Services in the 4 Marys Benefice
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Benefice Churches Open
All the churches in our benefice are open for visiting every day during daylight hours.
Church Services for October
Sunday, 25th October:
(21st Sunday after Trinity)
10am Raydon Parish Communion
Church Services for November
Sunday, 1st November:
(All Saints Day)
10am Stratford
St Mary Parish Communion
Sunday,8th November:
(Remembrance Sunday)
10.50am Remembrance Service at all four
Churches
Sunday,15th November
(2nd Sunday before Advent)
10am Holton St Mary Parish Communion
9.30am Stratford St Mary Café Church in the Parish Room
Sunday, 22nd November:
(The Next Sunday before Advent)
10am Raydon Parish Communion
Sunday, 29th November:
(Advent Sunday)
10am 5th Sunday Benefice
Communion Service
in Holton St Mary
Looking ahead to December
Christmas
Services:
Sunday, 20th December:
10am in Raydon with Carols
4.30pm in Higham Carol Service
6pm in Stratford St Mary 7 Lessons and
Carols Service for the Benefice
Thursday,
24th December:
11.30pm Midnight Mass Holton St Mary
Friday, 25th December:
10am Christmas Day Service
Higham
All our services are followed by
coffee
& cake / biscuits.
Do stay for fellowship and a chat.
It’s a good way to meet people
if you are new to one of the villages.
If you have any questions, please get in
touch
with one of the churchwardens –
for contact details, see About Us
Benefice Bible Study / House Group
The next House Group
session will be on
Thursday, 22nd October, at 2.30pm.
These are the dates of subsequent meetings for your diaries:
Thursday 26th November
There will not be a meeting in December
Thursday 28th January 2027
Please get in touch
with Judith, Sandy, Christine if you would
like to know more.
Prayer pointers for the Benefice
Please pray for our Churchwardens and PCCs as we continue through the vacancy in post, and seek to appoint a new minister for our benefice.
We pray for all those who are ill, among them Peter Snelling, Nicky Bull, Vivienne Wilkinson, Martin Favell and Simon Tennant and any others who need God’s healing and wholeness at this time.
We remember all those who have recently died, may they rest in peace and rise in glory, and may those who mourn be held in God’s love and comforted in their grief.
🙏 As we celebrate Harvest in our churches – a prayer to remind us of the Lord’s bounty:
We bless
you, God of Seed and Harvest,
And we bless each other, that the beauty of this world,
and the love that created it, might be expressed though our lives
and be a blessing to others, now and always
Amen.
- The Churchwardens, St Mary's Benefice
- See the About Us tab for contact information