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Sunday Services
October Sunday 6th October – Harvest Festival 10am Holy Eucharist and Messy Sermon Group Sunday 13th October – 20th Sunday after Trinity 10am Holy Eucharist and Messy Sermon Group Sunday 20th October – 21st Sunday after Trinity 10am Holy Eucharist and Messy Sermon Group. Visit of the Bishop of Blackburn Sunday 27th…
new boiler fund launched!
The church community at St Oswald’s is hoping to make much needed improvements to the heating system. As part of this it is hoped to install a new boiler before the winter months are upon us. If you would like to help us achieve this please do support us with a donation! Drop us a…
Prayers of Intercession for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
Christ our Good Shepherd, we pray for your flock, your church throughout the world. Help us to follow your way of care, welcome, self sacrifice. May we create places of welcome, inclusion, and love. Forgive us when people are turned away, rejected or put off by our coldness or judgement. Help us to build a…
Prayers of Intercession for Passion Sunday
As we approach the time of Jesus’ suffering and death we hold in our hearts and bring to God’s heart all who suffer in body, mind or spirit. We pray for all who suffer today: for victims of torture: for those denied the basics of human dignity: for those who are forsaken. for those…
Holy Week and Easter Programme 2023
The Holy Week and Easter Prgramme is as follows. Pleae come along to some of these services as we walk with Christ through his last days, his suffering and death, through to his resurrection, celebrated on Easter Day. The Service is Compline is a short and very beautiful service, which touches people deeply. This eyar…
Intercessions for the Third Sunday of Lent
Jesus, giver of living water, We bring your church to you in prayer. We give thanks for those whose lives given in proclamation and service have given birth to our faith. Today, at the end of International women’s Week, we give thanks for Photini, the woman at the well, Equal-to-the-Apostles, and for Mary Magdalene, Apostle…
Sermon for the Third Sunday of Lent
Michael was saying, last week, how much he loves these accounts of encounters between Jesus and individual people, and the conversations that took place. Last week we heard of the encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus who came to Jesus by night. Today we hear of the Samaritan woman who came to Jesus in the brightness…
Prayers of Intercession for the First Sunday of Lent
God of peace and justice, We pray for the people of Ukraine today. We pray for peace and the laying down of weapons. We pray for those who fear for tomorrow, that your Spirit of comfort will draw near to them. We pray for those with power over war or peace, for wisdom, discernment and…