Subject: News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
September 9th, 2022 at 2:15 pm BSTView online Queen Elizabeth II1926 - 2022 We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. As we mourn her passing, we give thanks for her grace, humanity and service, and above all the duty which she rendered unf ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
September 2nd, 2022 at 2:32 pm BSTView online What’s in a name? by Hannah Cartwright I have the joy and privilege of baptising/christening many children and adults; it is one of my favourite parts of Ministry.Naming plays a significant part in baptism as the person is named b ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
August 26th, 2022 at 2:26 pm BSTView online Kierkegaard’s Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen) by Dallas Callaway Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate. If a human being were a beast or an angel, then they could not be in anxiety. But because a hum ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
August 19th, 2022 at 12:03 pm BSTView online Reading across the lines by Dr Sarah Mortimer They say you can tell a person by their bookshelves - or perhaps nowadays by the books on their kindle…Recently a particular set of bookshelves have been in my mind, shelves tucked awa ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
August 12th, 2022 at 3:35 pm BSTView online Why Mary? by the Revd Dr Jane Baun Anyone who has ever had a lift in my 15-year-old Aegean-blue VW Polo may remember that she is called the Madonnamobile. Bearing a small Greek icon of Our Lady on the dashboard, and a vinyl sticker ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
August 5th, 2022 at 6:15 pm BSTView online Transfiguration: why settle for less? by the Revd Dr Jane Baun Whom have I in heaven but you? And having you, I desire nothing upon earth (Psalm 73:25) All last term, I prayed dutifully for ‘guidance and grace’ for the day in my ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
July 29th, 2022 at 2:33 pm BSTView online Where streams of living water flow by Elizabeth Adams At the end of June, I was on holiday in the Lake District, each day we saw low cloud descend obscuring Skiddaw with accompanying showers. The fells around us were green and dotte ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
July 22nd, 2022 at 3:07 pm BSTView online Give us this day our daily bread by the Revd Dr William Lamb I have just spent ten days in south-eastern Turkey visiting the monasteries of Ṭūr ‘Abdin. These ancient communities, some dating back to the fourth century, form the ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
July 15th, 2022 at 2:49 pm BSTView online Thomas Merton - a photographic exhibition by Esther de Waal How do you see the world! A perennial question, one that seems very immediate in an Oxford summer when the streets are thronged with tourists and sightseers endlessly takin ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
July 9th, 2022 at 2:15 pm BSTView online A mere mortal by Patricia O'Neill Psalm 8 v 4 - 5 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingersThe moon and the stars that you have ordained What are mortals that you should be mindful of themMere human beings that you shou ...