Trinity 15
Sent empty away Back when he was simply a Suffolk primary schoolboy my nephew brought his best friend from school, Tom, home for tea, much to the delight of my sister-in-law. He has friends: all...
St Matthew
The call never ceases Think of the worst person you can. You don’t have to know them personally: maybe you’ve seen them on the TV or TikTok; on the bus every morning filling the claustrophobic...
Songs for an October Sunday
Choral Scholars Dotty & Violet perform an afternoon concert of beautiful music at 3 pm on Sunday October 5th.
Harvest Festival
Join us for our Harvest Festival Parade service at 9:30 am on Sunday 5th October. Please bring along your donations of tinned and dried food and toiletries for our local charities.
Piano and Flute /Sax Concert
The Peter Duncan and David Harvey Duo play a concert of music for Flute/Sax and Piano on Sunday 21st September at 3 pm. Admission is free. The duo continue their series of jazz concerts with...
Patronal Festival
Chaos and confusion Tell me, are you feeling confused? Even if, right this minute you are feeling intellectually comfortable and experiencing the benefits of some exceptional mental clarity, there will, you must admit times when...
Patronal Festival
Join us to celebrate our Patronal Festival, the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the 7th September. Said Mass at 8 am, Sung Mass with Incense and Guest Preacher Fr John Burniston at 9:30...
St Bartholomew
Who? They say you should never preach about something of which you know little or nothing. Rarely stops anyone in the pulpit, but the manual insists that you always choose to speak from your knowledge...
Summer at St Mary’s
Most services continue as normal through the summer at St Mary’s except: The choir takes its summer break from Sunday 27th July, returning for our Patronal Festival on September 7th. All music at services, including...
The Great Get Together
SATURDAY 12TH JULY 2025, 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, get your face painted or...
St Peter and St Paul
What have you got to lose? It is the experience no parent would ever want to face. The time when the nightmare that only happens to the careless, the thoughtless, the neglectful- in short, to...
Corpus Christi
Heavenly heartbeat Day after day, week by week, year after year, life is largely the same. Monday, wash day; Tuesday, ironing day; Wednesday, half day; Thursday, slow day; Friday, fish day; Saturday, wedding day; Sunday,...
Easter Vigil
The very first time Do you remember the first time? Whatever it is that is important to you, whatever it was that changed your life, even if you didn’t realise it at the time. The...
Good Friday
Response and responsibility We don’t even know we’re doing it. No we really don’t know we’re doing it. We are blithely unaware, wholly insensible, utterly oblivious. Because that’s the way we see the world, it’s...
Palm Sunday
Speaking truth to power Just keep looking straight ahead. Try to blend in. Keep quiet. Fit in. They’ll always smell fear, they’ll always jump on weakness, always punish deviance. Don’t make any demands. Don’t dream...
2 before Lent
What are you saying? Being a school governor is a common occupational hazard for the clergy- it’s always in the risk assessment for any particular parish- but that is one peril of a post that...
3 Before Lent
It ends with love Saint Paul, second only to Jesus himself, is without doubt the person who most moulded and shaped the Christian faith to be what it is today. Paul’s are the earliest of...
4 before Lent
The real you Contrary to what all the stereotypes might lead you to believe, I am not a fan of musical theatre.I know I’m letting the side down but there is something that just fails...