This week’s Sunday service at St. Oswald’s church will begin at 10 a.m and will last around 40 minutes. All are welcome! It will be a quiet service of Holy Communion to mark the Third Sunday after Trinity. The Gospel reading is Mark, chapter 4, verses 35-41 where Jesus calms the storm on the lake…
Proper 6 2021 For many years humans have believed that we can have as much as we want, or at least, as much as we can afford. We have had a belief in a world of endless resources; a world where everyone can have more, where nothing is rationed or limited. We are, of course,…
This week’s Sunday service at St. Oswald’s church will begin at 10 a.m and will last around 40 minutes. All are welcome! The service will be a quiet, reflective service of Holy Communion. The online church service marks the fourth anniversary of the Grenfell fire. Led by Rev Gareth Wardell, worship comes from St Clement…
On Thursday evening David was formally admitted (‘sworn in’) as churchwarden of St. Oswald’s with the other churchwardens of the Blackburn with Darwen Deanery. The service, known as the ‘Archdeacon’s Visitation’, was held at St Bartholomew’s Church, Ewood with Archdeacon Mark and Rev’d Fleur leading. Despite social distancing and restricted numbers, it was a lovely…
Labels. They can be useful things; they tell us what’s in the tin, what not to touch, where to stand and so on. But they can also be cruel:‘coward’, ‘cissy’, ‘trouble maker’, ‘useless’, ‘pathetic’. And once acquired, labels seem to stick. They get passed on, copied and replicated and so more and more people begin…
This week’s Sunday service at St. Oswald’s church will begin at 10 a.m and will last around 40 minutes. All are welcome! Activity packs are available for children. The service will be a quiet, reflective service of Holy Communion lasting around 40 minutes. The sermon will reflect on the labelling of Jesus as mad and…
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.”John 3:1–17 In the past few days I have been preparing for the wedding of good friends. Their child is also due to be baptised at the service which…
This week’s Sunday service at St. Oswald’s church will begin at 10 a.m and will last around 40 minutes. All are welcome! Activity packs are available for children. The service will be a celebration of the Feast of the Holy Trinity. The online service is led by Rev Rebecca Mathew, vicar of St Nicholas Church,…
Pentecost: the feast of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Holy Trinity. It falls on the fiftieth day after Easter – hence its name. It also falls on the Jewish Festival of Weeks, which is a harvest festival celebrating the first fruits of the season. The story is familiar to us; bereft after…
This week’s Sunday service at St. Oswald’s church will begin at 10 a.m and will last around 40 minutes. All are welcome! Activity packs are available for children. The service will be a celebration of the Feast of the Holy Spirit – Pentecost. The Vicar’s Sunday afternoon sermon, ‘The Helper had arrived‘, will be uploaded…