Services
—Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Eucharists —
Sunday 12th June 10.30am - Choral Eucharist Preacher - Dr Bill Wood, Tutor in Theology, Oriel College Music: Walton, Missa Brevis
Durufle, Ubi caritas et amor
5.45pm: Corpus Christi College Evensong
Preacher: The Revd Canon Dr Judith Maltby Music: Stainer in B flat
Insanae et vanae curae – Haydn
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| | | | Adopt a Room for a Syrian Family Appeal
A huge thank-you to all who have contributed so far to the appeal to help soft furnish a house for a Syrian family moving to Oxford towards the end of June from a refugee camp in the Middle East. We are currently purchasing items for 5 rooms – 3 bedrooms (for the parents, their 2 children, and their grandmother) plus the kitchen and bathroom – and the Sunday School are collecting books and toys for the children and making them a Welcome to Oxford card.
There are 4 more Syrian families moving to Oxford in August, so if you would still like to contribute, there are many more rooms which need furnishing. Please make cheques payable to the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, marked Charities Group on the back, so we can claim gift aid where appropriate. Donations of cash are also welcome. Please speak to or contact Margaret Lipscomb (M.Lipscomb@ntlworld.com), Janet Greenland, Mary Lean or Jenyth Worsley if you would like further information or to make a donation.
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| | Forthcoming Concerts & Other Events—
Friday 10th June 8pm Schola Cantorum 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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| | Poetry Corner — Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back,
Guiltie of dust and sin.
But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.
from ‘Love (III)’ by George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633)
This week saw the final lecture in our series on Literature and Theology, ‘In Other Words’. Edward Clarke talked about 20th-century poetry, in particular Wallace Stevens and W B Yeats. But this poem, by George Herbert, also engages with this relationship, albeit in a 17th-century manner. The poem sees the personification of Love inviting the speaker in to share a feast; the speaker is ‘guiltie’ and ashamed, but Love is generous and persistent, seeking the speaker out. This sense of inclusion and welcome is, I think, the way that poetry works, making of readers a community.
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