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Well, I’ve just returned from two weeks at sea speaking about the Reformation, the First World War, and Flowers in the Bible on a Swan Hellenic Cruise. One of my fellow speakers was Gervase Phinn, a Yorkshireman and raconteur who had once been a schools inspector. He related how he had been invited by a primary school head teacher to see the Nativity play and when he arrived he was met by a group of small children chattering excitedly and apparently on their way home. He takes up the story:
I stopped a small boy outside the school. ‘Excuse me,’ I said.
‘We’re not supposed to speak to strange men outside school,’ he replied, wiping his nose on the back of his hand.
‘I’m here to see the nativity play,’ I told him.
‘Well it’s off,’ he told me bluntly.
‘It’s off?’ I repeated.
The boy raised his hand to his head and scratched his scalp. ‘Aye t’Virgin Mary’s got nits.’
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| | Services this Week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
12.15pm Lunchtime Eucharist
Sunday 26th July Trinity 8
10.30am Sung Eucharist
Address: Revd Alan Ramsey
5pm Choral Evensong (with the University Church Choir)
Readings: Psalm 74. 11-22, Job 19.1-27a, Hebrews 8
Responses: Ayleward
Canticles: Byrd, The Short Service
Anthem: Byrd, Justorum Animae |
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Forthcoming Events
Thursday 30th July, 1-2pm: Poetry Seminar (Roy Fuller)
Throughout the summer, we'll be running a family craft stall on Thursday afternoons. Pop in for colouring, sewing, stained glass-design.
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Forthcoming Concerts 27th July, 8pm, Oxford Philomusica
SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus, Op. 90
BRAHMS Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Books I and II
BRAHMS 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 76
SCHUBERT Fantasie in C major, D. 760, ‘Wanderer’
28th July, 8pm, Oxford Philomusica
GEORGE BENJAMIN Sortilèges
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a, ‘Les Adieux’
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2
GEORGE BENJAMIN Piano Figures
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, ‘Waldstein’
Tickets for both evenings from Tickets Oxford or on the door. |
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| | Ride and Stride, 12th September
The annual RIDE AND STRIDE in aid of Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust, will take place on Saturday 12th. September. If you would like to take part on either feet or bicycle, please contact Margaret Chaundy - margaret.chaundy2@btinternet.com Alternatively, if you can spare an hour on the day to welcome visiting participants, your help would be much appreciated. |
| Message from Zoe Cuckow
Thanks so much for your generous support towards my volunteering trip to Uganda this summer. We raised £237.34, which will make a huge difference to many Ugandans in need. I look forward to telling you more about my trip when I’m back in Oxford! For more information about my trip or the charity UniTED, please contact me at zoe.cuckow@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk or visit www.unitedpartnerships.com. Thanks!
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| Poetry Corner
The More Loving One
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us, we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
- WH Auden (February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973)
Auden, born in York, came up to Oxford in 1925, when he was admitted to Christ Church. At Oxford he met others who would also become influential poets: Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice.
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