, Felixstowe, Ipswich, Woodbridge.

KING’S LYNN ( ST WILFRID )

Dean: Rev Canon Mark Hackeson VF

Parishes: Downham Market, Fakenham, Hunstanton, King’s Lynn, Swaffham, Walsingham Shrine, Walsingham, Wisbech.

NORWICH ( ST FELIX )

Dean: Rev Andrew Eburne VF

Parishes: Costessey, Dereham, North Walsham, Norwich, Poringland, Sheringham/Cromer, Wymondham.

PETERBOROUGH ( ST HUGH )

Dean: Rev Jeffrey Downie VF

Parishes: March/Chatteris, Peterborough, Whittlesey/Ramsey.

ETHNIC CHAPLAINCIES

For more details, please consult the Parish Directory

Syro-Malabar Rite Masses

Cambridge: St. Philip Howard

Gorleston: St Peter’s Haverhill: St Felix

Huntingdon: St Michael's the Archangel

Ipswich: St James’

Kings Lynn: Holy Family Church,

Norwich: Holy Apostles'

Papworth-Everald: St Peters'

Peterborough: Our Lady of Lourdes

Polish Masses

Brandon: St Thomas of Canterbury

Bury St Edmunds: St Edmunds

Cambridge: OLEM

Huntingdon: St Michael's the Archangel

Ipswich: St Mary’s

Norwich: Our Lady’s, Churchfield Green

Peterborough: Our Lady of Lourdes

SCHOOLS

NORFOLK

Nursery and Primary (4-11)

COSTESSEY St Augustine’s Nursery and Primary School

Address: West End, Costessey, Norwich, NR8 5AG

Tel: 01603 743317

Email: office@st-augustines.norfolk.sch.uk

Web: www.st-augustines.norfolk.sch.uk

Headteacher: Miss Rachel Swindell

Chaplain: Rev David Ward

Tel: 01603 742812

GORLESTON St Mary and St Peter Primary School

Address: East Anglian Way, Church Road, Gorleston, NR31 6QY

Tel: 01493 445117

Email: office@smspprimary.norfolk.sch.uk

Web: www.smspprimary.co.uk

Executive Headteacher: Mrs Helen Armstrong

Chaplain: Rev Alvan Ibeh SMMM

Tel: 01493 301013

KING’S LYNN St Martha’s Primary School

Address: Field Lane, Gaywood, King’s Lynn, PE30 4AY

Tel: 01553 774829

Email: office@st-marthas.norfolk.sch.uk

Web: www.st-marthas.norfolk.sch.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Rachel Edwards

Chaplain: Rev Canon Peter Rollings

Tel: Tel: 01553 772220

NORWICH St Francis of Assisi Primary School

Address: Jessopp Road, Norwich, NR2 3QB

Tel: 01603 441484

Email: office@st-francisofassisi.norfolk.sch.uk

Web: www.stfrancisofassisi.co.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Felicity Hope

Chaplain: Fr Alan Hodgson

Tel: 01603 624615

SWAFFHAM Sacred Heart VA Primary School

Address: 4 Sporle Road, Swaffham, PE37 7HL

Tel: 01760 721330

Email: admin@sacredheartcps.uk

Web: www.shcprimary.co.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Abigail Goddard

Chaplain: Rev Canon Mark Hackeson

Tel: 01760 721418

SCHOOLS

Secondary Comprehensive (11-18)

NORWICH Notre Dame High School

Address: Surrey Street, Norwich, NR1 3PB

Tel: 01603 611431 Fax: 01603 763381

Email: office@ndhs.org.uk

Web: www.ndhs.org.uk

Headteacher: Mr Tom Pinnington

Chaplain: TBA Tel: 01603 426971

Lay Chaplain: Mr Alex Savage. Email: asavage@ndhs.org.uk

SUFFOLK

Primary (4-11)

BECCLES St Benet’s Primary School

Address: Ringsfield Road, Beccles, NR34 9PQ

Tel: 01502 712012

Email: office.stbenets@cpswv.org

Web: www.st-benets.suffolk.sch.uk

Executive Head: Mrs Sam Barlow

Assistant Head: Miss Amanda Lyons

Chaplain: TBA

Tel: 01986 893355

BUNGAY St Edmund’s Primary School

Address: St Mary’s Street, Bungay, NR35 1AY

Tel/Fax: 01986 892502

Email: office.stedmunds@cpswv.org

Web: www.st-edmundsrc.suffolk.sch.uk

Executive Head: Mrs Sam Barlow

Assistant Head: Miss Amanda Lyons

Chaplain: TBA Tel: 01986 893355

BURY ST EDMUNDS St Edmund’s Primary School

Address: Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1QG

Tel: 01284 755141

Email: office@st-edmunds.suffolk.sch.uk

Web: www.st-edmunds.suffolk.sch.uk

Executive Head: Mrs Maria Kemble

Head of School: Mrs Katie Copeman

Chaplain: TBA

Tel: 01284 754358

HAVERHILL St Felix Primary School

Address: School Lane, Haverhill, CB9 9DE

Tel: 01440 703775

Email: admin@st-felixrc.suffolk.sch.uk

Web: www.stfelixhaverhill.com

Headteacher: Mrs Andi Dodds

Chaplain: Fr John Warrington

Tel: 01440 702156

IPSWICH St Mark’s Primary School

Address: Stone Lodge Lane West, Ipswich, IP2 9HN

Tel: 01473 601748 Fax: 01473 684588

Email: admin@st-marks.suffolk.sch.uk

Web: www.stmarkscatholicprimary.co.uk

Head: Dr Michael Keller

Chaplain: Rev Luke Goymour

Tel: 01473 684963

IPSWICH St Mary’s Primary School

Address: Woodbridge Road, Ipswich, IP4 4EU

Tel: 01473 728372

Email: admin@st-marys-ipswich.suffolk.sch.uk

Web: www.stmaryscatholicprimaryipswich.com

Headteacher: Mrs Joanne Berry & Mrs Josephine Measham

Chaplain: Rev Jude Belnas

Tel: 01473 728115

IPSWICH St Pancras Primary School

Address: Stratford Road, Ipswich, IP1 6EF

Tel: 01473 742074

Email: admin@st-pancras.suffolk.sch.uk

Web: www.stpancrasschool.co.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Lucille Martin

Chaplain: Rev Joseph Welch

Tel: 01473 252596

LOWESTOFT St Mary’s Primary School

Address: Kirkley Cliff, Lowestoft, NR33 0DG

Tel: 01502 565384

Email: office@stmarysrcps.org

Web: www.stmarysrcps.com

Exec Headteacher: Mrs Helen Armstrong

Head of School: Mrs Ewa Parker

Chaplain: Rev Padraig Hawkins

Tel: 01502 572453

NEWMARKET St Louis Academy, Primary & Nursery

Address: Fordham Road, Newmarket, CB8 7AA

Tel: 01638 662719

Email: admin@stlouisacademy.co.uk

Web: www.stlouisacademy.co.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Susan Blakeley

Chaplain: Rev Leo Michael

Tel: 01638 662492

SUDBURY St Joseph’s Primary School

Address: Beaconsfield Road, Sudbury, CO10 1JP

Tel: 01787 373365

Email: admin@st-josephs.suffolk.sch.uk

SCHOOLS

Web: www.st-josephs.suffolk.sch.uk

Executive Head: Mrs Maria Kemble

Head of School: Mrs Anne-Marie Price

Chaplain: TBA

Tel: 01787 372703

Secondary Comprehensive (11-18)

BURY ST EDMUNDS St Benedict’s High School

Address: Beeton’s Way, Bury St Edmunds, IP32 6RH

Tel: 01284 753512 Fax: 01284 701927

Email: office@st-benedicts.suffolk.sch.uk

Web: www.st-benedicts.suffolk.sch.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Imogen Senior

Lay Chaplain: Mr Matt Spiller Tel: 01284 753512

IPSWICH St Alban’s High School (11-18)

Address: Digby Road, Ipswich, IP4 3NJ

Tel: 01473 726178

Email: general@st-albans.suffolk.sch.uk

Web: www.st-albans.suffolk.sch.uk

Headteacher: Mr Matt Baker

Lay Chaplain: Mr Paul Gilbert

Priest Chaplain: Rev Jude Belnas

Tel: 01473 726178

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Primary (4-11)

CAMBRIDGE St Alban’s Primary School,

Address: Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EN

Tel: 01223 712148

Email: office@stalbans.cambs.sch.uk

Web: www.stalbanscatholicprimaryschool.co.uk

Headteacher: Mr Joe McCrossan

Chaplain: Served from Our Lady of the Assumption & the English Martyrs

Tel: 01223 350787

CAMBRIDGE St Laurence Primary School

Address: Arbury Road, Cambridge, CB4 2JX

Tel/Fax: 01223 712227

Email: office@stlaurence.cambs.sch.uk

Web: www.stlaurence.cambs.sch.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Jenny McGhee Wallace

Chaplain: TBA

Tel: 01223 354788

MARCH All Saints Inter-Church Academy (Primary)

Address: County Road, March, PE15 8ND

Tel: 01354 659000

Email: office@allsaints.cambs.sch.uk

Web: www.allsaints.cambs.sch.uk

Headteacher: Mr Dan Pickard

Chaplain: Rev Nicholas Kearney

Tel: 01354 650788

Secondary Comprehensive (11-16)

CAMBRIDGE St Bede’s Inter-Church School

Address: Birdwood Road, Cambridge, CB1 3TD

Tel: 01223 568816

Email: aday@stbedes.combs.sch.uk

Web: www.st-bedes.org.uk

Headteacher: Mr Alistair Day

Chaplain: Rev Alexandra Clarke (Anglican)

Tel: 01223 568816

Email: aclark@stbedes.combs.sch.uk

Chaplain: Served from St Philip Howard

Tel: 01223 211235

PETERBOROUGH

Primary (4-11)

PETERBOROUGH St John Henry Newman Primary School

Address: Aqua Drive, Hampton Water, Peterborough

Tel: 01733 304533

Email: office@stjhn.org.uk

Web: www.st-johnhenrynewman.org.uk

Headteacher: Mr Mark Cooper

Chaplain: Rev Jeffrey Downie

PETERBOROUGH St Thomas More Primary School

Address: Park Lane, Peterborough, PE1 5JW

Tel: 01733 566005

Email: office@st-thomasmoreprimary.com

Web: www.st-thomasmore.peterborough.sch.uk

Interim Exec Head: Mrs Kate Pereira

Acting Head of School: Mrs Rebecca Dickson

Chaplain: Served from St Peter and All Souls

Tel: 01733 562528

PETERBOROUGH Sacred Heart Primary School

Address: Tollgate, Bretton, Peterborough, PE3 9XD

Tel: 01733 262449

Email: office@sacredheart.peterborough.sch.uk

Web: www.sacredheartprimary.org.uk

Head: Mr Thomas Claxton

SCHOOLS

Chaplain: Rev Arockiya Seelan

Tel: Tel: 01733 853201

Secondary Comprehensive (11-18)

PETERBOROUGH St John Fisher High School (11-18)

Address: Park Lane, Peterborough, PE1 5JN

Tel: 01733 343646

Email: enquiries@stjohnfisherschool.org.uk

Web: www.stjohnfisherschool.org.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Kate Pereira

Lay Chaplain: Mrs Rowena Goodfellow

Tel: 01733 343646

Chaplain: Served from St Peter and All Souls

Tel: 01733 562528

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS

CAMBRIDGE St Mary’s School

Address: Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1LY

Tel: 01223 353253

Email: enquiries@stmaryscambridge.co.uk

Web: www.stmaryscambridge.co.uk

Headteacher: Mrs Hannah Helliar

Chaplains: TBA (Senior)

Rev Canon John Minh (Junior)

Tel: 01223 832397

Lay Chaplain: TBA

Tel: 01223 224171

NORWICH Notre Dame Preparatory School,

Address: Dereham Road, Norwich, NR2 3TA

Tel: 01603 625593

Email: headspa@notredameprepschool.co.uk

Web: www.notredameprepschool.co.uk

Headteacher: Mr Robert Thornton

Chaplain: Rev Andrew Eburne

Tel: 01603 624615

SCHOOLS CHAPLAINS

SCHOOLS CHAPLAINCY CO-ORDINATOR

To be appointed

ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS IN EDUCATION (ACCE)

The Association of Catholic Chaplains exists to provide support and ongoing formation and professional development to those who work as Chaplains in all sectors of Catholic Education — Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form. Further information can be obtained from the Director on Tel: 0207 901 4880.

HOSPITALS AND HOSPICES

NORFOLK

NORWICH

NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Address: Colney Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7UY

Tel: 01603 286286

Served by: St John’s Cathedral, Norwich

Tel: 01603 624615

THE NORWICH COM MUNITY HOSPITAL

Address: Bowthorpe Road, Norwich, NR2 3TU

Tel: 01603 776776

Served by: St John’s Cathedral, Norwich

Tel: 01603 624615

THE COLMAN HOSPITAL

Address: Unthank Road, Norwich, NR2 2PJ

Tel: 01603 255720

Served by: St John’s Cathedral, Norwich

Tel: 01603 624615

PRISCILLA BACON LODGE

Address: Century Place, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7YA

Tel: 01603 776600

Served by: St John’s Cathedral, Norwich

Tel: 01603 624615

THE JULIAN HOSPITAL

Address: Bowthorpe Road, Norwich, NR2 3TD

Tel: 01603 421421

Served by: St John’s Cathedral, Norwich

Tel: 01603 624615

HELLESDON HOSPITAL

Address: Drayton High Road, Norwich, NR6 5BE

Tel: 01603 421421

Served by: St George’s, Norwich

Tel: 01603 426971

NORTHSIDE HOUSE

Address: Northside, St Andrew’s Business Park, Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, NR7 0HT

Tel: 01603 439614

Served by: St George’s, Norwich

Tel: 01603 707500

SPIRE HOSPITAL

Address: Watton Road, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7TD

Tel: 01603 456181

Served by: Our Lady & St Walstan’s Costessey

Tel: 01603 742812

CROMER

BENJAMIN COURT HOSPITAL

Address: Roughton Road, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 0EQ

Tel: 01263 511856

Served by: Our Lady and St Joseph, Sheringham

Tel: 01603 286286

CROMER AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL

Address: Mill Road, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 0BQ

Tel: 01263 513571

Served by: Our Lady and St Joseph, Sheringham

Tel: 01263 822036

DEREHAM HOSPITAL

Address: Northgate, Dereham, Norfolk, NR19 2EX

Tel: 01362 655210

Served by: Sacred Heart and St Margaret Mary, East Dereham

Tel: 01362 694066

DISS – BURSTON HOUSE HOSPITAL ( PRIVATE )

Address: Rectory Road, Burston, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 5TU

Tel: 01379 741562

Served by: The Most Holy Trinity, Diss

Tel: 01379 649900

GORLESTON – THE JAMES PAGET HOSPITAL

Address: Lowestoft Road, Gorleston-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 6LA

Tel: 01493 452452

Served by: St Peter’s, Gorleston

Chaplain: Rev Alvan Ibeh

Tel: 01493 301013

HOLT – KELLING HOSPITAL

Address: High Kelling, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6QA

Tel: 01263 710575

Served by: Our Lady and St Joseph, Sheringham

Tel: 01263 822036

KING’S LYNN

THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL

Address: Gayton Road, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4ET

Tel: 01553 613613

Served by: Our Lady of the Annunciation, King’s Lynn

Tel: 01553 772220

FERMOY PSYCHIATRIC UNIT

Address: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gayton Road, King’s Lynn, PE30 4ET

Tel: 01553 736318

Served by: Our Lady of the Annunciation, King’s Lynn

Tel: 01553 772220

THE NORFOLK HOSPICE, TAPPING HOUSE

Address: Wheatfields, Hillington, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE31 6BH

Tel: 01485 601700

Served by: Our Lady of the Annunciation, King’s Lynn.

Tel: 01553 772220

NORTH WALSHAM HOSPITAL

Address: Yarmouth Road, North Walsham, Norfolk, NR28 9AP

Tel: 01692 408000

Served by: Sacred Heart, North Walsham

Tel: 01692 403258

SWAFFHAM COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Address: Sporle Road, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7HL

Tel: 01760 726550

Served by: Our Lady of Pity, Swaffham

Tel: 01760 721418

WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA – WELLS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Address: Mill Road, Wells-Next-The-Sea, Fakenham, Norfolk, NR23 1RF

Tel: 01328 711996

Served by: Our Lady of the Annunciation, Walsingham

Tel: 01328 821353

SUFFOLK

IPSWICH

THE IPSWICH HOSPITAL

Address: Heath Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 5PD

Tel: 01473 712233

Served by: St Mary’s, Ipswich

Tel: 01473 728115

WOODLANDS ( MENTAL HEALTH UNIT )

Address: Heath Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 5PD

Tel: 01473 891700

Served by: St Mary’s, Ipswich

Tel: 01473 728115

ST ELIZABET H’S HOSPICE

Address: 565 Foxhall Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 8LX

Tel: 01473 727776

Served by: St Mary’s, Ipswich

Tel: 01473 728115

NUFFIELD HOSPITAL ( PRIVATE )

Address: Foxhall Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 5SW

Tel: 01473 279100

Served by: St Mary’s, Ipswich

Tel: 01473 728115

TREEHOUSE CHILDRE N’S HOSPICE

Address: St Augustine’s Gardens, Ipswich, IP3 8NS

Tel: 01473 271334

Served by: St Mary’s, Ipswich

Tel: 01473 728115

ALDEBURGH AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Address: Park Road, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5ES

Tel: 01728 443850

Served by: Our Lady and St Peter, Aldeburgh

Tel: 01728 452782

BECCLES – THE WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Address: St Mary’s Road, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9NQ

Tel: 01502 719820

Served by: St Benet’s, Beccles

Tel: 01502 713179

BURY ST EDMUNDS

THE WEST SUFFOLK HOSPITAL

Address: Hardwick Lane, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 2QZ

Tel: 01284 713000

Served by: St Edmund King and Martyr, Bury St Edmunds

Tel: 01284 754358

ST NICHOLAS’ HOSPICE

Address: McMillan Way, Hardwick Lane, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 2QY

Tel: 01284 766133

Served by: St Edmund King and Martyr, Bury St Edmunds

Tel: 01284 754358

NUFFIELD HOSPITAL ( PRIVATE )

Address: St Mary’s Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 2AA

Tel: 01284 701371

Served by: St Edmund King and Martyr, Bury St Edmunds

Tel: 01284 754358

EYE – HARTISMERE HOSPITAL

Address: Castleton Way, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7BH

Tel: 0800 2797257

Served from: The Most Holy Trinity, Diss

Tel: 01379 642914

NEWMARKET – COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Address: Exning Road, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 7JG

Tel: 01638 558400

Served by: Our Lady Immaculate and St Etheldreda, Newmarket

Tel: 01638 662492/666305

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

CAMBRIDGE

ADDENBROOK E’S HOSPITAL

Address: Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ

Tel: 01223 245151

Served by: Rev Adrian Gates

Tel: 01223 217769

ROSIE MATERNITY HOSPITAL

Address: Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0SW

Tel: 01223 245151

Served by: Rev Adrian Gates

Tel: 01223 217769

ARTHUR RANK HOSPICE

Address: Cherry Hinton Road, Shelford Bottom, Cambridge, CB22 3FB

Tel: 01223 675777

Served by: Dcn John Bell

Tel: 07502 560610

SPIRE HOSPITAL

Address: Impington, Cambridgeshire, CB24 9EL

Tel: 01223 266900

Served by: St Laurence’s, Cambridge

Tel: 01223 704640

BROOKFIELDS HOSPITAL

Address: Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3DF

Tel: 01223 603051

Served by: St Philp Howard, Cambridge

Tel: 01223 211235

ROYAL PAPWORTH HOSPITAL

Address: Papworth Rd, Trumpington, Cambridge, CB2 0AY

Tel: 01223 638000

Served by: Rev Adrian Gates

Chaplaincy tel: 01223 217769

ELY – THE PRINCESS OF WALES HOSPITAL

Address: Lynn Road, Ely, Cambs, CB6 1DN

Tel: 01353 772500

Served by: St Etheldreda, Ely

Tel: 01353 662759

FULBOURN

FULBOURN HOSPITAL

Address: Cambridge Road, Fulbourn, Cambs, CB21 5EF

Tel: 01223 219400

Served by: St Philp Howard, Cambridge

Tel: 01223 211235

IDA DARWIN HOSPITAL

Address: Fulbourn, Cambs, CB1 5EE

Tel: 01223 726789

Served by: St Philp Howard, Cambridge

Tel: 01223 211235

HUNTINGDON – HINCHINGBROOKE HOSPITAL

Address: Hinchingbrooke Park, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 6NT

Tel: 01480 416416

Served by: St Michael the Archangel, Huntingdon

Tel: 01480 453257

MILTON – CHILDRE N’S HOSPICE

Address: Church Lane, Milton, Cambs, CB24 6AB

Tel: 01223 800800

Served by: St Laurence’s, Cambridge

Tel: 01223 704640

WISBECH – NORTH CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL

Address: The Park, Wisbech, Cambs, PE13 3AB

Tel: 01945 613613 or 01945 488088

Served by: Our Lady and St Charles Borromeo, Wisbech

Tel: 01945 583466

PETERBOROUGH

PETERBOROUGH CITY HOSPITAL

Address: Bretton Gate, Bretton, Peterborough, PE3 9GZ

Tel: 01733 67800

Served by: St Peter and All Souls and St Luke’s, Peterborough

Tel: 01733 562528

FITZWILLIAM HOSPITAL ( PRIVATE )

Address: Milton Way, Bretton, Peterborough, PE3 9AQ

Tel: 01733 261717

Served by: Sacred Heart and St Oswald, Peterborough

Tel: 01733 322750

HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY CO - ORDINATOR

Co-ordinator: TBA

If you have a relative or a friend or are being admitted to hospital, please ensure that you indicate that you or they are a Catholic, and would like the Catholic Chaplain to be informed of your presence in hospital. Otherwise, the Catholic Chaplain will not know that a Catholic patient is in the hospital. The secular authorities are not permitted to tell the Church if a patient is Catholic, and, according to secular rules and regulations, chaplains and parish priests are not permitted to communicate with one another regarding your presence in hospital without your permission. It is also good practice to inform hospital staff that you would like to receive visitors, as some hospitals will not permit visitors who are not close family without prior permission from the patient.

