Each year on the 2nd February the ceremony of The Blessing of Candles is performed. This is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. On this day the Church recalls Christ's presentation by our Lady & St. Joseph in the temple on Jerusalem as per Jewish custom with each first born male child.

The Preston Passion is being broadcast live on Good Friday (6 April 2012) between 12 noon and 1 p.m. from the City Centre and singers (500 plus) and crowd members (1000 plus) are needed. Sign up sheets are at the back of church.  The deadline for submitting names is Monday 13 February 2012 and so time is short.  Please support this event and help make sure that St Clare's is well represented at what promises to be a unique event in the Guild Calendar.

More precisely: 'it's off! What?  Preston Guild 2012. In the third week of Guild Year and in the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity,  2,000 people from the vast majority of churches in and around Preston gathered at the Guild Hall to pray and praise and worship God together.