Welcome to St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
We are pleased to announce we have a new Vicar!
The Rev'd Dr James Lawson is our new Vicar. You can read his bio here: Meet the Team.
Father James was Collated on Sunday May 30 by the Rt Rev'd Rob Wickham, Bishop of Edmonton and Inducted and Installed by the Rev'd Stephen Gallagher, Area Dean of Enfield. There is a video and service booklet here: Father James' Collation, Induction and Installation.
We are looking forward to this new adventure in our Church's history!
If you wish to get in touch with Father James, please use the Vicar contact form on our contact page or you can call the parish office and leave a message on 020 3302 1010.
Pray with us
Would you like to pray but don't know what or how to? Why not join with members of our congregation in saying The Lord's Prayer. When we begin to think about and unpack the words of this simple prayer it covers all of life in such a profound way.
Latest News on Events
Our Sunday Services are available on the website from 10am Sundays until Friday nights.
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Weekly Online Service
Our doors are open on:
Sunday mornings at 9:30am for a said Eucharist Service
Tuesday mornings at 10am for Morning Prayer
Thursday mornings at 10:30am for Holy Communion
Please note: Tuesday and Thursdays are Book of Common Prayer services.
All other events have been cancelled or postponed.
Please check back for more news on future events.
Devotional Resources for your spiritual life:
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Saint Mary Magdalene Church, Enfield, is a Church of England, Anglican Church serving the area from Enfield Chase to Chase Farm Hospital.
Find a warm welcome in the parish of Enfield Chase. Standing floodlit at the top of Windmill Hill, Enfield, St Mary Magdalene offers prayer and care at the heart of our community and has been a source of spiritual inspiration for worshippers and others in the local community for more than 135 years.
Our address is: Windmill Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, EN2 7AJ. Please click for a map.
Regular Weekly Services and Events
All other events postponed or cancelled
| Day | Time | Event | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 10am-11am | Said Eucharist Service | ||
| Tuesday | 10:00am - 10:30am | Morning Prayer - Book of Common Prayer | ||
| Thursday | 10:30am-11:15am | Holy Communion - Book of Common Prayer | ||
| Please see the Google calendar for any further information regarding future events | ||||
Kindly note:
There are no Sunday evening services.
Please see the calendar below for this month's events. If you wish to see all future events, please click here.
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At St Mary Magdalene Church Enfield we place a high priority on safeguarding the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being of all our children, young people and vulnerable adults.
For further information please click here.
Our Vicar's Blog
A new series of informal teaching videos from our vicar, The Rev'd Dr James Lawson begins July 2021.
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You are warmly invited to join us at any of our services or group meetings.
Bell Ringers
Drama Group
Home Group
Fellowship
Coffee and Concerts
Sunday School
Did you enjoy this Sunday morning's Anthem sung by the choir?
we have a list of anthems sung or to be sung here.
Our organ refurbishment
Thank you to everyone who has so generously donated to our organ refurbishment fund, we couldn't have done it without your support. Read about the history of our organ and see pictures of the refurbishment - and why it was so desperately needed!
Our organ
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Book our facilities with Tutti
Book our Church, Hall or Vestry for photography, music, dance or drama rehearsals. We have a lovely church with good acoustic and grand piano and newly refurbished organ. We have two halls, the small one is suitable for a small ensemble and the large one for a larger group of singers or players. Choirs may prefer to use the church, but the Halls are also suitable. We have no car park, but street parking is free and permitted. All available for very reasonable rates.
To book please click on the Tutti button.
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Join us tomorrow at 10:00am for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. We will be serving coffee after the service again this week. Not able to make it in person? Why not join us online for our audio service also from 10:00am: stmarymagdalene.church/weekly-online-service/
Weekly online Service - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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The weekly online service of St Mary Magdalene
Gift, 11, of Zambia, speaking as Mary's Meals celebrates feeding more than two million children in 19 countries: "I don't feel hungry at school any more. I get energy when I eat the porridge."
Dostoyevsky wrote, “love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”![]()
The latest sermon from The Rev'd Dr james Lawson is available on our website here: stmarymagdalene.church/2021/09/trinity-15-take-up-your-cross/
Trinity 15: Take up your cross - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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Trinity 15: Take up your cross Mark 8. 27-38 In today’s Gospel Jesus conducts a sort of survey. He asks his disciples: Who do people say that I am? They give Him different responses—John the Bapti...
