News & Notices 14th September 2025
- St Mary's Parish Office
- Sep 12
- 4 min read
St Mary's Monkseaton # 275 September 2025
Vicar: Rev Nigel Taylor email: vicar@stmarysmonkseaton.org.uk
Curate: Rev Claire Lewis email: ctfairgrieve.lewis@gmail.com
Please note: Nigel and Claire are not available on their day off which is Friday.
If you missed last week's service, or can't make this Sunday, you can catch up online.
Services: Trinity 13
8.00am Holy Communion
10.00am Holy Communion
4.00pm Choral Evensong
Flowers
The flowers this week have been donated in loving memory of Tom Bell, from Eileen and family.
Season of Creation 2025 Events
Saturday 13th September: Walk the stations of creation – Join us for a walk beside the sea and through the Brierdene wildlife site.
We will stop at several points along the way to remember the elements of Creation described in the first chapter of Genesis and celebrate what we can see.
We'll begin the walk at St Mary's at 10.30 and end at the golf club for coffee etc. in the Meet me on the Corner cafe.
Friday 19th September: The Great British Beach Clean
12.00-2.00pm Litter picking with the Marine Conservation Society
Meet at 12pm on the beach directly opposite the Beefeater pub. Bags and gloves will be provided.
Sign up to attend on the Marine Conservation Society website
Saturday 20th September: Art and Eco Fair (see poster below)
Friday 26th September: Ceilidh (see poster below)
Saturday 27th September: Bike ride along the new coastal path
10.30am Meet at St Mary’s. We’ll join the path on the sea front and head towards Tynemouth. Any children to be accompanied by an adult please.
Sunday 28th September: The Great British Beach Clean
1.30 -3.30pm St Mary’s Island Nature Reserve – meet at the mainland end of the causeway
Sign up to attend on the Marine Conservation Society website
Saturday 4th October: Pet Blessing Service at St Mary’s 3pm
Sunday 5th October: Harvest Festival
Eco Tip for the Week
‘Second Hand September’ is an initiative first started by Oxfam, to help people and the planet. We are encouraged to shop for only second-hand clothes and goods for the whole of September, longer if possible. This decreases the fast fashion industry and throwaway lifestyles that are putting pressure on the environment. It helps raise money for the people who are suffering the worst effects of the climate emergency but have done the least to cause it. It is also fun searching and gives you a sense of achievement when you find just what you were looking for.
Please remember to sign the Christian Aid petition in the vestibule, or using the link below, which will be running through Creationtide.
OWLS
Following our summer break we will be meeting again on Friday 10 October.
I’m hoping we will have a speaker for the meeting but there will also be lots of news to share including details of our venue for the Christmas meal.
I look forward to seeing you all. Details are the same as usual, meeting at 12noon, £6.50 for a sandwich lunch. Please feel free to bring along a new friend, but if you do please sign them up on the sheet for lunch. The sign up sheet will be on the table in the vestibule from this coming Sunday. Do phone or text me if you have any queries.
Beryl Austoni
Tel 07808 078894
Older, Wiser, Living Spiritually
Giving
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If anyone requires a Gift Aid certificate for their accounts, please contact our treasurer at stmarysmonkseatontreasurer@gmail.com
Eco Fair
Following the success of last year's event, our 2nd Arts and Eco Fair will take place on Saturday 20th September.
Please come and support the impressive gathering of local eco-friendly artists/crafters, sustainable makers and environmental exhibitors.
Help Needed
We would be grateful for any help available to set up for the Eco Fair from 2.30pm on Friday 19th September.
Ceilidh
Dust off your dancing shoes for an evening of fun, food and music, raising money for the new windows we need to reduce energy loss and lower St Mary’s carbon footprint, and celebrating 70 years of Monkseaton Morris.
Help Needed
We would be grateful for any help to serve food and serve on the bar. Please contact Mary Cooper on 0191 2525707 or 07690 401006.
Christmas Fair
I’m really excited to announce that planning for St Mary's Christmas Fair is well underway!
The fair will be on Saturday 29th November and we are planning lots of stalls, raffle, tombola, cakes and hopefully a visit from Santa!
We are beginning to reach out to the congregation for anyone who wants to be part of the fair, whether to help, whether to have a stall, whether to donate raffle or tombola prizes or whether to bring in cakes! Please contact Andrew Potter (andrewpotter@hotmail.com) for more details
Church Windows Update
Please support our next fundraising event, the Ceilidh on Friday 26th September.
You can contribute by:
- cheque payable to "St Mary's Monkseaton" or cash (envelopes in church, with Gift Aid slips, into the wall-safe)
- by bank transfer to: Sort Code: 403418, Account: 04502086 Please give your surname as the 'reference'.
Please also email office@stmarysmonkseaton.org.uk if you are able to Gift Aid your donation
Saturday 13th September
5.00pm: Marianum
Sunday 14th September: Trinity 13
8.00am: Holy Communion
10.00am: Holy Communion
4.00pm: Choral Evensong
Monday 15th September
9.30 Toddlers
7.30 Service Planning Group
Tuesday 16th September
9.00am: Morning Prayer
10.00am: Craft Group
11.00am: Eastbourne House Communion
12.00pm: Mothers Union Soup Lunch
7.30pm: Church in the Kittiwake
Wednesday 17th September
9.00am: Morning Prayer
10.30am: Eucharist
7.30pm: PCC
Thursday 18th September
9.00am: Morning Prayer
Friday 19th September
2.30pm: Set up Eco Fair
Saturday 20th September
10.00am: Eco Fair
No Marianum
Sunday 21st September - Trinity 14
8.00am: Holy Communion
10.00am: Holy Communion
Prayers
Your Prayers are requested for:
Martin Cooper, John Hughes, Jennifer Stephenson, Jill, Janet Minto, Don and Helen Bulmer, Amelia Moyano, Abby and Beth, Monique Hughes, Jemma and family.
Rest in Peace
Susan Kelly
Sophia Lilly Evans
Those whose anniversaries of death fall at this time
Eric Dodgson
Dorothy Halliwell
Michael Charles Stoker
Thomas Bell
Gertrude Jean Bellamy
Andrew Weatherston
We also pray for
Westley Close
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