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This Sunday at 10.30am we shall celebrate Harvest and we are fortunate to have a return visit from soprano, Elizabeth Nurse, accompanied by Pete McMullin, who will sing an excerpt from Haydn’s Creation as the gradual, between the Epistle and Gospel. The service will be ‘family friendly’ but not dumbed down in any way. For example, at the sermon slot some of the teenage group will read appropriate poems and prose extracts, with the Vicar providing a linking commentary. Afterwards there will be lunch in the Old Library for everyone.
As for gifts, it would be helpful to the gatehouse drop-in centre for the homeless if you were able to bring items from the following list: coffee, sugar, peanut butter, honey, chocolate spread, tea, jam, Bovril, Branston pickle, tuna, shaving things, deodorant, shampoo/shower gel, toothbrushes.
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| | Services this Week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
12.15pm Lunchtime Eucharist
Sunday 26th September Harvest Festival
10.30am Sung Eucharist
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Forthcoming Events
Thursday 24th September,5-8.30pm A sense of Place, Old Library (details below). There are places left so if you would like to book one, please contact Penny at penny.boxall@universitychurch.ox.ac.uk before tomorrow, Thursday at noon.
Sunday 4th October, 9.30am: Family Service: Joseph and his brothers; continuing the Scary Stories series. |
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Forthcoming Concerts
Saturday, 26th September 8pm, Oxford Sinfonia Myslivecek Overture Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for winds K297b
Bach double violin concerto
Haydn Symphony 44 ‘Trauer’
Friday 2nd October 3pm: The Divine Office Concert Series Handel Coronation Anthems & Utrecht Te Deum
with The Instruments of Time & Truth11pm: Oxford Chamber Festival Wagner Siegfried Idyll | Debussy Children’s Corner | Scott Joplin Ragtime | Tchaikovsky Mélodie | Morricone Cinema Paradiso |
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| | | A Sense of Place Thursday 24th September, 5-8.30pm.
This exciting new initiative runs concurrent workshops for poets and artists producing responses to the University Church. Through exercises, discussion and exploration of this unique space, the workshop aims to prompt fresh and creative site-specific art.
The workshop costs £15 per person, to include tuition, materials, and a light supper. Bring your own notebooks/sketchbooks and materials if desired. Numbers are strictly limited to 8 writers and 8 artists. To apply, and to find out more, send an email to penny.boxall@universitychurch.ox.ac.uk
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| | Poetry Corner
Three Blind Mice
Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice.
Could this originally have been written about the ‘Oxford Martyrs’, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer? One tradition suggests so. There’s a suggestion that this poem has Catholic sympathies, and their ‘blindness’ could be their Protestant faith; but perhaps Mary Tudor wouldn’t be painted as the ‘farmer’s wife’ in such a rendering. (Philip of Spain owned vast tracts of land, which earned him the name ‘Philip the Farmer’).
If you are interested in tickets for The Oxford Martyrs, please email ikhan@mcsoxford.org with ‘Oxford Martyrs ticket enquiry’ in the email header.
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