PRISONS AND DETENTION CENTRES

NORFOLK

NORWICH – HMP Norwich and YOI

Chaplain: Fr Paulinus Heggs

Tel: 01603 708722

Email: paulinus.heggs@justice.gov.uk

Chaplain: Rev Walter Chenyika

Tel: 01603 426971

Email: walter.chenyika@rcdea.org.uk

SCOTTOW – HMP Bure

Chaplain: Rev Peter Raj

Email: peter.raj@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 01263 822036

Lay Chaplain: TBA

WAYLAND – HMP Wayland

Chaplain: Rev Denis Gallagher

Tel: 01953 804080

Email: denis.gallagher@justice.gov.uk

Chaplain: Dcn Martin Sanderson

Tel: 01440 743232

Email: martin.sanderson2@justice.gov.uk

SUFFOLK

HIGHPOINT – HMP Highpoint South

Chaplain: Dcn Huw Williams

Tel: 01440 743195

Email: huw.williams@justice.gov.uk

HIGHPOINT – HMP Highpoint North

Chaplain: Dcn Huw Williams

Tel: 01440 743596

Email: huw.williams@justice.gov.uk

HOLLESLEY BAY – HMP Hollesley Bay and HMP Warren Hill

Chaplain: Mr Simon Ashenden

Tel: Warren Hill Chaplaincy 01394 633468

Hollesley Bay Chaplaincy 01394 412446

Email: simon.ashenden@justice.gov.uk

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

LITTLEHEY – HMP Littlehey

Chaplain: Dcn Prameel Joseph

Tel: 01480 335252

Email: joseph.prameel@justice.gov.uk

MARCH – HMP Whitemoor

Chaplain: TBA

PETERBOROUGH

PETERBOROUGH – HMP Peterborough

Chaplain: Dcn Jacob Cheriyan

Tel: 01733 217500

Email: jacob.cheriyan@sodexogov.uk

Chaplain: Rev Karol Porczak MS

Tel: 01733 217500

Email: karol.porczak@rcdea.org.uk

PRISON CHAPLAINCY CO-ORDINATOR

Co-ordinator: TBA

Catholic news in East Anglia

CLERGY AND RELIGIOUS

DIOCESAN PRIESTS

ASHWOOD, Mark (8.7.23 - date of ordination)

Address: Cathedral House, Unthank Road, Norwich, NR2 2PA

Email: mark.ashwood@rcdea.org.uk

ASOMUGHA, Anthony (18.5.24)

Address: The Presbytery, 21 Westgate St, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1QG

Email: anthony.asomugha@rcdea.org.uk

BAGSTAFF, David (10.7.76) (VG)

Address: Catholic Presbytery, 15 The Terrace, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5JH

Email: david.bagstaff@rcdea.org.uk

BAKER, David (7.9.96) (Rtd)

Address: 30 Park Lane, Helhoughton, Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 7BE

Email: david.baker@rcdea.org.uk

BARNES, John (7.10.95) (Rtd)

Address: 23 Blackhorse Yard, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, NR23 1BN

Email: john.barnes@rcdea.org.uk

BELNAS, Alfonso-Jude (6.7.19)

Address: The Presbytery, 322 Woodbridge Road, Ipswich, IP4 4BD

Email: jude.belnas@rcdea.org.uk

BLAIR, Stephen (26.5.73), (Rtd)

Address: St Michael’s Cottage, Carmelite Monastery, Quidenham, NR16 2PH

Tel: 01953 716060

Email: stephen.blair@rcdea.org.uk

BLAKESLEY, Simon (2.6.90)

Address: 1 St Mary’s Street, Bungay, Suffolk, NR35 1AX

Email: simon.blakesley@rcdea.org.uk

BRETT , Peter (9.1.66) (Rtd)

Address: 26 Lydgate Court, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2FB

Tel: 07407 356242

Email: peter.brett@rcdea.org.uk

BROOKES, Michael (6.7.19)

Address: c/o The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Email: michael.brookes@rcdea.org.uk

BROWN, Peter (7.3.71), (Rtd)

Address: 16 Park Road, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, NR23 1DQ

Tel: 01328 710604

Email: peter.brown@rcdea.org.uk

CAULFIELD, James (23.9.89), BD

Address: 69 Queens Road, Wisbech, Cambs, PE13 2PH

Email: james.caulfield@rcdea.org.uk

CLEARY, Patrick (16.12.78)

Address: Catholic Presbytery, 73 Newtown, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 3AU

Email: patrick.cleary@rcdea.org.uk

CONNOLLY, Sean (22.7.94) (VG)

Address: The Presbytery, 21 Westgate St, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1QG

Email: sean.connolly@rcdea.org.uk

DAVIES, Simon (6.7.19)

Address: The Catholic Presbytery, 91 Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 1XB

Email: simon.davies@rcdea.org.uk

DE LACY - SPENCER, Roger (5.6.79) (Rtd)

Address: 25 Station Road, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 9QH

Email: roger.spencer@rcdea.org.uk

DOWNIE, Jeffrey (2013) (29.6.13)

Address: 14 Royle Close, Orton Longueville, Peterborough, PE2 7LN

Email: jeffrey.downie@rcdea.org.uk

EBURNE, Andrew (20.7.18)

Address: The Presbytery, 17 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Email: andrew.eburne@rcdea.org.uk

EGGLESTON , Edmund (2.7.94)

Address: The Presbytery, 21a St John’s St, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1ED

Email: woodbridge.office@rcdea.org.uk

FINEGAN, David (9.6.85)

Address: 19 Egremont Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 1AE

Email: david.finegan@rcdea.org.uk

FOREMAN, Anthony (12.3.65) (Rtd)

Address: Wheelwrights, Lidgate, Nr Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9PR

Tel: 01638 500078

Email: anthony.foreman@rcdea.org.uk

FROST, Russell (9.5.91) (Rtd)

Address: La Canonica, 81 Wilkinson Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP5 2DS

Tel: 01473 612178

Email: russell.frost@rcdea.org.uk

FYFE , James (20.11.98) (Rtd)

Address: Flat 103, Ralph Perring Court, Stone Park Avenue, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3LX

Email: james.fyfe@rcdea.org.uk

Mob: 07832 261977

GALLAGHER, Denis (13.6.93)

Address: Catholic Presbytery, 1 Norwich Road, Wymondham, NR18 0QE

Email: denis.gallagher@rcdea.org.uk

GATES, Adrian (21.7.90)

Address: 30 Ditton Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8SF

Email: adrian.gates@rcdea.org.uk

GOYMOUR , Luke (10.7.10)

Address: The Presbytery, 180 Hawthorn Drive, Chantry Estate, Ipswich, IP2 0QQ

Email: luke.goymour@rcdea.org.uk

GRIFFIN , Michael (15.6.73) (Rtd)

Address: The Presbytery, Newmarket Road, Kirtling, CB8 8PA

Tel: 01638 730603

Email: michael.griffin@rcdea.org.uk

HACKESON, Mark (20.7.96)

Address: Catholic Presbytery, 31 Station Street, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7HP

Email: mark.hackeson@rcdea.org.uk

HARKNESS, Eugène (9.6.84) (Chancellor)

Address: Catholic Rectory, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1JR

Email: olempp@rcdea.org.uk or chancellor@rcdea.org.uk

HAWKINS, Padraig (9.7.11)

Address: The Catholic Presbytery, 19 Gordon Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 1NL

Email: padraig.hawkins@rcdea.org.uk

HEALEY, Richard (5.7.80) (Rtd)

Address: Room 13, Montana Care Home, East Barton Road, Great Barton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2RF

Email: richard.healey@rcdea.org.uk

HELEY, John (18.6.88), (Rtd)

Address: 24 Kestrel Close, Burnham Market, Norfolk, PE31 8EF

Tel: 01328 730036

Email: john.heley@rcdea.org.uk

HODGSON, Alan (6.7.19)

Address: Cathedral House, Unthank Road, Norwich, NR2 2PA

Email: alan.hodgson@rcdea.org.uk

HUYNH , Chanh (Paul) (21.12.91)

Address: The Presbytery, 468 Norwich Road, Ipswich, IP1 6JS

Email: paul.chanh@rcdea.org.uk

HYPHER, Paul (22.7.62), (Rtd)

Address: Moons Acre House, Low Bentham Road, Bentham, Lancs LA2 7BP

Tel: 01524 262541

Email: paul.hypher@rcdea.org.uk

IRESON, Richard (29.9.19) (Rtd)

Address: 7 Southfield Drive, Louth, Lincs, LN11 9ED

Tel: 01507 608082

Email: richard.ireson@rcdea.org.uk

JOHNSTONE , Michael (14.3.97), (Rtd)

Address: St Joseph's Convent, 42 Newbold Road, Chesterfield, Derbys, S41 7PL

Tel: 01246 230321

Email: fr.mcjohnstone@gmail.com

KEARNEY, Nicholas (11.7.87)

Address: 8 St John’s Road, March, Cambs, PE15 8RJ

Email: nicholas.kearney@rcdea.org.uk

LEEMING, Peter (2.7.77) (Rtd)

Address: 10 Oakampton House, Great Barton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2RF

Email: peter.leeming@rcdea.org.uk

LEWORTHY, Simon (13.3.92)

Address: Catholic Presbytery, 29 Lockington Road, Stowmarket, IP14 1BQ

Tel: 01449 612946

Email: simon.leworthy@rcdea.org.uk

LLOYD, Denys (28.5.94) (Rtd)

Address: 35 Chapelfield East, Norwich, NR2 1SF

Tel: 01603 630400

Email: denys.lloyd@rcdea.org.uk

MacCARTHY, Henry (2.7.77) (Rtd)

Address: 81 Mountbatten Road, Dersingham, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE31 6YE

Tel: 01485 543818

Email: henry.maccarthy@rcdea.org.uk

MAGPUYO, Jaylord (8.12.17)

Address: The Presbytery, 35 London Road, East Dereham, Norfolk, NR19 1AS

Email: jaylord.magpuyo@rcdea.org.uk

MANUNTAG, Bienn Carlo (8.7.23)

Address: 14 Royle Close, Orton Longueville, Peterborough, PE2 7LN

Email: bienncarlo.manuntag@rcdea.org.uk

MARIANU Leonard Michael (2.10.10)

Address: 14 Exeter Road, Newmarket, CB8 8LT

Email: leonard.michael@rcdea.org.uk

MARSH, Peter (18.3.62) (Rtd)

Address: Willows, Corders Farm, Bury Road, Lawshall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29 4PJ

Tel: 01284 830665

MOFFATT, Brendan (12.6.83) (Rtd)

Address: 110 Cryspen Court, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1EP

Tel: 07753 371600

Email: brendan.moffatt@rcdea.org.uk

MORRILL, John (21.9.24)

Address: 1 Bradford’s Close, Bottisham, Cambs, CB25 9DW

Tel: 07956 536140

Email: john.morrill@rcdea.org.uk

NEATE, Andrew (29.6.96) (19.9.20) (Rtd)

Address: The Presbytery, 29 Wells Road, Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 9EG

Tel: 01328 853481

Email: andrew.neate@rcdea.org.uk

NGUYEN Minh, Hoan (John) (10.7.99)

Address: 135 High Street, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, CB22 3HJ

Tel: 01223 832397

Email: john.minh@rcdea.org.uk

PAUL, David (16.9.95) (Rtd)

Address: 5 Printworks Drive, Norwich, NR3 1FN

Tel: 07445 818415

Email: david.paul@rcdea.org.uk

This graph shows priests of the Diocese of East Anglia proper, who are currently in active ministry within the diocese: a total of 44, with more than half being older than 60.

POOBALAN (SEELAN,) Arockiya (16.04.05)

Address: The Catholic Presbytery, 933, Lincoln Road, Peterborough, PE4 6AE

Email: arockiya.seelan@rcdea.org.uk

QUIGLEY, Gerard (22.3.75) (Rtd)

Address: Flat 20, 11 Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3PB

Email: gerry.quigley@rcdea.org.uk

RAJ, Peter (11.5.99)

Address: The Presbytery, 4 Norwich Road, North Walsham, Norfolk, NR28 9JP

Email: peter.raj@rcdea.org.uk

REAR, Michael (7.9.96), (Rtd)

Address: 32 Cleaves Drive, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6EQ

Tel: 01328 821180

Email: michael.rear@rcdea.org.uk

ROGERS, Anthony (26.6.71) (Rtd)

Address: c/o The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Email: anthony.rogers@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 07778 221509

ROLLINGS, Peter (16.7.87)

Address: Catholic Rectory, North Everard Street, King’s Lynn, PE30 5HQ

Email: peter.rollings@rcdea.org.uk

SHRYANE, Anthony (2.3.69) (Rtd)

Address: 40 Lincoln Gate, Lincoln Road, Peterborough, PE1 2RD

Email: anthony.shryane@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 01733 565897

SHRYANE, Philip (28.6.75)

Address: Catholic Presbytery, 82 Hartford Road, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 1XG

Email: philip.shryane@rcdea.org.uk

SMITH, Christopher (7.9.96)

Address: The Catholic Presbytery, The Common, Southwold, Suffolk, IP18 6AH

Email: christopher.smith@rcdea.org.uk

SMITH, M ichael (3.7.21)

Address: St Felix, 8 Gainsborough Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 7HT

Email: michael.smith@rcdea.org.uk

VULLIAMY, Michael (30.6.79) (Rtd)

Address: 4 Little John’s Close, Bretton, Peterborough PE3 9AS

Email: michael.vulliamy@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 01733 961541

WALSH, James (22.7.67) (Rtd)

Address: Rainbow Cottage, Crown Road, Buxton, Norfolk, NR10 5EH

Email: james.walsh@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 01603 652100

WALTON, Thomas (26.6.88) (Rtd)

Address: 24 Haynestone Road, Counden, Coventry, CV6 1GJ

Email: tom.walton@rcdea.org.uk

Tel: 07947 138919

WARD, David (31.5.97)

Address: The Presbytery, Townhouse Road, Costessey, Norwich, NR8 5AA

Email: david.ward@rcdea.org.uk

WARRINGTON, John (24.7.93)

Address: 3 Wentworth Terrace, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 9BP

Email: john.warrington@rcdea.org.uk

WELCH, Joseph (27.6.08)

Address: The Presbytery, 1 Orwell Place, Ipswich, IP4 1BD

Tel: 01473 252596

Email: joseph.welch@rcdea.org.uk

WHISENANT, Henry (06.07.13)

Address: Presbytery, Chapel Lane, Withermarsh Green, Colchester, CO6 4TA

Email: henry.whisenant@rcdea.org.uk

WHITE, Richard (14.7.90) (Rtd)

Address: c/o The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Email: richard.white@rcdea.org.uk

WILLIAMS, Gordon (7.4.84) (Rtd)

Address: 33 Sycamore Gardens, Leyland, Lancashire, PR25 3DF

Tel: 07775 792929

Email: gordon.williams@rcdea.org.uk

WYGNANSKI, Peter (22.7.20)

Address: The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Email: peter.wygnanski@rcdea.org.uk

DIOCESAN PRIESTS WORKING OUTSIDE THE DIOCESE

MADDISON, Paul (14.1.89)

Address: St Mary’s Abbey, Buckfast, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0EE

Tel: 07858 063358

Email: paul.maddison@rcdea.org.uk

RANDALL, Samuel (15.3.19)

Address: Radio Maria, 5-7 Clifton GR, Preston, Melbourne, Victoria 3072, Australia

Email: director@radiomaria.org.au

SELMAN, Francis (8.12.73)

Address: St Mary’s College, Oscott, Chester Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B73 5AA

Email: francis.selman@rcdea.org.uk

SMITH, David (7.9.96)

Address: c/o The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Email: david.smith229@mod.gov.uk

SPELLMAN, Paul (6.7.19)

Address: St Peter’s, Low Fell, Gateshead, NE9 5HY.

Email: spellbags70@gmail.com

DIOCESAN PRIESTS NOT IN ACTIVE MINISTRY

All these priests can be contacted: c/o The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

BURBIDGE, Bruce (22.7.94)

FEARS, Martin (8.7.00)

Email: martin.fears@rcdea.org.uk

GEORGE , Mathew (7.1.97)

Email: mathew.george@rcdea.org.uk

JENNINGS, David (1.5.93)

Email: david.jennings@rcdea.org.uk

LOCKE, Laurie (9.7.11) (Rtd)

Email: laurie.locke@rcdea.org.uk

RYAN, Michael (12.9.81)

Email: michael.ryan@rcdea.org.uk

SECULAR PRIESTS OF OTHER DIOCESES

ABLEWHITE, John (Westminster) (7.12.00) (Rtd)

Address: 46 Tower Court, Tower Road, Ely, Cambs, CB7 4XS

Tel: 07966 299154

Email: johnablewhite@rcdow.org.uk

ADAM, Gordon (Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) (10.6.11)

Address: 38 Windsor Road, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 5PL

Tel: 01553 777428

Email: gordon.adam@rcdea.org.uk

AMOAH, Dominic (Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa) (5.12.2004)

Address: The Presbytery, 322 Woodbridge Road, Ipswich, IP4 4BD

Email: dominic.amoah@rcdea.org.uk

ANAMAN, Alex (Ghana) (4.7.92)

Address: Church of St Henry Morse, Shelfanger Road, Diss, IP22 4DX

Tel: 01379 642914

Email: alex.anaman@rcdea.org.uk

ARAKKAL JOSEPH, Andrews (India) (18.4.09)

Address: The Catholic Presbytery, 3 Station Road, Whittlesey, Cambs, PE7 1SA

Email: andrew.arackal@rcdea.org.uk

BILLING, Robert (Lancaster) (14.7.01)

Address: Pilgrim Bureau, Friday Market Place, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6EG

Email: pilgrimage@walsingham.org.uk

BOROVSKY, Tibor (Slovakia) (19.6.88)

Address: The Catholic Presbytery, 39 East Street, St Neots, Cambs, PE19 1JU

Email: tibor.borovsky@rcdea.org.uk

BOULD, Stephen (Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) (4.6.11)

Address: The Grange, 43 Park Hill, Oulton, Lowestoft NR32 5DQ

Tel: 07584 411475

Email stephen.bould@rcdea.org.uk

BRENT, Allen (Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) (21.4.11)

Address: 18 St Alban’s Road, Cambridge, CB4 2HG

Tel: 07803 588027

Email: alb13@cam.ac.uk

BUGBY, T imothy (Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) (10.6.11)

Address: 10 Guanock Terrace, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 5QT

Tel: 01553 766175

Email: timothy.bugby@rcdea.org.uk

CHENYIKA, Walter (Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe) (28.7.07)

Address: The Catholic Presbytery, 223 Sprowston Road, Norwich, NR3 4HZ

Email: walter.chenyika@rcdea.org.uk

COLEMAN Don MA (Southwark) (8.12.78) (Rtd)

Address: 8 Bell Close, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 1AZ

Tel: 01728 605688

DE LIMA, Pablo (Portugal) (30.4.06)

Address: St Edmunds College, CB3 0BN Cambridge

Email: pl459@cam.ac.uk

DE MELLO FALCAO, Erico (Brazil)

Address: Catholic Presbytery, 17 Howdale Road, Downham Market, PE38 9AB

Tel: 01366 382353

Email: erico.demellofalcao@rcdea.org.uk

DOBSON Christopher (Arundle & Brighton) (21.7.12) (Rtd)

Address: The Old Stables, Rookery Farm, Hacheston, Woodbridge, IP13 0DJ

Tel: 07754 592899

Email: chris.dobson@abdiocese.org.uk

KEANE, Paul (Brentwood) (19.7.03)

Address: Fisher House, Guildhall St, Cambridge, CB2 3NH

Email: pjk1001@cam.ac.uk

Tel: 01223 742192

LABACEVIC, Alexander (USAF) (6.8.06)

Address RAF Alconbury, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE28 4DA

Email i.labacevich@gmail.com

Tel 01480 843343

LIDDLE, Gladstone (Westminster) (7.5.80) (Rtd)

Address: 1 Wares Cottages. Magazine Lane, Wisbech. PE13 1 LQ

Tel: 07966 903 928

Email gladstoneliddle@rcdow.org.uk

LINDLAR, Christopher (Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) (4.6.11)

Episcopal Vicar for Administration

Address: 47 Cley Road, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7NP

Tel: 07710 090195

Email christopher.lindlar@ordinariate.org.uk

MONTEIRO, Trindade (Goa) (30.10.06)

Address: The Presbytery, Cromer Road, Sheringham, Norfolk, NR26 8RT

Email: trindade.monteiro@rcdea.org.uk

ONYEJEGBU , Cyriacus (USAF)

Address: 100 ARW/HC, RAF Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 8NF

Email: cyriacus.onyejegbu.1@us.af.mil

Tel: 01638 542822

RIZZI , Giuseppe (23.6.12)

Address: Catholic Rectory, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1JR

Email: giuseppe.rizzi@rcdea.org.uk

STACK, Michael (Birmingham) (18.7.87) (Rtd)

National Chaplain to the Association of Catholic Nurses of England & Wales.

