Tadcaster Benefice

On Sunday 2nd December, as part of the town's Christmas Market, St Mary's will be hosting a Nativity Festival in the Boys' Sunday School from 10.00am-3:00pm. Light Lunches and Refreshments will be available throughout the day.
We will once again be using the room upstairs in the Boys’ Sunday School to create a wonderful Stable Scene.  Maybe you will have been to Santa’s Grotto and received a present from Father Christmas…  we are inviting everyone in the town to visit our ‘Bethlehem stable’ and bring a present for the baby Jesus.  Please do not wrap your gift.   Gifts will then be distributed to families living in local towns and cities where, in the current economic climate, they will be really appreciated!

We are also inviting everyone who comes to help ‘Create a Nativity’. We will have a number of different craft tables set up where you can add your bit to the Nativity scene.  We want this to be a community effort to make a great display!

At 3.30pm we hope everyone will join us in church for our Christingle service, where we will help to support the work of the Children's Society. 


Celebrate the heart of Christmas with us!

With Remembrance Sunday falling this year on 11th November itself, we are expecting even larger than usual numbers at our service.

Last year we trialled an ‘overflow’ in the Boys’ Sunday School so that, once the church is full, anyone else is directed to a comfortable seat and a chance to join in the service.  The full sound of the service is relayed over and a board set up to replicate the names of those on the War Memorial, along with images shown on a screen during the service. We join in exactly the same service – and the same sense of reverence and quiet is kept – along with hearty joining in of the hymns, prayers and responses.

If you haven’t been to this service for a while because you’ve struggled to find a seat, why not try this year? You may even prefer to opt for the Sunday School - the padded seats, more elbow room and heating!

Once the church is full, everyone else will be directed across to the Sunday School.