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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Week 7 – Easter Day Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.’ Now none of the disciples dared to ask him, Who are you?’ because they knew it was the Lord. Reading John 21.1-19 Jesus Appears to Seven Disciples After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and…
St. Oswald’s Easter service of Holy Communion will begin at 10.00 am. It will be led by the Vicar. There will be the lighting if the Easter candle and the renewal of Baptism vows. There is a small play area for young children. After the service, there will be hot cross buns and Easter eggs…
Holy Week – Easter Eve “Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting…
Holy Week – Good Friday “Carrying the cross by himself, Jesus went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross…