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This Sunday we will be celebrating our Harvest Festival at St Mary’s. As usual, there will be an opportunity for members of the congregation to make donations to the Gatehouse. Many people at St Mary’s will be familiar with the work of the Gatehouse. It was an initiative started by the Oxford city churches as a winter daytime shelter for the homeless and the vulnerably housed in November 1988. Nowadays, support comes from across the whole community and the Gatehouse offers a drop-in cafe throughout the year for anyone who is 25 or older at the St Giles Parish Rooms on Woodstock Road. It’s a place where anyone will find a sympathetic ear, as well as hot soup, tea, coffee, sandwiches, fresh fruit and cake.
Before coming to Oxford, I worked for a number of years at Sheffield Cathedral, the home of the Cathedral Archer Project, which provided a similar drop-in service and refuge for the homeless. With the cuts in services locally and nationally, and the shocking increase in homelessness in recent years, this kind of support is now more needed than ever. In offering our support, please make a note of the following items, which the staff and volunteers at the Gatehouse would particularly welcome: Bovril, Marmite, Jam, Honey, Chocolate spread, Peanut butter, Salad cream, Mayonnaise, Tomato ketchup, Brown sauce, Tinned ham, Tinned tuna, Tinned sardines, Teabags, Coffee, Hot chocolate, Cuppasoup, Cake (shop-bought and wrapped), Toiletries and sanitary products.
For more information about the Gatehouse, you can follow this link: www.oxfordgatehouse.org. We are very grateful for your generosity.
The Revd Dr William Lamb Vicar |
| | The Week Ahead:
—This Sunday
Harvest Festival
10.30am All Age Eucharist
Preacher: Revd Dr William Lamb
This Week
Monday Lancelot Andrewes, 1626
9.00am Morning Prayer
5.30pm Choral Evensong (see details below)
Tuesday Wilson Carlile, 1942
9.00am Morning Prayer
12.15pm Eucharist
Wednesday Ember Day
9.00am Morning Prayer
Thursday
9.00am Morning Prayer
12.15pm Eucharist
Friday St Michael and All Angels
9.00am Morning Prayer
Saturday Jerome, 420
2.30pm Wedding
Next Sunday
Sunday 1st October Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
9.30am Family Service
10.30am Choral Eucharist
Preacher: The Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker
12noon Newman Walk to Littlemore
3.30pm German Lutheran Service
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| | Harvest Festival
Our annual Harvest Festival will take place on this Sunday 24 September. There will be an all-age Sung Eucharist at 10.30am. This year we will be supporting the Gatehouse, Oxford’s refuge for people who are homeless or vulnerably housed. If you wish to make a donation, please bring the following items to the service or drop these items off at the University Church between 10am and 12noon on Friday 22 September: Bovril, Marmite, Jam, Honey, Chocolate spread, Peanut butter, Salad cream, Mayonnaise, Tomato ketchup, Brown sauce, Tinned ham, Tinned tuna, Tinned sardines, Teabags, Coffee, Hot chocolate, Cuppasoup, Cake (shop-bought and keepable for a while), Toiletries and sanitary products.
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| | Newman Walk
On Sunday 1 October at 12noon (following the Sunday morning service), we are going on a little pilgrimage to Littlemore as we walk from St Mary's to the church in Littlemore, which was established by Blessed John Henry Newman, who was Vicar of St Mary (1828 - 1843). Please bring a packed lunch, stout walking shoes and a waterproof (in case of inclement weather). If you would like to use this walk as an opportunity to raise funds for the restoration of Littlemore church, please email universitychurch@ox.ac.uk for a sponsorship form.
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| | Choral Evensong
The Choir of King’s College School, Wimbledon will be singing Evensong here at St Mary’s on Monday 25 September at 5.30pm. Everyone is welcome to attend.
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| | | Poetry Corner
from Duns Scotus’ Oxford
Towery city and branchy between towers;
Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark charmèd, rook racked, river-rounded;
The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did
Once encounter in, here coped & poisèd powers…
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
The opening to Hopkins’ ‘Duns Scotus’ Oxford’ is a little explosion of joy. The sprung rhythm which Hopkins gave name to – that is, accentual verse with a regular number of syllables per line, but a lack of stress pattern so that the line resembles speech – buds with delightful images; the rhyme satisfies. The neologisms Hopkins employs are also rather persuasive – ‘towery’ and ‘branchy’ are somehow so evocative. There is not a harsh sound to be found in ‘the dapple-eared lily below thee’; nothing soft about ‘rook racked’. Hopkins packs as much as possible into each syllable, so that the verse is in the breathing.
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