We are a Church of England parish with a strong tradition of music in worship, where all are very welcome. As an ancient Church in the centre of Durham, St Oswald's is a reservoir of peace for all who enter it.

The Sunday Eucharist is at 11:00am, and we have a play and books corner by the font for any younger worshipper who feels a parent or carer would enjoy it there. Evensong is at 6:00pm on Sundays, either in the chancel, or roughly every other week during term time when the usual hymns expand to a full choral setting, in the body of the church. Midweek Holy Communion is at 10:00am on Wednesdays, and the church is usually open from 9:30am till round about 5:00pm (or dusk, if earlier) on weekdays.

Monday, 22nd June 2026 - Ordinary Time: The Feast of St Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.250 [Lesser Festival]; Windrush Day

I worship and adore the true and living God who created all things.

St Alban 

The Collect of the Day:

Amen.

Common Worship

A Passage of Scripture from Morning Prayer for Today (Common Worship):

The Parable of the Lost Coin

‘Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, “Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.” Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.’

Luke 15:8-10, New Revised Standard Version - Anglicized Edition

A Prayer for the Feast of St Alban:

Thy holy martyr Alban in his struggle, has gained the crown of life, O Christ our God; for strengthened by thee and with a pure heart, he spoke boldly before worldly judges, giving up his sacred head to thee, the Judge of all. 

Amen.

The Apolytikion for the Commemoration of the Holy Alban of Verulamium, Protomartyr of Britain (The Eastern Orthodox Church)

A Prayer for Windrush Day:

You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:19, New Revised Standard Version - Anglicized Edition

Loving God, we lament

our failure

to welcome the stranger

to love the newcomer

to honour our neighbour

to give justice without prejudice.

Loving God, we pray

for the Windrush generation

for all with whom we share our lives

for those who continue to seek justice

for forgiveness and new beginnings;

that we may be as you are

and seek only that which is right

and just and loving.

Amen.

Southwark Cathedral 

A Prayer in Celebration of Diversity:

Almighty God, through your Holy Spirit you created unity in the midst of diversity;
We acknowledge that human diversity is an expression of your manifold love for your creation;
We confess that in our brokenness as human beings we turn diversity into a source of alienation, injustice, oppression, and wounding.
Empower us to recognize and celebrate differences as your great gift to the human family.
Enable us to be the architects of understanding, of respect and love;
Through the Lord, the ground of all unity, we pray.

Amen.

Author Unknown 

Durham Diocesan Prayer Cycle Deanery Intention for the Month:

June 2026 - Jarrow Deanery

A Prayer of St Oswald of Northumbria:

Let us kneel together, and pray the true, the ever living and almighty God to protect us in his mercy from the arrogant savagery of our enemies, for he knows that we fight in a just cause for the preservation of our nation.

Amen. 

Saints of the North 

(Prayed by King Oswald with his Army on the Battlefield on the Eve of the Battle of Heavenfield, AD634)