Christmas 2025

Bishop Jonathan has shared a message for Christmas.

In his message, he recollects the stories he has heard thoughout the year of people being drawn to exploring a relationship with God, often with little previous connection to Church.

This he believes, is a sign of people becoming increasingly disillusioned with those things in which they had previously placed their hope, such as increasing prosperity, or technology.
Rather, he invites everyone to explore the real message of hope found in the manger at Bethlehem, and at the heart of the Christian faith:

“…the message that when we are walking in darkness, in confusion and fear, then God shines his light upon us to show us the way. He does that by the birth of his Son Jesus, who came into our world in the most unlikely of circumstances”. Click here to read or watch Bishop Jonathan’s message

Please also see an Advent Reflections document taken (with kind permission and thanks from the the Advent reflections written by our friends at St Michael and all Angels, Marden).

Services for Christmas …

Sunday December 14th 10am Christingle Service – All age worship to include the Christingle celebration. All are very welcome to join us for this joyous service.

Sunday December 14th 6.30pm Service of 9 Lessons and Carols – The choir are delighted (and have been practicing hard) to announce the 9 Lessons and Carols service – please do come along. A beautiful candlelit service and an opportunity to hear the Christmas 9 lessons, sing along with well known carols and to enjoy Christmas compositions sung by our choir. This service is followed by mulled wine and mince pies.

Christmas Eve – Wednesday 24th December 4pm – Crib Service. A wonderful way to start our Christmas celebrations for all the family. All children are invited to collect and bring our nativity figures to our Christmas crib as the story unfolds. Please note this was incorrectly advertised as 4.30pm earlier – apologies for the error.

Christmas Eve – Wednesday 24th December 9pm – Communion for Christmas. This is our ‘not midnight communion’ service. So – an opportunity to celebrate communion as our first Christmas mass.

Christmas Day – Thursday December 25th 10am our all age Christmas Service for all . 

Please join us for any or all of these services. You will be most welcome.

For our other service times also please see here.