• SACRAMENT  OF  RECONCILIATION.

Confession times:  Saturdays at 5.30 p.m. at Woodbridge and - on request - after weekday Masses.

• SILENT  PRAYER FOR  WORLD  PEACE.

The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for an hour of silent prayer for world peace on Thursdays: 7th and 21st May.   Exposition begins at 11.00 a.m.  followed by Holy Mass at 12.00 p.m.

OUR  LADY’S  ROSARY  is  prayed  every Thursday at 12.00 p.m. in Saint Clare’s Church, Framlingham, and on Fridays during the month of May after the morning Mass at Saint Thomas’s Church, Woodbridge (Fridays: 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th May).

• BANK  HOLIDAY  MONDAY.

Mass at 11.00 a.m. on Bank Holiday Monday 4th May.  The feast of the English Martyrs.

Friday 8th May is the first anniversary of the election to the See of Peter of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.  Please remember our Holy Father in your daily prayers.

Our next coffee morning will be held on Tuesday 12th May from 10.45 at the invitation of the occupants and staff of Wilding Court, Portland Crescent, off Warren Hill Road.  There is ample parking, or bus no's 64 or 800 towards Ipswich stop nearby at Hilly Fields.  All welcome, writes Jean Taylor.

HOLY  DAY  OF  OBLIGATION.

Ascension Day.  Thursday, 14th May.   

Masses:  Woodbridge at 09.30 a.m. and Framlingham at 12.00 p.m.

• THE  ANNUAL  MISSIONARY  APPEAL.

A missionary sister of Saint Peter Claver will visit the parish on the weekend of 23rd and 24th May to appeal on behalf of the Sisters Missions Committee of England & Wales at all Masses. More details later.

All are invited to join the IPSWICH WALKING PILGRIMAGE on Saturday 30th May.  Walking and praying from four locations across Ipswich to Saint Pancras’s Church, Orwell Place, where Holy Mass will be celebrated at 12.15 p.m.  The starting locations are:  St. Mark’s Church, Hawthorn Drive, at 10.30 a.m., St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Norwich Road, at 10.45 a.m., St. Mary’s Church Woodbridge Road at 11.15 a.m. and Lady Lane at 11.30 a.m.   Our Lady of Ipswich,  pray for us !

• Christian Aid at Framlingham U.F.C.

On Saturday 30th May we will be serving a soup and pudding lunch from 12.00 to 2.00 p.m. in the United Free Church Hall on Riverside, Framlingham. Delicious homemade soups and puddings, as well as a stall selling Fair Trade goods, and a raffle for Christian Aid, writes Cath Kitching, U.F.C.

• Ipswich  Eucharistic  Congress  2026

Ipswich will host a week-long Eucharistic Congress from 6th to 13th September 2026 as part of the Diocese of East Anglia’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. It will be a moment of renewal for our whole Catholic community, centred on the theme Mary, Woman of the Eucharist.  The week will include parish events, school celebrations, times of prayer, teaching, and shared devotion across the Ipswich Deanery.  The highlight will be the Closing Mass with Bishop Peter Collins on Sunday, 13th September at the Ipswich Corn Exchange and a Blessed Sacrament procession around the town.  This will be the principal Mass in Ipswich that day, and booking is essential due to limited capacity.  Please mark the dates now and look out for further details in the coming months.  More information and booking can be found at  eucharisticcongressipswich.org

• THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED.   

Anniversaries of deaths which are recorded in the parish's Register of Death (from 1997 to present) can be found on the calendar page of this website:  HERE

•  GIFT  AID.

If you are a U.K. tax payer and have not yet completed a Gift Aid Declaration please consider doing so.  Through the Gift Aid scheme the Government will add 25% to your donations to the parish, at no cost to yourself.  If you have made a Gift Aid declaration previously you don’t have to do it again, but you must tell us if you no longer pay tax to H.M.R.C.  Because your donation has to be traceable to you, the parish will only be able to claim Gift Aid on your donation if you give by a standing order or by weekly offertory envelopes. If you already Gift Aid your donations and have moved to a new home in the past year, please give details of your new address to Mrs. Mary Lambert, the parish’s Gift Aid Officer.