The church community at St Oswald’s is hoping to make much needed improvements to the heating system. As part of this it is hoped to install a new boiler before the winter months are upon us. If you would like to help us achieve this please do support us with a donation! Drop us a…
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Holy Week and Easter Programme 2023
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…
Interecessions for Candlemas 2023
God of love, lover of humankind, we pray for your church, here locally, in the UK and across the world that it will be a place of wholeness, breadth, inclusion and welcome, a place which shows clearly your love for all your children. In our lives, as ambassadors for you, keep us from narrowness, Help…
Candlemas
The feast of Candlemas, which is celebrated this Sunday, makrs the end of the Christmas season and the turning of oru attention towards Lent which is jsut around the corner. Also know as the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, Candlemas celebrates Mary and Joseph fulfilling their religious obligation in taking their…
Sunday Worship for the Third Sunday of Advent (second Sunday of the Kingdom Season)
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am as usual. The service will be led by the Vicar, Rev’d Anne Morris, who will also preach. There is a baptism at 11.45 During the 10 a.m. service there will be a Messy Sermon Group for children and their parents, if they wish…
Sunday Worship – All Saints Sunday
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am as usual. The service will be led by the Revd Canon Michael Radcliffe and the Vicar, Rev’d Anne Morris will preach. There will be a Messy Sermon Group for children and their parents and there is a small play area for very young…
Intercessions for Harvest 2022 and A Sermon to Listen to
God of creation, you fill the world with your abundance; it overflows with your generous mercy. There is enough for everyone, but we fail to share things fairly: a few have an abundance but millions of others have no chance of a decent life for themselves and their children This year we are experiencing scarcity…
Sunday Worship – Harvest Festival
Sunday Worship – Harvest Festival St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am as usual. The service will be led by the Vciar, Rev’d Anne Morris, and Revd Canon Michael Radcliffe will preach. There will be a colleciton of food for Oswaldtwistle Foodbank. There will be a Messy Sermon Group for…
The shadow of the cross
This was what I saw at Church on Sunday morning, on my first Sunday back. It is the shadow of the War Memorial projected onto the wall of the church by the low autumn sun, but it’s not something I’ve ever seen before in my whole 21 years here It felt like God saying ‘All…
Thursday 27th October 10.30 a.m. Holy Communion Sunday 30th October – All Saints Sunday 10 a.m. Holy Communion and Messy Sermon Group Saturday 5th November The Church Cleaning Group meets at 9.30 for an hour. We are short of volunteers at the moment so new members will be very welcome! Sunday…