The Church of England has issued a set of climate-conscious commandments to reduce the amount of plastic we use over Lent. It has been circulated to each of the church’s 42 dioceses and includes calls for parishes to ditch disposable cups and encourage worshippers to bring their own mugs to church. Ruth Knight, the church’s environmental…
Ash Wednesday 2018 Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. Turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ. These are the ancient words of Ash Wednesday, uttered today by Priests around the world on this, the first day of Lent. Today we face our mortality. The second chapter of Genesis…
This sermon begind with a reading of Ursula Fanthorpe’s poem BC:AD which can be found here On the surface, this poem has nothing much to do with Candlemas – the presentation of Christ in the Temple. It’s a Christmas poem – one of a series written by Ursula Fanthorpe each year at Christmas – to…
The Prince’s Trust and the Vicar have been planning a repainting project for the hall. Around 25 young people will take up their paint brushes to transform the interior as their contribution to the village community. Many thanks to Phil Carruthers and his team for all their efforts and we look forward to their arrival…
Today’s Gospel is all about authority. Twice, people were amazed by Jesus’ authority – once in the Synagogue and again after Jesus heals someone of an unclean spirit. Before thinking about authority, let’s just think about what this ‘unclean spirit’ might mean. We will probably never really understand what this was all about, but the…
We had a good time at our All Age Worship this morning! As usual the first half of our service consisted of 3 activites for the Confession, the Intercessions and the Sermon. Today in our Confession we were thinking about Good News (and our failure to be it). A candle surrounded by lots of sparkly…
Many thanks to Reverend Graham Sawyer, Vicar of St James’ Church, Briercliffe, Burnley for leading our Evening Prayer service today. Graham preached about the meanings of the names of Jesus.
The Old Testament reading was about the boy, Samuel, being called by God. This is portrayed in the small statue given to the church by the sculptor Josefina de Vasconcellos.
Apologies to anyone who has been trying to contact church on 01254 698321. For some reason the answer macine has been turned off again. This is an ongoing problem which we are trying to deal with. The phone should be working again by late this afternoon (Friday 12th January). …
The Feast of the Epiphany Sometimes – perhaps often – God asks us to do the most difficult things. Our faith is not – or at least should not – always be comfortable or comforting. There are times in life when we need to draw on deep wells of familiarity – the truth we hold…
from St. Oswald’s church, Knuzden, Blackburn.