Subject: News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
June 3rd, 2022 at 4:07 pm BSTView online Psalm 139:7 by Patricia O'Neill Where can I go then from your spiritOr where can I flee from your presence I once got into a lot of trouble with the good nuns. I hid in a chest in the chapel and made ghastly moaning noises. When d ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
May 27th, 2022 at 3:30 pm BSTView online We’re stronger together by the Revd Hannah Cartwright At the Sunday Forum last week we were delighted to welcome Revd Dr Keith Hebden from Citizens UK to speak to us about Community Organising and how it can help St Mary’s to ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
May 21st, 2022 at 10:43 am BSTView online An Update regarding Holy Communion by the Revd Dr William Lamb For some time at St Mary’s we have distributed communion in one kind in order to protect the most vulnerable among us from the coronavirus. In recent months, corona ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
May 13th, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView online The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 3) by Dallas Callaway Though it is worth attending to the complications that beset the Augustinian Fall, I think it is also worth exploring its most tragic aspect. There is a te ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
May 6th, 2022 at 3:09 pm BSTView online In new light by Dr Sarah Mortimer A few weeks ago, the last of the scaffolding came down. Since then the spring sunshine has streamed into the nave, illuminating the stone carvings and – in late morning – lending the pulpit a ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
April 29th, 2022 at 8:15 pm BSTView online The Bampton Lectures 2002 by the Revd Dr William Lamb On 10th and 17th May, we will welcome Professor Alec Ryrie FBA, University of Durham, as our Bampton Lecturer. The Bampton Lectures are prestigious lectures which have taken p ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
April 22nd, 2022 at 5:10 pm BSTThe Annual Parochial Church Meeting View online Annual Parochial Church Meeting by the Revd Dr William Lamb It was wonderful to see the church so full of people on Easter Day and heartwarming to read such a positive description of our church l ...
Holy Week & Easter at the University Church
April 14th, 2022 at 6:12 pm BSTView online A Dazzling Darkness by the Revd Dr William Lamb “And it was night.” These words come from St. John’s Gospel – and it’s worth pondering on these words this evening as we participate in this prelude to the Church’s longe ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
April 8th, 2022 at 7:06 pm BSTView online Meek and mild by Janet Greenland Blessed are the meek. for they shall inherit the earth.Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. So says St Matthew.How very different from ou ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
April 1st, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView online Into the world of light: a meditation on death by Dr Henrietta Harrison Of course, as a historian the dead and their stories are always around me, but those are mostly people long gone whose lives we remember as part of the great ...