St. Mary’s Playgroup welcomes parents and carers with pre-school age children from 9.15 am – 11am on Mondays during school term time. There are lots of different activities going on and it’s a chance for children to socialise and play together, and for parents and carers to have a chat. Part way through the session…
Tuesday lunchtime organ concerts will begin again on the 3rd October. Our Director of Music, David Thornton, will play a programme of popular organ music and some arrangements of orchestral music, beginning at 1.00pm and lasting about 40 minutes. Admission is free, but donations are kindly requested. David hopes that we will be able to…
Please help us to support Ribble Valley Food Bank. The Food Bank needs: Tinned vegetables, tinned potatoes, sponge puddings, long life fruit juice, long life milk, soap bars, shaving foam/razors, toothbrushes, laundry liquid/powder/gel, fruit juice (carton), soup, pasta sauces, cereals, tinned rice pudding, tea bags, instant coffee, instant mashed potato, rice, tinned meat, tinned fish, …
What a great performance by LAMPS on Friday evening! Here are some of Eva Kahan’s photos. What’s Next? Come along to St. Mary Magdalene’s on Thursday, October 5th for a discussion about the issues raised…
We are pleased to announce that the Reverend Dr Judith Clark has been appointed as the next Vicar of Clitheroe, Chatburn and Downham. Judith is currently serving as an Associate Priest in St Peter’s Church Harrogate in the Diocese of Leeds. Please pray for Judith as she prepares to take up her post. The Bishop…
On Sunday 9th July St. Mary’s choir will be singing William Byrd’s well know motet ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ Byrd died on the 4th July 1623 so we celebrate his 400th anniversary. He is considered to be England’s most important Renaissance composer.Thought to have been born about 1540, little is known about his childhood although…
Pendle Primary School visit St. Mary’s Church Report by a Key Stage 1 pupil This morning, me and my partner walked up to St. Marys Church. When we got there we quietly walked inside the church and sat down on the 2nd pew, to meet our lovely hoast Patricia and Jo modelled a baby getting…
Welcome to pupils of Pendle Primary School who are visiting St. Mary Magdalene’s during June. The reception classes are learning about why churches are special places for Christians and having fun exploring the church building. Key Stage 1 classes are learning about baptism and the church family…
Congratulations to chorister David Brennan who has sung in St. Mary Magdalene’s Church Choir for more than 70 years and is still in fine voice. David was presented with a certificate and medal from the Royal School of Church Music by Director of Music David Thornton…
PRAYER “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” Colossians 4:3 June For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” (Galatians 5:14) Refugees are our neighbours “Love thy Neighbour” is a deceptively difficult commandment and one that many people are proud to disregard with contempt…