News from around the Parishes
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The DISABLED CAR PARK in St Mary’s is now complete. An enormous thank you for your patience and support with the necessary amendments to the original plan! Next Sunday we will mark the beginning of Advent with a Carol Service at St Mary’s, beginning at 6.00pm. This will be sung by the Richeldis Singers. Following the service there will be refreshments at the back of the Church. Please do make every effort to attend, and bring a friend! During the blessing of the Christmas Lights on Saturday, the Church will be hosting ‘Star at the Stable’ and opportunity to come and dress up as characters from the Nativity and to take your part in the Christmas story. Do support this village and church event! On the first three Tuesdays of Advent, following the 10.00am Mass in St Mary’s there will be a short bible study, accompanied by a cup of coffee or tea. The material in preparation for these sessions are available at the back of the Church.
A Foodbank has been established in S. Mary’s. All donations must be in date, and there is a need for: pasta or rice, long life milk, soup, tins of meat or fish or vegetables or fruit,, baked beans, rice pudding, cereals, biscuits, dried potato, small packets of toilet rolls, tooth brushes, toothpaste, soap, washing up liquid and roll on type deodorants. Do support this endeavor as we seek as a Parish to support those greatest in need.
News from PCC 1) Weekday Mass: In response to the information received in the Parish
The introduction of the 5.00pm Mass into the Parish Calendar is by the kind invitation of the Administrator. This Mass, unlike the other 5.00pm Masses at the Shrine, will run throughout the year and will normally be celebrated by the Parish Priest. It was unanimously agreed to apply for a faculty to install a path to the North Door. The installation of this path would ensure disabled access to the building throughout the week. It was unanimously agreed to apply for a faculty to install a kitchen facility in the base of the tower. This application would include the re-design of the plinth around the Font.
Bishop Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough, was the Celebrant and Preacher at a well attended service at S. Peter's on 17th July, when Joseph Gould and Andrew Rodgers were Baptised and Confirmed together with Zinnia-Claire Booty, India Davies and Arthur Woodhouse.
Parish Pilgrimage
 A parish pilgrimage, led by Fr Harri Williams, Parish Priest, to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham was made on Saturday 6th July 2019. It was the first pilgrimage involving Walsingham parishioners for many years.
St Mary’s Churchwardens: Maureen Howard & Stephen Parkinson St Peter’s Churchwardens: Brian Landale (Vice Chairman of the PCC) & James Woodhouse St Giles’ Churchwardens: Ann Fletcher & Cara Ross Parish Treasurer: Stephen Parkinson PCC Secretary & Electoral Roll Officer: Lynette Sutton PCC Members: Sr Angela (Deanery Synod), Rita Miell, Marlene Keeling, Paolo Castagnoli, Stuart Grout, Graham Howard, Jonathan Bardwell, Pam Miller (Deanery Synod), Stephen Burgoine, Marc Booty, Ann Sayer, Bert Frew, Dianne Green, Brian Green (Co-Opted). Safeguarding Officer: Helen Nolan.
PCC News • A resolution was passed that an application be submitted for Jeremy Gash and Jonathan Bardwell to be licensed to administer Holy Communion in Church. • A resolution was passed that faculty applications be made for St Mary’s to install guttering the West Porch and for the re-surfacing of the disabled car park in gravel with meshing. • The Saturday 9.30am Mass would now take place at the Priory, from Easter Saturday onwards.
Fr Harri Williams SSC Priest-in-Charge On Monday 3rd December Fr Harry Williams SSC was licensed as Priest-in-Charge of the Benefice by The Rt Revd Jonathan Meryck, Bishop of Lynn and the Archdeacon of Lynn, The Ven Ian Bentley; the Preacher was The Rt Revd Norman Banks, Bishop of Richborough.
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The Ecumenical Agreement 2018
At Solemn Vespers in the Shrine Church, filled to over-flowing, on Monday 24th September – the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham – a new Covenant agreed between the Anglican and the Roman Catholic Shrines in Walsingham was announced and signed by Fr Kevin Smith (Priest Administrator of the Anglican Shrine) and Mgr John Armitage (Rector of the Roman Catholic Shrine). Messages from the Bishop of Norwich and the Bishop of East Anglia were read out to mark the occasion.
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