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...
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.
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...