Welcome to St Mary’s Church. We hope you find it easy to navigate and can quickly locate the information you require. The website shows the wide variety of community activities we are involved in, plus regular updated posts, which inform you of special or new events coming up, and also some more spiritual reflections.
SOS kicks off again for the New Year on Saturday the
If you’ve not come before, please give feel very welcome to join us – it’s Church, but not as you know it!
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Thatcham Bellringers this evening (16 December 2011) recorded their thousandth peal – a remarkable achievement for a dedicated band of ringers. Bill Butler was interviewed on BBC Radio Berkshire and there are reports on the BBC and Newbury Weekly News websites in anticipation … those of us who were privileged to be there had a small celebration afterwards.
Bill Butler, a stalwart of the tower, who has been ringing in Thatcham for over 50 years, told us afterwards that his philosophy had always been that services in the church began in …
A Meditation for Advent
I think I will decline your invitation to come to you at Christmas time this year.
You never really want me and it’s boring.
You don’t invite me any other time.
The menu’s unambitious and I hate it.
I can’t abide the presents and the games.
I don’t know anyone who will enjoy it.
I think I should, politely tell you so.
Thank you for wasting postage on the letter… but
No I won’t be coming at Christmas time this year.
Refrain
No I won’t be coming at Christmas time this year.
The way you treat me makes …
It can be a daunting experience to enter an unfamiliar church for the first time. Being new as Team Rector is rather different from that normal experience of not quite knowing which books to use or where to sit. But being new I can say that the welcome offered at St Mary’s is a warm invitation to join in – of course there will be nerves on the first occasion or two – I am still familiar with the feeling that I might drop something or lose my place in …
After the comings and goings of the last few months Marion and I decided it would be fun to write this article together because together we certainly are! I got the idea for the title while I was at Derreck Lee-Philpot’s ordination at the beginning of July. Some of us joined Derreck’s friends and family at a hotel afterwards to celebrate this momentous event in his life. He called the party past, present and future because he had invited people from each of those areas of his life. It was …
