Sunday Worship – Seven Day After Trinity Sunday. 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. She has had a difficult time following a bad dose of covivid19 and we hope that this…
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany – when we reflect on the wise men or kings who visited the baby Jesus. It is a quiet feast for the UK but in other countries, Epiphany is full of activity. Processions of kings on horseback throw handfuls of sweets to eagerly awaiting children. Children put…
For those interested in the church’s ‘parliament’, it is live on YouTube here…
2nd Sunday before Lent 2021 Our (Church of England) readings for today, Proverbs 8:1, 22-31, Colossians 1:15-20 and John 1:1-14, are about the beginning – or even, before the beginning. How can there be a ‘before the beginning’? An impossible thing which shows us that God is beyond us, beyond our comprehension, as well as…
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The fiasco over using algorithms rather than people to determine exam results has made the future prospects of thousands of young people more uncertain. This is but one example of the growing reach of the digital revolution, where big tech companies know more and more about us and where decisions that affect all of our…
Welcome Back to St Oswald’s we are re-opening for morning service 10am 26th July (there will only be 10am services for the time being) It is lovely to be able to write these words although Church may not look and be exactly as it was when we were last here on 15th March 2020. Following…