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News from the University Church
March 24th, 2023 at 3:45 pm BSTView online When the land dries up by Al Dutton When the land dries up, all life dies: the plants wither; birds and animals starve; the soil turns to dust and is blown away; the sun-baked ground becomes so hard that little rain soaks in; the ...
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March 17th, 2023 at 3:26 pm BSTView online And a sword will pierce your own soul too (Luke 2:35) by the Revd Dr Jane Baun This Sunday we arrive at the midpoint of Lent, with the Sunday is known to Western-rite Christians as Laetare Sunday or ‘Refreshment Sunday’—and ...
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March 10th, 2023 at 2:27 pm BSTView online Martyrdom by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb At 11.00am on Tuesday 21st March, there will be a service at the University Church to mark the Commemoration of Thomas Cranmer, who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1532 – 1553. ...
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March 3rd, 2023 at 3:06 pm BSTView online And a while from joys abstain… by the Revd Hannah Cartwright The great hymn Forty Days and Forty Nights includes the line:‘Let us thine endurance share, and a while from joys abstain…’. On the surface, abstinence from joy ...
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February 24th, 2023 at 3:17 pm BSTView online Help the University Church head for Silver! by Tess Blenkinsop ‘Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may have her young” Psalms 84:1-3 Christianity is rich in the symbolism of birds ...
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February 17th, 2023 at 3:27 pm BSTView online Listen and incline the ear of your heart by the Revd Canon Dr Charlotte Bannister-Parker As we approach Ash Wednesday, one of the prayers in our liturgy reminds us that we are dust and to dust we shall return: “Blessed are you, ...
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February 10th, 2023 at 3:26 pm BSTView online Knit my heart...by Dr Sarah Mortimer The psalms are full of wonderful and rather mysterious phrases. One that sticks in my mind is from Psalm 86: after asking God to teach us his ways, the psalmist exclaims ‘knit my heart to y ...
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February 3rd, 2023 at 3:00 pm BSTView online A time to...by Patricia O'Neill To every thing there is a seasonAnd a time to every purpose under heavenEcclesiates 3:1 I’ve always liked the liminal, the places or times that are not quite one thing or another. Dusk, as the l ...
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January 27th, 2023 at 3:00 pm BSTView online Use your LOAF in Lentby Janie Bickersteth During the season of Lent, the Green Team will be ‘using their loaf’; we’d love to encourage the whole church to do so too. ‘Using your loaf’ (cockney slang ‘loaf of bread’ ...
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January 20th, 2023 at 3:07 pm BSTView online Seeing Iconsby Esther de Waal ‘Stop looking and start seeing' was the advice of Thomas Merton to a young poet as they walked together through the woods, each with a camera. To look is to have some object in view and concentrate ...