This occurred on Tuesday, April 8th at 7pm during Pontifical Solemn Mass. Bishop Anthony baptised Wendy, a lady of middle years, and Received her. The Baptism of an Adult was according to the Old Roman Rite. Father Emilio Tundidor- Suarez is Godfather and Dame Della Edling is Godmother. Wendy took the baptismal Christian names of
Theodora  Frances. We offer Wendy a special warm and loving welcome. Wendy, whose background had been presbyterian, had been drawn to the Catholic Religion over a long period. She made her first Holy Communion during the Mass. All present also renewed their baptismal vows and this was followed by the Vidi Aquam and Asperges with Easter Water. A joyous occasion indeed!  A Buffet Reception followed.
We were only sorry that Mr. Gerald Wilson who is Guardian of our Edinburgh Mission of Saints Andrew and Magnus and who is also an ex-presbyterian, was unable to be present. He will meet Wendy soon!  +

The Feast of Our Lady of Manchester will be kept on Wednesday,21st May with Pontifical Mass at Urmston. We thank Penny Inglefield with all our hearts for her staunch commitment to the Cause. Bishop Anthony will travel up the day before. Two “new ladies” are to be received: one an ex-Anglican and the other a University lecturer who has transferred her allegiance from the Society of Saint Pius X. We report this not in any way to criticise the SSPX but just as a matter of record! In fact she will obviously, as a Roman Catholic, not be “received” in the true liturgical sense – just awarded the warmest of welcomes! Penny is planning one of her special buffet lunches to follow the Solemn Mass at Noon. The Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary will precede Mass with the customary prayer to Our Lady of Manchester. Moira is mustering the Rochdale folk so we expect an excellent turn-out!

Kevin, one of our Lewisham Faithful, has sold his house and, at forty two, given up a career with his local Borough Council to work among needy people with a Catholic charity in Varna. Bishop Anthony anointed him after Solemn Mass on the Third Sunday after Easter and bestowed a Pilgrim Blessing. It was a touching and most moving ceremony not least because we will miss all that Kevin has done for us in South London. Varna may be a seaside resort frequented by western tourists, but the scene in its back streets is rather different! Please pray for Kevin as he embarks on this pilgrimage of mercy!  A Roman Catholic Mission there, dedicated to Our Lady, Queen of Peace, and part of The ArchConfraternity, will be established  and Bishop Anthony hopes to visit Varna  later this year. We beg you all to pray for this –  our first  East European parish. We say “first” because of course our Missions in Bohemia are Central Europe and veering firmly westward!!

On the subject of Bohemia our two clergy there have been joined by a recently retired priest, Father Lukas Tenkrat, who has for the last eleven years been based in Slovakia and saying the Traditional Mass twice weekly. Now retired, Father, a Czech, has returned to Eastern Bohemia to live with his sister in the pretty town of Havlickuv Brod.  It is through his dear friend from seminary days, Father Vojen, that Father Tenkrat has attached himself to the ArchConfraternity. This news has brought great joy to Bishop Anthony and to all our people in Bohemia.  Pater Tenkrate! Vitame, Vitame vas!!

The Feast falls on Saturday, May 24th when there will be Solemn Mass and Rosary at Hampstead at Noon, followed by a light lunch. Do please make every effort to attend.

The Feast of St. Asaph will be kept in Wales this year on May 13th, transferred from 11th which is the Solemnity of Pentecost. Our Breconshire Masses rotate between 3 places: Brecon, Ystradgynlais and Crickhowell. The Breconshire people feel a little neglected in the Notes but we do want them to know how grateful we are for all they do. Father Flynn’s great delight is to offer Mass weekly in this his “home patch”. The Solemn Mass on May 13th will be at the home of Mr. Tommy James in Brecon. The last Ystradgynlais Mass was on Monday, April 21st when fourteen people, including three from the Rhondda, were present. Bishop Anthony promises to make an overdue Visitation sometime this year and begs you all to understand how highly you are valued. Thank you for your staunch loyalty.

