May Half Term Holiday Club

  Our May half term Holiday Club will be running at the Community Hall on Fecitt Brow  from 9.30 am to 1 pm Tuesday 28th May to Friday 31st May. This is for local children aged 5 – 10 years who live or attend Primary Schools within Shadsworth, Knuzden, Whitebirk and Intack.   It includes…

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Sermon – Easter 3

We have just heard another, very familiar resurrection account from John’s Gospel. John tells us this was the third time that Jesus appeared to his disciples. It was actually the fourth time: John omits Jesus’ very first encounter with Mary Magdalene on that first Easter morning. It would be good to think that we’ve made…

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Sermon – Easter 2

The lectionary Gospels for Easter and the second and third Sundays thereafter all tell resurrection stories as befits the Easter Season. But this reading is the only one to be used every year; the Sunday after Easter, each year, this is the story we hear. This seems odd because I’m sure it’s not our favourite…

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Breakfast Club

St. Oswald’s Community Breakfast Club at St Oswald’s Community Hall, Fecitt Brow, BB1 2AT Saturday 30th March 9 am – 1 pm  Bacon or Sausage T.Cakes £2 – Toast ,Toasted Fruit T.Cakes £1 Hot Chocolate , Tea, Coffee , Fruit Juice £1 Everyone welcome – please join us    …

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Vicar has Laryngitis – Sunday evening service cancelled

Here is a quick note to say that Anne, the Vicar, has gone down with throat infection and laryngitis and has completely lost her voice. She is taking antibiotics but has been advised it could be a week or two before she can speak. If you need to contact her, please use email!

The Sunday evening service has been cancelled as a consequence but many thanks to Rev’d Hillary Murphy for stepping into the breach for Sunday morning which will go ahead as normal.

Sermon – Lent 1.

Christians have observed Lent – forty days, mirroring Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness since at least the fourth century. In the Orthodox church the forty days doesn’t include Holy Week making for a Lent longer than ours. Lent is a paradox: in order to live life fully in the here and now, we embrace…

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Ash Wednesday Sermon

Ash Wednesday 2019 We had a bit of a pancake feast at the Vicarage yesterday; lots of lemons and maple syrup. And I was delighted to hear that our messy sermon group had similarly good time last Sunday – not just lemons and maple syrup chocolate and raspberry sauces and other sweet treats. That was…

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