Good Friday began with children’s breakfast at the church hall. We then had craft activities and making decorations before finishing with a snack at midday. Shortly afterwards there was the solemn Liturgy for Good Friday at church, which was stripped of all its ornament in recognition of the dark hours of Christ’s suffering. The service of…
As usual on Good Friday I’ve brought you some pictures to look at. I think I do this because Good Friday is really beyond words. When I was choosing hymns for today I noticed that many of them are really sentimental and somehow many of them make it ‘all about us’ or ‘all about me’…
Message from Bishops Julian, Geoff and Philip can be seen here. https://www.blackburn.anglican.org/events_more.asp?events_id=2334# It’s good to see BIshop Philip back!…
How to enable a Sunday congregation to engage with Holy Week? This is the question I wrestled with in preparation for our Palm Sunday All Age Eucharist. Because Palm Sunday is now one of our All Age services, we no longer hear the long Passion Gospel, which makes the question even more important. The result…
On Sunday I tweeted a photo of our children and their leaders holding skeletons during the Old Testament Lesson about the Valley of the Dry Bones. THis was picked up by a project run by the Church of England which aims to show everyone what sort of things happen week by week in churches up…
The church door had been getting a bit worse for wear over the winter. It’s now been sanded, stained and re-varnished, with the metal work being repainted. It looks so much better. The contractor was Neil Hewson, decorator of Oswaldtwistle.
We had a colourful and busy All Age Eucharist for Mothering Sunday today. In our goody bags were a soluble vitamin tablet, two pieces of string tied in a knot and some felt hearts. These were used in our three activities: For our Confession we thought about those who love and care for us, making…
Collect God of compassion, whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary, shared the life of a home in Nazareth, and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself: strengthen us in our daily living that in joy and in sorrow we may know the power of your presence to bind together and…
O Lord our God, source of all goodness and love, accept the fervent prayers of your people; in the multitude of your mercies look with compassion upon all who turn to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and…
CLICK HERE for the Accrington Observer report on concerns about the proposed new housing around St. Oswald’s School.