Subject: News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
March 25th, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView onlineJerusalem our Mother by the Revd Dr Jane Baun We are now midway through Lent, and this coming Sunday is known in Western Christian liturgical tradition as Laetare Sunday, ‘Refreshment Sunday’. Taking our cue from the entrance antipho ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
March 18th, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView onlineThe Shape of Things by the Revd Hannah Cartwright Over the last few weeks, it feels that the world has been reshaped significantly once again. Just at the point we were beginning to think about what it meant to be gradually emerging from ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
March 11th, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView onlineSongs of Hope by Dr Sarah Mortimer Lent seems to have its own special claim on psalms. From the 6th Century, seven of them were marked out as 'penitential psalms', especially appropriate for Lent. And in the decades after the Reformation ...
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March 4th, 2022 at 8:00 pm BSTView onlineVigil for Peace by the Revd Dr William Lamb This coming Sunday, there will be a Vigil for Peace in Radcliffe Square at 1pm as people across the city will gather to show their solidarity with the people of Ukraine. It has been heartbreaki ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
February 25th, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView onlineBe still my soul by Patricia O'Neill For God alone, o my soul, wait in silenceFor my hope is from him.Psalm 62 v 5 My childhood echoed with the phrase ‘the trouble with you, Patricia…’ mostly, it seemed to me, related to my being P ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
February 18th, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView onlineHope for Creation by the Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker Tiny delicate white snowdrops are beginning to appear in our gardens and parks. They offer us a sign of the end of dark winter days and the beginning of the warmth and blossom of s ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
February 11th, 2022 at 8:08 pm BSTView onlineFaith in Action by the Revd Dr William Lamb St Mary’s has a long history of campaigning for social justice and equality. The first meeting of Oxfam took place at St Mary's, and members of our community contributed to the founding of ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
February 4th, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView onlineA Visitation by Janet Greenland Not having been brought up in the Church of England my only ecclesiastical point of reference for a Visitation was the Angel Gabriel coming to Mary, so some years ago was mildly disappointed to learn from ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
January 28th, 2022 at 2:51 pm BSTView onlineWhat makes a community? by the Revd Hannah Cartwright The word ‘community’ gets used a lot, perhaps it is even a little over-used at times by those who want to buy social currency through appealing to the human desire for connection, ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
January 21st, 2022 at 2:10 pm BSTView onlineEzekiel, Exile and Divine Revelation by Annie Calderbank Across Hilary Term, the Vicar (Will Lamb) and I (Annie Calderbank, DPhil student in Hebrew Bible) will be leading a bible study looking at a series of passages from the Book of Eze ...