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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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  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…

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Sunday Worship for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity

Sunday Worship – Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity. St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am as usual. The service will be led by Revd Canon Michael Radcliffe the and the Vicar will preach. There will be a Messy Sermon Group for children and a small play area for very young children…

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