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I’ve been riding my bike a lot these last few weeks… round about Urmston and Davyhulme. Its not a posh bike – in fact its a pretty workaday thing. Old, past its best (its aluminium frame was only guaranteed for ten years and that’s long gone), but it has carried me all over and I […]Read more

Any talk of bread in a church tends to be about Holy Communion : Jesus said ‘I am the bread of life’ and we celebrate that every week in the sacrament of Holy Communion. The thing about bread the word ‘bread’  is that  as well as standing for food made from flour and water, its […]Read more

No not a tour company off shoot  – just an invitation to come to St Clements, climb the spiral staircase up into the tower – and look out at the incredible view from the top!! People are taken up in small groups – ample opportunity to take photographs. There will also be heritage information Read more

He is Risen Indeed. Alleluia For almost six weeks now there has been something missing from church.  We’ve had occasional glimpses, usually when we’ve being doing special events for children, but usually, Lent means the ‘alleluia’s’ are absent from our Liturgy. Tomorrow they return Read more

Currently we have four people who are preparing for confirmation, which is a special service to admit those suitably prepared into the adult fellowship of the church. In the Confirmation Service on 14th May Bishop Mark Middleton will invite them to remake their baptism promises and commit themselves to a life of Read more

If we were to design churches now, they would look very different; accessible, catering facilities, toilets, meeting spaces, audio visual equipment etc but its unlikely we could ever afford the incredible stone buildings that our forebears built that we enjoy (and often take for granted) now. Most of us love the Read more