St Margaret's Church, Brotton

06/02/2026

As the day comes to a close, may your heart unclench. May your thoughts grow quiet. May your soul rest in God’s care. You don’t have to carry tomorrow tonight. Place it gently in His hands… and sleep in peace.

31/01/2026

Please consider joining Easy fundraising..so far we have raised £2500 for church funds.

29/01/2026

This Sunday marks the end of the Christmas and Epiphany seasons. We come together as our group of parishes; Brotton, Skelton, Boosbeck and Lingdale, at St Margaret's Church, to celebrate the Feast of the 'Presentation of Christ in the Temple' (Candlemass) with a Sung Eucharist at 10.30am (Please note change of time from the usual 9.30am) All are welcome and refreshments will be served afterwards. This is the only service in the parishes this Sunday.

19/01/2026

Office hour for St Margaret's restarts on Wednesday 4th February at All Saints, Skelton.

07/01/2026

31/12/2025

31 December 2025

"At The End Of The Year" by John O'Donohue invites us into a gentle examen of the year that's about to finish. May our reflection, acknowledgment and gratitude help us to claim all the light and shade of the year gone by and ready us for the opening of the new with all its hope and promise...

The particular mind of the ocean
Filling the coastline’s longing
With such brief harvest
Of elegant, vanishing waves
Is like the mind of time
Opening us shapes of days.

As this year draws to its end,
We give thanks for the gifts it brought
And how they became inlaid within
Where neither time nor tide can touch them.

The days when the veil lifted
And the soul could see delight;
When a quiver caressed the heart
In the sheer exuberance of being here.

Surprises that came awake
In forgotten corners of old fields
Where expectation seemed to have quenched.

The slow, brooding times
When all was awkward
And the wave in the mind
Pierced every sore with salt.

The darkened days that stopped
The confidence of the dawn.
Days when beloved faces shone brighter
With light from beyond themselves;
And from the granite of some secret sorrow
A stream of buried tears loosened.

We bless this year for all we learned,
For all we loved and lost
And for the quiet way it brought us
Nearer to our invisible destination.

~ John O’Donohue from Benedictus

25/12/2025

Wishing you all a Happy and Blessed Christmas.
With thanks to our wonderful flower arrangers, to James at the Railway Arms for the Wooden Trees and to Cathe and Ed Woodall for the painting and lighting of them.

24/12/2025

Just returned from a wonderful Crib Service. Great to see so many in Church as we prepare to receive the Christ Child.