• SACRAMENT  OF  RECONCILIATION.

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

• HOLY WEEK AND EASTER

The times of services during Holy Week and Easter are published HERE

• THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED.   

Please pray for the happy repose of the soul of Mrs. Beryl Green who died in Haughgate House care home, Woodbridge, on Friday 20th March, fortified by the Sacraments of the Church.  May she rest in peace. Amen.

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

• SILENT PRAYER FOR WORLD PEACE.

The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for a period of silent prayer for world peace on the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. Wednesday, 25th March. Exposition begins at 11.00 a.m. Holy Mass of the Annunciation at 12.00 p.m.

•  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.

• AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED.

Lenten Alms will be collected – throughout Lent – for Aid to the Church in Need’s Lebanon and Syria appeal.   

LINK:  ACNUK

• WOODBRIDGE  AREA  CHURCHES  TOGETHER  LENT  LUNCHES. 

On Fridays during Lent, 12.30 to 2.00 p.m. at Saint Mary’s House, Market Hill, Woodbridge.  All welcome.  Donations for Suffolk Coastal Poverty Action. 

Helpers are needed to set up chairs and tables, prepare food, serving, and washing-up.   If you are able to help, please contact Saint Mary’s Parish Office on 01394 388820 and speak to Veronica.

• CHURCHES  TOGETHER'S  WALK  OF  WITNESS  ON  GOOD  FRIDAY.

Woodbridge:  10.00 a.m. in Elmhurst Park for Walk of Witness followed by Open-Air Service at 11.00 a.m. and refreshments at the Salvation Army Hall.

Framlingham:  The Walk of Witness departs from Saint Clare's Church at 10.00 a.m.
 

Please pray for the sick and those in need; for all the residents in senior-living facilities within the parish and those who care for them; for the happy repose of the souls of the Faithful Departed; for those who have died recently and for those whose anniversaries fall at this time;  for peace in the world; and for vocations to the priesthood, to the diaconate, and to the religious orders of the Church.