Subject: News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
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 b ...
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 pla ...
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 longest ...
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 our ...
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 cr ...
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 antiphon ...
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 t ...
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, ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
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 heartbreaking ...