How to enable a Sunday congregation to engage with Holy Week? This is the question I wrestled with in preparation for our Palm Sunday All Age Eucharist. Because Palm Sunday is now one of our All Age services, we no longer hear the long Passion Gospel, which makes the question even more important. The result…
On Sunday I tweeted a photo of our children and their leaders holding skeletons during the Old Testament Lesson about the Valley of the Dry Bones. THis was picked up by a project run by the Church of England which aims to show everyone what sort of things happen week by week in churches up…
The church door had been getting a bit worse for wear over the winter. It’s now been sanded, stained and re-varnished, with the metal work being repainted. It looks so much better. The contractor was Neil Hewson, decorator of Oswaldtwistle.
We had a colourful and busy All Age Eucharist for Mothering Sunday today. In our goody bags were a soluble vitamin tablet, two pieces of string tied in a knot and some felt hearts. These were used in our three activities: For our Confession we thought about those who love and care for us, making…
Collect God of compassion, whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary, shared the life of a home in Nazareth, and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself: strengthen us in our daily living that in joy and in sorrow we may know the power of your presence to bind together and…
O Lord our God, source of all goodness and love, accept the fervent prayers of your people; in the multitude of your mercies look with compassion upon all who turn to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and…
CLICK HERE for the Accrington Observer report on concerns about the proposed new housing around St. Oswald’s School.
Sunday mornnig’s service was action packed as usual! Upon arrival, members of the congregation were asked to scoop a cup of water from a bucket on the church steps and empty it into another bucket on the chancel steps. This was part of our consideration of this morning’s gospel reading about the Samaritan woman and her…
Collect Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our…
Good news on Shadsworth as a new planning permission is approved. Lancashire Telegraph report is HERE.