Join us tomorrow at 10:00am for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. We will be serving coffee after the service again this week. Not able to make it in person? Why not join us online for our audio service also from 10:00am: stmarymagdalene.church/weekly-online-service/
Weekly online Service - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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ephaphtha - Be Opened This week's sermon from the Rev'd Dr James Lawson is available here:![]()
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Trinity 14: “ephphatha” - Be Opened! - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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Trinity 14: “ephphatha” – Be Opened! St Mark 7. 24-37 There’s one word in the Gospel today that sums up the whole mission of Jesus Christ. It’s one small word that sums up all His work. The ...
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"For in that mystic distribution of spiritual nourishment, that which is given and taken is of such a kind that receiving the virtue of the celestial food we pass into the flesh of Him, Who became our flesh."
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Join us tomorrow at 10:00 for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity. We will be serving coffee after the service again from this week. Not able to make it in person? Why not join us online for our audio service: stmarymagdalene.church/weekly-online-service/
Weekly online Service - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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The weekly online service of St Mary Magdalene
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.![]()
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This week's sermon from The Rev'd Dr James Lawson is available here: stmarymagdalene.church/2021/08/trinity-13-the-flow-of-power-is-reversed/
Trinity 13: The flow of power is reversed - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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Trinity 13: The flow of power is reversed Mark 7 1-23 (with omissions) Today we meet Jesus’ most persistent and regular antagonists, the Pharisees and the Scribes of Jerusalem... when they saw some ...
Join us tomorrow at 10:00 for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity. Not able to make it in person? Why not join us online for our audio service: stmarymagdalene.church/weekly-online-service/
Weekly online Service - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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The weekly online service of St Mary Magdalene
If you plan to follow Jesus get ready for a fight. For, God has not promised us safety, but participation in an adventure called the Kingdom. stmarymagdalene.church/2021/08/trinity-12-be-strong-in-the-lord/
Join us tomorrow at 10:00 for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. Not able to make it in person? Why not join us online for our audio service: stmarymagdalene.church/weekly-online-service/
Weekly online Service - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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The weekly online service of St Mary Magdalene
Join us tomorrow at 10:00 for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity. Not able to make it in person? Why not join us online for our audio service: stmarymagdalene.church/weekly-online-service/
Weekly online Service - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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He saw a middle aged couple that day in church that he hadn’t met before. One look at their faces told him that they didn’t share his Easter joy. And his heart fell when they told him that their son had died earlier that week. That’s why they were there – to ask him to do the funeral... stmarymagdalene.church/2021/08/trinity-10-the-grief-of-a-parent/
Trinity 10: The grief of a parent - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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Trinity 10: The grief of a parent 2 Samuel 18. 5-9; 15; 31-33 The king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, ‘O my son Absalom, my son, my so...
Join us tomorrow at 10:00 for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity. Not able to make it in person? Why not join us online for our audio service: stmarymagdalene.church/weekly-online-service/
Weekly online Service - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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"We celebrate the slaying of death, the destroying of hell, the beginning of another way of life that is eternal. And leaping for joy, we sing a hymn to the Cause, the only blessed and most glorious God of our fathers."![]()
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From an Orthodox hymn
Food for thought - today's sermon from The Rev'd Maureen Lunn - There are lots of idioms and sayings that include food but are not about food and we are familiar with the point being made when we hear them. A taste of paradise, I’ll eat my hat, or a grain of salt, it’s my bread and butter, Manna from heaven. These are just a few, but is that what Jesus is teaching us in the gospel today?![]()
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Trinity 9: Food for thought - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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Trinity 9: Food for thought John 6.24-35 May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. There are lots of idioms and sayings that include food but are not about food and we are fam...
