Welcome to the St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith Parish Website

Our church is  open for public mass celebration at the usual times (see latest newsletter for up to date details), and private prayer and devotion to The Blessed Sacrament each Weekday, Monday-Friday from 10am to Midday, and Saturdays following 9.30am mass until 12.00 (with the exception of the first Saturday in each month)

Visitors are asked to wear facemasks whilst in church, and to use to hand sanitisers provided when entering church.

Fr John is now taking bookings for weddings and baptisms. He can be contacted in the sacristy at the end of Sunday mass.

For well over 100 years now, St Oswald’s has also been a place of pilgrimage for the relic of St Edmund Arrowsmith’s Holy Hand-Saint and Martyr. The Holy Hand is present on the altar at each mass, and is used in the blessing at the end of mass.

We welcome visitors and also pilgrimage groups by appointment.

We hope you are able to join us  for private prayer and for public mass.

Father John Gorman

August 2021

Archdiocese News

Pastoral letter 27th June 2021

Following the recent Synod, The Archbishop of Liverpool, Malcom McMahon, has written a Pastoral letter to be read in all churches in the Archdiocese. Synod Pastoral Letter

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Pray for a Successful Synod

Synod 2021 The Archdiocesan Synod takes place next Saturday 19th June. Attached is a Week of Prayer for the Synod to be prayed each day this week. Please pray for our Synod members. Father of...

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Synod 2020 Recommendations

SYNOD 2020 The Archdiocesan Synod takes place on 19th June and Synod Members are currently discerning how they will vote on the recommendations that have emerged. A full list of these recommendations are attached to...

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Day of the Lord – an open letter from The Bishops of England and Wales

The Bishops of England and Wales have issued a letter of reflection with thoughts about the Pandemic and how to embrace church in the future. Download on the link in yellow below. Day-of-the-Lord[2505]

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Pastoral Letter 25th April 2021

The Archbishop has written a pastoral letter to be read at all masses on Sunday 25th April 2021. It can be read by downloading from the link below. Pastoral_Letter_Vocations_Sunday_2021  

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Synod Update Autumn 2020

Synod 2021 Following the Archbishop’s Pastoral Letter about the next phase of the Archdiocesan Synod, copies of the Synod proposals for each of the themes will be attached to the newsletter over the next three...

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