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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...

Trinity 6

That was then, this is now They were the best of times, they were the worst of times. I’m sure I’ve heard that somewhere before… The best of times, the worst of times: it all...

Trinity 5

Here, there and everywhere Wallington Station: it doesn’t have a lot going for it, but then perhaps it doesn’t need to. It’s the place you pass through in order to get somewhere else, as long...

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...

Trinity 4

The most annoying sound in the world Here’s a question for you: What is the most annoying sound in the world? Fingernails scratching down a wet window pane? A new stick of chalk scraping across...

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,...

Pentecost

Tongues of mortals and angels The Reader’s Digest died last year, and nobody noticed. Not  anyway in the UK where it ceased publication in April 2024. It continues to be published elsewhere in the world,...

Ascension

The upward trajectory 2025 is a year of anniversaries. Every year apart from the very first, is, of course, but it’s 2025, not any other year. It will be, for example, 60 years ago that...