Sunday Holy Communion at St. Oswald’s starts at 10am and will be led by the Vicar. You are most welcome! There is a small play area at the back of church and an activity for children during the sermon. Afterwards, there is tea and coffee for those who wish to stay and chat. The Vicar’s…
Years ago I went to a performance of John’s Gospel. It featured a solitary actor who proclaimed the whole of John’s Gospel from memory: an amazing feat of memory. The audience was seated in the nave of a darkened church and the actor stood at the front under a spotlight – he was all that…
Sunday Holy Communion at St. Oswald’s starts at 10am and will be led by the Vicar. You are most welcome! There is a small play area at the back of church and an activity for children during the sermon. Afterwards, there is tea and coffee for those who wish to stay and chat. The Vicar’s…
Mark 10:46-52 Blind Bartimaeus: a familiar name to us. We know nothing much about him except that he was blind and that he was a beggar. He must have had some kind of degenerative eye disease, or perhaps he had lost his sight in an accident: his request to Jesus is that he will be…
This week’s Sunday service of Holy Communion at St. Oswald’s starts at 10am and will last around 40 minutes. The service will be led by the Vicar. There is a small play area at the back of church for young children. Afterwards, there will be tea and coffee for those who wish to stay and…
Hope has wavered over the past two years. Sometimes it felt as if we were never going to come out of the other side of covid. Even now things feel unstable and insecure – once again there are empty shelves at the supermarket and those of us with cars have faced queues at petrol stations…