Address: 59 Milfield, Ashill, Thetford, Norfolk, IP25 7BQ

Email: michael.stack3@gmail.com

STOKES, Michael (Brentwood) (23.2.64) (Rtd)

Address: Wuffing House 30 Sandringham Road, Hunstanton, Norfolk, PE36 5DR

Tel: 01485 532358

Email: michael.stokes@rcdea.org.uk

TRAN, Khoi (USAF) (29.6.13)

Address: Catholic Chaplain, Base Chapel Bldg 900, RAF Lakenheath, Brandon, Suffolk, IP27 9PN

Email: khoi.tran2@us.af.mil

Tel: 01638 523711

TRENCHARD, John (Nottingham) (29.6.71) (Rtd)

Address: 9 Churchfield, Court, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0XA

Email: johntrenchard@dioceseofnottingham.uk

WESTON , Ivan (Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) (19.5.12)

Address: 2 The Furlongs, Needingworth, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE27 4TX

Tel: 01480 462107

Email: ivan.weston@rcdea.org.uk

ZACKARY, Anil (27.12.10)

Address: 18, Stuart Close,Brandon, Suffolk, IP27 0HB

Email: anil.zackary@rcdea.org.uk

CANTONESE CHAPLAIN ( 廣東語教友)

NGUYEN Minh, Hoan (John) (10.7.99)

Address: Our Lady of Lourdes, 135 High Street, Sawston, Cambridge, CB22 3HJ

Tel: 01223 832397

Email: cantonese.chaplaincy@rcdea.org.uk

POLISH MISSION PRIESTS

LUDWIN, Sebastian SChr

Address: 2 Cedar Grove, Peterborough, PE1 3SP

Email: sebastian.ludwin@gmail.com

NAWLOKA, Pawel (28.5.11)

Address: 82 Wellesley Road, Ipswich, IP4 1PH

Email: pawel.nawloka@rcdea.org.uk

NIEWINSKI, Waldemar (15.6.02)

Address: Polonia House, 231 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, CB4 1AS.

Tel: 01223 368539

Email: waldemar.niewinski@rcdea.org.uk

OGORZALY, Marek SChr (21.5.96)

Address: 2 Cedar Grove, Peterborough, PE1 3SP

Email: marekog@post.pl

PORTUGUESE CHAPLAIN

DE MELLO FALCAO, Erico (30.6.79)

Address: Catholic Presbytery, 17 Howdale Road, Downham Market, PE38 9AB

Tel: 01366 382353/ 07944 619427

Email: thefalcon.erico@gmail.com

SYRO-MALABAR CHAPLAINS

ABRAHAM, Dany SM

Address: 15 Finchfield, Peterborough, PE1 4YG

Email: danym@csmegb.net

CHIRACKALMANAVALAN, Tomy SM (2.1.95)

Address: 482 Landseer Road, Ipswich, IP3 9LU

Mobile: 07480 730503

Email: tomy.chirackalmanavalan@rcdea.org.uk

JOHN, Philip SM (4.1.03)

Address: Catholic Presbytery, 33 Walpole Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambs, CB13TH

Mobile: 0771 3139350

Email: philip.john@rcdea.org.uk

THOMAS, Jinu SM (30.12.17)

Address: Cathedral House, Unthank Road, Norwich, NR2 2PA

Email: jinuthomas1990@gmail.com

Mobile: 07518 970786

TIMOR LESTE CHAPLAIN

NGUYEN Minh, Hoan (John) (10.7.99)

Address: Our Lady of Lourdes, 135 High Street, Sawston, Cambridge, CB22 3HJ

Tel: 01223 832397

Email: timor.leste@rcdea.org.uk

PRIESTS OF RELIGIOUS ORDERS (Working

or resident in the Diocese)

AGOMUOH, Nwabueze Desmond SMMM (20.7.13)

Address: Catholic Rectory, St Mary’s, Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2AJ

Email: nwabueze.agomuoh@rcdea.org.uk

ARINZE, Jude CMF

Address: The Towers, Buckden, Cambs, PE19 5TA

Email: sthugh.buckden@gmail.com

AROCKIAM, Antony CMF (28.12.05)

Address: The Priest’s House, 20 The Croft, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 1HW

Email: antony.arockiam@rcdea.org.uk

CARR, Colin OP (27.6.81)

Address: Blackfriars, Buckingham Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DD

Tel: 07788 867121

Email: colin.carr@english.op.org

CHIMAOBI , Charles OSA (4.8.2017)

Address: The Priory, Shields, 23 High Street, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6AZ.

Email: charles.chimaobi@walsingham.org.uk

DOBSON, William SSP (29.10.55) (Rtd)

Address: The White Bungalow, Homefields Lane, Hunstanton PE36 5HZ

Email: william.dobson@rcdea.org.uk

DONAGHY, George OSA (16.7.05)

Address: Clare Priory, Ashen Road, Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8NX

Email: george.donaghy@rcdea.org.uk

ECCLES, Robert OP (29.6.68)

Address: Blackfriars, Buckingham Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DD Tel: 01223 741265

Email: robert.eccles@english.op.org

GOONAN, Thomas SM (3.4.65)

Address: Stella Maris, The Buttlands, Wells-next-the-Sea, NR23 1EY

Email: thomas.goonan@rcdea.org.uk

HANRAHAN, Desmond SM (6.12.69)

Address: Stella Maris, The Buttlands, Wells-next-the-Sea, NR23 1EY

Email: desmond.hanrahan@rcdea.org.uk

HONE, Ed CSsR (7.5.88)

Address: St Edmund’s College, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge, CB3 0BN

Email: eh669@cam.ac.uk

IBEH, Alvan SMMM (21.7.12)

Address: St Peter's, 17a Sussex Road, Gorleston, Norfolk, NR31 6PF

Email: alvan.ibeh@rcdea.org.uk

IKPE , Sunday OSA (1.7.2006)

Address: The Priory, Shields, 23 High Street, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6AZ.

Email: sunday.ikpe@walsingham.org.uk

KENNEDY, Jim CMF (8.4.67)

Address: The Towers, Buckden, Cambs, PE19 5TA

Email: jim.kennedy@rcdea.org.uk

McCOY, Alban OFM Conv (20.12.75)

Address: St Edmund’s College, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge, CB3 0BN

Email: am335@cam.ac.uk

MARLEY, Euan OP (1.10.94)

Address: Blackfriars, Buckingham Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DD

Tel: 01223 741251

Email: euan.marley@english.op.org

MIDDLETON, David OSA (3.7.71)

Address: Clare Priory, Ashen Road, Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8NX

Email: david.middleton@rcdea.org.uk

NWANKWO, Anthony SMMM (24.7.10)

Address: St Mary’s, Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 2AJ

Email: anthony.nwankwo@rcdea.org.uk

PARK, Stefan OSA (13.10.01)

Address: Clare Priory, Ashen Road, Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8NX

Email: stefan.park@rcdea.org.uk

PEARSON, Gregory OP (27.7.13)

Address: Blackfriars, Buckingham Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DD

Tel: 01223 741251

Email: gregory.pearson@english.op.org

PORCZAK, Karol MS (18.5.91)

Address: The Catholic Presbytery, Geneva St, Peterborough, PE1 2RS

Email karol.porczak@rcdea.org.uk

ROBERTSON, Albert OP (10.7.22)

Address: Blackfriars, Buckingham Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DD

Tel: 01223 741251

Email: albert.robertson@english.op.org

SMIALEK, Waldemar MS (20.5.89)

Address: The Catholic Presbytery, Geneva Street, Peterborough, PE1 2RS

Email: waldemar.smialek@rcdea.org.uk

SMYTH, Paul CMF (8.7.90)

Address: The Towers, Buckden, Cambs, PE19 5TA

Email: sthugh.buckden@gmail.com

TARU, Eric OSA (9.7.2023)

Address: The Priory, Shields, 23 High Street, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6AZ.

Email: eric.taru@walsingham.org.uk

TULLOCH, Keith, SM (15.12.73)

Address: Stella Maris, The Buttlands, Wells-next-the-Sea, NR23 1EY

Email: keith.tulloch@rcdea.org.uk

VERRILL, Robert OP (7.7.12)

Address: Blackfriars, Buckingham Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DD

Tel: 01223 741251

Email: robert.verrill@english.op.org

WHITE, Paul OP (8.10.05)

Address: Blackfriars, Buckingham Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DD

Tel: 01223 741251

Email: paul.white@english.op.org

PERMANENT DEACONS

BEDFORD, John (28.6.08)

Address: 5 Garrick Walk, Old Fletton, Peterborough, PE2 8DD

Email: john.bedford@rcdea.org.uk

BELFIELD, John (30.6.00)

Address: 3 John Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 5HH

Tel: 01553 774303

Email: john.belfield@rcdea.org.uk

BELL, John (6.7.12)

Address: 3 Applewood Close, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, CB1 9NU

Tel: 07502 560610

Email: john.bell@rcdea.org.uk

BRIGHTEN, Christopher (31.7.02)

Address: 4 Godbold Close, Kesgrave, Ipswich, IP5 2FE

Tel: 07554 799174

Email: christopher.brighten@rcdea.org.uk

CHERIYAN, Jacob (29.7.20)

Address: 137 Atherstone Avenue, Peterborough, PE3 9UN

Tel: 07957 124973

Email: jacob.cheriyan@rcdea.org.uk

CHIAPPINELLI, Claudio (14.7.04)

Address: 202 Broadway, Peterborough, PE1 4DT

Tel: 01733 344089

Email: claudio.chiappinelli@rcdea.org.uk

COOK, Geoffrey (8.12.78)

Address: 20 Brierley Walk, Cambridge, CB4 3NH

Tel: 01223 351650

CROSS, Justin (19.7.14)

Address: Walnut Tree Cottage, The Street, Barnham, Thetford IP24 2NF

Mob: 07970 546758

Email: justin.cross@rcdea.org.uk

CROUCHER, David (4.7.04) (Clifton)

Address: Thelwell House, Mill Street, Gislingham, Suffolk, IP23 8JT

Tel: 07723 359207

Email: david.croucher@rcdea.org.uk

DIMELOW, William (25.5.91) (Rtd)

Address: Crofthaven, The Croft, Old Costessey, Norwich, Norfolk, NR8 5DT

Tel: 01603 743476

Email: bill.dimelow@rcdea.org.uk

FELTON, Tony (29.6.96)

Address: 6 Borough End, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9YW

Tel: 07985 228397

Email: tony.felton@rcdea.org.uk

GLADDEN, Brett (22.6.19)

Address: c/o Parish Office, St Edmunds, 21 Westgate St, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1QG

Email: brett.gladden@rcdea.org.uk

GLANVILLE, Peter (29.6.96)

Address: White Lilacs, Station Road, Cantley, Norfolk, NR13 3NL

Tel: 01493 701341

Email: peter.glanville@rcdea.org.uk

GREEF, Nicholas (3.7.04)

Address: 18 Levine Close, Brundall, Norwich, NR13 5RH

Tel: 01603 715066

Email: nick.greef@rcdea.org.uk

HATFIELD, Ian (25.5.91)

Address: Flat B, 28 Constitution Hill, Norwich, NR3 4BU

Tel: 01603 491501

Email: ian.hatfield@rcdea.org.uk

HIRONS, Paul (25.5.91) (Rtd)

Address: 2 Cleaves House, Wells Road, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6DJ

Tel: 01328 821523

Email: paul.hirons@rcdea.org.uk

HURST, James (22.6.19)

Address: 47 High Street, Chippenham, Ely, Cambs, CB7 5PR

Tel: 01638 721235 / 07736 146401

Email: james.hurst@rcdea.org.uk

JONES, Rick (11.6.16)

Address: Pilgrim Bureau, Friday Market Place, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6EG

Tel: 07450 247290

Email: deaconrick@walsingham.org.uk

JORDAN, Michael (3.7.04)

Address: c/o The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Email: michael.jordan@rcdea.org.uk

JOSEPH, Prameel (30.7.20)

Address: 5 Marketstede, Hampton Hargate, Peterborough, PE7 8FA

Tel: 07464 972929

Email: prameel.joseph@rcdea.org.uk

JOYCE , Robert (25.5.91) (Rtd),

Address: Otter Bank, 72, Green End, Comberton, Cambridge, CB3 7DA

Tel: 01223 262964

Email: robert.joyce@rcdea.org.uk

L’ESTRANGE, Martin (22.6.19)

Address: Gables Cottage, 9 Common Lane, North Runcton, King’s Lynn, PE33 0RD

Tel: 01553 840978

Email: martin.lestrange@rcdea.org.uk

LIMACHER, Patrick (2.7.05)

Address: 3 Mill Close, Wortham, Diss, IP22 1PR

Tel: 01379 452785 Mob: 07813471587

Email: patrick.limacher@rcdea.org.uk

MAHONEY, Peter (12.10.02) (Rtd)

Address: 36 Folly Road, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0QT

Tel: 01953 603025

Email: peter.mahoney@rcdea.org.uk

McMAHON, Alan (8.7.06)

Address: c/o, 21 Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1QG

Tel: 0790 763554

Email: alan.mcmahon@rcdea.org.uk

MORRISON, Shaun (04.07.15) (OOLW)

Address: 38 Windsor Road, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 5PL

Tel: 01553 777428

Email: shaun.morrison@rcdea.org.uk

POMEROY, Stephen (24.6.95)

Address: c/o St Peter’s, 17a Sussex Road, Gorleston, NR31 6PF

Tel: 07300 823461

Email: stephen.pomeroy@rcdea.org.uk

RANZETTA, Anthony (11.6.94) (Rtd)

Address: Frogs Hall, Frogs Hall Road, Lavenham, Suffolk, CO10 9QH

Tel: 01787 248042

Email: anthony.ranzetta@rcdea.org.uk

RAYNES, Paul (29.7.23)

Address: 6 Mill Street, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, CB7 5RY

Tel: 07766 523770

Email: paul.raynes@rcdea.org.uk

SANDERSON, Martin (15.6.03)

Address: Homestead, Daffy Green, Shipdham, Thetford, Norfolk, IP25 7QQ

Tel: 01362 822590

Email: martin.sanderson@rcdea.org.uk

SAVINI, Gianluca (2.7.22)

Address: 6 Tribune Court, Cambridge, CB4 2TU

Tel: 07437 340518

Email: gianluca.savini@rcdea.org.uk

SPARKS, Roger (6.6.02) (Rtd)

Address: Winton House, 34, Theatre Street, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7HA

Tel: 01760 724113

Email: roger.sparks@rcdea.org.uk

VIPOND, Michael (25.5.91)

Address: 8 The Scrum, Danforth Drive, Framlingham, Suffolk, IP13 9HH

Tel: 01728 724646

Email: mike.vipond@rcdea.org.uk

WELLS, Martin (26.9.03)

Address: ‘Kerala’, 42 Chapel Lane, Wimblington, March, PE15 0QX

Tel: 01354 741488

Email: martin.wells@rcdea.org.uk

WILLIAMS , Huw (17.07.15)

Address: 6 Westward Deals, Kedington, Suffolk, CB9 7PN

Tel: 07399 163718

Email: huw.williams@rcdea.org.uk

THE BISHOP’S STUDENTS FOR THE SACRED PRIESTHOOD

Beda College (Rome)

Year 2: Matthew Allen

St Mary’s College, Oscott (Birmingham)

Year 4: Peter Ho (Our Lady of Lourdes and St John Fisher, Sawston)

Dr Anthony Reilly (Our Lady, Stowmarket)

Johannesburg Dominic Nyathi

Director of Vocations:

Rev Canon Patrick Cleary, Catholic Presbytery, 73 Newtown, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 3AU

Tel: 01842 752266

Email: vocations@rcdea.org.uk

Assistant Vocations Director: Rev Peter Wygnanski

Email: peter.wygnanski@rcdea.org.uk

Vocations Promotor: Rev Alfonso Jude Belnas

Email: jude.belnas@rcdea.org.uk

THE BISHOP’S STUDENTS FOR THE PERMANENT DIACONATE

Year 2: Richard Rahim (St Luke’s, Peterborough) Paul Gilbert (St Mary's, Thetford)

Year 3: Jonathan Callejo (St John’s Cathedral)

Jonathan Wright (Our Lady & the English Martyrs, Cambridge)

Director of the Permanent Diaconate Rev Andrew Eburne Email: andrew.eburne@rcdea.org.uk

Assistant Directors:

Dcn John Bell

Tel: 07502 560610

Email: john.bell@rcdea.org.uk

Dcn Martin L’Estrange Tel: 01553 840978

Email: martin.lestrange@rcdea.org.uk

INSTITUTES OF CONSECRATED LIFE

Canonesses of St Augustine (Congregation of Our Lady): Walsingham, Cambridge. Carmelites: Quidenham

Tel: 01953 887202

Email: prioress@quidenhamcarmel.org.uk

Congregation of Jesus: Cambridge

Tel: 01223 272910

Email: marylukecj@gmail.com

Community of Our Lady of Walsingham: Dereham

Tel: 01362 692574

Email: office@walsinghamcommunity.org

Daughters of Divine Charity: Cambridge

Email: srfrancis8@hotmail.co.uk

Dominican Sisters: Cambridge

Tel: 01223 353730

Franciscan Missionaries of Mary: March

Tel: 01354 652266

Email: animatormarch@fmmuk.org

Little Sisters of Jesus: 7 Egmere Road, Walsingham, NR226BT

Tel: 01328 820422

Email: lsjunitedkingdom@gmail.com

Marist Sisters: Walsingham

Tel: 01328 820246

Email: maristswal@gmail.com

Poor Clares: Swaffham

Tel 01760 722158

Email: elfraosc@gmail.com

Religious of Jesus and Mary: Felixstowe

Email: cjm.felixstowe@yahoo.co.uk

Sisters of Our Lady of Reconciliation: Walsingham

Email: janelouise.ord.olw@gmail.com

Sisters of our Lady of Grace and Compassion: Great Barton

Tel: 01284 787321

Email: montana.gtbarton@btconnect.com

Working Sisters of the Holy House of Nazareth: Peterborough

Email: suorerika@gmail.com

COMMUNITIES OF PRIESTS AND BROTHERS

Augustinians: Clare and Walsingham

Claretian Missionaries: Buckden

Dominicans: Cambridge

La Salette: Peterborough All Souls

Marists: Walsingham

Sons of Mary Mother of Mercy: Great Yarmouth

RELIGIOUS SISTERS LIVING IN THE DIOCESE

Other than those living in Communities listed above.

