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Oxford Pride
This month marks 50years since the Stonewall riots in Manhattan. In the course of a routine police raid on a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, tensions erupted. On 28thJune 1969, frustrated by state surveillance and their being targeted for arrest, the patrons of the Stonewall decided to fight back. The two days of uprising that ensued in the district have become synonymous with the kick-off of the gay liberation movement. Each year Pride marches like the one here in Oxford mark the riots of 1969 and the fight for equality, recognition, and freedom.
Times, we may like to think, have changed. But, shamefully, not enough. Last year the UK Government published results of the largest national survey of LGBT people in the world to date. More than two-thirds of LGBT respondents said that they had avoided holding hands with a same-sex partner for fear of a negative reaction from others. In one school in Birmingham, there have been protests at the gates for weeks about whether relationships education can talk and teach about anything beyond heterosexuality. I won’t even mention the Church’s own muddles about sexuality.
We might like to assume the world is a kinder, better adjusted place, able to speak the language of difference, but it takes action and risk, care and vision, to make the world so. This Saturday, we begin the day of the Oxford Pride Parade with a short service of Pride Prayers at 10.30am at St Mary’s. With music, reflections, poetry, readings and prayers, this is a chance to pause and give thanks for human life and love in all its diversity and wonder. Afterwards, a large group of ‘Christians at Pride’ gather on Radcliffe Square for the parade at 12.00, to stand and march and pray for a world where all God’s children can be free. If that sounds like something you want to stand for, you would be very welcome indeed to join us.
The Revd James Crockford Associate Vicar |
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The Week Ahead
This Sunday
Sunday 2 June The Seventh Sunday of Easter 10.30 Choral Eucharist
Preacher: Dr Bethany Sollereder, Regent's Park 15.30 German Lutheran Service - Chancel
18.00 Choral Evensong -Magdalen College Preacher - The Revd Dr William Lamb
Monday Martyrs of Uganda 9.00 Morning Prayer - Chancel
12.15 Eucharist - Chancel 13.30 Lunchtime Recital - Nave 20.30 Taize Service - Harris Manchester College
Tuesday Patroc, 6th Century 9.00 Morning Prayer - Chancel 12.15 Eucharist - Chancel 13.30 Lunchtime Recital - Nave 18.00 Book Club - The Mitre
Wednesday Boniface, 754 9.00 Morning Prayer - Chancel
12.15 Eucharist - Chancel 17.30 Poetry Workshop - Old Library 19.30 Baroque Unlocked - Chancel
Thursday Ini Kopuria, 1945 9.00 Morning Prayer - Chancel
12.15 Eucharist - Chancel
12.45 Bible Study: Ecclesiastes - Old Library 21.00 Compline in the Parks - University Parks
Friday 9.00 Morning Prayer - Chancel 12.15 Eucharist - Chancel 18.30 Choral Evensong - Queen's College
Saturday Thomas Ken, 1711 11.00 Recital - Nave 18.15 Choral Evensong - New College
For full listings of weekly evening services across the University, see our website.
Sunday 9 June The Feast of Pentecost 10.30 Choral Eucharist with Baptism and Confirmation
Preacher and President: The Bishop of Oxford 12.00 Parish Lunch in the Old Library
15.30 Choral Evensong - Chancel |
| | | Oxford Pride Exhibition
From 21 May – 2 June we will be hosting this year’s Oxford Pride Exhibition in the De Brome Chapel. This is a collaborative exhibition of queer art exploring connection, identity and love, with paintings by Jack Smith and Daniel Swan, and photography by Maddy Whitby, Mazz Image, texas and
glory, and Bicester LGBTQI+ Youth Action Team from OYAP.
#HoldTight: Oxford Pride Exhibition
Tuesday 21 May – Sunday 2 June
Group exhibition of queer art exploring connection, identity and love, with paintings by Jack Smith and Daniel Swan, and photography by Maddy Whitby, Mazz Image, texas and glory, and Bicester LGBTQI+ Youth Action Team from OYAP
Pride Prayers
Saturday 1 June, 10:30-11:00
We begin the day of the Oxford Pride Parade with a simple service reflecting on freedom, love and identity. Pride Prayers is a chance to pause, to give thanks, and to pray that we each may find the courage to be ourselves.
Parade: Christians at Pride
Saturday 1 June, 12:00, Radcliffe Square
Join a group from local chapels, churches and Christian communities to march in support of diversity.
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| | BAROQUE UNLOCKED: TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
Rob Howarth, our Director of Music and Bojan Cicic, Leader of the Academy of Ancient Music and Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music will be exploring the development of baroque music, with live musical examples, on Wednesday 5 June at 7.30pm in the Chancel. Tickets are available on Eventbrite (free).
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| | | Trinity Termcard
Click here to see our new termcard for Trinity term 2019. It provides information about service and forthcoming events at St Mary's.
Highlights this term:
1 - 3 May, 13.30 in the Nave : May Music Recitals 9 May, 20.00 in the Nave: Newman and Ecumenism 21 May - 2 June: Celebrating Oxford Pride 5 June, 19.30 in the Old Library: Baroque Unlocked |
| | Bookclub
Tuesdays 30 April - 18 June 6 - 7pm
All Bar One, High Street, Oxford
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories is a darkly humorous set of short stories by Guy de Maupassant. These witty explorations of the human character take us from Parisian prostitutes and the bourgeoisie to the isolation of rural Normandy, portraying romantic, familial and economic relationships with devastating honesty.
Each week, someone introduces a discussion on one of the stories. 4 June - Professor Elisabeth Dutton, Mother Of Invention
11 June - Anna Dill, The Lull-A-Bye 18 June - John Olson, The Necklace |
| | Anglican Women Novelists: From Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James
Edited by Judith Maltby & Alison Shell, Anglican Women Novelists: From Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James will be published next month. These essays formed the basis of a lecture series last year.
There is a 35% discount if you would like to purchase a pre-order copy. If you wish to take advantage of this offer, go to https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/anglican-women-novelists-9780567686763/ and enter the code GLR MP6. |
| | The Gatehouse Summer Volunteers Appeal 2019 The Gatehouse is a volunteer led café for the homeless and vulnerably housed and opens Monday-Friday 5-7pm and Sunday 4-6pm. We operate from 10 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HT. In June, July and August the Gatehouse really struggles with having enough volunteers to open the café to serve 40-70 people a night. We are appealing for seasonal volunteers that do not have to make a regular commitment but that could support the Gatehouse in the short term for this much needed service. If you would like further information please go to the Gatehouse website
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