Sunday 3rd August, The Seventh Sunday after Trinity11:00am Parish Eucharist6pm EvensongTuesday 5th August, St. Oswald’s Day9am Holy Communion5:30pm Evensong at the CathedralWednesday 10am Holy CommunionFriday 2pm WeddingSunday 10th August, The Eighth Sunday after Trinity11:00am Parish Eucharist6pm EvensongPlease see the Calendar of services attached.Mid-week service: Wednesday 10am Holy CommunionPlease see David’s Music Notes attached.St. Oswald’s Day: The Cathedral is welcoming us to Evensong on St. Oswald’s Day, when our banner will be processed. Please do join in this service, you will be very welcome. The service will be sung by Faversham Parish Church choir, the choir that Sheila was a member of when she lived there. Please also come to holy communion that morning at Church.Foodbank – Weekly message from Lynda Delf : On 20th July £40 and 4kg of food was donated by Parishioners, this will provide meals for 5 people and the money will be used to buy more food, many thanks for your continuing generosity and supportBetween January and June 2025 77 tonnes of food was donated by the public and 101 tonnes of food was sent to our foodbanks; this provided meals for 10,903 people which included 3,548 children.. This week we need sugar, jam, rice , coffee teabags, squash , biscuits;, tinned meat, fish, spaghetti hoops, potatoes, fruit and custard. We always need household cleaning materials, toilet rolls and long life milk and fruit juice.Thank you for all you do to help people who come to our foodbanks.Amongst the sick please pray for Andrew Perry, Angie Robley.Attached is a statement the Archbishop of York has made this week on the situation in Gaza.With All Good Wishes and Prayers, Peter
There has been a bonfire every year in the churchyard for hundreds of years, and this year's bonfire took place, for once, on 5th November itself. Our usual crowd was even bigger than previously, with St. Oswald's schoolkids, students, and longstanding residents enjoying the fire, the sparklers, and the refreshments. Thanks to everyone who came and made it such a lovely evening, to Roz Layton for organising everything brilliantly, to everyone who contributed toffee, biscuits and sweets, and to Giles Radford, Scout Leader extraordinaire, silhouetted in the photo, for building and superintending the magnificent fire.
Oswald, King of Northumbria 634–642ᴀᴅ, was instrumental in bringing Christianity to this region, and is celebrated on 5th August every year with a choral evensong at the cathedral in which we traditionally join to celebrate our patron saint. Generally, we meet in church for a short prequel, and then peregrinate the 715 yds. (0.65 km) across Kingsgate Bridge to the mother church, though this year for a variety of reasons we made our own ways there. Nonetheless, we were very graciously welcomed by the Dean as the 'pilgrims' from St. Oswald's, and three of our younger members made a fine job of processing His Northumbrian Majesty's banner to the high altar.The banner party is pictured here with other members of the congregation, in an image that has been watercolourised to try and rescue a truly dreadful snap.
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.
