This year the Mayoral Charity Fund will support the Hyndburn Hub which is helping vulnerable people in the borough during the Coronavirus crisis. Mayor of Hyndburn, Cllr June Harrison, said: “As Mayor for Hyndburn I am pleased to announce the launch of a Just Giving page in support of the Hyndburn Mayoral Charity Fund which…
Online learning: how to acquire new skills during lockdown. Millions of users are signing up for free courses taught by professors from Harvard and other top universities. A useful article…
Diocesan Weekly Sermon Acts 2.14a, 22-32 As child and a young teenager, I loved reading books. I regularly cycled a couple of miles into town to get books from the local library and I devoured them. Then came the formal study of English literature for GSCE and my love of reading was crushed. I confess…
Begins 9am Sunday 19th April Watch it later if you wish…
With retired health professionals returning to the NHS, the BBC has an interesting story about a priest in Blackburn Diocese, Rev Dr Susan Salt, who was a doctor and is now returning to to help out in the NHS.
Celebrate Easter Sunday at home this year with a service from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s kitchen. Readings will be led by Bishop of Dover, the Rt Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, and Caroline Welby. Theodore Levings, a 10-year-old member of All Saints church in Canterbury, will lead prayers…
Happy Easter to you, your family and your friends! Our Lord is risen! Rabbouni!: ‘Whom are you looking for?’ Reading John 20: 11-18 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had…
Loss: ‘Joseph of Arimathea asks Pilate for the body of Jesus’ Reading John 19: 38-end After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he…
Cost: ‘You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too are you?’ Reading John 18: 18 and 25b-27. Now the slaves and the police had made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it and warming themselves. Peter also was standing with them and warming himself. They asked him, “You are not…