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Sunday Worship – Seventh Sunday of Easter – Sunday after Ascension
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. It will be led by Canon Michael Radcliffe will also preach the sermon. There is a Messy Sermon Group for children and a small play area for young children. After the service, there will be refreshments for those who would like to stay…
The tree of life, the life of peace – but peace is not passivity
There is something about trees which grips my imagination – I hope you share my enthusiasm. I think it all began for me with a programme by David Bellamy when I was a teenager. It was all about what you might call the ‘engineering’ of trees – how much pressure it takes for water to…
Sunday Worship – Sixth Sunday of Easter
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. It will be led by the Vicar while Canon Michael Radcliffe will preach the sermon. There is a Messy Sermon Group for children and a small play area for young children. After the service, there will be refreshments for those who would like…
Us and them’, recognising the sanctity and worth of ‘the other‘
I was in town the other day and passed a homeless man sitting on the ground outside a shop. He wasn’t begging: he was just sitting there, in quiet destitution; a sad, pitiable sight. A woman coming towards me looked at him, then looked at me, her face signalling contempt, scorn and hatred for this…
Sunday Worship – Fifth Sunday of Easter
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. It will be led by the Vicar who will also preach the sermon. There is a Messy Sermon Group for children and a small play area for young children. After the service, there will be refreshments for those who would like to stay…
Discerning the voice of the Good Shepherd
I’ve just been away on holiday. I suppose any holiday in the English Lake District will inevitably involve encounters with sheep. I saw plenty of the beautiful Herdwick sheep which are such a feature of the Lake District fells, and there were lots of lambs. One day I stopped at a smallholding where there were…
Sunday Worship – Fourth Sunday of Easter
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. It will be led by the Vicar who will also preach the sermon. There is a Messy Sermon Group for children and a small play area for young children. After the service, there will be refreshments for those who would like to stay…
Sunday Worship – The Third Sunday of Easter
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. It will be led by the Area Dean, Rev. Andrew Horsfall who will also preach the sermon. There is a Messy Sermon Group for children and a small play area for young children. After the service, there will be refreshments for those who…
Sunday Worship – The Second Sunday of Easter – Low Sunday
We hope that you have had a blessed Easter. St. Oswald’s Low Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. It will be led by the Vicar. Canon Michael Ratcliffe will preach the sermon. There is a Messy Sermon Group for children and a small play area for young children. After the service,…