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This year the Blackburn Diocese is hosting an online Lent Course called, ‘Looking out in Lent’. The Bishops and Archdeacons will be involved. The overarching title of the online course is ‘Looking Out in Lent’. It will use St Mark’s Gospel and the five marks of mission to explore ways of being a more outward-looking […]

My Dear Friends. Happy New Year; I pray that it may be for each of us a year of good health, spiritually, physically and emotionally. Tomorrow we shall keep the Feast of the Epiphany, transferred, as we usually do, to the nearest Sunday. We shall be reminded of how people travelled a great distance, with

Carol Service: As a result of the pandemic we cannot hold our usual Christmas Carol Service. The Carol Service this year will be a video recording that will be premiered on our Facebook page on Sunday 20 December at 6.30 pm. It will be available to view at any time after that. Update: The Christmas

Although we have been unable to stage our Christmas Tree Festival this year there is still an opportunity to remember family members and friends who have died by writing a prayer or message on a star and hanging it on our Memorial Christmas Tree. Church will be open for private prayer each afternoon from 3.00

The second lockdown has ended and our celebrations of the Holy Eucharist began again in Church last Wednesday and will continue for the foreseeable future (that is, until we are told to stop again). The same coronavirus safety conditions that were in place immediately before the second lockdown began will apply and our normal pattern

Throughout the ages it has been the custom of the church to endeavour to provide support for those who live in our parishes and this vital aspect of Christian love wherein we reflect our Saviour’s love for our community is even more important during this time of pandemic. Lock down, reduced incomes, job losses and

As in previous years The Salvation Army will be delivering Christmas presents on the Fylde coast to disadvantaged and needy children of all ages. Last year they delivered five presents each to 1500 local children and this year the need is expected to be even greater. Toys and presents (including vouchers) can be donated through

St Annes Parish Church Christmas cards are still available to buy from Susan McMahon but there are only FIVE packs left. This year’s card features a painting by Maggie Chowns of the ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’ by Gerard Van Honthorst (1622). The price is the same as last year – a pack of five cards

Tomorrow the country keeps Remembrance Sunday, which will be very different this year; there will be no civic services, and indeed, no services in Church. However, please look for the Service of Remembrance we recorded in Church before the Lockdown began. It will ‘go live’ on our Facebook page at 10.54 am. – timed so

Dear All Here we are again in lockdown, infection rates of the COVID-19 virus are increasing rapidly and the government believes the best thing to do to keep both people and the NHS safe is to require us to stay in our homes as much as possible. One consequence of the lockdown is that gathering