In order to move us closer to achieving the fulfilment of the diocesan vision for 2026, each year we produce an action plan that sets out how we intend to work towards the aims of being a healthy church that can reach out and transform our community in Clitheroe. This year, as we currently have…
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Free Houseplant Giveaway for Harvest
If you’ve seen the houseplants at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show and you’d like to try one for yourself, as part of our Harvest Thanksgiving we’re offering the opportunity to pick one up after the service. Conversely, if you have plants to give away, please bring those and leave them with the others outside the…
Anthony Brown writes on the Clitheroe Christians in Partnership theme for this month.
Anthony Brown asks us to listen to God and let Him teach us how to love the most marginalized in society
APCM Agenda
Agenda for the Annual Parochial Church Meeting 19th May 2021 to take place in Church at 7.30pm
Let’s Keep Connected!
Let’s Keep Connected – With or Without the Internet! Now it’s even more important to keep in touch, if you don’t subscribe to St Mary Magdalene’s Parish Magazine, you’ll be missing out. It has news, stories, pictures, puzzles and a few lines to make you smile in every issue – and for your £5 subscription…
Why St Mary’s Wants to Expand its Digital Mission – from the Christmas Parish Magazine
More than 17,000 online services and events have been provided by Church of England churches since the introduction of the lockdown and restrictions on public worship earlier this year. Figures from the Church of England’s A Church Near You website, which allows people to search for church services and events, ( our page is maintained…
Friday Morning Eucharist at Whalley Abbey Returns.
Praying with Whalley Abbey Whilst Whalley Abbey may be closed more generally at the moment, it IS open for prayer – in person and online. Before lockdown, a small group shared in a Eucharist in the Chapel at the Abbey on Friday mornings. It is wonderful to be able to say this Eucharist will recommence from…
The Vicar’s Letter
It’s strange. It’s weird. It’s like a bad dream. These are some of the things that people have said to me over the last few days. Or rather shouted at me from over 2 metres away.There is an air of unreality about how events have unfolded so rapidly from early reports of a strange new…
Join Us at Candlemas and Share the Light!
Wish you could get back some of the warmth and light of Christmas in these bleak days? Don’t worry – it’s officially not all over yet: for us, Christmas lasts until 2nd February! If you want to give the season a send-off with music, songs and candles galore, join us at 10 am to celebrate…
Taking the Bishop’s Bible Challenge
See how St Mary Magdalene’s is rising to the Bishop’s Bible Challenge!