Ash Wednesday
Some Bible readings, unless you have a particularly fertile inventive imagination quickly exhaust all the possibilities of what you can say about them. Even if you leave to one side the many lengthy tribal roll...
39 Steps to God
Lent Course 2026: The Anglican Search for Holiness St Mary’s Lent Course 2026, a four session course exploring the Church of England’s unique witness, with one of its foundational texts, the 39 Articles of Religion...
Sunday Next Before Lent
Leaving the village We all live in vanishingly small worlds. By saying that, I don’t mean that with the onward march of technology we can watch the rantings of an orange madman on the other...
Ash Wednesday
The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 18th. At St Mary’s there is a Said Mass at 10 am and Choral Mass at 7 pm, both with imposition of ashes.
Candlemas & Epiphany Carol Service
St Mary’s marks the ending of the traditional Christmas season on the Feast of Candlemas on Sunday February 1st. Sung Mass with incense and candle-lit procession at 9:30 am and the third of our annual...
Toddlers @ St Mary’s
St Mary’s Toddlers group for parents/carers and toddlers meets in the church centre for free play, crafts, stories, music and refreshments. Suitable for all children up to nursery age. St Mary’s Group warmly welcomes parents...
Watch Night
See, I am making all things new When the book of Genesis says that God made humanity in his own image, it must have meant something other than God made us little copies of himself....
Holy Innocents
Is the Bible true? And if it is true, in what way is it true? I can hear the groaning in your head from here. Shh! I know, it’s Sunday and Christmas was only on...
Midnight Mass
Heaven is waiting Pitsea, Tesco Extra, seventeen years and two weeks ago. In case you weren’t quite sure you heard right it’s P-i-t-s-e-a, Pitsea. Pitsea really does exist, it’s one of the less glamorous suburbs...
Christ the King
On the right track For some of us life is not lived straight down the line. For those, the path of their fate is circuitous; one chance thing after another, with no discernible pattern. As...
Second Sunday before Advent
You know you don’t know You never know what’s going to happen next. Minute by minute, day by day, hour by hour. It might seems that your life is dull, predictable and routine, and most...
Advent Carol Service
Join us at 6:30 pm on Sunday November 30th for our Advent Carol Service. We celebrate the start of the season of preparation for Christmas with a selection of the best Advent Hymns and Choral...
Celtic Connections
There will be a Vocal Recital at St Mary’s Celebrating International Women’s Day 3 pm on Sunday 8th March. Eleanor Penfold (Soprano), Katy Thomson (Soprano) and John Cutherbert (piano) present a programme of various vocal...
Mini Messy Xmas Christingle
December 13 3 pm Mini Messy XmasCrafts, games and fun for Christmas for children of all ages. 4 pm ChristingleA traditional Christingle service of light and Christmas songs. You might like to bring a toy to this service...
Christmas at St Mary’s
Christmas and other Seasonal Services at St Mary’s November 306:30 pm Advent Carol Service December 133 pm Mini Messy XmasCrafts, games and fun for Christmas for children of all ages. 4 pm ChristingleA traditional Christingle...
Christmas Carols
Our Christmas Carol service is at 6:30 pm on Sunday 21st December. Join us for the best of readings, carols and choral music in our candle lit service for Christmas.
Christmas Eve Crib Service
For excited children of all ages! Christmas Eve 5pm A fun service for all the family. Children are invited to come dressed as angels, shepherds, wise men or in other festive costumes (we have some...
New Year Eve
11 pm Watch Night Mass Ring out the old, ring in the new at our eucharist to greet the New Year followed by celebratory refreshments for 2026.
Remembrance Sunday
Love remains I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose...
All Souls Memorial Service
Our annual All Souls memorial service is at 6:30 pm on Sunday November 2nd. A Requiem eucharist with music and readings remembering and praying for those we have loved but see no longer. The names...
Remembrance Sunday
Join us on Remembrance Sunday November 9th at 9:30 am for our Sung Requiem Mass with Act of Remembrance.
Frost Fair
St Mary’s Famous Frost Fair returns on Saturday 22nd November with a wide selection of stalls and entertainments. Entry 50p between 11 am and 3 pm (children under 16 free).
Inclusive Church Open Letter
Please sign Inclusive Church’s open letter to the Bishops of the Church of England St Mary, Beddington is registered with Inclusive Church. If you support our policy of full welcome for LGBT people and their...
Trinity 18
Winners and losers Cross country runs for school children are still a thing. Who’d have thought it? I assumed they’d been banned years ago along with dunce caps, the cane, fagging and other forms of...