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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...

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...

Easter 5

Never coming back You do hear some unexpected things in churches. I don’t mean the characteristic ambient sounds of worship-in-progress; the peculiar sonority of a silent snore; the murmurating timbre of a congregation faced with...

Annual Report 2024

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...