St. Oswald’s Sunday morning service starts at 10am and will last around 40 minutes followed by tea and coffee. The Vicar will lead the service and preach on the subject of Holy Communion. You are most welcome! The Vicar’s Sunday afternoon sermon, ‘Holy Things” will be uploaded to the blog at 2pm. The online church…
Any liturgy associated with the Blessed Virgin Mary seems bound to include words such as ‘obedience’, ‘humility’ and ‘lowliness’’. Presumably the ‘lowliness’ comes from Mary’s song, The Magnificat, ‘for he has regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden’. But if you look at this passage in the original Greek, the word is ‘humiliation’. This word is…
The engineers are back to finish the job of resurfacing Mount St James and Stanhill Road. The necessary disruption officially began yesterday but we are grateful to Lancashire County Council and the contractors for holding off to allow yesterday’s wedding and today’s morning service. The machines began moving in as people left church…
On Sunday, St. Oswald’s church celebrates the Festival of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The service will start at 10am and will last around 40 minutes followed by tea snd coffee. The Vicar will lead the service and Rev’d Canon Michael Ratcliffe will give the sermon. You are most welcome! The Vicar’s Sunday afternoon sermon on…
St. Oswald’s Church, Knuzden PCC Meeting The next meeting of St. Oswald’s, Knuzden, Parochial Church Council will be held on 7pm Monday 16 August at St. Oswald’s Church Rev’s Dr Anne Morris Vicar of St Oswald’s Church, Knuzden…
Oswald was a member of the Irthing family – there’s still a village just east of Carlisle called Irthington. He was born around 604, the son of the Northumbrian King Aethelfrith. A victim of political change Oswald became a refugee: he spent his childhood in exile on the Island of Iona where he heard about…
This Sunday, St. Oswald’s church celebrates its patron Saint, St. Oswald of Northumbria. The 10am service will be taken by the Vicar and will last around 40 minutes followed by tea, coffee and cake. You are most welcome! St. Oswald’s still has socially distanced chairs and you are invited to continue using a facemask if…
As we approach celebrating the feast of our patron saint, St. Oswald, why not enjoy this fun rhyming animation of a German medieval legend. It uses imagery from Peterborough cathedral’s medieval bestiary. For something more serious, the Wikipedia entry contains a lot of information… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_of_Northumbria…
Growing among the roses in the churchyard just now is a ragwort, the yellow wild flower famous for being poisonous to horses. It is also known for being attractive to the caterpillars of the Cinnabar moth and our example is covered in them. These striking yellow and black creatures adore ragwort and provide a useful…
Proper 13 It wouldn’t be an exaggeration for me to say that I spent several hours contemplating today’s Gospel before I even began to think about writing my sermon. I really struggle with this passage from John. I struggle because Jesus seems to berate the crowd who followed him. They were poor folk who struggled…