Sunday 21st July The Seventh Sunday after Trinity11:00am Parish Eucharist Officiant: The Rev.’d Canon Gavin WortSaturday 27th July 1:30pm The wedding of David and Hannah at Elvet Methodist ChurchSunday 28th July The Ninth Sunday after Trinity11:00am Parish EucharistSunday 4th August The Tenth Sunday after Trinity11:00am Parish Eucharist Officiant: The Rev.’d Dr. Sam Hole, Chaplain of CastleMonday 5th August St. Oswald’s Day5:30pm Evensong and Procession at the CathedralPhilip Plyming and Michael Hampel warmly welcome St. Oswald’s to join in the service of Evensong and Procession for St. Oswald’s Day at the cathedral. Please go straight to the cathedral, there’s no gathering at St Oswald’s beforehand this year.Wednesday 10am Holy Communion every week. The mid-week service will continue every week through the holiday period, some weeks it will be Morning Prayer.Foodbank –Weekly message from Lynda Delf: Many thanks for the 12kg of food donated in Church this week, it will provide meals for 15 people. Your continuing generosity is very much appreciated.In June the foodbank provided emergancy food for 1, 784 people this included 595 children, 12, 561 kg of food was donated and 14, 932kg was sent out to local foodbanks. We are bulk buying food to be able to provide food to meet the needs of those people who need to use our foodbanks.This week we are short of squash, coffee, rice, jam, sugar and tinned fish, meat, vegetables, rice pudding and custard. We always need household cleaning materials, longlife milk and juice.Many thanks for all you do the foodbank could not continue to support local people without your kindness Parish Magazine: Copies (£1:50) are available from back of church. Mark Davies and Nell Guthrie will be married at St. Oswald’s on Saturday 20th July at 12 Noon, and will be delighted for you to join them at their wedding.David Harris and Hannah Charman will be married at Elvet Methodist Church on Saturday 27th July at 1:30pm, and will be delighted for you to join them at their wedding.Please pray for Mark and Nell, and David and Hannah, at the happy occasions of their weddings.St. Oswald’s School:We said farewell to the leavers’ last week in Church and blessed them. Each leaver was given a splendid Bible as a gift from the Church.Alice Hassall will be taking up an appointment as Headteacher at St. Margaret’s school and will also continue leading St. Oswald’s until a new headteacher is appointed.With All Good Wishes and Prayers, Peter
ᴘʜᴏᴛᴏ ᴄʀᴇᴅɪᴛ: ᴛʀᴇᴠᴏʀ ꜱᴍɪᴛʜCongratulations to David Harris, our much-loved organist and choirmaster, who is joint winner of the 2024 Laudemus! competition with his setting of the anthem Hail, Gladdening Light! for SATB and organ. Laudemus!, an adult choir which meets annually to sing evensong in churches down in Dorset, will be singing the winning anthems at Wimborne Minster on 10th August, which by happy coincidence is also David's birthday.The Royal School of Church Music will be publishing both winning pieces, and our choir at St. Oswald's will be singing Hail, Gladdening Light! just as soon as it has been premièred.David has been Director of Music at St. Oswald's since his second year at Durham University in 2014. Before that, he was an organ scholar at Portsmouth Cathedral, and works as a performer, teacher, and church musician.
Every year, the Durham Deanery celebrates Ascension Day with a eucharist in the beautiful riverside ruins of Finchale Priory. Finchale was once upon a time within the parish of St. Oswald, which is why we still have the privilege of organising the event.This year, the preacher was Revd. John Fisher, the new Rector of St. Giles, and our own Revd. Peter Kashouris celebrated. St. Oswald's choir led the music from behind the (ahem) portable altar, and although the Salvation Army Band were unable to join this year, they have been firmly invited for 2025.
