• FEAST  DAYS

November:

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 (Feast).

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

Saturday 22nd - St. Cecilia.

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

• CHRISTMAS 2025. 

The times of Christmas Masses at Woodbridge and at Framlingham are published HERE

• SACRAMENT  OF  RECONCILIATION.

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

Final Call for Red MISSIO Boxes.  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.

BRASS  CLEANING.  Volunteers are needed to help with church brass cleaning, please.  Saint Thomas’s Church, after the morning Mass on Friday (14th). Jean Wallace.

Red Wednesday - 19th November, 2025.

LINK:  ACNUK

The PARISH FINANCE COMMITTEE meet in The Upper Room, Saint Thomas's Church, at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday 20th November.

Please pray for the happy repose of the soul of Dr. David Bagley who died on Friday, 7th November, age 72.  David’s Requiem Mass will be offered in Saint Thomas’s Church, Woodbridge, at 10.30 a.m. on Friday 28th November, followed by burial.  May he rest in peace. Amen.

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.

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

We would like to thank everyone who kindly sponsored us for the Suffolk Churches Ride and Stride event this year.  The cheque received at Saint Clare’s Church from the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust was for £142.50 which is the 50% contribution to our parish funds.  The other 50% goes to the SHCT to support the lovely churches in Suffolk.  Your kind generosity is much appreciated.  Thank you.   Vivienne and David Taylor.

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.  The closing date for enrolment is Sunday 30th 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.

Active Travel Woodbridge – Have your say !   Suffolk County Council have launched their latest consultation to hear your views about quieter, safer streets. The latest proposals for Woodbridge include making Quay Street one-way from Station Road to Cross Corner, reversing traffic direction in both Cumberland Street and The Thoroughfare, as well as some ideas about managing traffic on the Market Hill. You have until 12th December to have your say. Choose Woodbridge Newsletter. November 2025.   Click HERE for further details and to take part in the on-line survey.

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.