The Friends of Little Gidding

Evening Prayer is held at Little Gidding whenever there is a fifth Sunday in the month, at 6pm when Summer Time is in effect, and at 3pm in the winter. For more information follow the link below.

A Service is held at Little Gidding every month at noon on the second Friday of the month. The next Service is on Friday 11 March. For more details, follow the link.

With sadness we report that the Revd Jackie Duck, incumbent at Little Gidding until last year, and a Trustee of the Little Gidding Trust, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 10 October 2010.

The annual commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar takes place at Little Gidding on his feast day, Saturday 4 December 2010, with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10.30am, led by Bishop David Walker. The AGM of the Friends of Little Gidding will follow after lunch. For more information, follow the link.

Member of the Friends, Frank Burns, is cycling from Huntingdonshire to Rome to raise money for victims of the Haitian earthquake.

Westminster Abbey will hold a service on Sunday 30 May 2010 at 6.30pm to commemorate the ordination, on Trinity Sunday 1626, of Nicholas Ferrar as a deacon. The Friends are closely involved in planning this service and members will be very welcome to attend.

The May Newsletter contains a report of the AGM, and information about the forthcoming Pilgrimage (on 22 May) and Eliot Festival (17 July) as well as a visit to Westminster Abbey (30 May). There are also book reviews, and news of other events at Little Gidding.

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This year’s Eliot Festival is on Saturday 17 July. Programme and ticket details are now available. Follow the link for more information.

The Little Gidding Pilgrimage this year will take place on Saturday 22 May 2010, and will be led by the Bishop of Huntingdon, Dr David Thomson. Note the earlier than usual date. For more details, follow the link.

The November Newsletter contains reports and pictures from the Eliot Festival and the Little Gidding Pilgrimage held in the summer, together with news of the AGM and Talk, and other forthcoming events.

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