BROADBENT, Sr Camilla CSA: Flat 73, Abbeyfield Girton Green, Wellbrook Way, Cambridge, CB3 0GQ

DINES, Sr Jennifer CSA: 58 St Matthew’s Gardens, Cambridge, CB1 2PJ

MARY, Sr Josephine: c/o The Presbytery, Chapel Lane, Withermarsh Lane, Colchester, Essex, CO6 4TA

PRENDERGAST, Sr Mary Richard CJ: Flat 3, Prior Court, The Great Hospital, Bishopgate, Norwich, NR1 4EJ

WELLINGTON, Sr Sandra CSA: 16 Bridewell St, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6BJ

CONSECRATED WOMEN

FITZGERALD, Elizabeth: 36 Cleaves Drive, Little Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6EQ

Email: elizafitz@gmail.com

CONNORS, Anthea: Oak View, Surlingham Road, Bramerton, Norwich, NR14 7DN

Email: antheaconnors@gmail.com

MORRISON, Lynn Marie: c/o Carmelite Monastery, Quidenham NR16 2PH

SHERIDAN, Mary: E-mail: mary@msedits.co.uk

DIOCESAN AND NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIETIES

AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED

Directly under the Holy See, ACN supports the faithful wherever they are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need. ACN helps to bring Christ to the world through prayer, information and action, and is at work in around 140 countries throughout the world.

The charity undertakes thousands of projects every year including transport for clergy and lay Church workers, construction of church buildings, funding for priests and Sisters and support for seminarians. Since 1979, over 51 million copies of the Child’s Bible have been printed in 193 languages and distributed worldwide.

National Director: Caroline Hull,

Address: 12-14 Benhill Avenue, Sutton, Surrey SM1 4DA

Tel: 020 8642 8668

Email: caroline.hull@acnuk.org

Web: www.acnuk.org

ASSOCIATION FOR LATIN LITURGY

The aims of the Association for Latin Liturgy are:

n To understand the aims of Vatican 2 and its implementation.

n To support parishes wishing to re-introduce some Latin and Plainchant into worship or some of the wide range of Liturgical music available based on the chant.

n To support parishes wishing to further develop the use of chant

n To support priests and deacons to be able to sing parts of the liturgy.

n To encourage and enable singing teaching and training in choirs.

n To provide general advice and suggestion about music and the liturgy.

Members of the Association will accept invitations to parishes or deaneries and work with them to support the music and liturgy at any suitable event; choir practices or day events working to a programme agreed jointly.

Diocesan representative: Paul Henriksen

Address: 64 Pineheath Road, High Kelling, Holt, NR25 6RH

Tel: 01263 712288

Email: paul-henriksen@latin-liturgy.org

Web: www.latin-liturgy.org

Association Liturgical Advisor: Bishop Emeritus Alan Hopes BD AKC

BENEDICTINE LIFE

Norfolk Oblates of Douai Abbey meet at the ‘Julian Chapter’ every second Thursday at the Church of Our Lady and St Walstan, Costessey, Norwich, at 11am.

Contact: Tony Howes

Tel: 01603 742487

CAFOD

CAFOD is the official overseas development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. In over thirty countries they reach people in poverty with practical help. In witness to Gospel values CAFOD works to:

n Reach those in greatest need, save lives and relieve suffering.

n Challenge and transform the structures and behaviours that drive poverty, injustice and harm the natural world.

n In emergencies provide immediate relief and long-term re-building programmes.

CAFOD focuses on clean water, sanitation, sustainable livelihoods and peace-building. Support can be offered through donations, prayer, volunteering and campaigning.

CAFOD’s Lent Family Fast Day is on Friday February 23 and Harvest Fast Day is on Friday October 4 and donation envelopes will be available in churches.

Diocese of East Anglia Community Participation Coordinator: Jane Crone

Address: CAFOD, c/o The White House, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH

Tel: 07779 804 252

Email: jcrone@cafod.org.uk

CARITAS CHRISTI

Caritas Christi is an international secular institute for women in which members make a commitment for life to be totally given to God. Out of love they choose to live a celibate life in order to dedicate their love in its completeness to God, the Church and all people. Their service is given in the circumstances of their everyday lives. They remain lay people. If you are single or widowed and would like information, write to:

Contact: Penny Sweet

Email: pnlpsweet@gmail.com

THE CATENIAN ASSOCIATION

The Catenian Association is an international brotherhood of Catholic men who meet socially once a month to pray, offer mutual support and encourage friendship among our Catholic families. Prayers and Masses for Vocations are very important to us.

A Benevolent Fund exists for widows, children or members in need, and a Bursary Fund to assist/encourage any young Catholic under 25 to involve themselves in projects for the benefit of the community at home or abroad.

If you are interested, in the first instance, please contact one of the following Circle secretaries below and we look forward to meeting you: Norwich and District Circle 86: Paul Bruning t: 01369 687717 | e: paul.bruning@btinternet.com

Cambridge Circle 52: Stephen Goddard t: 01223 526662 | e: stephen.goddard87@ntlworld.com

Ipswich Circle 123: Richard Colley t: 01255 880868 | e: sec.circle123@gmail.com West Norfolk Circle 351: William O’Brien e: obrienw101@aol.com

Bury St Edmunds 362: Paul Rossi t: 01284 703784 | e: paul-rossi@supanet.com Web: www.thecatenians.com

CATHOLIC ARCHIVES SOCIETY

The Catholic Archives Society promotes and advises on listing, management and preservation of records of dioceses, religious foundations and institutions of the Catholic Church. It is a voluntary organisation founded in 1979 to promote the care of the archives of the Roman Catholic Church in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, so enabling them: to be used for the efficient administration of the diocese, parish, religious foundation or lay society they concern; and to be available for research and cultural uses

Email: catholicarchivesociety@gmail.com

Web: www.catholicarchivesociety.org

Twitter: @CatholicArcSoc

CHARIS DIOCESAN SERVICE OF COMMUNION

The objective of CHARIS is to serve and create ‘communion’ between the different ‘realities’ existing in Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and to be in relationship with the Church as a whole, for the proclamation of the Gospel in the world.

Regional Contact: Pam Smith

Tel: 079869 652115

Email: pammysmith01@hotmail.com

Web: www.renewaleastanglia.org

CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION UK

Membership is open to Catholic doctors, nurses, pharmacists, radiographers, physiotherapists, hospital chaplains, health care managers and their students.

National Secretary: Dr Stephen Brennan.

Email: president@catholicmedicalassociation.org.uk

Web: www.catholicmedicalassociation.org.uk

CATHOLIC UNION CHARITABLE TRUST

The Catholic Union Charitable Trust (CUCT) was launched in 2015. The CUCT’s principal aim is to advance Catholic moral, social and spiritual teaching by means of conferences, lectures, training and seminars. The funding of the CUCT is by donations which are eligible for gift aid.

Tel: 020 8749 1321

Address: The Catholic Union Charitable Trust (CUCT), St Maximilian Kolbe House, 63 Jeddo Road, London, W12 9EE

Email: info@cuct.org

Web: cuct.org

CATHOLIC UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN

The Catholic Union of Great Britain (CUGB) was founded in 1870 and is the voice of the Catholic laity working to educate the Government, Parliament and wider society to ensure that our Catholic values and interests are presented to key decision makers who determine legislation and social policy. The funding of CUGB is by annual or life individual membership subscription or donation.

President: Baroness Hollins of Wimbledon

Tel: 020 8749 1321

Address: The Catholic Union of Great Britain (CUGB), St Maximilian Kolbe House, 63 Jeddo Road, London, W12 9EE

Email: info@catholicunion.org.uk

Web: catholicunion.org.uk

CATHOLIC WOME N’S LEAGUE

A national and international organisation involved in charitable works. It seeks to make the voice of Catholic women heard on many issues including family life. Founded in 1906 by Margaret Fletcher. New members are always welcome. There are sections in Cambridge, Lowestoft and Wymondham and affiliated members across the Diocese. Trustee and Branch President: Teresa Wiseman

Email: phandtmwiseman@gmail.com

CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMUNITIES

Christian Life Communities are small groups of people who meet regularly to help each other deepen their life of prayer. CLC’s special characteristic is the spirituality of St Ignatius of Loyola, helping members to integrate prayer and action in their daily lives. We also work to promote the common good in public life and it is vital that the Catholic voice continues to be proclaimed in public. We liaise with the wider Christian community on issues of common interest.

Email: info@clcew.org.uk

Web: www.clcew.org.uk

COUPLES FOR CHRIST ( EAST ANGLIA CHAPTER )

A movement intended for the renewal and strengthening of Christian family life. CFC is recognized by the Holy See as a private international association of the lay faithful of pontifical right. Units based in Norwich, Ipswich, Cambridge which cover Couples for Christ, Handmaids of the Lord, Singles for Christ, Youth for Christ, Kids for Christ.

CFC (Couples for Christ) Norwich unit heads: Bro Bing & Sis Joy Candaza

Tel: 07805 762785

Email: jambcandaza@yahoo.co.uk

ENGLISH CATHOLIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION

The Association encourages interest in the Catholic history of England and Wales. We organise visits to places associated with the Catholic faith and arrange lectures on subjects relating to our Catholic history. We also support research into subjects of Catholic interest and the preservation of Catholic archives. Lectures are made available online, via our various social media outlets. We publish a newsletter three times per year.

Regional Co-ordinator for East Anglia: Bernard Polack

Address: 4 Woodstock Grove, Farncombe, Godalming, Surrey GU7 2 AX

Tel: 01483 421412

Email: englishcatholichistoryassociation@gmail.com Web: www.echa.org.uk

EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM KHS

The Order of the Holy Sepulchre was established in the twelfth century as a body of knights to defend the Church in the Holy Land. In 1847, Pope Blessed Pius IX reconstituted the Order to support the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem through prayer, pilgrimage and alms-giving. The need for solidarity with the ‘living stones’ who maintain the Catholic faith in the Holy Land is stronger than ever. We are part of a worldwide organisation of 30,000 knights and dames, priests and bishops. Reg charity no 262033

Eastern Section President: John Prestage

Email: easternpresident@eohsj.org.uk

Web: www.eohsj.org.uk

FIAT FERTILITYCARE

A programme, based on the Creighton Model FertilityCare system and medical NaProTechnology, to support couples who have difficulty conceiving.

Contact: Ira Winter

Tel: 07936 907777 or 01926 888088

Email: fertilitycare@fiatfertilitycare.co.uk

FRIENDS OF THE HOLY FATHER

To pray for His Holiness’s intentions, to study his teaching and make it more widely known as well as supporting a fund to assist towards defraying the rising expenses incurred in furthering his Apostolic Ministry.

Secretary: Mary Maxwell

Chairman: John Langan

Tel: 020 7798 9181

Email: fhfenquiries@gmail.com

Web: www.thefriendsoftheholyfather.org

FRIENDS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL OF EAST ANGLIA

The Friends, a registered charity no 289281, raise funds for the enhancement of the Cathedral, the mother church of the Diocese, through membership subscriptions, donations, legacies and events. They also promote interest in the Cathedral to assist the growth of the diocesan family. Subscription is £20 per annum, £10 concessions or £250 for life membership, £350 joint.

Chairman: Jonathan Ellis

Email: jfhellis@icloud.com

Membership Secretary: friends@sjbcathedral.org.uk

GRAIL SOCIETY

The Grail has always worked to share its Christian inspiration and values with the world by encouraging awareness of God’s presence in the individual, in communities and in Creation in the belief that to help one person to grow is to help to build the world. Today this work is being continued through the making of small grants to other charities or groups whose work embodies these values.

Diocesan Representative: José Smith

Email: president@grailsociety.org.uk

Web: www.grailsociety.org.uk

JULIAN MEETINGS

The Julian Meetings foster the practice and teaching of contemplative prayer in the Christian Tradition. There are groups in all parts of the Diocese of East Anglia.

Email: meetingsinfo@thejulianmeetings.net

Web: www.thejulianmeetings.net

KNIGHTS OF ST COLUMBA – PROVINCE 27 EAST ANGLIA

The Order of the Knights of St Columba exists to support the mission of the Catholic Church and at the same time to work for the spiritual, intellectual and material welfare of its members and their families.

A member of the order aims to achieve these objectives through the virtues of Charity, Unity and Fraternity. Membership is open to all practising Catholic men aged 16 or over.

Province 27 - Provincial Grand Knight Jason Wickard

Council 206 Ipswich - Grand Knight Con Pappas

Council 287 Cambridge - Grand Knight Gerald Fox

Council 319 Kings Lynn - Grand Knight Peter Martin

Council 518 Lowestoft - Grand Knight Gordon Cuthbert

Council 534 Great Yarmouth - Grand Knight Wlodek Szczerba

Council 976 Norwich - Grand Knight Colin Harper

Enquiries: Province 27 Communications Officer at: admin@ksc-prov27.org.uk

LAY DOMINICANS

Lay members of the Order of Preachers committed to prayer, study, community and mission. Meeting regularly in fraternities, Lay Dominicans pray and study together and then go out to preach Christ to the world as active lay Catholics. Fraternities are in Cambridge and Walsingham.

Contact: Jill Gunsell

Email: fraternity@cambridgelaydominicans.org

Web: www.cambridgelaydominicans.org

LIFE

We’re a national charity that offers positive alternatives to abortion (through our Pregnancy Matters™ services) and educate young people to respect human life from beginning to end (through our Life Matters® services).

Pregnancy Matters™ gives emotional support, counselling, housing, and financial help to anyone affected by pregnancy-related issues. We serve 500+ people every day.

For any pregnancy / baby loss related problem, help is just a click, text or call away. If you need to talk we’re here to listen:

Web: www.lifecharity.org.uk

Tel: 0808 8025433

Text: 07860 077339

Email: info@lifecharity.org.uk or help@lifecharity.org.uk

LIFE ASCENDING Vie Montante Internationale

For Christians in their middle and later life, helping them grow spiritually and to take up their responsibilities as members of the Church through friendship and mission.

President: Colin Blagdon

Address: 19 Lymington Road, Stevenage SG1 2PE

Phone: 01438 216247

Email: marieryde@btinternet.com

Web: www.lifeascending.org.uk

MERYEMANA

Ecumenical shrine of Our Lady of Grace based in Ipswich. Monthly meetings. Annual pilgrimage walk on Sunday near to September 8.

Contact: Judith Fell and Jean M Johnson

Address: 43, Bond Street, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 1JD

Email: johnson.j.m@btinternet.com

MISSIO - Today. Tomorrow. Together. Missio ignites God’s love by helping missionaries to work alongside communities throughout the world that are poor or in need, regardless of their background or belief. Today Missio makes an impact in 1,070 mission dioceses in 157 countries. We transform lives by listening to local needs and acting in the most effective way: we create infrastructure in impoverished and remote areas, we help to build chapels, schools

and orphanages, we facilitate clinics and dispensaries, and we create hubs from which the young Church can flourish and grow. 020 7821 9755.

Director: Rev Anthony Chantry MHM, 23 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1NU

Tel: 020 7821 9755

Diocesan Rep: TBA

Web: www.missio.org.uk

MOVEMENT OF CHRISTIAN WORKERS

To promote ongoing Christian formation through small groups and provide a comprehensive service to them. The groups exist to help people relate faith to daily life, build up Christian community on a local level, give positive support to families and equip and sustain Christians for their civic and social responsibilities.

Chair: Mary Foy

Email: mcworkers@aol.com

Web: www.mcworkers.org

PACT - PRISON ADVICE AND CARE TRUST

The national Catholic charity supporting the families of prisoners, those coming out of prison and prisoners themselves. Pact seeks to minimise the harm caused by a prison sentence, offering an opportunity for a fresh start. Pact work throughout England and Wales in courts, prisons and in the community. All of our work is supported by volunteers from parishes.

Pact also relies on financial support from parishes and individuals to keep our lifechanging work going, please consider signing up to receive our newsletter, making a financial gift or remembering us in your will. If you or someone you know is in need of support please call our free prisoners’ families helpline on 0808 808 3444, email us at helpline@prisonadvice.org.uk. For further information please contact Pact’s Faith in Action Team, 29 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UA.

Tel: 020 7735 9535

Email: parish.action@prisonadvice.org.uk or info@prisonadvice.org.uk

Web: www.prisonadvice.org.uk

Twitter/X: @pactfaithaction

Facebook: @pactfaithaction

PILGRIMAGE PEOPLE

A UK charity (1145830) arranging pilgrimage tours to the Holy Land and Europe. Address: 28 Norwich Road, Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 8BB

Tel: 0800 612 3423

Email: info@pilgrimagepeople.org

Web: www.pilgrimagepeople.org

RACHEL’S VINEYARD

Rachel’s Vineyard is a healing ministry for those who are suffering from the trauma of abortion/s, both women and men.

The retreat weekend offers a supportive, confidential and non-judgemental environment where painful post-abortive emotions can be explored and God's love and compassion can be experienced. Participants who have often felt deep anger towards themselves or others, are able to receive forgiveness and a renewed hope.

Our weekend retreat offers a unique sensory based programme which integrates emotional, psychological and spiritual dimensions. It is built around Scripture, reflection, group sharing and the Sacraments, providing a safe and effective recovery process for anyone suffering after an abortion experience, open to all.

East of England contact: Sona McCullough

Tel: 07900 734 207

Email: sona@rachelsvineyard.org.uk

Web: www.rachelsvineyard.org.uk

SECULAR FRANCISCAN ORDER - EAST ANGLIAN REGION

Secular Franciscans are a fraternity of Catholic lay men and women and diocesan clergy.

At the heart of the Secular Franciscan Order is St Francis’ call to lead the Gospel life. Secular Franciscans strive to live the Gospel in our lay state, gaining inspiration from the example and writings of St Francis. We seek to deepen, in the light of faith, the values and choices of life. We strive to lead lives of continuing conversion - through a life of penance, evangelical simple living, and prayer - supported by programmes of formation. Visitors to our meetings can be assured of a warm welcome. Further information about the Secular Franciscans is available on our National Fraternity website: www.ofsgb.org.

“From Gospel to life, from life to Gospel”

Contacts for local fraternities in the Diocese are:

Cambridge ‘Our Lady of the Poor’ Fraternity - Trudie Warner ofs

Address: 20 West Street, Ecton, Northamptonshire, NN6 0QF

Tel: 01536 407354

Email: trudie.warner@yahoo.co.uk

Ipswich ‘Blessed John Duns Scotus’ Fraternity - Ann Gleave ofs

Address: 4 Nelson Road, Ipswich, IP4 4DS

Tel: 01473 720668

Email: anngleave7@gmail.com

Norwich ‘Pax et Bonum’ Fraternity - Anne Murrin ofs

Address: Heron House, 38 Yarmouth Road, Blofield, Norwich, NR13 4LG

Tel: 01603 716772

Email: anne1984m@icloud.com

SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES

Following in the footsteps of the great Carmelite reformers St Teresa of Avila and St John of the Cross, many lay people and secular priests have found in the Carmelite way of life a means of coming closer to God through contemplative prayer and service to the Church. We have a Rule of Life and a formation programme which we follow in our Secular communities in Norwich, Quidenham and King’s Lynn.

Contact: Joan MacInnes

Email: jpmacinnes@gmail.com

Web: www.secularcarmel.org.uk

SOCIETY OF ST GREGORY

Society of Saint Gregory (SSG), founded in 1929, works with clergy and people to promote study, understanding and good practice in the celebration of the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. Offering practical musical and liturgical formation, the Society encourages active participation by organising events, conferences and an annual Summer School for all concerned with music and worship. The Society’s journal, Music and Liturgy, is published regularly and includes articles, news and a practical liturgy planner. (Registered Charity no 1103280)

Email: secretary@ssg.org.uk Mrs M Griffiths

Email: membership@ssg.org.uk Society of Saint Gregory, 38 Robert Road, Exhall, Coventry CV7 9GU

Web: www.ssg.org.uk

SPICMA

For over 50 years SPICMA has been working through missionary and diocesan clergy to help the poorest and most marginalized in the developing world. We fund small capital projects and provide emergency aid to communities which have little prospect of finding support elsewhere. We are entirely voluntary - no wages are paid to anyone at SPICMA so more of each donation will go to where it is intended.

Email: spicma@gmail.com

Web: www.spicma.org

ST BARNABAS SOCIETY

For the assistance of clergy and religious received into the Catholic Church.

Address: Windsor House, Heritage Gate, East Point Business Park, Sandy Lane West, Oxford, OX4 6LB

Tel: 01865 513377

Email: office@stbarnabassociety.org.uk

Web: www.stbarnabassociety.org.uk

ST JOSEP H’S FAMILY SOCIETY

The charity aims to relieve persons in Peterborough and surrounding areas who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress by providing free food and in such other ways as the trustees from time to time think fit, thereby demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ for all.

