Subject: News from the University Church

News from the University Church

May 3rd, 2024 at 5:00 pm BST

View onlineSongs of Ascent by the Revd Naomi Gardom I recently discovered that The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams’ immensely popular piece for violin and orchestra, was based on a poem of the same name by the Victorian poet George Meredith. The ...

News from the University Church (Errata)

April 26th, 2024 at 5:41 pm BST

View onlineThis Sunday - APCM, 12 Noon, Old Library This Sunday at 12noon in the Old Library, we will hold our annual parish church meeting (APCM). This is a special occasion in the year where we give an account of the year that's passed, look over o ...

News from the University Church (Errata)

April 19th, 2024 at 8:30 pm BST

View onlineErrata Many apologies. There was a copy mistake in the editorial. Here it is in its correct version.Thirty Years of Priestly Ministry by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb On Sunday, we will mark a special anniversary. The Revd Canon Dr Judith ...

News from the University Church

April 19th, 2024 at 6:46 pm BST

View onlineThirty Years of Priestly Ministry by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb On Sunday, we will mark a special anniversary. The Revd Canon Dr Judith Maltby will be celebrating 30 years as a priest. At the 10.30am Choral Eucharist, Judith will presi ...

News from the University Church

April 12th, 2024 at 10:59 am BST

View onlineGrow to Share by Janie Bickersteth ‘Kia ora’ from the other side of the world. I have recently returned from Aotearoa (New Zealand), where we’ve been on a two month ‘sabbatical’. We lived on an island 45 minutes ferry ride from A ...

News from the University Church

April 5th, 2024 at 5:20 pm BST

View onlineEntertaining angels unaware by Lyn Robertson This is an accidental footnote, very fit for Low Sunday, to the Vicar's reflections on hospitality at Easter. Hebrews 13:2 links hospitality to strangers with our love of those close to us, both ...

Holy Week & Easter at the University Church

March 30th, 2024 at 10:20 pm BST

View onlineLove bade me welcome by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb Love bade me welcome In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the faithful listen every Easter Day to a sermon preached by John Chrysostom, the great fourth century preacher of Constantinopl ...

Holy Week & Easter at the University Church

March 22nd, 2024 at 6:02 pm BST

View onlineWalk with Christ this Holy Week by the Revd Hannah Cartwright For those of us who have been in the Church of England a long time, the encouragement to 'walk with Christ' through Holy Week and Easter becomes a shorthand for joining a journ ...

News from the University Church

March 20th, 2024 at 12:11 pm BST

View onlineTruth deep within by Dr Sarah Mortimer Psalm 51 runs through Lent like a refrain. On Ash Wednesday we heard it all, with its words of penitence and its plea to God for mercy and forgiveness. And verses from it are woven into prayers, like ...

News from the University Church

March 8th, 2024 at 5:04 pm BST

View onlineTruth deep within by Dr Sarah Mortimer Psalm 51 runs through Lent like a refrain. On Ash Wednesday we heard it all, with its words of penitence and its plea to God for mercy and forgiveness. And verses from it are woven into prayers, like ...