Bee Martin, our PCC secretary called in a few weeks ago to see Ella Townely who moved to Cirencester to be nearer to her her family. As you wiil see from the photos, Ella has settled in well. She has found a new church (a bit posher than St Oswald’s) and is comfortably settled in…
A friend of Linda Leecy, a member of our congregation, recently made a trip to France to visit war graves. He kindly visited the grave of Archie Forrest who’s name is on our war memorial. You can read more about Archie by clicking on the ‘History’ link of our website. He was a very special…
I had a really good time with year three on Wednesday afternoon running a rather belated session on icon painting: it was origianlly supposed to be a part of their Lent Project. I started putting the gold leaf on an Icon of St. Oswald which, when finished, will be given to school. I also demonstrated…
Last Sunday, Bishop Philip confirmed 4 of our children and 3 of our adults in a wonderful service – I’m always so proud of our Confirmation candidates. Bishop Philip spent some time with the group before the service and afterwards said they were some of his favourite candidates ever! He was struck by their knowledge…
Easter 3. 2017 I think if I were asked to choose one passage from the Bible as my absolute favourite it might well be today’s Gospel passage – the story of the Road to Emmaus That moment when perhaps time stood still: after the journey and the encounter on the road, when the disciples sat…
Easter 1 (2nd of Easter) The story of doubting Thomas is very familiar. I think many people admire him because he dared to be honest about his doubts – he didn’t just go along with what everyone else was saying – he had to get there in his way. A person of integrity – someone…
We wish you a very happy Easter! May you be blessed by the Risen Christ! There were three joyful services at church today. At 7.50am the Vicar sang the Exsultet, an ancient Easter hymn during a short Service of Light. This was followed by Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer). Then at 10.30am there was the…
Good Friday began with children’s breakfast at the church hall. We then had craft activities and making decorations before finishing with a snack at midday. Shortly afterwards there was the solemn Liturgy for Good Friday at church, which was stripped of all its ornament in recognition of the dark hours of Christ’s suffering. The service of…
As usual on Good Friday I’ve brought you some pictures to look at. I think I do this because Good Friday is really beyond words. When I was choosing hymns for today I noticed that many of them are really sentimental and somehow many of them make it ‘all about us’ or ‘all about me’…
Message from Bishops Julian, Geoff and Philip can be seen here. https://www.blackburn.anglican.org/events_more.asp?events_id=2334# It’s good to see BIshop Philip back!…