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NEWSLETTERS

St Edmund's and St Thomas More Newsletter weekend 8-9 February

St Benet's Newsletter Sunday 9 February

Latest news

  • • New parish interview
  • • New feature: A Parishioner Reflects
  • • SPUC meeting in Bungay
  • • Foodbank current urgent needs
  • • Prayer requests
  • • Current anniversaries +
  • • Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday
  • • Walk with CAFOD this Lent
  • • Congo School for Peace update
  • • Future retreats
  • • Order the new Missal
  • • Mary’s Meals Christmas Appeal (Beccles)
  • • Listening and Prayer Ministry available
  • • Holy Communion for the sick and housebound
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PRAYERS AND REFLECTIONS

A parishioner reflects...


The Waveney Valley Catholic Parish,
1 St Mary's Street,
Bungay NR35 1AX
t: 01986 893355
e: simon.blakesley@rcdea.org.uk

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THE WAVENEY VALLEY CATHOLIC PARISH
  • Home
  • Welcome
    • Welcome from Father Simon
    • Contact
      • Clergy contact details
      • When you need help
  • About
    • The Waveney Valley Catholic Parish
    • Mass and the Sacraments
      • Times of Mass and Confessions
      • The Sacraments of the Catholic Church
    • Giving
    • Safeguarding
    • The Synodal process
    • People
    • Picture Gallery: the four churches
    • Website and newsletter
  • Beccles
    • History St Benet’s Beccles
    • St Benet’s the stained glass
    • St Benet’s: Liturgy
    • Parish contacts, St Benet’s
    • PPC meetings
    • St Benet’s charities
    • St Benet’s hall and grounds
  • Gillingham
    • OLPS Mass time
    • OLPS history
    • OLPS: art and architecture
  • Bungay
    • A-Z Bungay and Harleston
    • A Guide to St Edmund Church, Bungay
    • Activities
      • The Badminton Club
      • The Discussion Group
      • St Edmund’s Parent and Toddler Group
    • AGM reports
    • Charities
      • CAFOD
      • Waveney Foodbank
    • Parish Pastoral Council
    • Parish Finance Council
    • People
      • Parish interviews
      • Obituary archive
  • Harleston
    • St Thomas More Chapel – history

People

These are the life stories of people from our merged parishes. More interviews of Bungay and Harleston parishioners can be found under the ‘Bungay’ menu.

Martyn and Angela Marshall

Father Simon Blakesley

Home page photo credit: Andy Roland

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