• 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.   

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

• EASTER  FLOWERS. 

Second collections for donations for the flowers to decorate Saint Thomas’s Church and Saint Clare’s Church at Easter will be taken after Masses weekend of 14th and 15th March.

• SOLEMNITY  OF  SAINT  JOSEPH, SPOUSE  OF  THE  B.V.M.

Mass of Saint Joseph:  Thursday 19th March at 12.00 p.m.

• 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

The total collected at the LENT LUNCH held in Framlingham for CAFOD and Christian Aid was £370.00 (including card receipts).

Thank you to everyone who supported our World Day of Prayer Service in Framlingham, on Friday, 6th March.  Your kind donations totalled £203.50 which will help the work of Christian charities around the world.  Your kind generosity is very much appreciated, writes Vivienne Taylor.

An upholstered Victorian Prie-Dieu, has become available and will be donated to any parishioner interested in having it.  Please see the notice on church notice-board for further details.  Myles Smith.

• 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.

• PILGRIM  CROSS  2026.  Claire Robinson writes:

On Monday, 30th March, Framlingham will again host a group of around twenty-five pilgrims, of mixed Christian affiliations, carrying a heavy wooden cross on their 120-mile Holy Week pilgrimage from Colchester to Walsingham. Kind hosts are sought to meet them at the United Free Church in central Framlingham on arrival (usually around 5 p.m.), take them home for dinner and a bath or shower, and return them to the United Free Church where they will sleep on the floor!  Could this be you?  If anyone is able to offer to look after more than one pilgrim this also works well.  We are also looking for helpers to cook and serve a hearty breakfast on Tuesday, 31st March, (7 to 9 a.m.) at the United Free Church before joining the pilgrims in a short service and then seeing them on their way.  Hosts and helpers are always very welcome to join in the worship (prayers, readings, singing) that forms part of the pilgrims’ visit. If you are able to help, please contact Claire Robinson:  ip13claire@gmail.com

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.