Subject: News from the University Church
News from the University Church
December 16th, 2015 at 4:15 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlyMy friend of 48 years, Canon Jeremy Davies, has been refused permission to officiate in the Winchester Diocese because he is married to Simon McEnery. I’ve known Jeremy since we were at Westcott ...
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December 9th, 2015 at 4:08 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlyI am delighted to be able to tell you that the new silver candlesticks by Stella Campion have been paid for. We already had gifts of £1500 and now the late Anne Hart has left a bequest in her wil ...
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December 2nd, 2015 at 5:14 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlyThe new candle holders for the nave altar have arrived and are looking magnificent. Close inspection will be possible this Sunday when they will be used for the first time – both at the Eucharis ...
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November 25th, 2015 at 3:41 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlyAs most of you know, I shall be leaving St Mary’s on 24 April 2016. That will be the date of my farewell Eucharist and final sermon as Vicar, followed by a great party in the church itself. My d ...
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November 19th, 2015 at 2:49 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlyRecently I gave lunch to a group of undergraduates to plan the Founders' Day Service at St Hilda’s and our Christmas Carol event. It soon became clear that the JCR contingent had no time for rel ...
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November 13th, 2015 at 12:40 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlySERMON WITHOUT WORDS This Sunday we have a sermon without words. Music instead of doctrine. The brilliant young violinist, Savitri Grier, will play, for twenty minutes in the middle of the morning ...
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November 12th, 2015 at 5:50 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlySERMON WITHOUT WORDS This Sunday we have a sermon without words. Music instead of doctrine. The brilliant young violinist, Savitri Grier, will play, for twenty minutes in the middle of the morning ...
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November 5th, 2015 at 4:51 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlyEthics has been on my mind, what with a Remembrance Sunday sermon to compose and all the dilemmas of war and peace. But another issue got me going last week, which began with a news item that tamp ...
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October 28th, 2015 at 5:05 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlyI’ve never been much of a purveyor of bon mots, but here’s one from Voltaire’s that may be an apt description of our theology: ‘doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridi ...
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October 20th, 2015 at 5:16 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctlyThe time of Janet McMullin’s funeral has been confirmed as 11am on Monday 26 October in SMV. Afterwards there will be a reception in the McKenna Room at Christ Church, where Janet was Librarian. ...