The Glaven Valley Benefice

Sunday 5th (3rd Sunday before Lent)

8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) Blakeney

9.30 Sung Eucharist (BCP) Glandford

9.30 Iona Communion Cley

9.30 Mattins (BCP) Letheringsett

11.00 Family Service Blakeney

18.30 Choral Evensong (BCP) Wiveton

8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) Wiveton

9.30 Sung Eucharist (CW) Cley

9.30 Holy Communion (BCP) Letheringsett

11.00 Family Communion Wiveton

11.00 Sung Eucharist with prayers for healing Blakeney

8.00 Holy Communion (BCP) Blakeney

9.30 Sung Eucharist (BCP) Glandford

9.30 Iona Communion Cley

9.30 Mattins (BCP) Letheringsett

11.00 Family Service Blakeney

18.30 Choral Evensong (BCP) Wiveton

Children and Parents
There is a special welcome for children at one of our five Glaven Valley Churches each Sunday in the month. It works like this:

1st Sunday 11.00am: All-age family service at Blakeney

2nd Sunday 10.00am: Family Communion Service alternating between Blakeney, Cley, Letheringsett and Wiveton churches - see services above.

3rd Sunday 11.00am: Half hour service specially for children at Cley

4th Sunday 11.00am: Short service for children, young people and their families at Wiveton. This now includes a specially written, simplified Communion Service.

Christian Discussion Group

The Christian Discussion Group will meet on Wednesday November 9th and Wednesday November 23rd, at the home of Tom and Margaret Benson, Viewpoint House, Little Lane, Blakeney.

Our meetings begin at 7.30pm and last until around 9pm. Provisional dates for November are 9th and 23rd. For more details please contact Tom Benson (740331) or Richard Bending (741603).

Centering Prayer Group

The root of prayer is interior silence. But how do you get any where near it? Our lives are busy and our minds even busier. Centering prayer is a modem name for a practice of meditation/prayer which opens us up to God's presence and action within. It has been called pure prayer, prayer of the heart and prayer of simplicity, and it is very simple.

Our Centering prayer group has now been meeting for over a year. We meet every Tuesday at 5.45pm at Blakeney Methodist Chapel on the High Street. We are together for about 40 minutes and spend 25 minutes in centering prayer. We then maybe have a reading. There is no hierarchy as we are all beginners and remain so but hopefully we start to fmd that interior silence which carries on into our daily life.

It is Christian prayer but you do not have to be a Christian or have any religious connection to join the group or practice centering prayer. We welcome anyone. If this sounds like something that interests you, come along and there is no charge!

If you want to talk to me first, ring me on 741016 or look it up on the web on www.centeringprayer-eastanglia.org.uk or buy or borrow "open mind open heart" by Thomas Keating.

Paul Veitch