The charity was founded in 2019 with the guidance and support of: Bishop Emeritus Alan Hopes, Canon John Minh, Fr Jeffrey Downie and the Commission for Marriage and Family Life. Due to the Covid pandemic the charity eventually became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2023.

The charity’s members and volunteers raise funds for those less fortunate in their community, through food banks or directing them to specialist services, such as debt counselling, housing, gambling addiction, drug addiction and educational needs.

Founder and Chairman: Joseph C. Rodriguez

Tel: 07854 113429

Email: contact@stjfs.org.uk

Web: www.stjfs.org.uk

Address: 29 Sutton Court, Skaters Way, Werrington, Peterborough, PE4 6GG

STELLA MARIS

Stella Maris (Apostleship of the Sea) is the official maritime agency of the Catholic Church in Great Britain. Stella Maris is a registered charity (No 1069833) reliant on the annual Sea Sunday appeal and donations to sustain its ministry. Ninety percent of world trade is carried by ship; however, seafarers and fishers often work in dangerous conditions suffering loneliness, deprivation and even exploitation. Stella Maris deploys chaplains and ship visitors who welcome merchant seafarers and fishers to our shores and provide for their pastoral and practical needs – regardless of creed or nationality.

Catholic seafarers and fishers are also given the opportunity to receive the sacraments. In addition, Stella Maris provides chaplains on board cruise ships, works to maintain seafarers’ centres inside ports, and collaborates with industry bodies to speak up for seafarers’ and fishers’ rights. Stella Maris relies on a network of valued contacts and volunteers to sustain its development.

If any parish would like to hear more about offering prayer, volunteering or financial support to help the work of Stella Maris please email: info@stellamarismail.org.

Chief Executive Officer/European Regional Coordinator: Tim Hill

Address: 39 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1BX

Tel: 020 7901 1931

Email: info@stellamarismail.org

Website: www.stellamaris.org.uk

East Anglia Chaplain: Julian Wong

Email: julian.wong@stellamarismail.org

ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ENGLAND AND WALES

East Anglia Central Council:

President: Joan Wall. Email: joanwall@ntlworld.com

Treasurer: Bernard Shaw. Email: bshaw98uk@yahoo.co.uk

Secretary: Jackie Roberts. Email: jm.roberts@mypostoffice.co.uk

Twinning: Anthony King. Email: mchenry4@hotmail.com

Gift Aid: Kenneth Wheatcroft. Email: kennethwheatcroft@gmail.com

Membership Support Officer: Eldred Willey.

Email: andreww@svp.org.uk Tel: 07880 238764

THOMAS MORE LEGAL CENTRE (TMLC)

The aim of the TMLC is to facilitate access to specialist legal assistance in England and Wales in cases involving religious freedom or discrimination on the grounds on religious belief.

Chair: Philip Stark.

Address: 63 Jeddo Road, London W12 9EE.

Email: centre@thomasmorelegal.org.uk

Website: www.thomasmorelegal.org.uk

UNION OF CATHOLIC MOTHERS

The UCM is a national organisation of Catholic Women, open to all women of all ages who support its aims and objectives in ‘prayer, love and active witness to marriage, family and Christian life in the world’. Throughout its 100-year history it has been involved in current affairs, particularly those that impact family life, lobbying MPs to protect the marginalised and vulnerable in society both at home and abroad.

In 2023 it was agreed by UCM members in the Diocese of East Anglia that the East An-

glia Diocese UCM would cease to exist as a Diocesan body and that the two remaining Foundations (Costessey and St Neots, together with independent UCM members) would merge with the Northampton Diocese UCM. Diocesan and national communication is now via the Northampton Diocese. The merger, which was unanimously agreed by the Northampton UCM, took effect from December 2023.

Contact: Mrs Anne Emblem, UCM Caritas rep

Email: aemblem@btinternet.com

WALSINGHAM ASSOCIATION

The Walsingham Association exists primarily to spread devotion to Our Lady of Walsingham and encourage pilgrimage to her Shrine. Founded in 1933, the Association now has branches throughout the country, which new members are most welcome to join, or become one of the many individual members of the Association. Membership is open to all who are seeking to deepen their devotion to Our Lady by joining in daily prayer with members throughout the country and to support prayerfully the growth and development of the Shrine.

Address: Walsingham Association, Pilgrim Bureau, Friday Market Place, Walsingham, Norfolk NR22 6EG

Tel: 01328 800953

Email: enquiries@walsinghamassociation.org.uk

Web: www.walsinghamassociation.org.uk

WORLD APOSTOLATE OF FATIMA

Was permanently erected as a Public Association of the faithful by the Pontifical Council for the Laity on October 7, 2010 and exist to promote Our Lady’s call to live the Gospel more profoundly through prayer, penance, offering up daily duties in a spirit of sacrifice, daily recitation of the Rosary and the Five First Saturdays Communion of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. East Anglia Rep: Expedita Amper

Email: didith.amper@gmail.com

Address: Flat 14, Room B, Kingston House, Puddicombe Way, Cambridge, CB2 0AF

Web: www.worldfatima-englandwales.org.uk

RETREAT CENTRES

CARMELITE MONASTERY QUIDENHAM - HERMITAGES

Accommodation in our guest hermitages is available for those who wish to spend a time of private retreat here, to share in the liturgy and prayer, or who would like to know more about our Carmelite calling.

Address: Carmelite Monastery, Quidenham, Norwich NR16 2PH

Tel: 01953 887202

Email: guestsister@quidenhamcarmel.org.uk

Website: www.quidenhamcarmel.org.uk

CLARE PRIORY RETREAT CENTRE

Clare Priory is one of the oldest religious houses in England, situated in the shadows of Clare Castle on the banks of the River Stour, Suffolk. Clare Priory today acts as a Parish and as a Retreat Centre.

Address: Ashen Road, Clare, Suffolk CO10 8NX

Tel: 01787 277326

Email: clarepriory@clarepriory.net

Website: www.clarepriory.org.uk

CONVENT OF JESUS AND MARY

We are a Religious Congregation founded in 1818, by Claudine Thevenet in Lyon France. Our Mission is to provide a centre for Adult Faith Formation. Our retreat centre is open to youth groups, young adults, lay and religious, who are seeking to promote their faith life. We welcome different denominations and Christian faith traditions.

Address: 63 Orwell Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 7PP

Tel: 01394 282386/277790

Email: cjm.felixstowe@yahoo.co.uk

CONVENT OF ST CATHERINE OF SIENA

A one-person hermitage poustinia for private retreats and quiet break. Fully self-contained, self-catering and en-suite, with a comfortable sofa-bed, quiet yet close to Cambridge city centre with acces to lovely garden as a space in which to reflect and relax. Visitors can access the convent chapel and are most welcome to join the Dominican Sisters for their times of common prayer. A donation of £35 per night to cover expenses is requested: day visits are also possible at a reduced cost.

Address: 153-155 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DH.

Contact: Sr Angela Leydon at angelaleydon@btinternet.com or mob: 07968091751

ST CLARET CENTRE

Located at Buckden Towers, the Claret Centre offers a range of facilities and services for the use of individuals and groups.

Address: The Towers, High Street, Buckden, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 5TA

Tel: 01480 810344 Email: claret_centre@claret.org.uk

Website: www.buckden-towers.org.uk

DIOCESAN CALENDAR FOR EAST ANGLIA 2025

“Christ’s saving work is celebrated in sacred memory by the Church on fixed days throughout the course of the year. Each week on the day called the Lord’s Day the Church commemorates the Lord’s resurrection. Once a year at Easter the Church honours the resurrection of the Lord and his blessed passion with the utmost solemnity. In fact, through the yearly cycle the Church unfolds the entire mystery of Christ and keeps the anniversaries of the saints.”

(GNLY 1)

Preliminary Notes

n This Calendar is based on the GENERAL ROMAN CALENDAR, the NATIONAL CALENDAR as contained in the Roman Missal (2010) and the revised DIOCESAN CALENDAR.

n The titular and anniversary of dedication of each church are kept as Solemnities. Lest they be overlooked, it is advisable to mark them in this Calendar.

n Local observances are permitted of Saints or Beati connected in some way with the locality, as through birth, ministry, death, or custody of major relics. The Bishop should be consulted in each instance.

n On the ‘green’ ferias per annum (of the year) a wide choice of Mass formula is available: EITHER of any of the 34 Sundays per annum (with the prayers of the Sunday selected, or of another Sunday, or those provided ad diversa), OR of any Saint mentioned on that day in the Martyrology, OR of any votive Mass or Mass ad diversa, OR of any Mass for the dead (provided that the daily Mass formula is only used when the Mass is, in fact, applied for the dead).

The Requiem Mass which forms part of the funeral rite is allowed on any day except the Paschal Triduum, the Sundays of Advent, Lent and Easter, and the Holydays of Obligation.

n The Gloria is said on all Sundays (apart from Advent and Lent), Solemnities, Feasts, and other solemn celebrations, but not on Memorials. The Credo is said on Sundays and Solemnities, and is also allowed at other solemn celebrations.

n THE LECTIONARY: On Sundays, Cycle C (Year 3) is to be used until the First Sunday of Advent, when Cycle A (Year 1) begins. The weekday readings are of Year 1. Attention is drawn to the section headed ‘Principles of Choice’ in the introduction. A decided preference is expressed for continuous readings, as provided for the weekdays throughout the year, even though a Memorial occurs (apart from the few instances noted in the Calendar of a strictly proper reading). The Lectionary provides readings for the Feasts observed in this country. For other Solemnities and Feasts lacking proper readings, the appropriate Common should be used, while suitable readings may be chosen for special celebrations.

n As Eucharistic Prayer IV must always be used with its own preface, the days on which it may not be used have been indicated by the note ‘Not EP IV’.

The Eucharistic Prayer for Masses for Various Needs and Eucharistic Prayers for Reconciliation also have integral prefaces, and may not be used on Sundays or days when EP IV is not permitted.

n Parish priests are bound to offer Mass for their people on all Sundays and Holydays of Obligation.

n The necrology includes all clergy of the former Northampton Diocese from the year 1850. Places in parenthesis are where priests died or retired from. Any errors or omissions in the necrology of diocesan clergy should be notified to the Bishop’s Personal Assistant.

NATIONAL CYCLE OF PRAYER

Introduction

In the Catholic tradition the human experience of time is used as a way of engaging us with the saving mystery of Christ’s passion, death and resurrection. The cycle of days, weeks and the whole year is, for this reason, of supreme importance in Christian worship.

Each week, on the day called the Lord’s Day, the Church commemorates the Lord’s resurrection. Once a year, at Easter, the Church honours this resurrection and passion with the utmost solemnity. Through the yearly cycle the Church unfolds the entire mystery of Christ and keeps the anniversary of the saints.

All other celebrations need to find their proper place in the Calendar so that the principal mysteries of the redemption do not lose their appropriate prominence.

Amongst these other celebrations, from the earliest times have been the rogation and ember days, days of prayer for particular need or in thanksgiving for particular blessings of the Lord. Since 1972, the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has preferred to drop all distinction between ember and rogation days, and to speak simply of Days of special prayer.

In 1972, six such days were introduced, but in the years which followed the number of such days increased to such an extent that they risked intruding on the celebration of the liturgical year, and especially on the celebration of the Lord’s Day on Sundays. Subsequently the Bishops’ Conference concluded that from Advent 1996 these Days of special prayer be subsumed into and replaced by a Cycle of Prayer.

The Cycle of Prayer seeks to preserve the integrity of the Sunday liturgy, without losing sight of the importance of being united with the universal or local Church in praying and working for important intentions. It seeks to do this by encouraging the faithful to pray for the intentions set out in the Cycle in their personal prayers throughout the period specified, and not only at Mass on a particular day.

The Cycle of Prayer is based on a division of the year into six periods, three of these being the principal liturgical seasons of Advent/Christmas; Lent and Easter and the other three being divisions of Ordinary Time, namely Winter, Summer and Autumn.

Each of these six periods is allocated its proper series of intentions for prayer, which may be taken up by both individuals and parishes and other groups throughout the season. Each individual intention also has its particular focal point, ie a particular celebration or Day of Prayer ordered by the Holy See.

How might a parish keep the Cycle of Prayer?

Outside of the Liturgy

n Intentions for the whole period might be listed in the parish newsletter or printed on a prayer card so as to help individual parishioners keep in mind and pray for the

intentions for that period.

n Publicity and informational material might be displayed on parish noticeboards.

n Prayer-focuses may be placed in an appropriate place in the Church – following the example of the candle symbol popularised by Amnesty International.

n Parish meetings might be arranged so as to better inform parishioners about the particular objects of the intention (eg peace, Christian unity, the place and role of women in the Church and the world, the sick, sea-farers, racial justice, prisoners and their families). This will also give the opportunity for parishioners to learn how they might become actively involved in working for the fulfilling of the intentions for which they pray.

n Retiring collections might be taken to support particular forms of pastoral activity.

Within the Liturgy - Mass

n On the Day of Special Prayer itself, and especially on Sundays, it is appropriate to announce the Day of Special Prayer in the opening remarks at the beginning of Mass, and for the special intention to be included in the Prayer of the Faithful (Bidding Prayers). Care should be taken that the remaining petitions of the Prayer of the Faithful should be formulated in accordance with the norms given in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal.

n When a Day of Prayer or other observance falls on a Sunday, the Mass and Lectionary texts of the Sunday are normally to be used.

n On weekdays the use of suitable ‘Masses for Various Needs and Occasions’ or ‘Votive Masses’ should be considered to support the marking of the Day of Prayer. The readings assigned for each day in the Lectionary for weekdays should not be omitted too frequently and without sufficient reason. It is often more fruitful to explore any special intentions through the readings assigned to the day, than to choose from the Common those which may appear at first sight more appropriate to the intention.

n The homily at Mass is necessary for the nurturing of the Christian life. It should develop some aspect of the readings from the scriptural readings or liturgical texts of the Mass, while taking into account the mystery being celebrated or the needs proper to the listeners. The homily should not be narrowly confined to the intention of the Cycle of Prayer alone, nor be replaced by a non-homiletic talk or an appeal for money.

Other Liturgies and Celebrations

n When it is desired to have a form of extended prayer for one of the intentions in the Cycle of Prayer, serious consideration should be given to holding a special noneucharistic service for that purpose, such as a Vigil, the Evening Prayer of the Church, a Liturgy of the Word, or a procession with litanies.

n Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, ‘which must clearly express the cult of the Blessed Sacrament in its relationship to the Mass’, should also be considered. It should be noted that there is specific provision within this rite for special prayers.

n When considering how particular intentions are to be presented and marked within a parish, every effort should be made to extend the invitation to participate in this to all members of the parish, including the younger members of the parish, and the housebound.

Each of the 52 parishes within the Diocese of East Anglia will be allocated one week during the year during which to pray, not only for the Intentions of the National Cycle of Prayer, but also for Vocations to the Priesthood and to the Religious Life, and the Needs and Intentions of the Diocese. During this week, each Parish shall also have the opportunity to celebrate 40 Hours of Eucharistic Adoration, including as they do so, the specific prayers and initiatives of the New Evangelisation.

AAb Abbot or Abbess

Ap Apostle

App Apostles

B,BB Bishop(s)

BVM Blessed Virgin Mary

ABBREVIATIONS

Nat.Pr National Proper

P Page

P Priest

Pf Preface

Pp Pope Comps Companions

Cr Credo

D Doctor

Dn Deacon

fol office of the following day

Pr Proper

Ps Psalter

R Red

Rel Religious

Rtd fr Retired from fr from

G Green

Seq Sequence

V Virgin, Violet

Gl Gloria Vesp Vespers

HC Holy Communion

M,MM Mass, Martyrs

Mem Memorial

W White

Wk Week

JANUARY

1st WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 36 – St Luke, Peterborough

This Weekend: Announce: Next Sunday is Peace Day.

Psalter Week 1

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity starts this Saturday 18 January.

12 SUN BAPTISM OF THE LORD. Feast W

Gl. Pf pr. Not EP IV.

Fr Charles Flynn +1943 (rtd fr. Sudbury 1930)

NATIONAL CYCLE OF PRAYER

During Ordinary Time – (Winter) i.e. up to Lent, we are asked to pray for these intentions:

Peace on Earth: especially on 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time and on Racial Justice Day which occurs three Sundays before the 1st Sunday of Lent. The World Day of Prayer for Peace is marked on 1 January. As this day is when the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God and it is the beginning of the new year in England, the day is transferred to 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. There may be a collection on this day for the work of Pax Christi. The day of prayer for Racial Justice is organised by the ecumenical Churches’ Commission for Racial Justice. Within the Catholic Church material is distributed by Catholic Association for Racial Justice (CARJ) for whom a collection may be taken on this day.

Prayer: O God of peace, who are peace itself and whom a spirit of discord cannot grasp, nor a violent mind receive, grant that those who are one in heart may persevere in what is good and that those in conﬂict may forget evil and so be healed. Roman Missal

Christian Unity: especially during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: 18–25 January. The Week was originally begun in 1908 by the American Episcopalian clergyman Paul Wattson who later became a Catholic. The Week begins on 18 January and ends on 25 January—the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul. Material for the Week of Prayer is prepared in collaboration by Pontiﬁcal Council for Promoting Christian Unity and The Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches. Each year this material is produced by Christians in a diﬀerent country.

Prayer: May the divisions among Christians be overcome so that we may hasten to your eternal Kingdom in the perfect communion of the Church cf. Roman Missal

Openness to the Word of God: especially on 3rd Sunday in Ordinary TimeThe Sunday of the Word of God takes place on the third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter, issued motu proprio, ‘Aperuit illis’, published on 30 September 2019, establishes that ‘the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time is to be devoted to the celebration, study and dissemination of the Word of God’

Prayer: Allwise God, as you have granted us to drink with delight from the Word that leads us to know you, in your goodness grant us also to come at length to you, source of all wisdom and stand for ever before your face.

Based on a prayer of St Bede the Venerable

Victims of Traﬃcking: especially on feast of St Josephine Bakhita — 8 February. St Josephine Bakhita is the Sudanese saint who at the age of nine was kidnapped and sold into slavery. She suﬀered terribly at the hands of her kidnappers so much so that she forgot her birth name. Her kidnappers gave her the name ‘Bakhita’ which means ‘Fortunate’.

Prayer: O God, who led Saint Josephine Bakhita from abject slavery to the dignity of being your daughter and a bride of Christ, grant, we pray, that by her example we may show constant love for the Lord Jesus cruciﬁed, remaining steadfast in charity and prompt to show compassion.

Roman Missal

The Sick and Those Who Care for Them: especially on World Day of Prayer for the Sick — 11 February. 11 February is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. On this day the Church is asked to pray and give attention to the sick and those who care for them. Each year the Holy Father writes a message.

Prayer: Accept the prayers we oﬀer for our brothers and sisters who are ill, that, having been anxious for them in their danger, we may rejoice at their recovery of health.

cf. Roman Missal

The Unemployed: especially on the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. The Day of Prayer for the Unemployed was organised by Church Action on Poverty. They have renamed their day as Poverty Action Sunday. Caritas-Social Action is the agency in the Catholic Church which acts an umbrella for many diocesan and local organisations concerned with poverty and other social issues.

Prayer: O God, the source of human dignity, in your image every person is fashioned and by your Son all people are redeemed. Make us honour the work of your hands, that we may reverence you in those whom the world considers least and serve you in all whom society neglects.

Summary:

Peace Day

Sunday 19 January.

Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity 18 – 25 January. Sunday of the Word of God

Racial Justice Day

Day for Victims of Traﬃcking

World Day for the Sick

Day of Prayer for the Unemployed

Sunday 26 January

Sunday 16 February

Saturday 8 February

[St Josephine Bakhita].

Tuesday 11 February.

Sunday 2 March.

A decided preference is expressed in the Lectionary’s principles of choice for continuous readings, as provided for weekdays of the year, even though a Memorial occurs, (apart from a few instances, noted, of a strictly proper reading).

Fr Patrick Duﬀy +1928 (rtd fr. Huntingdon 1909)

Fr Alfred Wilson +1936 (Sheﬀord)

or Our Lady on Saturday (W)

Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity begins.

Joint services with other Christians are recommended.

