Services in the 4 Marys Benefice
Please check our Facebook pages for any updates or email if you would
like to receive occasional updates by email.
Benefice Churches Open
All the churches in our benefice are open for visiting every day during daylight hours.
Church Services for April
Maundy
Thursday 2nd April:
7pm Stratford Communion
Service
with Stripping of the Altar
Good
Friday:
Walk of Witness with Reflections in
Raydon, Holton, Stratford
3pm Higham:
A service of readings,
reflections & music for Good Friday
Holy
Saturday:
7.30pm Raydon
Easter Vigil with Bonfire
Sunday 5th
April:
Easter Day
10am Raydon Benefice
Service for
Easter Day & Farewell to Rev’d Manette
Sunday 12th April:
10am Higham Parish Communion
Sunday 19th April:
10am Holton Parish Communion
9.30am Stratford St Mary
Café Church in the Parish Room
Sunday, 26th April:
10am Raydon Parish Communion
Looking ahead to May
Sunday 3rd
May:
10am Stratford Parish Communion
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 Rev’d Manette or one of the churchwardens –
for contact details, see About Us
Benefice Bible Study / House Group
The next House Group
session will be on
26th March at 2.30pm.
These are the dates for
subsequent meetings for your diaries:
23rd April
28 May
25 June
23 July
Please get in touch
with Judith, Sandy, Christine if you would
like to know more.
Prayer pointers for the Benefice
Please pray for the couples who are preparing to get married in our churches this year.
We pray for all those who are ill, among them Peter Snelling, Nicky
Bull and Vivienne Wilkinson, and any others who need God’s healing and
wholeness.
We remember all those who have recently died, may they rest in peace and rise
in glory, and my those who mourn be held in God’s love and comforted in their
grief.
A Prayer for the Easter Season
How
wonderful, Lord Jesus, you came back from the dead,
You suffered death but conquered it.
You laid in the tomb but on the third day you rose again
O joyful day, Lord Jesus, when you returned
You are the resurrection, our hope and our life.
Amen.
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- Raydon
- Suffolk
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