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I am simply honoured and delighted to be back at The University Church supporting the SMV’s clergy, staff and the wonderful congregation during the interregnum. This Sunday we shall be celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi, which comes from a Latin phrase that refers to the body of Christ. We hope that as many of you as possible will join us on this feast day which brings together the whole church to celebrate this special communion which commemorates the Lord last supper.
Also please don’t forget the upcoming Annual Interfaith Friendship Walk, taking place on Thursday June 2nd and starting the synagogue in Richmond Road at 6.15pm. I founded this walk in 2004, as new curate St Mary’s, in response to the human rights violation and torture against detainees in Abu Ghraib jail during the Iraq war. Therefore SMV has a role in bringing together all faiths, but especially Jews, Muslims and Christians: to walk beside each other, to converse with each other and share together a delicious supper at the end of the walk at the Central Mosque. It seems to me that this year of all years, this action of unity and understanding between faiths is as important as it can ever be. Remember all are welcome.
The Revd Charlotte Bannister - Parker Associate Priest |
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—Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Eucharists —
Sunday 29th May Corpus Christi Sunday 10.30am - Choral Eucharist Preacher - The Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker Music: Rheinberger, Missa St. Crucis
The Call by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sung by The Chapel Choir of Thomas's Kensington, directed by Richard Moore
Tallis, Salvator mundi
5.45pm: Corpus Christi College Evensong Preacher: Avril Baigent, Chapel Homilist Music: Purcell in G minor
‘Verleih uns Frieden’ – Mendelssohn
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What is it about a great poem that resonates with us? Why do we feel a sense of the ‘other’ when we read a novel? This series explores the links between literature and theology.
Events take place on Wednesday evenings in the Old Library (above the Vaults and Gardens Café) at 6.45pm.
1 June – Imagination in the Middle Ages
This talk will consider how the imagination was treated as a spiritual and theological tool by various medieval English authors. We will explore how imagination and theology interact within English literature, beginning with the Anglo-Saxon period and moving through to the cusp of the Reformation.
Louise Nelstrop is a Lecturer in Theology at St Benet’s Hall. Helen Appleton in a Lecturer in Medieval English at St Hilda’s College.
8 June – “We say God and the imagination are one”: W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens and Atonement
Is it possible to think of modern poetry as participating in St Paul’s “ministry of reconciliation”? This session will look primarily at two major twentieth-century poets, W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, and listen to the distinct ways in which they ‘say God and the imagination are one’.
Dr Edward Clarke teaches English literature at the Department for Continuing Education.
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| | | Interfaith Friendship Walk - Thursday 2nd June 2016
The Annual interfaith Walk is an opportunity for all faith groups in the city to come together.
6.15pm Synagogue, Richmond Rd
6.40pm St Giles’ Church
7.15pm Radcliffe Square (with light refreshments)
8.00pm Central Mosque, Manzil Way
There will be a meal at the Mosque for all.
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| | Forthcoming Concerts & Other Events—
Tuesday 4th June 12pm Doxology Youth Choir Peachtree Road United Methodist Church
Sheep May Safely Graze J.S. Bach/ arr. Egon Petti
A Jubilant Song Mary Lynn Lightfoot
Mary’s Song (from “Celebrate Life”) Buryl Red
I Believe Mark A. Miller
Carry Me Kyle Hill
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen arr. Mark Hayes
Oh Happy Day Edward Hawkins/arr. Mark Hayes
The Prayer of St. Patrick William Schoenfield
Free Admission
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Saturday 11th June 7.30pm The City of Oxford Choir
Featuring music by Brahms, Elgar, Faure, Rossini, Delibes, Palestrina, Wilbye, Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre Conducted by Duncan Aspden with special guest Anna Markland on piano Tickets £12/£10/£8 available at Tickets Oxford or on the door
Check out our website and Facebook pages.
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A Poison Tree
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
And into my garden stole,
When the night had veild the pole;
In the morning glad I see;
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
- William Blake
A poem, this week, which bridges two of our lecture topics – Philip Pullman last week and William Blake this. Pullman uses the first couplet of this poem as an epigraph to one of the chapters in The Amber Spyglass, where its already intrinsic strangeness compounds the strangeness of the world of the books – a sense of the familiar and the strange overlapping and informing each other. This week we heard from Susanne Sklar on William Blake’s ‘visionary Christianity’ in what was another intriguing session.
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