Happy Ascension Day! Ascension Day is traditionally celebrated the 40th day after Easter Sunday. It commemorates Jesus Christ’s ascension into heaven forty days after the resurrection. Here is a message from Ven. Mark Ireland, Archdeacon of Blackburn. The Ascension Day The Collect Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only-begotten…
Here are some photos of this year’s spring flowers and blossom at St. Oswald’s Vicarage taken just before and during the first part of the lockdown. Another set will be this time next week. We hope you like them and that they will bring some joy at this sad time. …
Gospel of John 14:15-21 In this passage we find ourselves in the middle of Jesus’ final words to his disciples as he prepares to face the cross. These are the important things that he wants to instil in them, toprepare them for their post-Easter work. He wants them to know who they are, what their…
Join us for this week’s service, led by the Revd Canon Dr Crispin Pailing, Rector of Liverpool, and Revd Canon Dr Rowena Pailing from Blackburn Cathedral, who calls on Christians to be a ‘voice for the voiceless’. The service also includes contributions from Dean Sullivan, who played Jimmy Corkhill in Brookside, Dr Sarah Rushworth, a…
We know many of you are missing our Messy Sermon Activities so we thought we would share some activities with you each week. These activities can be done as a family and include some crafts and quizzes as well as prayer. We would love to see some of your work which can be posted on…
We are now carrying daily Taizé Bible Readings on our home page. These one verse readings are are ideal for people who want a short quiet moment of Christian reflection each day. There is also an option of looking up a longer Bible passage. (Update July – We are sorry but the link to Taizé…
Join a celebration of nurses and healthcare workers in our online service this Sunday from 9am onwards. The Bishop of London and former Chief Nursing Officer Sarah Mullally lead the service, with contributions from the current Chief Nursing Officer in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale…
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The Blackburn Cathedral bells were recast in 1948, see this article.
The reason we mark significant anniversaries, create memorials, and observe certain rituals like holding two minutes of silence is to make sure we do not forget events of the past. We tend to have short memories. Remembrance is especially important as the number of those alive at the time begins to decrease and we lose…