St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. The Canon Michael Ratcliffe will lead the service and preach the sermon owing the the Vicar being down with Covid-19 and self isolating. There will be a Messy Sermon Group for children and a small play area for young children as normal. After…
Sunday Worship – Petertide on the Second Sunday after Trinity
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. The Canon Michael Ratcliffe will lead the service and preach the sermon. There will be 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 – First Sunday after Trinity
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. The Vicar will lead the service and preach the sermon. There will be 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 and catch…
Sunday Worship – Trinity Sunday
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. Canon Michael Ratcliffe will lead the service and the Vicar will preach the sermon. There will be 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…
Sunday Worship – Pentecost
St. Oswald’s Sunday service of Holy Communion for Pentecost will begin at 10.00 am. It will be led by the Vicar and 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…
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
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…