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Please note: there is no 8 am Mass or Evensong Sunday 26th October. The10 am service on Wednesday 29th October will be Morning Prayer Sunday 8.00am Said MassA spoken, modern language service (BCP once a...

Sunday 25th October

Dedication Festival Services: 9:30 am Sung Eucharist. There is no 8 am Mass or Evensong this day.

St Luke

Mistaken identity It is no wonder the polo shirt became so popular. It’s comfortable and smart and, unlike the traditional suit, shirt and tie combo takes little or no time to get into and, in...

Messy Church

Messy Church is back! Friday 30th October 10:30 am at St Mary’s Church.

Trinity 19

Worth the bother Whatever it is you’ve done, someone, somewhere will have an explanation for why you did it. You don’t have to go very far, because, actually, pretty much everyone, everywhere will have their...

Harvest Festival

The magic bowl There is a particular branch of biological science called ethology. Something akin to a grown-up version of pigeon-fancying (and no that doesn’t mean what you think it does), ethology is the scientific...

Trinity 15

The necessity of sinning There are an almost infinite number of ways you can divide Christians in two. That’s Christians as a group: as individuals there’s a strictly limited number of ways to divide a...

Patronal Festival – Nativity of Mary

Family values What can be said about St Mary the Virgin that hasn’t been said before? Well nobody I suppose has ever said what an ugly little church, don’t you think you need a few...

Trinity 10

Reach out! The mind of a dog, at any given time, is only seconds away from chaos. From the silliest bison friche to the scariest rotweiller, from the ugliest mutt to the cutest shiba inu, ...

Trinity 9

Wrestling with the truth Memory is not what we think it is… Certainly not what we remember it to be. We imagine our memory as something like a video camera running constantly in our heads,...

Trinity 7

How do we know what we know? By this time in my tenure, you’ve heard pretty much every sermon I have several times over, in fact that was probably the case by my third week...

Summer at St Mary’s

Most services continue as normal through the summer at St Mary’s except: The choir’s last service of this term is Evensong on Sunday 19th July. The choir takes its summer break from Sunday 26th July,...

Trinity 5

Doing right, doing wrong “When I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand” Whether they are the best days of your life or days best forgotten, pretty much everyone who is...

Trinity 4

Expecting the worst Those who expect the worst out of life are rarely disappointed. They are not, it has to be said, usually very happy, so there clearly is a cost to being right all...

Trinity 3

A deafening silence In recognition of this being Psychometrics Sunday— I made that up, but humour me— I thought today we could pretend that we’re attending a seminar and horror of horrors the facilitator has...

Piano / Harpsichord and Flute Concert

The Beddington Consort play a concert of music for Flute and Piano/Harpsichord on Sunday 28th June at 3 pm. Admission is free.

Trinity 2

Fear, punishment, love The things that keep you awake at night. Your feet are too cold. The room’s too hot. The room’s not dark enough, the duvet’s too light. The sheets are crumpled, all the...

Corpus Christi

I did that… An architect can stand back, look at a building she has designed and say ‘I did that’. A carpenter can look at his work and say ‘I did that’: if I was that...

Pentecost

Context is all ‘Study psychology’ the careers adviser said; ‘the world will be your oyster.’ Not only was this before anyone in Yorkshire had met a vegetarian- hi!- it was also the pioneer days of...

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....

Ascension

Through the door Some of you will be aware that I have recently celebrated, which is not really the right word, but it will have to do, I have recently celebrated my sixtieth birthday. Yes,...

Easter 5

Acting up Confirmation bias. There’s a term for our times. Confirmation bias: the process by which any adolescent brought before the bishop for laying on of hands and anointing will, within months of her confirmation...

Easter 4

Four letters– right? From Winston Churchill to William Harvey, Gregor Mendel to Brian Epstein through history there has been a select group of individuals who shared the immense satisfaction of knowing that, after years of...

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...

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