• FEAST  DAYS

November:

Sunday 2nd - All Saints Day. (Solemnity)

Monday 3rd - All Souls Day.

Tuesday 4th - St. Charles Borromeo.

Friday 7th - St. Willibrord.

Sunday 9th - The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica.

Monday 10th - St. Leo the Great.

Tuesday 11th - St. Martin of Tours.

Wednesday 12th - St. Josaphat.

Monday 17th - St. Hugh of Lincoln.

Tuesday 18th - The Dedication of the Basilicas of St. Peter and St. Paul.

Thursday 20th - St. Edmund, King and Martyr.

Friday 21st - The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Saturday 22nd - St. Cecilia.

Sunday 23rd - Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.  (Solemnity)

• SACRAMENT  OF  RECONCILIATION.

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

• NOVEMBER – Month of the Holy Souls.

During the month of November, Masses will be offered for the Holy Souls whose names are submitted on the November Dead Lists.  Envelopes are available to collect from the church.  Please note that all parish Masses during the month of November have an intention assigned to them.  Mass intentions are now being booked for December and January – and beyond.

• SAINT  JOHN  HENRY  NEWMAN,   DOCTOR  OF  THE  CHURCH.

On 1st November 2025, Solemnity of All Saints, on the occasion of the Jubilee of the World of Education, at 10.30, on the parvis of Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome, the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV will preside over the Eucharistic Celebration and the rite of proclamation as “Doctor of the Church” of Saint John Henry Newman.

Saint John Henry Newman - Pray for us.

• ALL  SAINTS  DAY   -   A  Holy  Day  of  Obligation.

Masses:

Saturday, 1st November.  Mass at Saint Thomas's Church, Woodbridge at 6.00 p.m.

Sunday, 2nd November.   Mass at Saint Clare's Church, Framlingham at 09.00 a.m.

Sunday, 2nd November.   Mass at Saint Thomas's Church, Woodbridge at 11.00 a.m.

• THE COMMEMORATION OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED  -  All Souls Day.

Monday, 3rd November.   All Souls Day Masses at Saint Thomas's Church, Woodbridge:-

09.30 a.m. - Requiem Mass in English, and

12.00 p.m. - Requiem Mass in Latin (Novus ordo / Ordinary form).

• DEANERY  REQUIEM  MASS.

A Requiem Mass for the deceased priests and deacons who once served the parishes of the Ipswich Deanery will be offered in Saint Pancras’s Church, Orwell Place, Ipswich on Thursday, 6th November at 12.15 p.m.

• FIRST  CONFESSION  and  FIRST  HOLY  COMMUNION  –  2026.

A course of instruction will begin in January 2026 at Saint Clare’s Church, Framlingham, for children who would like to receive the Sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion for the first time.  Candidates for these Sacraments should be in school year 3 or above and be regularly attending Mass on Sundays. Parents are asked to complete an enrolment form on behalf of their child and to return it to Father Edmund by the end of November.  If your child was not baptised at Woodbridge or at Framlingham please provide a photocopy of their Certificate of Baptism (not the original document) with their enrolment form.  Sunday, 7th June, 2026, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, is the provisional date for the First Holy Communion Mass at Framlingham.

Framlingham Churches Together invites children and their families to drop in for craft activities on All Hallows Eve, Friday 31st October, between 5p.m. and 7p.m. at the United Free Church Hall, Riverside, Framlingham, writes Claire Robinson.

Framlingham Churches Together is supporting the Christian Aid Coffee and Cake morning on Saturday 1st November, 10a.m.-12p.m. at St Michael's Anglican Church, Framlingham. Amazing cakes, Fairtrade beverages, bric-a-brac, raffle and Fairtrade stall - all are welcome, writes Claire Robinson.

Framlingham.  Saint Clare's coffee morning is on Saturday, 8th November. The proceeds this month will go to Aid to the Church in Need’s  Red Wednesday appeal.  All welcome.  Wendy Hardinge.

Red Wednesday - 19th November, 2025.

LINK:  ACNUK

Red MISSIO Boxes – Collection Time.  For those of you who have a MISSIO collection box at home, it’s that time of the year again to bring them into church. Please leave your box on the Repository table at Saint Thomas’s Church, and take home an empty red MISSIO box. Please ensure that your name is on the box that you return to the church. Many thanks. Angie Punaks.

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

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.