Rev’d Anne Morris is retiring on Sunday 15th October. Sunday morning services will continue at 10 a.m. as usual with Rev’d Michael Ratclifee, Rev’d Andrew Horsfall and others covering services until a new Vicar is appointed. The monthly service on the 4th Thursday should also continue as usual. Rev’d Horsfall’s number is 01254 732354 –…
Sunday 9th July – Trinity 5 10 a.m. Holy Communion and Messy Sermon Group. Tuesday 11th July 7 p.m. PCC meets at the Vicarage Sunday 16th July – Trinity 6 10 a.m. Holy Communion and Messy Sermon Group. Sunday 23rd July – Trinity 7 10 a.m. Holy Communion and Messy Sermon Group…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
So, Lent is here again: a season of fasting and self discipline as we remember Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness. Our 40 days of Lent reflect this time, and giving up things we enjoy is a way of deliberately putting ourselves in a position where we are likely to have to wrestle with temptation,…
If you’ve been coming to St Oswald’s for any length of time, you’ll know that Candlemas is my favourite festival. I love it for all sorts of reasons: I love the Candlemas snowdrop legends: that when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden after the fall, it is said that snowdrops grew in Eve’s…