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News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
May 14th, 2021 at 5:42 pm BSTView onlineChristian Aid Week by the Revd Dr William Lamb This is Christian Aid Week and colleagues in Christian Aid are campaigning this year on the climate emergency. It is one of the greatest injustices we face: ’This climate crisis hurts us ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
May 7th, 2021 at 4:00 pm BSTView onlineThe miracle of Zooming home? by Alison Le Cornu An Englishman’s home is his castle, so the saying goes. If we overlook the gendered language for a moment, we understand that our homes are places of security, places of privacy, or to us ...
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April 30th, 2021 at 1:34 pm BSTView online'in the days of His flesh' by Laura Roberts In this liturgical space between Easter and Pentecost, I have been returning again and again to wonder at the almost brazen bodiliness of the resurrected Jesus, a trait remarked upon repeatedly ...
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April 24th, 2021 at 1:00 pm BSTView onlineA Prayer to Remember by the Revd Dr William Lamb One of the prayers which we use each Sunday at the beginning of the Eucharist is the Collect for Purity. This prayer was incorporated by Thomas Cranmer in the Communion Service of the Book ...
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April 16th, 2021 at 5:00 pm BSTView onlineParadox In Book XI of his Confessions, Saint Augustine muses: “What, then, is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know what time is. But if I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.” Plotinus contemplated time over a cen ...
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April 9th, 2021 at 5:54 pm BSTView onlineReflections on Holy Week by the Revd Susannah Reide On Easter morning I woke up early, before dawn, and cycled to Headington Quarry church. People were gathering in the pre-dawn dark in a little woodland by the churchyard. It was too da ...
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April 4th, 2021 at 7:40 pm BSTView onlineA Paschal Homily In the late fourth century, John Chrysostom became the Archbishop of Constantinople. The name ‘Chrysostom’ means golden-mouthed. He was a formidable preacher and eventually was recognised by the church as a saint. On ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
April 3rd, 2021 at 3:47 pm BSTView onlineNotices ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETINGThis meeting will take place on Sunday 18 April at 4.00pm on Zoom. At this meeting, we elect members of the PCC after electing the Churchwardens. Please pray for the PCC and all those who volunteer ...
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March 26th, 2021 at 6:19 pm BSTView onlineAn update from the Faith in Action Committee by Mary Lean, Chair A couple of days ago, we watched The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which tells the story of a farming family in Malawi, struggling with flood, drought, crop failure and hunge ...
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March 19th, 2021 at 4:06 pm BSTView online“Now thank we all our God” The theme of this hymn may sound like a daunting task in the midst of Lent and lockdown. For some of those who have themselves suffered from the pandemic or who had to see loved ones die, it may even feel ...