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Welcome to St Mary's Church website. St Mary's is the Parish Church of Redbourn, a beautiful village some four mile north of St Albans. The Church is a fine Grade 1 listed building with parts of it dating from the early 12th century. Today it has a thriving and inclusive fellowship of some 350 members from all ages and backgrounds with a lively programme of events and groups. We hope you enjoy our website and that we will have the chance to welcome you in person to our church before too long.
Prayers and best wishes
The Reverend Will Gibbs, Vicar
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In October we will be embarking on a Renewal Programme with the theme “There’s More to Church Than Sundays”. As part of the programme we have arranged to take a party away for a Parish Weekend at Ashburnham Place near Battle, East Sussex. This will take place over the weekend of 22nd/23rd/24th October 2010. Full details can be found in the leaflet.
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We warmly invite you to join us
at St Mary's Church, Redbourn on
Sunday 12th September 2010 at 11 am
for our Patronal Festival Eucharist as the
Finale Service for the
REDBOURN 900 CELEBRATIONS
including the singing of Haydn's St Nicholas Mass
with Orchestra, Soloists and Festival Choir
All are welcome and encouraged to come and celebrate with us
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Our Redbourn 900 Finale celebrations begin with a superb concert on Saturday 11th September at 7.30 pm at St Mary’s Church by the Canticle Chamber Choir - “Music in Praise of Mary”.
On 12th September, following our final Festival Eucharist at 10.30 am at St Mary’s, we shift our focus back to the Common for the final events of Redbourn 900 celebrating Redbourn’s historical heritage including cricket, hats, buzzers and tea! Reputedly one of the earliest cricket clubs in the country, some of the village’s 150 cricketing children will participate in a tournament, coached by celebrities including former England Cricket Captain, Mike Brearley. Then it’s time to get our buzzers ready as we judge the village’s singing, dancing and variety acts in our very own ‘Redbourn’s Got Talent’. Watch these events sporting your very own straw hat with teacup in hand as Redbourn recreates its very own Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, celebrating Redbourn’s Brooke Bond Tea Factory heritage and harking back to when the reeds from the River Red were used for straw plaiting for the hat industry. Join us in attempting to break a Guinness World Record for dancing in hats on the Common, as a release of balloons signals the start of our tenth century. |
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Please find links above to our weekly notice sheet as found in church on Sunday. There are two options; the icon on the left links through to a list of recent sheets via Google Docs. The one on the right is a PDF format of the most recent sheet only that displays directly in your browser. (You will need Adobe Acrobat for this format). Please use the version that is most approriate for you by clicking the image above.
The PDF Format may occasionally not be be updated |
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St Marys looked truely amazing for the Flower Festival this weekend. It was very difficult to capture the quality of the flowers, but here are a few images.
Click here for a slide show |
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We’re approaching a time of year when many will be looking forward to some kind of holiday. It might be a school holiday, a visit to friends or family further afield or a full scale trip overseas to somewhere exotic. As a family, we’re off to Crete for a couple of weeks and I’m really looking forward to it. In fact, we went to the same place last year and it was so perfect that we’re lucky enough to be able to go back. It just ticks all the boxes – a small and friendly complex of apartments, great pool, mezé lunches, a stone’s throw to the beach and a short walk to the town. But in going there, I know how fortunate we are to have such a break. It wasn’t so long ago that holidays were not this sort of thing at all. The root of the word ‘holiday’ is of course ‘holy-day’ and most people would have had Christmas Day, Good Friday, Ascension Day and possibly a few other days as time off work in order to be able to go to church. This, of course, implies that the rest of the year they would be working solidly.
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