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NEWSLETTER

Weekend 17-18 May 2025

Latest news

  • • Record CAFOD totals at Fressingfield and Bungay
  • • Readings for Sunday 18 May
  • • Day of prayer for the victims and survivors of abuse
  • • Habemus Papam!
  • • SPUC follow-up meeting
  • • First Holy Communions at St Benet’s
  • • Happy 90th birthday, Peter Harvey
  • • Work on the Presbytery Garden
  • • New feature: A Parishioner Reflects
  • • Foodbank current urgent needs
  • • Prayer requests
  • • Current anniversaries +
  • • Order the new Missal
  • • Listening and Prayer Ministry available
  • • Holy Communion for the sick and housebound
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The Waveney Valley Catholic Parish,
1 St Mary's Street,
Bungay NR35 1AX
t: 07946 390060
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
    • St Benet’s Beccles: history
    • 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
      • Children’s Liturgy
      • The Badminton Club
      • The Discussion Group
      • St Edmund’s Parent and Toddler Group
    • Charities
      • CAFOD
      • Waveney Foodbank
    • Parish Pastoral Council
    • Parish Finance Council
    • People
      • Parish interviews
      • Obituary archive
  • Harleston
    • St Thomas More Chapel – history
    • Children’s Liturgy

Parish interviews

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Father Simon Blakesley

Christine Webber

Father Mike Brookes

Sue Allen

Carl Adekola

St Edmund’s RC Primary School

David and Angela Paterson

Stella Brownsea

Peter Smith-Cullen

Lucy Cranfield

Shirley Kalinauckas

Andrew Scott

Mary Kirk

Francis Locke

Xavier Heath

Peter and Brenda Williams

Peter Harvey

Dr Helen Kemp

Margaret Thorby

Professor John Charmley

Frances Mann

Father Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard

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