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I know some people were puzzled by last Sunday’s sermon from Phil Davis or couldn’t hear it properly, but I think it is a very thoughtful and thought-provoking piece which will repay careful re-reading when you look at it on our website. To me it is a profound reflection on the ambiguity of language and the place of paradox in religion.
On a more mundane level, some of you will have seen that the Crown Appointments Commission has failed to reach agreement on an appointment of the next Bishop of Oxford, which means that the matter will not be broached again until February 2016 with a person in post now as far away as October 2016. Personally I think the non-appointment makes the Church foolish once again, and also, because no one has really noticed the absence of a Bishop, highlights the fact that Diocesan central administration could easily sustain some hard pruning thus easing pressure on the parish share.
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| | Services this Week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
12.15pm Lunchtime Eucharist
Sunday 24th May Pentecost
10.30am Choral Eucharist
Preacher: Canon Brian Mountford
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Forthcoming Events
On Anger - 7.30pm 21st May All the Rage 4th June- Tough Times
In Numbers Poetry Series - 7pm 20th May: Poetry Workshop: "Outcome" 27th May: Panel Discussion: Maths and Music
Moot, 7.45pm 28th May: Revd Peter Groves on Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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Forthcoming Concerts Yale Schola Cantorum
Daniel Kellogg Shout Joy!
Roderick Williams O Brother Man
Haydn Symphony no. 94, ‘Surprise’
Beethoven Mass in C 24th May, 7.30pm, Tickets £20/£15/£10 from http://www.musicatoxford.com/Concerts/Events1415/Yale.html
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| Taize Service for Pentecost: Monday 25th May, 8pm
We will be holding a Taize service for Pentecost on Monday 25th May at 8pm in the chancel. The service will include music from the Taize community, readings, and silence, offering a chance for reflection and contemplation. Everybody is most welcome. |
| 'On Anger'
What is anger for? When is it justified? When is it counterproductive? Dr Amia Srinvasan, Dr Kate Saunders, and Bernard O'Donoghue will lead discussions from the perspective of philsophy, psychiatry and poetry. A three-part series exploring Anger continues Thursday 19th May, 7.30pm in the Vaults. Everyone welcome. |
| | | | | Gloriana - this Saturday!
Hope to see many of you at our Elizabethan pageant, starting 10.45 at the church (or drop in as you like). Timetable: 10.45am: Assemble at the University Church
11am: Procession
11.15-1pm: Dancing, music, poetry and food in Radcliffe Square
1pm: Entertainments continue inside the church, to include:
1.30pm – Poetry Competition readings
1.45pm – Disputations
2.15pm – Latin Address (in translation!) from Queen Bess
2.30pm – A new play, Palamon and Arcite, followed by Elizabeth’s farewell speech
All timings are approximate. The day will conclude at around 3.30pm. More details at universitychurch.ox.ac.uk/gloriana. All are very welcome. See thee anon... |
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Poetry Corner Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock | Much suspected by me,
Nothing proved can be,
Quoth Elizabeth prisoner. |
In 1554-55, Elizabeth was held (at the behest of her sister, Mary Tudor) under house arrest at the Palace at Woodstock. More popular than her ruling sister, her journey there was seen as a Royal Progress in its own right; citizens lined the roads and presented gifts of posies and sweets as she made her way to the lodge at the palace. The former royal hunting lodge had fallen into disrepair. Elizabeth was established here with a few servants, though accommodation was limited; her cofferer (accountant) Thomas Parry took separate rooms in the village. It is said that she scratched the words above into the glass of a window, using a diamond – other writing materials were restricted. It looked very unlikely at this stage, with the Counter-Reformation in full effect, that the Protestant Elizabeth would become Queen. Nevertheless, by 1566 – when she made her Royal Progress to Oxford, which we recreate with our 'Gloriana' event on May 23rd – she arrived from Woodstock Palace in triumph.
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