Mgr Provost Joseph Tonks +1943 (Northampton Cathedral)

Fr Derrick Morgan +1984 (Chesham)

2nd WEEK OF THE YEAR

Canon Thomas Fitzgerald +1915 (St John’s, Norwich)

or St Fabian PpM (R) or St Sebastian M (R)

Fr Thomas Simister +2005 (Bungay)

Rev. Anthony Sutton +2014 (Deacon at English Martyrs, Cambridge)

Fr Ernest Shebbeare +1936 (Woodbridge)

Canon Leonard Tomlinson +1983 (rtd fr. Chesham Bois 1975)

Fr Gordon Cordy +2018 (rtd at Norwich)

or St Vincent Deacon M (R)

Fr David Cox +1956 (St Ethelbert, Slough)

Fr Stephen Reith +2009 (rtd fr. Leighton Buzzard 2002)

Fr James McDermott +1999 (rtd fr. St John Ogilvie, Corby 1996)

Fr Arthur Tomlinson +2001 (rtd fr. Lowestoft 1982)

Canon Stanislaus Condon +2012 (rtd fr. Woburn Sands 2004)

Francis de Sales

Fr William Fippard +1895 (rtd fr. Sudbury 1894)

Canon Daniel Kiely +2021 (rtd fr. Buckingham 2017)

3rd WEEK OF THE YEAR

St Angela Merici V (W)

Rev Richard Smyth +1988 (Deacon at Sudbury)

Rev John Hawkes +2005 (Deacon at Walsingham)

Fr George McCann +2015 (rtd fr. Beaconsﬁeld 1996)

4th WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Psalter Week 4

Parish 39 – The Sacred Heart, St Ives This Weekend: Announce: Saturday this week is a Day of Prayer for Victims of Traﬃcking

2 SUN THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD. Feast. W

Candlemas Day. Gl, Pf pr. Not EP IV.

Blessing of Candles and Procession or Solemn Entrance today.

3 Mon Feria. M ad lib. G or St Blaise BM (R) or St Ansgar B (W)

The blessing of throats may be given today (even if the memorial of St Blaise is not kept) either after the Gospel at Mass, or at another time of the day. Two unlit candles are held under the throat and the priest or deacon says “Through the intercession of St Blaise, Bishop and Martyr, may God free you from disease of the throat and from every other evil, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”

4 Tue Feria. M

5 Wed St Agatha VM Mem. R

Canon Gerard Roberts +1976 (Beaconsﬁeld)

6 Thu St Paul Miki & Comps. MM. Mem. R

Fr Louis Allen +1931 (Peterborough)

7 Fri Feria. M ad lib. G

Canon Laurence Richmond +1872 (rtd fr. Northampton Cathedral 1865)

Archbishop Frederick Keating +1928 (Fourth Bishop of Northampton, translated to Liverpool 1921)

Fr James Reidy +1983 (rtd fr. St Mark’s, Ipswich 1969)

Fr Michael Teader +2020 (Haverhill)

8 Sat Feria. M ad lib. G or St Jerome Emiliani P (W) or St Josephine Bakhita V (W) or Our Lady on Saturday (W) Day of Prayer for Victims of Traﬃcking.

Fr Robert Manley +1983 (St George’s, Norwich)

5th WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Psalter Week 1

Parish 40 – St Joseph, St Neots

This Weekend: Announce: Next Sunday is Racial Justice Day and there will be a second collection for the Catholic Association for Racial Justice (optional)

Today is the Diocesan Day of Prayer for Engaged Couples

Tuesday this week is the World Day of Prayer for the Sick

Rev.

Fr Peter Cansdale +2003 (rtd fr. Cromer 1997)

Fr Francis A. Leeder +2022 (rtd fr. St Pancras, Ipswich 2019)

SS CYRIL Monk & METHODIUS B Patrons of Europe. Feast. W

Gl, Pf of Holy Pastors. Not EPIV.

Provost John Warmoll +1885 (Bedford)

Canon Michael Dwane +1913 (Lynford)

Our Lady on Saturday (W)

Canon John Dalton +1874 (Norwich)

Fr Vincent Weitz +1991 (rtd fr. Princes Risborough 1978)

Parish 41 – Our Lady of Lourdes and St John Fisher, Sawston and Cambourne

This Weekend: Take a collection for the Catholic Association for Racial Justice (opti

or The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order (W)

Mgr Provost Christopher Scott +1922 (Cambridge)

Canon Henry O’Connor +1952 (Lynford)

Fr Kenneth Chapman +1983 (Wymondham)

Fr John Harris +2013 (rtd fr. St Gregory’s, Northampton 2000)

Fr Gerald Flanagan +1955 (Iver Heath)

Fr Gerard Moir +1965 (rtd fr. Clapham Park 1959)

Fr Michael Finch +1986 (rtd fr. Beaconsﬁeld 1984)

or St Peter Damian BD (W)

or St Robert Southwell PM (East Anglia Pr.) (R)

Fr John Scott +1878 (rtd fr. Sawston Hall 1855)

Fr William Wells +2020 (rtd at Blakeney)

of Apostles I. Not EP IV

I Vesp. of fol.

Canon Francis Drake +1933 (Convent, Slough)

Mgr Peter Wilson +2023 (rtd fr. Oundle 2010)

Bishop Joseph Rudderham +1979 (left Northampton

Cathedral 1949 to become Bishop of Clifton)

Fr William Gaﬀney +1985 (rtd fr. Marlow 1975)

Fr Michael O’Brien +1985 (St John’s Cathedral, Norwich)

Fr Charles Reilly +1916 (rtd fr. Woodbridge

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 43 – The Sacred Heart, Southwold This Weekend: Announce: This Sunday is a Day for the Unemployed Wednesday this week is Ash Wednesday and a day of Fasting and Abstinence This Friday is the World Day of Prayer

NATIONAL CYCLE OF PRAYER

During Lent we are asked to pray for these intentions:

Candidates for the Sacraments: especially on the Sundays of Lent

For those preparing to be initiated into the Church at Easter, Lent marks the final stage of preparation, the period of Purification and Enlightenment. It begins with the Rite of Election on the First Sunday of Lent. During the season of Lent the Scrutinies are celebrated on the 3rd, 4th and 5th Sundays in preparation for Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist at the Easter Vigil. Many parishes will also receive candidates for Reception into the Church.

‘The people of God, as represented by the local Church, should understand and show by their concern that the initiation of adults is the responsibility of all the baptised.’

‘During Lent, the period of puriﬁcation and enlightenment, the faithful should take care to participate in the rites of the scrutinies and presentations and give the elect the example of their own renewal in the spirit of penance, faith, and charity. At the Easter Vigil, they should attach great importance to renewing their own baptismal promises.’ RCIA 9

The celebration of other Sacraments, such as Conﬁrmation and First Holy Communion, will often take place within the Easter season so that candidates for these Sacraments will also be preparing in Lent. These candidates should also be remembered in the prayers of the community.

Prayer: Father of love and power, it is your will to establish everything in Christ and to draw us into his allembracing love.Guide the elect of your Church, strengthen

them in their vocation, build them into the kingdom of your Son, and seal them with the Spirit of your promise.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

The Needy and Hungry of the World; especially on Lenten Fast Day —Friday of the ﬁrst week in Lent.

The agency for overseas development, CAFOD, encourages the Church in England and Wales to use the Friday of the ﬁrst week in Lent as an opportunity to remember the needy and hungry of the world. The day is an opportunity for the three Lenten disciplines of Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving which derive from the proclamation of the Word on Ash Wednesday.

The proceeds from the practice of fasting on the Friday are usually collected at Mass on the 2nd Sunday of Lent.

Prayer: All powerful Father, God of goodness, you provide for all your creation.Give us an eﬀective love for our brothers and sisters who suﬀer from lack of food.Help us do all we can to relieve their hunger, that they may serve you with carefree hearts.

Roman Missal

World Day of Prayer; especially on 1st Friday in March

The World Day of Prayer is a worldwide movement of Christian women who come together to observe a common day of prayer held on the ﬁrst Friday in March each year, and who, in many countries, have a continuing relationship in prayer and service. Through the World Day of Prayer women are encouraged to become aware of their talents and use them in the service of the wider community.

Prayer: Father, you have given all peoples one common origin, and your will is to gather them as one family in yourself.Fill the hearts of all women with the ﬁre of your love and the desire to ensure justice for all.Hear the prayers oﬀered you by women throughout the world for an end to all division, and a human society built on love and peace.

Roman Missal (adapted)

Penitents and Wanderers:The twin themes of Lent are baptism and penance. Lent is a time of reflection and preparation for Easter. Many parishes offer opportunities for the celebration of the Sacrament of Penance in the Lenten season. In recent years some parishes have explored using the Lenten period as a time to assist those returning to the Church after a period of not being active in the life of the Church. This reflects the ancient practice of the Order of Penitents which reached its end on the morning of Holy Thursday.

Prayer: God of power and might, we praise you through your Son, Jesus Christ, who comes in your name.He is the Word that brings salvation.He is the hand you stretch out to sinners. He is the way that leads to your peace.God our Father, we had wandered far from you, but through your Son you have brought us back. You gave him

up to death so that we might turn again to you and ﬁnd our way to one another.

Roman Missal: Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation II

Candidates for the Sacraments especially on the Sundays of Lent.

World Day of Prayer Friday 7 March.

Lent Fast Day Friday 14 March.

THE SEASON OF LENT

5 Wed ASH WEDNESDAY. Fast and Abstinence V

Omit penitential act: bless ashes after Gospel and homily.

Pf Lent IV. Not EPIV.

Lenten Pf from today until 5 April, unless otherwise noted.

Prayer over the People at the Dismissal.

The Prayer over the People is optional on all other weekdays of Lent.

Fr Trevor Richardson +2002 (Swaffham)

6 Thu Lent Feria. M pr. V

(ad lib. Collect of St Kyneburgha Rel (East Anglia Pr.)

Archbishop Peter Smith +2020 (Second Bishop of East Anglia, translated to Cardiﬀ 2001 and to Southwark 2010)

7 Fri Lent Feria. M pr. V

(ad lib. Collect of Ss Perpetua & Felicity MM)

World Day of Prayer

Fr Damien Walne +2015 (Great Billing)

8 Sat ST FELIX B Secondary Patron of the Diocese. Feast. W (East Anglia Pr.) Gl, Pf of Holy Pastors. Not EP IV.

I Vesp. of fol.

Fr Bernard Quinlan +1922 (Sheﬀord)

Fr Anthony Chadwick +2005

1st WEEK OF LENT

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 44 – Our Lady, Stowmarket

Psalter Week 1

This Weekend: Announce: This Friday is Lent Fast Day Next weekend a Second Collection will be taken for the work of CAFOD.

9 SUN 1st SUNDAY OF LENT V

Pf pr. Not EPIV. Prayer over the People.

Fr Edward Scott +1935 (St George’s, Norwich)

Fr Reginald Atkinson +1983 (rtd fr. St Oswald’s, Peterborough 1970)

Fr David Hennessy +2019 (rtd fr. Felixstowe 2014)

David Harris +1925 (High Wycombe)

Fr Cyril Snowden +1966 (rtd fr. Sudbury 1963)

Feria. M pr.

Anniversary of the Pope’s election to be commemorated in the General Intercessions.

Fr John Ketterer +1973 (rtd fr. Hunstanton 1972)

Fr David Woodard +1988 (Oundle)

Fr John Glen +1996 (Christ the King, Bedford)

Fr John McNally +2007 (Felixstowe)

Rev Leonard Matthews +2011 (Deacon at Hunstanton)

Pf pr. Not EP IV. Prayer over the People. Mgr Bruno Scott James +1984 (rtd fr. Walsingham 1943)

Mgr Charles Davidson +1975 (rtd fr. Waterbeach Carmel 1972)

Fr Albert Whyatt +1991 (rtd fr. North Walsham 1989)

22 Sat Lent Feria. M pr.

Rev Chris Heath +2021 (Deacon at Bury St Edmunds)

3rd WEEK OF LENT Psalter Week 3

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 46 – Our Lady of Pity, Swaffham 23 SUN 3rd SUNDAY OF LENT V

Pf pr. Not EPIV. Prayer over the People.

Fr Geoﬀrey Brennan +1922 (rtd fr. Thetford 1916)

Fr William Cooper +1927 (rtd fr. Felixstowe 1918)

Fr Augustine Berrell +1995 (rtd fr. March 1987)

24 Mon Lent Feria. M pr. V

I Vesp. of fol.

Fr Joseph Teeling +1979 (rtd fr. Lowestoft 1978) 25 Tue THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD. SOLEMNITY W

Gl. In Cr, genuﬂect at “and by the Holy Spirit … and became man.” Pf pr. Not EP IV.

Bishop T. Leo Parker +1975 (Seventh Bishop of Northampton)

Canon Michael Hazell+2020 (rtd as Vicar for Clergy, Convent, Slough 2005)

4th WEEK OF LENT Psalter Week 4 CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS: Parish 47 – St Mary, Thetford

30 SUN 4th SUNDAY OF LENT (Lætare Sunday) V or Rose

Pf pr. Not EPIV. Prayer over the People.

Canon Bernard Murray +1924 (Lynford)

Fr Henry Macklin +1956 (Cople)

31 Mon Lent Feria. M pr. V

Fr Frederick Donovan +1940 (rtd fr. Stowmarket 1939)

(ad lib. Collect of St Francis of Paola, hermit.)

Fr Bernard Hindle +1992 (Chesham)

Mgr Canon John Ashmole +1938 (Northampton Cathedral)

(ad lib. Collect of St Isidore BD)

Fr Michael Foley +1979 (rtd fr. Chesham 1978)

Rev Raymond Howlings +2020 (Deacon at St George’s Norwich) 5

(ad lib. Collect of St Vincent Ferrer P)

Canon John Abbott +1858 (Norwich)

Rev. Ray Restieaux +1986 (Deacon at St John’s Cathedral, Norwich)

Fr Denis Brophy +1992 (rtd fr. Felixstowe 1985)

Mgr Canon Noel Burditt +2000 (rtd fr. Winslow 1990)

Crosses and statues may be covered with a purple veiling from this evening until the Easter Vigil begins on Holy Saturday

Pf pr. Not EP IV. Prayer over the People. Fr Donald Hillier +1980 (rtd fr. March 1977)

(ad lib. Collect of St Stanislaus BM)

Canon Ernest Garnett +1948 (rtd fr. Felixstowe 1945)

HOLY WEEK

Psalter Week 2

This Weekend: Announce: This week the Church celebrates the Sacred Paschal Triduum.

Good Friday is a day of Fast and Abstinence

There will be a collection taken for the Holy Land Shrines on Good Friday.

13 SUN PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD R

Pf pr. Not EP IV. Prayer over the People.

Procession or Solemn Entrance at the principal Mass and Solemn or Simple Entrance at other Masses. In the Procession, the priest may wear a cope which is replaced by a chasuble when the procession is over. The unveiled processional cross is decorated with palm branches according to custom. Palms are blessed at the Procession or Solemn Entrance but not at the Simple Entrance. Except at the Simple Entrance, the Introductory Rites of the Mass are omitted.

Fr Michael Kennedy +1973 (Newmarket)

Fr Francis Tester +2008 (Walsingham)

Donald Heptonstall +1954 (Hunstanton)

Fr Henry Long +1936 (rtd fr. Leighton Buzzard 1934)

Fr James Mullett +1955 (Great Billing)

17 Thu THURSDAY OF HOLY WEEK (MAUNDY THURSDAY) THE SACRED PASCHAL TRIDUUM

The celebrations of the Sacred Triduum are to be carried out in cathedral and parochial churches and only in those churches in which they can be performed with dignity, that is, with a good attendance of the faithful, an appropriate number of ministers, and the means to sing at least some of the parts. Consequently, it is desirable that small communities, associations and special groups of various kinds join together in these churches to carry out the sacred celebrations in a more noble manner (Norms for the Sacred Paschal Triduum, Roman Missal p. 329 #3). A priest may not celebrate the rites of the Sacred Triduum on his own.

MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER W

Gl. Pf of Eucharist I. “In communion with, Therefore, Lord” and “On the day before” pr. Not EP IV.

The Mass of the Lord’s Supper is celebrated in the evening; crosses may be veiled in white and the altar decorated with

flowers in moderation. The tabernacle should be entirely empty and sufficient hosts consecrated for today and tomorrow. The Altar of Repose should be decorated with flowers and candles. While the Gloria is sung, all the bells in the church are rung and then remain silent until the Gloria of the Easter Vigil. During the same period, the organ and other musical instruments may be used only to support the singing. The Washing of Feet may take place during the Mass. Following the Prayer after Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is taken to the Altar of Repose where it is kept in a tabernacle. Solemn Adoration may not continue after midnight. After the Blessed Sacrament has been transferred, the altar is stripped of all cloths, cross and candles.

Canon Edward McHugh +1962 (Aylesbury)

18 Fri GOOD FRIDAY. Day of Fast and Abstinence. R

Oﬃce of Readings and Morning Prayer with the people recommended.

The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord about 3.00 pm, unless pastoral reasons suggest a later hour. HC may be given to the faithful only at this celebration but may be brought to the sick at any hour.

According to the Church’s ancient tradition, only the Sacraments of Penance and Anointing of the Sick may be celebrated today and tomorrow.

COLLECTION FOR HOLY LAND SHRINES (Mandatory)

Fr Edward Wimbridge +1941 (rtd fr. Wolverton 1939)

Fr Kenneth Whitfield +2006 (rtd. at Blakeney)

19 Sat HOLY SATURDAY.

Today, HC may only be given as Viaticum Fr Wallace Clare +1963 (Prep. School, Ipswich)

NATIONAL CYCLE OF PRAYER

During Easter we are asked to pray for these intentions:

New Members of the Church: The Easter Vigil is the usual time to celebrate the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Conﬁrmation and Eucharist) with Adults. The Easter Season is therefore the time for post-baptismal catechesis or ‘mystagogy’ with the newly baptised or ‘neophytes’.

‘This is a time for the community and the neophytes together to grow in deepening their grasp of the paschal mystery and in making it part of their lives through meditation on the Gospel, sharing in the Eucharist, and in doing works of charity.’ RCIA 234

In many communities and dioceses, the Easter Season is a privileged time to cele-

brate the Sacraments of First Communion and Baptism.

Prayer: Father, you give your Church constant growth by adding new members to your family. Help us put into action in our lives the baptism we have received in faith

Roman Missal

Vocations: Especially on World Day of Prayer for Vocations — 4th Sunday of Easter

The World Day of Prayer for Vocations is held each year on the Fourth Sunday of Easter. In the Gospel of John read on this Sunday, in each of the three years, Jesus speaks of himself as the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd who has come so that people may have life to the full, the one who lays down his life for his sheep, the one who knows his sheep — they recognise his voice.

Prayer: Father, in your plan for our salvation you provide shepherds for your people.Fill your Church with the spirit of courage and love.Raise up worthy ministers of your altars and ardent but gentle servants of the gospel.

Roman Missal

Human Work: Especially on St Joseph the Worker —1 May

The commemoration of St Joseph the Worker on 1 May was instituted by Pius XII in 1955. It proposes the example and intercession of Joseph as worker and provider.

Prayer: God our Father, creator and ruler of the universe, in every age you call men and women to develop and use their gifts for the good of others.With St Joseph as our example and guide, help us to do the work you have asked and come to the rewards you have promised.

Roman Missal (adapted)

The Right Use of the Media: Especially on World Communications day — the seventh Sunday of Easter

‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation’ is the message of the Gospel on the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. The Solemnity oﬀers the starting point for understanding the right use of the media. The day is established by the Pontiﬁcal Council for Social Communications and each year there is message from the Holy Father

Prayer: Father of light, from whom every good gift comes, send your Spirit into our lives with the power of a mighty wind, and by the ﬂame of your wisdom open the horizons of our minds.Loosen our tongues to sing your praise in words beyond the power of speech, for without your Spirit men and women could never raise their voice in words of peace or announce the truth that is Jesus the Lord

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The Church: Especially at Pentecost

Throughout the Season of Easter the ﬁrst reading at Mass is taken from the Acts of the Apostles. Luke tells the story of the early Church from the Ascension and Pentecost to the early missions of the apostles.

‘When the work which the Father gave the Son to do on earth was accomplished, the Holy Spirit was sent on the day of Pentecost in order that he might continually sanctify the Church. Then “the Church was openly displayed to the crowds and the spread of the Gospel among the nations, through preaching, was begun.” As the “convocation” of all men for salvation, the Church in her very nature is missionary, sent by Christ to all the nations to make disciples of them.’ Catechism 767

‘Those who with God’s help have welcomed Christ’s call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world. This treasure, received from the apostles, has been faithfully guarded by their successors. All Christ’s faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.’ Catechism 3

Prayer: God our Father, in all the churches scattered throughout the world you show forth the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.Through the gospel and the Eucharist bring your people together in the Holy Spirit and guide us in love.Make us a sign of your love for all people, and help us show forth the living presence of Christ in the world.