Join us tomorrow at 10:00 for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity. Not able to make it in person? Why not join us online for our audio service: stmarymagdalene.church/weekly-online-service/
Weekly online Service - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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“Even as this broken bread was once scattered over the hills as grain, and was gathered together and became one, so let Your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Your kingdom”. The Didache
Our Sermon today from The Rev'd Dr James Lawson:![]()
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St Mary Magdalene is our patron saint: but why do we have patron saints and what do they do for us?![]()
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The custom goes all the way back to the fourth century -1600 years! Churches were named after a local martyr, like St Alban. Sometime a church possessed the relics of a saint and so they were named after that saint. And sometimes they were named after a saint who was considered especially powerful as an intercessor, someone like the Blessed Virgin Mary or St Peter, who would pray for the people of a church that was named in their honor.![]()
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Patronal Festival 2021: St Mary Magdalene - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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Patronal Festival 2021: St Mary Magdalene St Mary Magdalene is our patron saint: but why do we have patron saints and what do they do for us? The custom goes all the way back to the fourth century -16...
Join us today at 10:30 for our Patronal Festival. Not able to make it in person? Why not join us online for our audio service: stmarymagdalene.church/weekly-online-service/
Weekly online Service - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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The weekly online service of St Mary Magdalene
Today we are celebrating our Patron Saint, St Mary Magdalene. St Mary Magdalene was a particularly popular choice in the middle ages as a patron because she is such a spectacular example of a damaged person who became a saint.
Work, rest and pray. Our Sermon for this week comes from The Rev'd Maureen Lunn on the importance of rest in our busy lives: stmarymagdalene.church/2021/07/trinity-7-work-rest-and-pray/
Trinity 7: Work, rest and pray - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
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Trinity 7 2021: Work, rest and pray May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. When and where to get your rest. When small children are around it can prove almost impossible to...Life Events
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Today more than a quarter of all marriages in England between a man and a woman take place in the traditional setting of a Church of England church. You're welcome to marry in church whatever your beliefs, whether or not you are baptised and whether or not you go to church.
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Parishioners and regular worshippers are welcome welcome to have their children 'christened' in St Mary Magdalene. During the christening service your child will be baptized and with the support of the church, you and godparents, your child begins an amazing journey of faith.
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A funeral marks the close of a human life on earth. It is the opportunity for friends and family to express their grief, to give thanks for the life which has now completed its journey in this world.
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Daily Devotionals
Daily devotionals come from three sources that you can choose from (or use all!), whether travelling to work, sitting and relaxing during a well deserved break, or making one of them a part of your daily 'quiet time' with God.
Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer (or Compline) come from the Church of England's Common Worship which provides prayers and readings for different times during the day.
The daily readings are taken from The Revised Common Lectionary which divides the Bible into a three-year cycle of readings, years A, B and C.
Morning Prayer
Please click this link to be taken to today's Morning Prayer readings and prayers from the Church of England's Common Worship.
Evening Prayer
Please click this link to be taken to today's Evening Prayer readings and prayers from the Church of England's Common Worship.
Compline
Please click this link to be taken to today's Night Prayer readings and prayers from the Church of England's Common Worship.
The daily readings are taken from The Revised Common Lectionary which divides the Bible into a three-year cycle of readings, years A, B and C. These readings complement the Sunday and festival readings: Thursday through Saturday readings help prepare the reader for the Sunday ahead; Monday through Wednesday readings help the reader reflect on and digest what they heard in worship.
The Church year begins in Advent. This church year, 2020-2021, is year B.
Daily readings from The Revised Common Lectionary
- Daily Readings for Saturday, September 18, 2021 September 18, 2021Semi-continuous: Psalm 1; Ecclesiastes 1:1-18; Matthew 23:29-39 OR Complementary: Psalm 54; 2 Kings 17:5-18; Matthew 23:29-39
Other resources
The RSCM have a daily hymn and Sunday Services on their website
Would you like to listen to a Choral Evensong or Sunday Service? BBC Radio Three have daily Choral Evensong and weekly Sunday Service broadcasts.
The whole New International Version of the Bible, read by David Suchet is available free to listen to at Bible Gateway who have many other versions, translations and study resources freely available.
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St Mary Magdalene receives no funding from external sources, all monies required for the day to day running costs, maintaining and keeping our church looking its best are raised through our weekly giving by stewardship and fund-raising activities. If you would like to donate to our work as a one off donation of £3.00, £5.00, £10.00 or £20.00 by credit card please click one of the buttons to make your donation.
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