• Readings for Sunday 19 April
• Scripture Study Continues
Tuesday evenings in the presbytery in Bungay at 7pm. We look at the scripture readings for the upcoming Sunday and consider the broader issues of the day in the light of the scriptures.
• Pilgrim cross comes to St Thomas More
In the tradition of hospitality to pilgrims, the Jay’s Green community at St Thomas More once again hosted the Essex Leg of Pilgrim Cross on the night of the Tuesday in Holy Week. This year 28 pilgrims came to the Magpies Hockey Club to eat a hearty supper provided by parishioners, and to have …
• Easter Gardens at St Benet’s
made by the children at St. Benet’s will be on display after Holy Week. Many thanks to the staff and parents who have helped in re-telling the Easter Story and inspiring their children in their art and craft!
• Bungay Quiz Night – Friday 24th April 18.00 to 20.30
Please join us for a night of trivia based fun at St Edmund’s Hall, Bungay. Tickets are £6, picky snacks will be included. Feel free to bring your own drinks, though there will be drinks available for a donation. Tables will be for teams of up to eight. If you would like to come but …
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• Diamond Wedding Anniversary Celebration
BERNARD & OONAGH Segrave Daly invite you to Mass at St Benet’s on Saturday April 25th at 11 o’clock to celebrate the diamond anniversary of their marriage. Mass will be concelebrated by Canon Stephen Myers from Brentwood diocese, their “adopted” son. All parishioners are invited – glass of bubbly in the school hall afterwards. Strictly …
• Bohemian University Choir Concert on Saturday 2nd May, 4pm at St Benet’s
We are delighted to host the students from the Faculty of Education, who are travelling to Suffolk to teach in schools in our local area. Their concert will include music as well as the stories of the “Crystal Valley”, which tell the tale of Czech glass and Czech glassmakers. There will be a chance for …
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• First Communion Drawing Closer
please keep our seven children in your prayers as they prepare for first Holy Communion in Bungay in early May.
• Gardening at St Edmund’s Presbytery
The faithful few were in evidence last Thursday, but there are still plenty more opportunities to join in with some of the more straightforward tasks involved in making our parish garden suitable and available for parish events.
• Parish Office Centralised
The ongoing work of making one parish office is still a work in progress. We have a proper fireproof storage cabinet for the registers and marriage paper archives and we are gradually sifting through the contents of many filing cabinets to retain what is necessary and securely dispose of what is not, all according to …
• Database Reboot Required
Although I have both soft (electronic) and hard copies of parish databases from both Beccles and Bungay I don’t have a consistent record of the requisite consent forms to hold such data under GDPR. It is also deemed poor practice to hold data that is inaccurate or out of date. So, I will be arranging …
• Downside Mission Library
The presbytery here in Bungay has a huge number of religious and theological books that have been accumulated over the years by the Benedictine clergy resident here. If anyone would like to help sort and establish a basic catalogue and separate the sheep from the goats, as it were, then please speak to me about …
• Historic Churches Cycle Ride
Historic Churches Cycle Ride is coming up again in September and will; be linking in with the Heritage Open Days in both Beccles and Bungay. After many years of faithful stewardship in this role at St. Benet’s Paddy Hardiman has handed over the baton (thanks for all that you have done!) and I am looking …
• Congo School for Peace
Thank you to everyone who came to the quiz on Saturday. We raised £720.84 in total including some donations we received earlier to contribute to the hall hire. We are very grateful to everyone for helping us raise this great amount. Thanks to all the helpers and to those who prepared refreshments, set up the …
• Faure Requiem Concert
A huge ‘thank you’ to everyone for all their hard work in arranging the Fauré concert last week. The final total raised was a marvellous £1088.00. I am very grateful to all those who donated the refreshments at no cost (wine & milk ref Isaiah 55:1). On the night I said ‘Every little helps…’ but …
• Waveney Foodbank urgent needs
These can be found on their app (Bank the Food) or website (https://waveney.foodbank.org.uk/). URGENTLY NEEDED ITEMS and our Lent Appeal 2026: Jar of cooking Sauce Longlife Fruit Juice or Squash Instant Mash Tinned Meat Tinned Potatoes UHT Milk Easter Treat We’ve got plenty of: baked beans dried pasta
• Current anniversaries +
Paul Gray, Hugh Channer, Roy Gaines, Thelma Sporle, Margaret Bauers, Philip Godfrey-Woods, Bishop Charles Grant, Ethel Pinkney, Daisy Carson-Smith, Richard Bellefontaine. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen
• A parishioner reflects
Don’t forget that a parishioner reflects on the Sunday readings each week. See https://waveneyvalleycatholics.church/a-parishioner-reflects-on-this-weeks-readings/
• Prayer requests
Mary Banns, Patricia Bath, Fr Stephen Bould, Steven Brooks, Ellen Clark, Nick Clissitt, Gabriel Doll, Cilla Duckett, Deacon Tony Felton, Richard Freeland, Derek Gibson, Barbara Hammond, Carole Hunt, Sue Kerr, Alasdair Kirkpatrick, Jo Lewis, Michael Lewis, Billy Maloy, Tanya Maloy, Ita Miller, Anne Nightingale, Barbara O’Brien, Terry O’Brien, Michael Osborne, Elizabeth Page, Christine Rhodes, Kathryn …
• The parish Pro-Life Group
This group now has a dedicated page on our website. See under ‘About’ on the main drop-down menu, or go to https://waveneyvalleycatholics.church/the-parish-pro-life-group/. Please see the page for recent news, including more on this: