The Great Get Together
SATURDAY 13th June 2026, 11AM UNTIL 3PM ST MARY’S CHURCH, BEDDINGTON PARK, SM6 7NH Join us for music, games and fun Join us at the chatty café, enjoy live music and get your face painted....
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...
Services after Easter Sunday
Services at St Mary’s in the weeks after Easter are: 6th – 10th April: No Morning Prayer8th April: No Said Mass 12th April 9:30 am Sung MassNo 8am Said Mass or Evensong today 13th-17th April:...
Easter Sunday
Moving on… There must have been a moment, maybe just one, maybe more, maybe every week, when you have sat in this or another church on a Sunday morning and thought ‘what on earth am...
Maundy Thursday
Obedience training Insight is a quality greatly to be desired, but there is a lot to be said for the notion that ignorance is bliss, a lot to be commended in keeping your eyes wide...
Palm Sunday
Slowly, Slowly… then suddenly This is how it begins Quietly. Very, very quietly; at first, not sure; but slowly ever so slowly building. It starts right on the edge of your hearing but it won’t...
Holy Week and Easter Services
Services for Holy Week and Easter Palm Sunday March 299:30 am Sung Eucharist & Procession of Palms Wednesday of Holy Week April 1: 10 am Stations of the Cross and Eucharist Maundy Thursday April 27...
The Tower Coffee Shop
St Mary’s pop-up cafe in the heart of our historic building. Usual Opening HoursTuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10 am – 3 pm Wednesday 10:30 am – 3 pm. We are occasionally closed when the church...
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...
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...