The Lark Valley & North Bury Team Benefice comprises 10 churches across the town of Bury St Edmunds and neighbouring villages.
We offer you a warm welcome.
We seek to be:
Welcoming churches
Where all God’s children can find a home.
Inclusive churches
Where we are committed to making everyone, regardless of age, race, gender or sexuality, feel welcome.
Praying churches
Where individual and corporate prayer is a priority.
Churches of preaching and teaching
Where Word and Sacrament bring us to a closer relationship with God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Churches of praise and worship
Where we bring all people into the presence of God (using contemporary and traditional styles).
Churches of compassion, concern and care
Where we seek to minister with, and care for, the needs of those in our church and community.
Witnessing churches
Where our life and actions reflect the new life we have found in Jesus.
Holy Week & Easter 2024
Monday 25th March
Common Worship Eucharist 9:30am – All Saints’, Bury St Edmunds
Compline 7:00pm – Lackford
Tuesday 26th March
Common Worship Eucharist 9:30am – St George’s, Bury St Edmunds
Compline 7:00pm – West Stow
Wednesday 27th March
Common Worship Eucharist 9:30am – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds
Compline 7:00pm – Flempton
Maundy Thursday 28th March
Chrism Eucharist St Edmundsbury Cathedral 11:00am Service at which the Bishop blesses the holy oils for use within the churches in the Diocese within the coming year, and at which bishops, priests and deacons renew their ordination vows.
Common Worship Eucharist with Commemoration of the Last Supper:
6:30pm – All Saints’, Bury St Edmunds preceded by Supper at 5:30pm
7:00pm – Culford
8:00pm – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds followed by the watch until Midnight
Good Friday 29th March
Stations of the Cross 9:00am – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds
Matins 9:30am – Timworth
Churches Together Good Friday Walk of Witness 10:30am - gathering at the Cathedral
Liturgy of Good Friday 2:00pm – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds and Fornham St Martin
Holy Saturday 30th March
Team Easter Eve Ceremonies 8:00pm – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds
Easter Day 31st March
Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion:
8:00am – All Saints’, Bury St Edmunds
Common Worship Eucharist:
9:30am – All Saints’, Bury St Edmunds and St Georges, Bury St Edmunds
10:00am – Fornham All Saints
11:00am – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds
Easter Week
Monday – 1st April, Jesus appears to the women
Common Worship Eucharist 6:00pm – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds
Tuesday – 2nd April, Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene
Common Worship Eucharist 6:00pm – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds
Wednesday – 3rd April, The Road to Emmaus
Common Worship Eucharist 9:30am – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds
Thursday – 4th April, Jesus appears to the Apostles
Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion 9:30am – All Saints’, Bury St Edmunds
Friday – 5th April, Jesus by the Sea of Tiberias
Common Worship Eucharist 6:00pm – St John’s, Bury St Edmunds