Roman Missal

St Joseph the Worker: Thursday 1 May.

World Day of Prayer for Vocations: Sunday 11 May.

Survivors of Sexual Abuse: Tuesday 20 May

World Communications Day: Sunday 1 June

The Church - especially at Pentecost: Sunday 8 June.

EASTER TIME

THE EASTER VIGIL IN THE HOLY NIGHT W

Pf of Easter I. “In communion with” and “Therefore, Lord” pr. Not EPIV.

Solemn Blessing. Double “Alleluia” at Dismissal.

The Easter Vigil should not begin before nightfall and should end before daybreak. The Easter Proclamation (Exultet) may not be replaced by another text, nor by a hymn. All bells are rung during the Gloria and the altar candles are lit. The Alleluia is intoned three times by the celebrant (or a cantor if necessary).

OCTAVE OF EASTER

20 SUN EASTER SUNDAY. SOLEMNITY WITH OCTAVE. W

Seq. Pf of Easter I. “In communion with” and “Therefore, Lord” pr. Not EP IV.

Solemn Blessing of Easter Vigil optional. Double “Alleluia” at Dismissal.

Renewal of Baptismal Promises in place of Cr. Masses during the Octave have same features as this day, except Seq. ad lib., no Cr or Solemn Blessing, Monday to Saturday.

Fr Roy Gathercole +2002 (rtd at King’s Lynn)

Canon William Collis +1893 (Sheﬀord)

Tue EASTER OCTAVE. M pr.

Fr Anthony Roberts +1997 (rtd fr. Gorleston 1987)

Wed EASTER OCTAVE. M pr. W

Fr Thomas Fitzgerald +1940 (Bedford)

Bishop Charles Grant +1989 (Eighth Bishop of Northampton)

Fr George Grace +1998 (rtd fr. Huntingdon 1994)

Mgr Canon Edward McBride +2011 (rtd fr. Sheringham 2000)

Fri EASTER OCTAVE. M pr. W Friday abstinence is dispensed today.

Gl, Cr, Pf of Holy Martyrs. Not EP IV.

Fr David Thomson +1998 (rtd fr. Aldeburgh 1985)

Pf of Holy Virgins and Religious. Not EP IV

Feria. M pr.

or St Joseph the Worker Gospel and Pf pr. Not EP IV

Day of Prayer for God’s blessing on human work. M no. 26 For the sanctiﬁcation of human labour (in urban areas) or M no. 27 At seedtime (in rural areas)

Bishop Dudley CaryElwes +1932 (Fifth Bishop of Northampton)

Vesp. of

This Weekend: Announce: Next Sunday is a World Day of Prayer for Vocations. There

Mgr Provost Augustine Peacock +1956 (rtd fr. St Pancras, Ipswich 1953)

Mgr Canon Harold Squirrell +1962 (Poringland)

Mgr Provost Anthony Hulme +1987 (rtd fr. St Joseph’s, Bedford 1984)

Parish 52 – Our Lady and St Thomas

Ss Nereus & Achilleus MM (R)

St Pancras M (R)

Canon Thomas Quinlivan +1885 (rtd fr. Cambridge 1883)

Gerald Thornton +1986 (rtd fr. Langley 1981) Fr Bertram Sammons +1988 (rtd fr. Wisbech 1978)

Charles Joole +1883 (Slough)

Anthony Northrop +2012 (Deacon at English Martyrs, Cambridge)

Christopher Magallanes, P & Comps MM (R) Fr Hugh Capper +1988 (rtd fr. Fakenham

(W)

Fr Liam Crowley +2019 (rtd fr. Downham Market 2003)

6th WEEK OF EASTER

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 2 – Our Lady and St Peter, Aldeburgh

Psalter Week 2

This Weekend: Announce: Thursday this week is the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord and a Holy Day of Obligation Next Sunday is World Communications Day

There will be a Second Collection for the Catholic Communications Network next weekend.

Mon St Philip Neri P Mem.

Fr Charles Meaden +1950 (Thetford)

Fr Christopher Back +2014 (rtd fr. Aldeburgh 2005)

Fr Tony Webb +2016 (rtd fr. Fakenham 2016)

27 Tue ST AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY B. Feast W

Gl, Pf of Holy Pastors. Not EP IV.

Fr Robert Gates +1876 (rtd at Bury St Edmunds)

I Vesp. of fol.

Vigil M. of Ascension: Gl, Cr, Pf, “In communion with” pr. Not EP IV. W

Thu THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD. SOLEMNITY. W

Holyday of Obligation. M for the People.

Gl, Cr, Pf and “In communion with” in EP I pr. Not EP IV.

Rev. John Gardner +1988 (Deacon at St Ives)

Fr Brendan Peters +1991 (rtd fr. Quidenham 1989)

Mgr Gerald Moorcraft +2011 (rtd from Princes Risborough 2010)

Mgr Patrick McAleenan +2017 (rtd fr. Our Lady’s, Corby 2009) 30 Fri Easter Feria. M pr. W or St Walstan (East Anglia Pr.) (W)

Canon James Flint +1936 (rtd fr. Lynford 1933)

31 Sat THE VISITATION OF THE BVM. Feast. W Gl, Pf of BVM II. Not EP IV.

I Vesp. of fol.

OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 3 - St Benet’s Minster, Beccles

This Weekend: Take a Second Collection for the Catholic Communications Network at all Masses.

2 Mon Easter Feria. M pr.

or Ss Marcellinus & Peter MM. (R)

Provost George Frederick Stokes +1928 (Ely)

5 Thu St Boniface BM. Mem. R

Canon John J. Mossey +1995 (rtd fr. Hunstanton 1983)

6 Fri Easter Feria. M pr. W or St Norbert B (W)

Canon Charles Eeles +1926 (King’s Lynn)

Fr Thomas K. Philips +1947 (Sheringham)

7 Sat Easter Feria. M pr. W

I Vesp. of fol.

Vigil M of Pentecost in Extended or Simple Form.

Gl, Cr, Pf, “In communion with” pr. Not EP IV. Double “Alleluia” at Dismissal.

Canon Thomas Seed +1883 (Sheﬀord)

NATIONAL CYCLE OF PRAYER

During Ordinary Time (Summer) i.e. up to September, we are asked to pray for these intentions:

A Deeper Understanding between Christians and Jews; Those Who Suﬀer Persecution, Oppression and Denial of Human Rights; Human Life; Europe; Seafarers.

Day for Life: Sunday 15 June

St John Fisher and St Thomas More: Sunday 22 June

Europe - St Benedict: Friday 11 July

St Bridget: Wednesday 23 July

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross: Saturday 9 August

Sea Sunday: Sunday 13 July

10th WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 4 – St Thomas of Canterbury, Brandon

Psalter Week 2

This Weekend: Announce: Next Sunday is the last day for Easter Communions. Next Sunday is the Day for Life. There will be a Second Collection taken for the work of Life Charities next weekend.

8 SUN PENTECOST SUNDAY. SOLEMNITY. R

Seq., Pf “In communion with” pr. Not EP IV. Double “Alleluia” at Dismissal. Paschal Candle to be kept in the baptistery with due honour so that candles of the newly baptised can be lit from it.

Fr Francis Byrne +1924 (Costessey)

9 Mon Mary, Mother of the Church. Mem. W

Missal p.1411 Mass B. Pf pr. p.1412. Not EPIV

Fr Antony Dillon +1955 (Cambridge)

Rev. Martin Dudley Franks + 2006 (Deacon at St Ives)

Mgr Peter Hocken +2017 (rtd as Bishop’s Chaplain, Northampton 2001)

10 Tue Feria. M ad lib. G

11 Wed St Barnabas Ap. Mem. 1st Reading pr. R Pf of App. Not EP IV. Fr Richard Murtagh +1975 (rtd fr. Rushden 1974)

12 Thu Our Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest. Feast. W Gl. Pf pr. Not EPIV. Proper texts for Oﬃce and Mass available on the Liturgy Oﬃce website.

13 Fri St Anthony of Padua PD. Mem. W Fr Austin O’Sullivan +1921 (St Pancras, Ipswich)

Fr James Purcell +1942 (St Ives)

14 Sat Feria. M ad lib. G or Our Lady on Saturday (W) Canon Arthur Tillett +1962 (rtd fr. Marlow 1959)

11th WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Psalter Week 3

Parish 5 – St Hugh of Lincoln, Buckden This Weekend: Take a Second Collection for the work of Life Charities.

15 SUN THE MOST HOLY TRINITY. SOLEMNITY. Day for Life W

Missal p.533. Pf pr. Not EP IV

Fr Michael Bourke +1896 (Wroxham Hall)

or St Richard of Chichester B (W)

Mgr George Davies +1911 (Costessey Hall)

or St Botolph Ab. (East Anglia Pr.) (W)

or St Romuald Ab. (W) Fr John Drew +2008 (St George’s, Norwich)

or St Alban M. (R) Fr Christopher Macgregor +1943 (Ely)

Sat St Aloysius Gonzaga Rel. Mem.

I Vesp. of fol.

Parish 6 - St Edmund, King and Martyr, Bungay

This Weekend: Announce: Abstinence this Friday is dispensed because of the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Next weekend there will be a Second Collection for Peter’s Pence

THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST

(CORPUS CHRISTI). SOLEMNITY.

Missal p.537. Gl, Cr, Pf of the Most Holy Eucharist; Not EP IV.

Mon St Etheldreda AbV. Mem. (East Anglia Pr.)

I Vesp. of fol.

THE NATIVITY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST. SOLEMNITY

Titular of the Cathedral.

Gl, Cr, Pf pr. Not EP IV.

Wed Feria. M ad lib.

In Cathedral only: I Vesp. of fol.

Thu DEDICATION OF THE CATHEDRAL. Feast (East Anglia Pr.) W

Gl, Pf pr. Not EP IV.

In Cathedral only SOLEMNITY: Gl, Cr., Pf pr Not EP IV. I Vesp. of fol

- Diocesan

Fr Edmund ReesJones +1982 (rtd fr. Diss 1975)

Fr Nigel Bourne +1990 (rtd fr. St Brendan’s, Corby 1981)

27 Fri THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS. SOLEMNITY. W

Missal p.540. Gl, Cr, Pf pr. Not EP IV. Friday Abstinence is dispensed today.

Mgr Canon Mark Oleron +1880 (Northampton Cathedral)

28 Sat The Immaculate Heart of the BVM. Mem. W

Missal p. 916, Divine Oﬃce p. 30*.Readings pr. Pf of BVM I (“on the feast day”) or II. Not EP IV

I Vesp. of fol.

Vigil M of Solemnity: Gl, Cr, Pf pr. Not EP IV.

Canon

Canon Brian Frost +2018 (rtd fr. St Patrick’s, Corby 1995)

of Lourdes, Peterborough 1978)

14th WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Psalter Week 2

Parish 8 – Our Lady of the Assumption and the English Martyrs, Cambridge

This Weekend: Announce: Next Sunday is Sea Sunday

There will be a Second Collection next weekend for Stella Maris.

6 SUN 14th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME.

Fr Joseph Farrell +1986 (St Laurence’s, Cambridge)

Fr John Cureton +2005 (rtd fr. Swaffham 1996) 7 Mon Feria. M ad lib.

Canon Richard Duckett +1910 (Norwich)

8 Tue Feria. M ad lib.

or St Withburga Ab (East Anglia Pr.) (W)

Fr George Webb +1950 (rtd fr. Thetford 1937)

Fr Eric Woodhead +2010 (rtd at Poringland)

9 Wed Feria. M ad lib.

or Ss Augustine Zhao Rong P & Comps. MM (R)

Fr Francis Warmoll +1899 (Stowmarket)

10 Thu Feria. M ad lib.

Provost Seth Eccles +1884 (Weston Underwood)

Fr Edmund O’Gorman +1974 (rtd fr. Rushden 1965) 11 Fri ST BENEDICT Ab. Patron of Europe. Feast. W

Gl, Pf of Holy Pastors or Religious. Not EP IV.

Bishop Michael Evans +2011 (Third Bishop of East Anglia) 12 Sat Feria. M ad lib.

or Our Lady on Saturday (W)

Fr Alexander Scott +1918 (Lowestoft)

Fr Edward Hill +1990 (rtd fr. Little Chalfont 1975) 15th WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 9 – St Laurence, Cambridge

Psalter Week 3

This Weekend: Take a Second Collection for Stella Maris at all Masses.

SUN 15th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME. Sea Sunday G

Rev Hubert Grant Scarfe +1995 (Deacon)

Mon Feria. M ad lib.

or St Camillus de Lellis P (W)

15 Tue St Bonaventure BD Mem. W

Fr Tom Feighan +2016 (rtd fr. High Wycombe 2011)

or Our Lady of Mount Carmel (W)

Fr Bernard Nesden +1999 (rtd fr. Hunstanton 1995)

Bishop Alan C. Clark +2002 (First Bishop of East Anglia)

Canon Patrick Carey +2015 (rtd fr. Bourne End 1996)

Mgr Anthony Philpot +2016 (rtd fr. English College, Rome 2006)

Fr Joseph Clemente +1918 (Slough)

Fr William Jolly +1982 (rtd fr. Costessey 1975)

Parish 10 – St Philip Howard, Cambridge

This Weekend: Announce: Next Sunday is World Day of Prayer for Grandparents and the Elderly

Gl, Pf I or II of Saints or Pf of Holy Virgins and Religious. Not EPIV

Fr Vincent MacRory +2013 (rtd fr. SS Philip & James, Bedford 1999)

JAMES Ap Feast

Gl, Pf of Apostles. Not EP IV.

Canon Stephen Longman +1885

Fr Patrick Oates +1975 (Sacred Heart, Luton)

Mgr John Drury +2005 (rtd fr. Kirtling 2004)

Mgr Richard Wilson +2010 (rtd fr. Costessey 2004)

I Vesp. of fol.

Canon Edmund Stokes +1961 (English Martyrs, Cambridge)

Fr Robert McCormick +2015 (rtd fr. Diss 2003)

Gl, Pf of Holy of Martyrs. Not EP IV. I Vesp. of fol.

19th

Parish 13 – Sacred Heart and St Margaret Mary, Dereham

Weekend: Announce: Friday is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the BVM, a Holyday of Obliga

Canon Patrick Grogan +1940 (rtd fr. Wroxham Hall 1926) Fr Thomas Walker +1949 (rtd fr. Gorleston 1945) Fr Stephen Doupe +1972 (Hunstanton)

20th

Parish 14 – The Most Holy Trinity & St Henry Morse, Diss Parish 15 – St Dominic, Downham Market

Bishop Francis Amherst +1883 (Second Bishop of Northampton) Fr John Lickert +1934 (Newmarket)

(Slough)

ting +1969 (Sheﬀord)

Fr Frederick Lockyer +1954 (Bury St Edmunds) Mgr Canon Paul Taylor +2002 (rtd fr. Ely 1993)

Luton 1972)

30 Sat Feria. M ad lib. G or Ss Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line & Margaret Ward MM (R) or Our Lady on Saturday (W) Fr Patrick Crowe +2000 (Our Lady’s, Luton)

22nd WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 17 – St Anthony of Padua, Fakenham Parish 18 – St Felix, Felixstowe

Psalter Week 2

This Weekend: Announce: Monday is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

NATIONAL CYCLE OF PRAYER

During Ordinary Time (Autumn), i.e. from September to Christ the King, we are asked to pray for these intentions:

The Harvest: the Fruits of Human Work and the Reverent Use of Creation; especially on World Day of prayer for the Care of Creation (1 September) and on last Sunday in September or whenever Harvest Festivals are held.

‘“The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will offer individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.”’ (Pope Francis, Letter inaugurating World Prayer of Care for Creation)

The Church has long celebrated the agricultural harvest. This intention also includes all human work. In all circumstances of human life there are choices to be made regarding the environment and our reverent stewardship of the God’s gift of creation.‘“The external deserts in the world are growing, because the internal deserts have become so vast. Therefore the earth’s treasures no longer serve to build God’s garden for all to live in, but they have been made to serve the powers of exploitation and destruction” (Benedict XVI, homily at Inaugural Mass, 2005). ’

Prayer: O Lord, good Father, who in your providence have entrusted the earth to the human race, grant, we pray, that with the fruits harvested from it we may be able to sustain life and, with your help, always use them to promote your praise and the wellbeing of all.

Roman Missal

Students and Teachers: especially on Education Day — 2nd Sunday of SeptemberThe day of prayer for Education is organised ecumenically by the Education

agencies of the various denominations. In the Catholic Church material is distributed by the Catholic Education Service. There may be a collection for the Agency on this Sunday.

Prayer: God is the source of all wisdom and knowledge.Let us ask him to bless those who seek to learn and their teachers.For students, that the Spirit of God may grant them the gifts of wisdom of understanding.For teachers, that they may share their knowledge with gentleness, patience, and concern for their students.

Book of Blessings

The Spread of the Gospel: especially on Evangelii Gaudium Day: 3rd Sunday in September and World Mission Day: the penultimate Sunday in October

Evangelii Gaudium Day is on the 3rd Sunday in September. Material for the day is prepared by the Home Mission Desk. There may be a collection to support the work of the agency.

World Mission Day is on the penultimate Sunday in October. A Mass ‘for the Spread of the Gospel’ may be celebrated on this Sunday. Each year the Holy Father writes a message for World Mission day. In England and Wales material is produced for parishes by the Pontiﬁcal Mission Societies. There may be a collection for their work on this day.

Prayer: O God, whose will it is that all should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, look upon your abundant harvest and be pleased to send workers to gather it, that the Gospel may be preached to all creation and that your people, gathered by the word of life and sustained by the power of the Sacraments, may advance in the path of salvation and love.

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Justice and Peace in the World: especially on Harvest Fast Day: 1st Friday in October. The Harvest Fast Day is one of two such days organised by CAFOD. The money oﬀered from the fasting is usually collected at Mass on the following Sunday.

Prayer: O God, who show a father’s care for all, grant, in your mercy, that the members of the human race, to whom you have given a single origin, may form in peace a single family and always be united by a fraternal spirit.

Roman Missal

Prisoners and their Families: especially on Prisoners Sunday (2nd Sunday in October) and in Prisons Week: 2nd Week in October

Prisoners Week was a Catholic initiative begun in 1975 by Bishop Victor Guazelli which has since gained ecumenical support and observance. It reﬂects the work of the Prison Advice and Care Trust which builds on its origins as the Bourne Trust — the Catholic Prisoner’s Aid Society. The Sunday and the following week seek to

focus attention not only on the needs of prisoners but on all those involved the ﬁeld of prison care, prisoners families, victims of crime, prison staﬀ and many volunteers.

Prayer: Almighty and merciful God, to whom alone the secrets of the heart lie open, who recognize the just and make righteous the guilty, hear our prayers for your servants held in prison, and grant that through patience and hope they may ﬁnd relief in their aﬄiction and soon return unhindered to their own

Roman Missal

All Victims of War: especially on Remembrance Sunday: 2nd Sunday in November

Remembrance Sunday falls on the Sunday nearest Armistice Day, 11 November, which marks the end of the First World War. On this day are remembered all those who gave their lives for their country, all who suﬀered and died through acts of war and those who were left behind to grieve and mourn. In England and Wales one Mass for the Dead may celebrated on this Sunday.

Prayer: O God, merciful and strong, who crushes wars and casts down the proud, be pleased to banish violence swiftly from our midst and to wipe away all tears, so that we may all truly deserve to be called your children.

Roman Missal

Young People: especially on Christ the King: 34th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Church in England and Wales has marked the contribution of young people on Christ the King for many years. Universally it is marked on Palm Sunday. In many parishes it is an opportunity to focus on the role of young people in the Sunday liturgy and in the life of the parish. Over the last few years material prepared to assist the day has used the live simply campaign. There may be a collection for diocesan and national youth services on this day.

Prayer: O God, who gave one origin to all peoples and willed to gather from them one family for yourself, ﬁll all hearts of all young people, we pray, with the ﬁre of your love and kindle in them a desire for the just advancement of their neighbour, that, through the good things which you richly bestow upon all, each human person may be brought to perfection, every division may be removed, and equity and justice may be established in human society.

Roman Missal (adapted)

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation Monday 1 September

Education Day Sunday 14 September

Evangelii Gaudium Day Sunday 21 September

The Harvest, etc Sunday 28 September or whenever Harvest Festivals are held.

