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Few of us could have foreseen a week ago that the UK would be facing profound uncertainty about its relationship to Europe, leadership contests in both major political parties and serious turmoil in the financial market.

However we have faced difficult times before, none more so than a century ago: 1916’s Battle of the Somme marked the point of greatest suffering in the First World War. Tomorrow Her Majesty the Queen will be attending a Service on the Eve of the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme at Westminster Abbey. It may be of little comfort, but perhaps pausing now and again to reflect on the pain, sorrow and fear of the Great War, will bring a measure of perspective.

We too must find the courage to create a strong way forward for Britain, Europe and the world, united under a banner of tolerance and respect for all, especially in light of yesterday's loss of many innocent lives in the terrible terrorist attack in Turkey.

The parable in the Children’s Service that Claire will be leading this Sunday is that of the Sower. We are blessed to have such gospel stories to help us know that if we have prepared the “soil” of our hearts well, then God’s Word can be sure to grow in fertile ground and that a God of Hope will be one we can turn to in times of trouble and turbulence.

The Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker
Associate Priest

Services
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Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Eucharists

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Sunday 3rd July Trinity 6

9.30am - Family Service

10.30am - Sung Eucharist

Preacher - Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker

3.30pm - Lutheran Service

Forthcoming Concerts & Other Events

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Saturday 2nd July 8pm Oxford Chamber Orchestra

Oxford Festival of Arts

Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
Conductor:Benjamin Goodson
Pianist:Maki Sekiya
Tickets: Oxford Playhouse 01865 305305 or Oxford Playhouse Tickets Oxford. Tickets also available on the door.

Saturday 9th July 7.30pm Oxford Pro Musica Singers

Will Todd - Mass in Blue

Chilcott - Little Jazz Mass and a selection of spirituals

with Joanna Forbes-L'Estrange- Soprano

and the Alexander L'Estrange Quartet

Conductor: Mark Jordan

Tickets : £15/£10 from musicatoxford.com & on the door.

Sunday 10th July 7.30pm New Zealand Youth Choir - European Tour 2016

Including music by Mendelssohn, Vaughn Williams, Peter Philips and Matthew Harris with New Zealand works by David Hamilton and Tuirina Wehi

Conductor: David Squire

Tickets: £15/£12

Check out our website and Facebook pages.

http://www.universitychurch.ox.ac.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/smvoxford/

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Poetry Corner

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I’ve been doing a little background reading for the Mystery Play project we’re launching over the summer by reading the Oxford’s World’s Classics edition of the York Mystery Plays, edited by Richard Beadle and Pamela King. I should really be focussing on the text of the plays themselves, but I’ve become a bit sidetracked by a description in the introduction of the waggons on which the plays were performed. Of particular note is the stage for the Last Judgment (performed by the Mercers, or cloth merchants), which featured a winch for God to ascend/descend from heaven; heaven was rendered with blue and red clouds, gold stars, a wooden rainbow, and nine mechanical angels which were operated with a cord so that they would ‘run about in the heaven’.

Our staging may end up being somewhat less elaborate, but it’s a fascinating glimpse into the world of medieval theatre. And who knows: there may be room for a mechanical angel or two…

Image: Hans Splinter

St Mary's Church, High Street, OX1 4BJ, Oxford, United Kingdom

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