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The Christmas Carol Service collection of £1182.97 was given to ‘Empowering Women, Uganda’, an organisation recently started by Annette Mountford. Many thanks to everyone who contributed.
In the picture, the girl with one leg is called Goretti. At the age of twelve she lost her leg through polio and was shut away, because she was considered useless, until her parents died from AIDS. At this point, with no money or skill, she had to look after her younger siblings. The other Ugandan woman in the photo is Maureen who (with funding from Sue Wates) has trained several hundred women like Goretti to become tailors. Once trained they are given a sewing machine and as they earn money they’re able to feed siblings, send them to school and gradually pay back the loan for the machine. Goretti now has several school uniform contracts, and starting from nothing has now bought a pig, sold the piglets, bought more pigs and has a little shop too.
It was this group of young women Annette trained to develop their parenting skills and become more confident. She will be going back to Uganda later in the year and with your generosity will be able to train more women and make small donations to their welfare.
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Tuesdays & Thursdays
12.15 pm Lunchtime Eucharist
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Sunday 24th January 2016
10.30am- Choral Eucharist, Third Sunday of Epiphany Preacher: The Rt Revd Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester
Music: Vaughan Williams, Mass in G Minor Charles Villiers Stanford, Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
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| | Plain Song Series
27th January, 6.45pm, Old Library – Sacred Music in the Modern Era
Jonathan Arnold explores the rich variety of twentieth and twenty-first century sacred music, its function and popularity, even whilst religion is being attacked by new atheists and Church attendance is in the balance.
Rev. Dr. Jonathan Arnold is Chaplain and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford.
Plain Song: A Short History of Music in the Church
Music and the Church have always had a special relationship. From the Church’s very earliest years worship has been aided, enhanced and delivered through beautiful and challenging music.
This series takes a fascinating look at the way music and the church engage with each other. |
| | Work, Sex & Self Series
28th January – WORK7.30pm Vaults Cafe
Most of us spend the greatest proportion of our time at work but how do we make this a truly meaningful and rewarding experience? This session explores work from a number of perspectives including personal fulfilment,
ethics, future trends and relationships.
A three-part course for students and everyone
Often the Church seeks to answer questions that no one is asking. This short course aims to tackle three fundamental subjects that most people care deeply about. Over three evenings, Revd Canon Brian Mountford will address contemporary attitudes to work, sex and personal identity. He will explore how these attitudes have changed and what role theology might play in shaping and enriching them for the future. Each evening will include a talk, Q&A, and discussion over cheese and wine. 7.30pm–9.00pm in the Vaults Café at University Church. 28th January, 11th February and 25th February.
Revd Canon Brian Mountford MBE has been the vicar of University Church for thirty years. Before that he was vicar of Southgate in North London. Brian is also a Fellow of St Hilda’s College and an honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral.
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| | Other forthcoming Events
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| | Forthcoming Concerts
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Saturday 23rd January 7.30pm Oxford Sinfonia: Paul Wingfield conductor
Weber Behersscher der Geister
Mozart flute and harp concerto
soloists Oliver Wass & Daniel Shao (wind finalist BBC young musician 2014)
Mendelssohn Symphony no 5 Reformation
Tickets from Tickets Oxford online.
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| | | Poetry corner — "Winter Fields"
Oh, for a pleasant book to cheat the sway
Of winter – where rich mirth with hearty laugh
Listens and rubs his legs on corner seat;
For fields are mire and sludge – and badly off
Are those who on their pudgy paths delay;
There striding shepherd, seeking driest way,
Fearing night's wetshod feet and hacking cough
That keeps him waken till the peep of day,
Goes shouldering onward and with ready hook
Progs oft to ford the sloughs that nearly meet
Across the lands; croodling and thin to view,
His loath dog follows – stops and quakes and looks
For better roads, till whistled to pursue;
Then on with frequent jump he hurkles through.
- John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864)
Clare has a great deal of fun with squelchy, bogged-down language here; ‘progs oft to ford the sloughs’ is practically saturated. ‘Croodling’, ‘loath dog’ and ‘hurkles through’, too, are full of an earthy sort of life. Clare, the son of a farm labourer, was intimate with the trials of winter – but music like this adds joy. We will be looking at the sounds of poetry particularly over the next five weeks, in our tie-in workshops for ‘Plain Song’, which examines music and the church. |
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