Mr.& Mrs Mistry;Jenny Rees;Rose Gothsch;Peggy&Charles White;George Hepworth;Angela King;Jillian Streeten;Shelley Breach;Linzee Hickox;Lesarian Purcell(Hampstead);Marie Jones;Ralph Tuck;Mavis Williams(Breconshire);
Meryl Lay(Bracknell);Richard & Heike Podger;Will Malyon(Canterbury);Valerie Crombie;Billy Robinson;Olive Almond;Vernon and Elsie Davies;Janina Harper;Malcolm Hall;Margaret Wyatt;Gertrude Perkin;Edith Barraskell;
Honey Coleman;(Southampton);Marie Dufekova;Father Bohuslav;Jan Graf;Eva Motlova;Jirina Starkova;;Hanna Malinova;Sonja Trpikova(Czech Missions);Naomi Jackson;Eileen Thomas;Tony Keane;Barbara Evans(Ebbw Vale) Lyndon Brain;Breda Williams(Cardiff);Nancy Phillips;Mr.Brynfil Taylor;Gordon Griffiths;Kate Haines;Mrs Evans;
Eileen Jones;Christine Tidey(Abertillery);Cissie Sweet;Jane Llewelyn;Howard Hillier;William Bard;Annie Hope;
Mrs Hopkins(Six Bells);Patrick&Irene Cornesh(Finchley);John & Mary Hart(Alton);Della Edling(Covent Garden);
Ena Wotherspoon;John Crouch;Mrs Grey(Oxford);David Springham(Hounslow);Nigel & Brenda Dawson;Lisa & Kath  Mitchell;Joan Rawlins;(St.Pancras);Constance & Eric Harris(Winchester);Arthur Medrow;Tom Dale;Robin Bencard(Battersea);Peggy Witcombe(Blackwood,Monmouthshire);James Milton;Aidan Magner;Teresa Mitchell;
Betty Baker;Ann Mocatta(Worthing);Gerald Wilson;Tom Smith(Edinburgh););Betty Dawkins;Netta Piotrowska;
Hanna Mlodnicka;Diz Harford(Shepherds Bush);Eileen Conrad-Frankowska(Bath);Beryl Hickman(Southampton);
Christopher Biston(Norwich);Ross Fraser(Dundee);Isobel Hurgon(Carmarthenshire);Carys and Philip Day(Usk);
Gee Cayley;Sylvia Wynn(Hove);Noel Clarke(Huddersfield);Shirley Koster(Surbiton);Alan Feldman(West Ealing) Mr.Duncan(Evesham);Juliet Spicer(Edinburgh);Peter Casselton(Morden);John Smith;Nigel Bunce (Swindon)  Dorothy Unwin(Kilburn);Will Owen;Jon Paul Guiaullme;Anthony Gross (Chelsea);Tony Banks;Tim Beston;Tanya
Wolfman(Brighton);Mrs Pelbrough-Power (Huntingdon);Frank Raymond;Timmy Williams(Midhurst);Mrs Katie Dorran;Ben Catty(Finchley);Sister Tessa Fisk(Lindisfarne);Phillip & Mavis Boylan(Whitehaven,Cumbria);Gladys Target;Daisy Edwards(Rhondda);Ron Meehan(Cwm);Pat Wroe;Eric Bilton(Barnsley); Anna Protheroe;Mrs  Susie Shaw(Newcastle on Tyne);Bill Barnes(Cambridge); Kim Morgan;Ben Andrews(Cardiff) ;Allan Connaught;Cathy Bosworth(Northampton);Stephen Chester;Baby Charles Oldfield(Shepherds Bush);Mr&Mrs Ford(Dulwich);Grace  Withers;Phillip Clarke;Mary Molloy(Manchester);Terry Fouracre(Ebbw Vale); Mair Llewelyn-Price(Cardigan);
Walter Beddows;Anne Greenhalgh(Peterborough);Herbert Buckingham(St.Albans);Mrs Joan Maunder(Portsmouth);
Zdena Vychodilova;Zdena Havlova(Chrudim/East Bohemia);Ceinwen Game (Brecon);Paulette Ellis(Gospel Oak)
Vicky Carpenter(Hampstead);Countess Maryse-Antoinette de Goutiere; Helen Mango; June Stubbs(Westminster)