A friend of Linda Leecy, a member of our congregation, recently made a trip to France to visit war graves. He kindly visited the grave of Archie Forrest who’s name is on our war memorial. You can read more about Archie by clicking on the ‘History’ link of our website. He was a very special…
I had a really good time with year three on Wednesday afternoon running a rather belated session on icon painting: it was origianlly supposed to be a part of their Lent Project. I started putting the gold leaf on an Icon of St. Oswald which, when finished, will be given to school. I also demonstrated…
Last Sunday, Bishop Philip confirmed 4 of our children and 3 of our adults in a wonderful service – I’m always so proud of our Confirmation candidates. Bishop Philip spent some time with the group before the service and afterwards said they were some of his favourite candidates ever! He was struck by their knowledge…
Easter 3. 2017 I think if I were asked to choose one passage from the Bible as my absolute favourite it might well be today’s Gospel passage – the story of the Road to Emmaus That moment when perhaps time stood still: after the journey and the encounter on the road, when the disciples sat…
Easter 1 (2nd of Easter) The story of doubting Thomas is very familiar. I think many people admire him because he dared to be honest about his doubts – he didn’t just go along with what everyone else was saying – he had to get there in his way. A person of integrity – someone…
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…