Suffolk Heights Benefice News

Welcome

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Welcome to the Suffolk Heights Benefice News website created to complement the monthly community magazine, serving the six parishes of our benefice, Suffolk Heights. Here you will find information on the parish churches of Chedburgh, Chevington, Depden, Hargrave, Hawkedon and Rede along with details of upcoming events, services and the latest news.

Find out how you can contribute to the life of your parish and Suffolk Heights. Contact details for each can be found on the Contact Us page.

If you are interested in joining Chevington Parish Council, there is now one vacancy so please go to the Local Councils page (under the More tab above) and see how you can apply to the Clerk.

The April 2021 edition is now available to view on the Magazine page of this site. There you can find details of the Hargrave on line quiz and the proposed Garden Fayre in May as we creep ever more cautiously to events happening again. Also, a request for your lockdown stories (unless you'd rather just put it all behind you).

If you have any news, please send it in and I will add it to the News Section, see below, where you will see Aggie Redpath's Gardening Tips. I even left the comment option open so if you'd like to add to it, please add to the discussion at the bottom of the article.

From the Rectory

We are now in the Season of Easter, which began with ‘Great Sunday’ or Easter Day as it is more commonly called, and continues for the following seven weeks before culminating with Pentecost on May 23rd. Early Christians adopted the name Pentecost that covered this fifty-day span of rejoicing, which Tertullian calls ‘this most joyous period’. (Tertullian was born around 155AD and lived to the age of 65. He is regarded as the father of Western Theology.) It’s quite a thought that in our Easter worship we are continuing a tradition from the very earliest days of the church. In the late fourth century, the Church added the Feast of the Ascension Day, which is celebrated on the fortieth day, before the Day of Pentecost that crowns the Easter Festival on the fiftieth day. Easter truly is the most wonderful of the Church’s seasons, inviting us to offer our lives anew to Christ. ‘So let us celebrate the feast not with the old leaven of corruption and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.’ This ‘extract’ from the Easter Anthems points us to the truth of Easter. We need to be freed from everything that mars our seeing the risen Lord and sharing in the breaking of the bread.

Every blessing

Rev Dr Simon Hill

Today's Prayer

Listen to or read the Prayer for the Day and join in with others saying these words each day.

Today's Prayer

Information

Covid-19

Zoom Worship

Covid-19

Our churches are now open for private prayer. More information on guidelines for Covid-19 can be found here:

Our guidelines

Services

Zoom Worship

Covid-19

For the moment we plan that the services as shown in the calendar below will go ahead as planned. Further details along with guidelines on Covid protocols, can be found here:

Our Services

Zoom Worship

RAF Chedburgh

Every Sunday morning there will be a Zoom Morning Prayer at 10.00am. The doors open at 9.45am with the service starting at 10am.

See details

RAF Chedburgh

Over the past few months there has been ditch clearance around Chedburgh resulting in some site clearance of the RAF accommodation area, known as Site 5. Ian Leggett has been investigating..

Find Out More Here

RAF Chedburgh

Clare Deanery

From car repairs and plumbers to catering and ironing, find your local business here.

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Clare Deanery

RAF Chedburgh

Clare Deanery

Suffolk Heights Benefice belongs to Clare Deanery. You can find out more information about the Deanery using the link below.

Clare Deanery