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News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
April 16th, 2021 at 5:00 pm BSTView onlineParadox In Book XI of his Confessions, Saint Augustine muses: “What, then, is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know what time is. But if I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.” Plotinus contemplated time over a cen ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
April 9th, 2021 at 5:54 pm BSTView onlineReflections on Holy Week by the Revd Susannah Reide On Easter morning I woke up early, before dawn, and cycled to Headington Quarry church. People were gathering in the pre-dawn dark in a little woodland by the churchyard. It was too da ...
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April 4th, 2021 at 7:40 pm BSTView onlineA Paschal Homily In the late fourth century, John Chrysostom became the Archbishop of Constantinople. The name ‘Chrysostom’ means golden-mouthed. He was a formidable preacher and eventually was recognised by the church as a saint. On ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
April 3rd, 2021 at 3:47 pm BSTView onlineNotices ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETINGThis meeting will take place on Sunday 18 April at 4.00pm on Zoom. At this meeting, we elect members of the PCC after electing the Churchwardens. Please pray for the PCC and all those who volunteer ...
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March 26th, 2021 at 6:19 pm BSTView onlineAn update from the Faith in Action Committee by Mary Lean, Chair A couple of days ago, we watched The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which tells the story of a farming family in Malawi, struggling with flood, drought, crop failure and hunge ...
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March 19th, 2021 at 4:06 pm BSTView online“Now thank we all our God” The theme of this hymn may sound like a daunting task in the midst of Lent and lockdown. For some of those who have themselves suffered from the pandemic or who had to see loved ones die, it may even feel ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
March 12th, 2021 at 2:00 pm BSTView onlineBibles By Victoria Mort When we first came to live in Oxford in 1978 it was a time of spiritual change for us, as well as all the other sorts of change we were experiencing after years of army life. We seemed to have quite a number of di ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
March 5th, 2021 at 4:00 pm BSTView onlineGodspeed By Tess Blenkinsop A friend sent this very moving and thoughtful film (link below - I hope you can find time to watch it). So much of it made me think of the fast pace at which we live and our social connections; both of which h ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
February 26th, 2021 at 5:01 pm BSTView onlineLenten Transformation By James Roberts Lent is a period of change and transformation. Not only do we look inwards at ourselves and seek to change our own habits in this season, but we patiently wait for the transformations which the East ...
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February 19th, 2021 at 4:18 pm BSTView onlinePerformance, Popularity and Possessions By the Revd Dr William Lamb ’Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards was famished’. (Matthew 4 ...