You’re invited to church this Christmas!

You are very welcome at our Advent and Christmas services and events – bring your family and friends or come along on your own. Whether it will be your first time at church or you have been before, we look forward to welcoming you!

All events Calendar Advent & Christmas

Our regular services are: SUNDAY SERVICES Morning Holy Communion every Sunday of the month at 9am and Evensong third Sunday of the month at 6pm; WEDNESDAY MORNING Holy Communion at 10am; FRIDAY MORNING PRAYERS first Friday of month at 10.15am before Forget-Me-Not Cafe at 11am. Everyone is welcome at our range of services and events throughout the year and also to visit the church building and churchyard just to look around, explore and reflect. Bookmark our website Homepage and follow St James Gretton on Facebook to track latest information and news updates. Credits: some images in event notices from The Church of England and Unsplash.com stock

Christmas festive services

for 25 days, 14 hours, 55 mins
St James the Great
Station Road Gretton Corby, NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Everyone is very welcome at our church services this festive season.

The angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; for see - I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people ...’ Luke 2: 10-11.

- Advent Sunday 30th November, 9am
- Christingle Service Sunday 7th December, 9am
- ‘Carols by Candlelight’ Sunday 21st December, 3:30pm
- Christmas Eve Crib Service Wednesday 24th December, 4pm
- Midnight Mass Wednesday 24th December, 11pm
- Christmas Day Service Thursday 25th, 10am at St John’s (Corby)
- Epiphany Sunday 4th January, 9am
- Candlemas Sunday 1st February, 9am

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Clean and Green

for 3 hours
St James the Great
Station Road Gretton Corby, NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Come help prepare the church to make it festively lovely for Advent and Christmas time. Complimentary refreshments and mince pies.

Christingle

for 1 hour
St James the Great
Station Road Gretton Corby, NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Join us for this service for all ages on the Second Sunday of Advent on 7th December 9am for this celebration of the light of Christ.

We’ll make a ‘Christingle’ with an orange (representing the World), sticks of fruit and sweets (representing the good things God provides); red ribbon (representing Jesus blood which was poured out for us on The Cross). The lit candle represents Jesus shining his light into our lives and all the world.

We’ll be lighting the second candle on our advent wreath, too.

Third Sunday in Advent

for 1 hour
St James the Great
Station Road Gretton Corby, NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Inviting you to come along on the Third Sunday of Avent, when the third candle on our advent wreath will be lit. Come visit the church during the week to see the advent wreath candle flickering in the church porch.

Carols by Candlelight

for 1 hour
St James the Great
Station Road Gretton Corby, NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Come along on the Fourth Sunday of Advent on 21st December 3:30pm for this traditional candlelit service of Nine Lessons and Carols.

Join in the festive singing including the fun ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ and listen to 9 short readings from the Bible revealing the promise of the Messiah and the birth of Jesus. Our fourth advent candle will be lit.

Enjoy the drinks and mince pies from the church servery afterwards. The Church bells will be rung.

Crib Service

for 1 hour
St James the Great
Station Road Gretton Corby, NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Come to this family-friendly service for all ages to listen to the retelling of the Nativity story of Jesus’s birth as we gather around the manger on Christmas Eve at 4pm reminding us of the true meaning of Christmas.

The church bells will be rung and look out, before you enter the church, for the decorated and lit-up Advent window.

Midnight Mass

for 59 mins
St James the Great
Station Road Gretton Corby, NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Come join the traditional joyful vigil and then celebration of the birth of Christ with Holy Communion, carols and lighting of the fifth candle, the ‘Christ Candle’ on our Advent wreath.

Christmas Day

for 1 hour
St John the Baptist - Corby
St John the Baptist - Corby, Church Walk, Corby, NN17 1XF, United Kingdom
A wonderful service celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ and the hope and peace His birth signifies. This service will be held at St John's, Corby at 10:00am.

Epiphany

for 1 hour
St James the Great
Station Road Gretton Corby, NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Join us for This ‘Three Kings’ Day’ communion service celebrating their recognising Jesus as our Saviour on behalf of the world.

Candlemas

for 1 hour
St James the Great
Station Road Gretton Corby, NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Join in this communion service where we light a candle to represent Jesus as the Light of World as we turn from the Crib to the Cross.