Harvest Fast Day Friday 3 October Prisons Week 12-18 October

World Mission Day Sunday 19 October

Remembrance Day Sunday 9 November

World Day of the Poor Sunday 16 November

Youth Day Sunday 23 November

SEPTEMBER 2025

PpD

23rd WEEK OF THE YEAR Psalter Week 3 CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS: Parish 19 – St Peter the Apostle, Gorleston This Weekend: Announce: Next Sunday is Education Day

There will be a Second Collection next weekend for the Catholic Education Service (Optional).

Gl, Pf of BVM I. Not EP IV.

Fr Francis Glanﬁeld +1986 (Northampton Cathedral)

Fr Paul Mercer +2016 (rtd fr. Bury St Edmunds 2015)

Tue Feria. M ad lib.

or St Peter Claver P (W)

Fr Mortimer Flanagan +1946 (Swaffham)

Fr James Smith +2011(rtd fr. March 1982)

The Most Holy Name of

I Vesp. of fol.

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS: Parish 20

– St Mary, Great Yarmouth

This Weekend: Take a Second Collection for the Catholic Education Service (Optional).

Announce: Next Sunday is Evangelii Gaudium Day

There will be a Second Collection next weekend for the Home Missions.

EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS. Feast. Education Day R

Gl, Cr Pf pr. Not EP IV.

Mon Our Lady of Sorrows. Mem.

Proper Readings Seq. ad lib., Pf of BVM I “on the feast day”. Bishop Arthur Riddell +1907 (Third Bishop of Northampton)

(W)

Fr Ronald Waldie +1911 (Rushden) Fr Francis Murphy +1994 (rtd fr. Marlow 1976)

or St Januarius BM (R) or St Theodore of Canterbury B (W)

Fr George Miles +1931 (StokebyNayland)

Ss Andrew Kim Tae-gon P, Paul Chong Ha-sang and Comps. R MM. Mem.

I Vesp. of fol.

Mgr Graham Adams +2014 (rtd fr. AstonleWalls 2010)

25th

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 21 – St Felix, Haverhill

This Weekend: Take a Mass Count at each Mass this Weekend (1/4). Take a Second Collection for the Home Missions at all Masses.

Provost William Blackman +1911 (Great Billing)

PRINCIPAL PATRON OF THE DIOCESE. (East Anglia Pr.)

Gl, Pf of BVM I “on the feast day” or II or of the Annunciation.

Not EP IV.

Fr Ivan Rudkin +2009 (Woodbridge)

25 Thu Feria. M ad lib.

Fr Henry Colpman +1899 (Wisbech) 26 Fri Feria. M ad lib.

or Ss Cosmas & Damian MM (

Fr Edmund Golston +1990 (rtd fr. Woburn Sands 1985)

Fr Michael Edwards +2003 (rtd fr. Sudbury 1996)

Fr Anthony Sketch +2012 (rtd fr. Lowestoft 2009)

Canon William Moser +1911 (Peterborough) 26th WEEK OF THE YEAR Psalter Week 2

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 22 – Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Edmund, Hunstanton This Weekend: Take a Mass Count at each Mass this Weekend (2/4).

Announce: Next Friday is Harvest Fast Day. There will be a Second Collection for CAFOD next weekend. 28

26th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME G

Fr George Page +1937 (Wisbech)

Canon Anthony Griﬃths +2019 (rtd fr. Marlow 2002)

29 Mon SS MICHAEL, GABRIEL & RAPHAEL, Archangels. Feast. W

Gl, Pf of Angels. Not EP IV.

30 Tue St Jerome PD Mem. W

Rev Andrew Morton +2019 (Deacon at Sudbury with Hadleigh)

Rev Donald Faux +1996 (Deacon at WellsnexttheSea)

Fr John Maunsell +1999 (rtd fr. AstonleWalls 1981)

Francis of Assisi DnRel.

Fr Francis Armstrong +1967 (Sheringham) Fr Cyril Henslow +1968 (rtd fr. Leighton Buzzard 1961)

Fr Geoﬀrey Crawfurd +1969 (Langley, Slough)

Parish 23 – St Michael the Archangel, Huntingdon This

Robert Pate +1911 (Notre Dame Convent, Northampton)

Malcom Cowin +1984 (Wymondham)

Parish 24 – St James, Ipswich

This Weekend: Take a Mass Count at each Mass this Weekend (4/4).

Announce: Next Sunday is World Mission Day. There will be a Second Collection for Missio (The Association for the Propagation of the Faith) taken next weekend. This week is Prisons Week during which we are asked to pray for prisoners and their families.

Feria. M ad lib.

or St Callistus I PpM (R)

Fr Robert Middleton +1906 (Bedford)

Fr Thomas Scott +1928 (rtd fr. Aylesbury 1926)

Fr Benjamin Grist +2012 (at Ditchingham)

Fr Edgar Hardwick +1971 (Coldham Cottage)

or St Hedwig Rel (W) or St Margaret Mary Alacoque V (W)

Rev. Thomas Newland +1989 (Deacon at St George’s, Norwich)

Fri St Ignatius of Antioch BM Mem.

Fr Michael Sellers +1987 (Wolverton)

Sat ST LUKE, Evangelist. Feast.

Gl, Pf. of Apostles II. Not EP IV.

Fr James Sloan +1988 (rtd fr. Southwold 1984)

Rev John Steel +2018 (Deacon at Ely)

Fr Martin Orme +2022 (rtd fr. St Mary Magdalen, Ipswich 2007) 29th WEEK OF

Parish 25 – St Mark, Ipswich

This Weekend: Take a Second Collection for Missio (APF) at all Masses.

Fr William Bainbridge +1970 (rtd fr. High Wycombe 1963)

or St John Paul II Pp (W)

Fr Arthur (Sandy) Phelps +2016 (rtd at St Philip Howard, Cambridge)

St Anthony Mary Claret B (W)

Canon Bernard Smith +1903 (Marlow)

Mgr Provost Frank Diamond +1992 (rtd fr. Great Billing 1990)

Our Lady on Saturday (W)

Mgr Harry Wace +2002 (rtd fr. Dereham 2001) 30th WEEK OF THE

Psalter Week 2 CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 26 – St Mary, Ipswich

This Weekend: Announce: There will be a Second Collection next weekend for the Caritas East Anglia/St Edmund’s Fund (Optional).

SS SIMON & JUDE App Feast.

Gl, Pf of Apostles. Not EP IV.

Fr Leo Hammond +1999 (rtd fr. Aldeburgh 1993)

Fr Christopher Roberts +1999 (rtd fr. St Aidan’s, Northampton 1988)

Provost Frederick Charles Husenbeth +1872 (Costessey)

Fr Bill Mason +2017 (rtd at Bury St Edmunds)

NOVEMBER 2025

1 Sat Feria. M ad lib. G

or Our Lady on Saturday (W)

I Vesp. of fol.

31st WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 27 – St Mary Magdalen, Ipswich

Psalter Week 3

This Weekend: Take a Second Collection for the Caritas East Anglia/St Edmund’s Fund at all Masses. (Optional)

2 SUN ALL SAINTS. SOLEMNITY. W

M for the People.

Gl; Cr; Pf pr. Not EP IV.

II Vesp. of day

3 Mon THE COMMEMORATION OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED (ALL SOULS’ DAY) V or Black

Every priest may celebrate or concelebrate three Masses today, with an interval of time between one Mass and the next. A stipend may be taken for only one. One Mass is to be oﬀered for the Pope’s Intentions and one for the Holy Souls.

Fr Robert Allan +1953 (rtd fr. Lowestoft 1941)

Mgr Canon Joseph McShee +1971 (rtd fr. Costessey 1965)

Feria. M ad lib.

Fr Thomas Lynch +1992 (St Oswald’s, Peterborough) 6 Thu Feria. M ad lib.

7 Fri Feria. M ad lib. G or St Willibrord B. (W)

Mgr Valentine Elwes +1966 (Clapham Park)

Fr Brian Nightingale +1983 (St Oswald’s Peterborough)

8 Sat Feria. M ad lib. G or Our Lady on Saturday (W)

Fr Bernard Heath +2013 (rtd fr. St Mary’s, Ipswich 2005)

32nd WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 28 – St Pancras, Ipswich

Psalter Week 4

THE DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA. Feast. W

Gl, Cr, Pf pr. Not EP IV. Remembrance Day.

One Requiem Mass for the War Dead permitted: no Gl, readings from Masses for the Dead, Cr is said, Pf of the Dead.

St Martin of Tours B. Mem.

Canon Henry St LegerMason +1940 (Southwold)

Fr Basil Jones +1974 (Thetford)

Fr Raymond Kerby +2009 (rtd fr. St Ives 2001)

Thu Feria. M ad lib.

Fr Augustine Wilkinson +1934 (rtd fr. Coldham Cottage 1925)

Fri Feria. M ad lib.

Bishop Laurence Youens +1939 (Sixth Bishop of Northampton)

Fr William Arrowsmith +1954 (rtd fr. Brantham 1950)

Fr Geoﬀrey Jarvis +2009 (Walsingham)

Sat Feria. M ad lib.

or St Albert the Great BD (W) or Our Lady on Saturday (W)

Rev Terence McCarthy +1997 (Deacon at St Ives)

33rd WEEK OF THE YEAR

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Psalter Week 1

Parish 29 – Our Lady of the Annunciation, King’s Lynn This Weekend: Announce: Today is the World Day of the Poor Next Sunday is the Feast of Christ the King and is celebrated as Youth Day. here will be a Second Collection next weekend for the Diocesan Youth Service (Optional).

SUN 33rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME World Day of the Poor

Mon Feria. M ad lib.

or St Hilda Ab (W) or St Hugh of Lincoln B (W) or St Elizabeth of Hungary Rel (W)

Fr J. Richard B. Smith +1971 (rtd fr. Thornton College 1949) 18 Tue Feria. M ad lib.

or Dedication of the Basilicas of Ss Peter & Paul App (W) Reading & Gospel pr. Pf of App. Not EP IV.

19 Wed Feria. M ad lib.

Canon Thomas WalmsleyCarter +1938 (Sheringham)

Fr Bryan Houghton +1992 (rtd fr. Bury St Edmunds 1969)

20 Thu St Edmund, King M. Mem. (East Anglia Pr.) R

Gl Pf of Holy Martyrs. Not EP IV

21 Fri The Presentation of the BVM. Mem. W

Pf of BVM I “on the feast day”. Not EP IV.

Fr John Kemp +1882

Fr William Barker +1958 (Fakenham)

Fr Donald Jenkinson +1977 (Kettering) 22 Sat St Cecilia VM Mem.

Canon Patrick Rogers +1918 (St Pancras, Ipswich)

Rev. Francis Hanley +2008 (Deacon at St George’s, Norwich) 34th WEEK OF THE YEAR Psalter Week 2

Parish 30 – Our Lady Star of the Sea, Lowestoft

This Weekend: Take a Second Collection for the Diocesan Youth Service at all Masses. (Optional) 23 SUN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE. W SOLEMNITY. Youth Day.

Missal p. 543. Pf pr. Not EP IV

Mon Ss Andrew Dúng-Lac P & Comps. Mem.

Tue Feria. M ad lib.

or St Catherine of Alexandria VM. (R)

Fr Ronald Fawsitt +1990 (rtd at Cambridge)

Provost Hugh Parker +1961 (rtd fr. Gorleston 1958)

Canon Denis Brennan +1967 (Our Lady’s, Corby)

Fri Feria. M ad lib.

Fr Henry King +1907 (Sheﬀord)

29 Sat Feria. M ad lib.

or Our Lady on Saturday (W)

Fr Henry Hughes +1943 (Lynford)

Canon Gerard Hulme +1978 (rtd fr. Sheringham 1976)

Fr Francis Hacon +1989 (Cromer)

NATIONAL CYCLE OF PRAYER

During Advent and Christmastide, we are asked to pray for these intentions:

Migrants and Refugees: especially on December 3.

On December 3 the Church commemorates St Francis Xavier. This is the day chosen by the Pontiﬁcal Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People to mark World Migration Day. Each year there is a message from the Holy Father reﬂecting on the ‘signs of the times’.

“Asylum seekers and refugees - I wish to underline how the tendency is to stop at the question of their arrival while disregarding the reasons for which they left their native land.” [Benedict XVI - Message for World Migration day 2005]

Prayer: Lord, no one is a stranger to you and no one is ever far from your loving care.In your kindness watch over refugees and exiles, those separated from their loved ones, young people who are lost, and those who have left or run away from home.Bring them back safely to the place where they long to be and help us always to show your kindness to strangers and those in need. Roman Missal: For Refugees and Exiles

Expectant Mothers: especially on 4th Sunday of Advent

The Gospel on the 4th Sunday of Advent focusses on the role of Mary in our salvation. Over the three year cycle the gospel tells of the betrothal of Mary to Joseph, the Annunciation and the Visitation. The stories prepare us for the Birth of our Lord at Christmas.

Prayer: God has brought gladness and light to the world through the Virgin Mary’s delivery of her son.Grant the prayer of all mothers to be as they ask for the birth of a healthy child.May they safely deliver a son or daughter to be numbered among your family, to serve you in all things, and to gain eternal life.

Adapted from the Book of Blessing

Migrants’ Day Tuesday 3 December

Expectant Mothers Sunday 21 December

1st WEEK OF ADVENT (Year A; Weekday Cycle II)

Psalter Week 1

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS: Parish 31 – Our Lady of Good Counsel and St Peter, March

Today the liturgical cycle begins anew. The Sunday readings are taken from Year A (I) and the weekday readings from Year II. During the Season of Advent, the Gloria is not said, unless otherwise noted, and until 16 December the Preface of Advent I is used at all Masses (except Masses for the dead)

Pf of Advent I. Not EP IV.

Fr Edward Watkis +1958 (rtd fr. North Walsham 1956)

DECEMBER 2025

Fr Henry Logan +1884

Fr Ronald Henry Bustin +1992 (Little Chalfont)

or St Nicholas B (W)

Fr Thomas Walters +1974 (rtd fr. Olney 1964) 2nd WEEK OF

Psalter Week 2 CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS: Parish 32 – Our Lady Immaculate and St Etheldreda, Newmarket This Weekend: Announce: There will be a Second Collection next weekend for the Dependent Priests’ Fund.

Pf of Advent I. Not EP IV.

II Vesp. of Sunday

Mgr Provost John Francis Freeland +1940 (Thornton College)

Fr Anthony Seely +2011 (rtd fr. St John’s Cathedral, Norwich 2009)

Mon THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BVM. SOLEMNITY. W

Gl, Cr, Pf pr. Not EP IV.

Fr Christopher Madden +1918 (St Pancras, Ipswich)

Mgr Canon John Malone +1970 (rtd fr. Northampton Cathedral 1966)

Tue Advent Feria. M pr.

or St Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (W)

Fr Kevin Jones +1957 (St George’s, Norwich)

Fr Brendan Gorman +2013 (Christ the King, Bedford)

Wed Bls Henry Heath & John Robinson PP & Comps MM Mem. R (East Anglia Pr.)

11 Thu Advent Feria. M pr. V

or St Damasus I Pp (W)

Fr Bernard Davenport +2012 (Chesham Bois)

12 Fri Advent Feria. M pr. V

or Our Lady of Guadalupe (W)

13 Sat

St Lucy VM Mem. R

I Vesp. of fol.

Fr Bernard Hyde +1961 (rtd fr. Northampton Cathedral 1936)

3rd WEEK OF ADVENT

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS: Parish 33 – The Sacred Heart, North Walsham

Psalter Week 3

This Weekend: Take a Second Collection for the Dependent Priests’ Fund at all Masses.

14 SUN 3rd SUNDAY OF ADVENT. (Gaudete Sunday) V or Rose

Pf of Advent I. Not EP IV.

Anniversary of the Bishop’s Episcopal Ordination to be commemorated in the General Intercessions.

Fr George Wrigglesworth +1900 (King’s Lynn)

Fr Gerard Conlon +1966 (St Joseph’s, Luton)

15 Mon Advent Feria. M pr.

Canon John Cosser +1950 (rtd fr. Wellingborough 1948)

Fr Laurence Nicholson +1969 (St Mary’s, Ipswich)

Tue Advent Feria. M pr.

Wed Advent Feria. M pr. (O Sapientia)

Proper Readings start. Pf of Advent II daily till 24 Dec.

18 Thu

Advent Feria. M pr. (O Adonai)

Fr Constantine Ketterer +1940 (Ely)

Fr David Johnston +1979 (rtd fr. Kirtling 1979)

19 Fri Advent Feria. M pr. (O Radix Iesse)

20 Sat Advent Feria. M pr. (O Clavis David)

Fr Alfred Bull +1980 (rtd fr. St Mary Magdalen, Ipswich 1977)

Fr Peter Wynekus +2012 (rtd fr. Woodbridge 2001)

4th WEEK OF ADVENT

Psalter Week 4

This Weekend: Announce that Friday Abstinence is dispensed during the Christmas Octave

21 SUN 4th SUNDAY OF ADVENT (O Oriens) V

Pf of Advent II. Not EP IV.

22 Mon Advent Feria. M pr. (O Rex Gentium) V

Mgr Charles Smith +1954 (rtd fr. Beaconsﬁeld 1949)

23 Tue Advent Feria. M pr. (O Emmanuel) V

(ad lib. Collect of S John of Kanty P)

Fr Anthony Wendling +1886 (Wolverton)

Fr Liam Brady +1993 (rtd fr. Burnham 1985)

24 Wed Advent Feria. M pr. V

THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD. SOLEMNITY WITH OCTAVE. W

Vigil M: Gl, Cr (Genuﬂect in Cr as below).

Pf pr. “In communion with” pr. Not EP IV.

I Vesp. of fol.

Fr Frederick Nutt +1971 (Cromer)

Fr Gerard Langley +1992 (rtd fr. Blakeney 1990)

25 Thu CHRISTMAS DAY W

Holyday of Obligation. M. for the People.

Gl. In Cr, genuﬂect at “and by the Holy Spirit … and became man.”

Pf pr. “In communion with” pr. Not EP IV.

All priests may celebrate or concelebrate three Masses today, provided the Masses are celebrated at their proper time.

During the Octave one of the Prefaces of the Nativity is used at all Masses, except those of a divine person with a proper pf, apart from Sundays and Solemnities.

Prayer during the Day is from the weekday psalter; Vespers are as Vesp II, but with proper readings etc., each day.

Canon John Henry Thomson +1968 (rtd fr. Aldeburgh 1967)

26 Fri ST STEPHEN THE FIRST MARTYR. Feast. R

Gl, Pf of Nativity I-III, Not EP IV.

Bishop William Wareing +1865 (First Bishop of Northampton)

27 Sat ST JOHN Ap & Evangelist. Feast. W

Gl, Pf of Nativity I-III, Not EP IV.

I Vesp. of fol

December 2025 / January 2026 - Diocesan

SUNDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS

Psalter Week 1 CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS: Parish 34 – St George, Norwich

SUN THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY & JOSEPH. Feast W

Gl, Cr, Pf of Nativity I – III. “In communion with” pr. Not EPIV Fr John Fennell +1997 (Wellingborough)

29 Mon ST THOMAS BECKET BM. Patron of the Pastoral Clergy. Feast R Gl, Pf of Nativity I-III, Not EP IV.

30 Tue Sixth Day within the Octave of the Nativity. M pr. W Fr Louis Boulin +1902 (AstonleWalls)

31 Wed Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity. M pr. W (ad lib. Collect of St Sylvester I Pp.) I Vesp of fol

Mgr Canon J. Bernard Marshall +1946 (Cambridge) Fr Denis Roberts +1969 (Great Billing)

JANUARY 2026

LECTIONARY: SUNDAYS = YEAR A; WEEKDAYS = YEAR II 1 Thu SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD. W

Gl, Cr, Pf of BVM I (on the Solemnity of the Motherhood), “In communion with” pr. Not EP IV.

Sat Christmas Feria. M pr. W or The Most Holy Name of Jesus (W) Fr Guy Pritchard + 1983 (rtd fr. Ely 1970) 2nd WEEK OF CHRISTMAS Psalter Week 2

CYCLE OF PRAYER/40HRS/PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS:

Parish 45 – Our Lady and St John the Evangelist, Sudbury This Weekend: Announce: Tuesday is the Solemnity of the Epiphany and a Holy Day of Obligation

SUN SECOND SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS W Rev Bernard Warwick +2001 (Deacon at Dereham)

Gl, Cr, Pf pr. Not EP IV. “In communion with” pr. Holy day of Obligation. M. for the people. Provost William Wainwright +1983 (rtd fr. All Souls, Peterborough 1955)

Raymond of Penyafort P (W) Fr Arthur Speight +1990 (St James, Ipswich)

(Sheﬀord)