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It's a busy Sunday coming up. At the Family Service (9.30am) Claire and Charlotte will be launching a new five-part series on the Parables. And at the 10.30 Eucharist our preacher is Professor Elisabeth Dutton who teaches at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Elisabeth is a member of our congregation and led a fantastic Moot lecture on Julian of Norwich a few months ago. Then at 12 noon we have the final one of our three Summer Lunches. It's been wonderful to see the Old Library packed to capacity each time and bejewelled in gingham and flowers. There are rumours of some musical entertainment for this last one. Thank you to everyone who has cooked and baked. And speaking of baking, there will be plentiful supplies of cake tonight on Radcliffe Square at 7.15pm as we meet for one of the stops on the Interfaith walk which begins at 6.15pm at the synagogue.

The Revd Alan Ramsey
Acting Priest in Charge
RIP Daniel Wilson

Daniel Wilson's funeral will be at 4pm on Saturday 4th June in the nave. All are warmly invited for refreshments in the church garden or the Adam de Brome chapel after the service. Gift Aid envelopes will also be available for any donations to Sobell House hospice in Dan’s memory.
Services
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Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Eucharists
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Sunday 5th June 
10.30am - Choral Eucharist
Preacher - Professor Elisabeth Dutton, University of Fribourg and member of SMV
Music:
Palestrina, Missa Nasce la gioja mia (Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus)
Ludford, Domine, Jesu Christe

3.30pm: German Lutheran Service

5.45pm: Corpus Christi College Evensong
Preacher: Professor David McClean
Music:
Noble in B minor
The Spirit of the Lord – Stopford
In other words
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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.

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.
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.
Forthcoming Concerts & Other Events
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Saturday 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


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‘Adopt a Room for a Syrian Family’ Appeal

Last Sunday we launched an appeal to help furnish a Master Bedroom, Children’s Bedroom and Kitchen for a Syrian refugee family moving to Oxford towards the end of June. There was such a generous response from the visitors (with the children’s choir) as well as members of the congregation that we have already been able to buy most of the bedroom furnishings and some of the kitchen equipment. We have therefore decided to take on extra rooms and Asylum Welcome has asked us to sponsor another Bedroom for the family’s 75-year-old granny and also the Bathroom in the house, which would then complete the soft furnishing of this particular home.
We are most grateful to those who have already pledged or donated, but there are now many more items needed and those of you who have not yet had the opportunity to donate please speak to/contact Margaret Lipscomb (M.Lipscomb@ntlworld.com), Janet Greenland, Mary Lean or Jenyth Worsley. Cheques should be made out to ‘St Mary’s Charities Committee’ and cash donations are also most welcome.
Poetry Corner
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Image: William Blake

‘I had a dream, which was not all a dream.’

The opening line from ‘Darkness’, by Lord Byron, is perfect: where are we placed? What are we to believe of what comes next – nothing? Everything? The poem unfolds from the dark, increasingly cataclysmic; and we must trust the poet’s word, because we’re given nothing else that is concrete.

This week, In Other Words looked at the world of the imagination in the Middle Ages, and the places to which those writers can take us. Helen Appleton and Louise Nelstrop delivered the lecture.
St Mary's Church, High Street, OX1 4BJ, Oxford, United Kingdom
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