Carol Ratcliffe, a very committed member of St. Oswald’s, keeps meeting herself in all sorts of strange places. This isn’t because she’s busy – meeting herself coming back (although she is a very busy person), but because she is one of the ‘faces’ of Cancer Research’s new poster campaign highlighting bowel cancer testing. Carol was…
There has always been a tendency in religions – including our own – to divide things up between good and evil, clean and unclean, acceptable and unacceptable. Very often this is to do with the body – the flesh and the soul – that which is physical and that which is spiritual. Deeply embedded within…
Collect Almighty and ever-living God, clothed in majesty, whose beloved Son was this day presented in the Temple, in substance of our flesh: grant that we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts, by your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with…
Pam’s funeral will be on Thursday 26th January at 1.30 p.m. at St Oswald’s. This will be followed by a short servicwe at Accrington Crematorium at 2.20 and then refreshments at The Whitakers Arms (oppostite cemetry gates) – all invited. Ged has requested a retiring collection for St Oswald’s Church and donations to Hyndburn Funeral Service…
Collect Almighty God, whose Son revealed in signs and miracles the wonder of your saving presence: renew your people with your heavenly grace, and in all our weakness sustain us by your mighty power; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,…
Two Blackburn schools have come top of the nation’s league table… one is Tauheedul Islamic Boys’ high school in Shadsworth…
Collect Eternal Father, who at the baptism of Jesus revealed him to be your Son, anointing him with the Holy Spirit: grant to us, who are born again by water and the Spirit, that we may be faithful to our calling as your adopted children; through Jesus Christ your Son…
The Epiphany These past few days, all over the world, Christians will be celebrating the Feast of Epiphany and will hear this passage from Matthew’s Gospel – the story of wise men from the East travelling from far away to kneel before the Christ Child. In the Orthodox faith, this festival is of equal importance…
This morning, the ‘8 o’clockers’ were the first to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, that is when the wise men visited the Christ Child. It was a special moment of prayer and reflection. The crib beneath the altar was rearranged to introduce the three Kings, or wise men, into the Bethlehem scene. We were…